WA Paydirt

My close friends have been detecting in WA for a couple of seasons now and doing ok. When theyve had a find and needed to cold chisel material out or theyve found reefy gold they picked up some of the fines and kept them in a small plastic bottle. Well they arrived in cairns the other day and when they got out of the car they presented the container to me as a gift. There is about a kilo of dirt in the container. I took out two tablespoons of the finer stuff the other day and did a very quick wash. What you can see is just under a gram after I sucked it up. I have spent about an hour and a half slowly panning and the gold just keeps appearing. So many little species and super fine flour gold that it will take me weeks to separate this properly. Im so great full for quality friends. It will take awhile but Ill show a photo or two through the process. :Y:

A dryer look

Makes me wonder if it would be worth purely targeting and processing detector hole overburden. Looks like some very rich material :Y:

well done...that is some high quality pay dirt

:Y: very nice friends indeed, it'll be interesting to see how much comes from your gift.

I put a bit more of the dirt on top of the original stuff this morning and this is the first wash. I would love to go to the area where he got this with one of those street cleaners and give it a run. Just a wheelbarrow full of this would keep you going with a pan for a good while. :Y:

Nice show, well done.

Good friends KJ

StoneTheCrows said:

Good friends KJ

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True. Their generosity is amazing. He is always up for helping out in the field, being a pretty good mechanic and a gas fitter hes a handy bloke to have around when youre travelling. :Y:

Nice buddy!!

So back in July I posted a photo of some pay dirt that my mate brought over from WA for me. I have been plugging away at it every now and then, crushing some small bits and panning and doing it again till Ive got close to the end. This is the result of a container not much bigger than a coke can. Im stoked.
When he and his wife arrived here it didnt take long for us to find a reason to head bush for some R & R. This is the result of three days of very pleasant detecting. His lot was just short of 13 grams. My detector was a Minelab 4500 with a 14 inch Coiltek mono elite coil. He was using a 5000 with a 14x9 nugget finder evolution coil. While I found my coil a bit more of a challenge to pinpoint the very small bits, I think it was a little more sensitive where we were. All in all we were both really happy with our time in the scrub. Cheers Rick

Looks good. How about the premium pay dirt on the net is that any good?

Great to have friends like that Kemjack. :goldnugget:

Great pictures. Wow, for a small container of dirt, about a kilo, there was a lot of gold come from it. 15 odd grams if I read story right. Hell I would be camped there dry panning (presuming no water there) cause that seems extremely rich.
Well done and I hope you have thanked you very generous friends.

The dirt came from his discarded bits of rock when he was crushing to get a nugget out. I am extremely thankful. They are and have always been very generous people. :goldpan: