Recent content by jamesrww

Hi all, I have been panning for a few years now and have decided to try my hand at some detecting, I don't have thousands and thousands of $$ to invest at the moment and was looking at the Gold Monster 1000 to start out with. I will mainly be detecting in Victorias golden triangle and was...

HI all, I built this on the weekend for fine gold recovery, Just need to find some good material to run through it now lol. I ran some dirt i collected from Yarra Junction area, heaps of black sands but no gold :(

Hi all, I have been panning a bit and found small amounts of very fine gold, I am building a sluice box and was thinking of running rubber Vmat with 32mm x 12mm expanded metal on top. I am just wondering if anyone runs this combo and how effective it is for catching gold ? James

Cool thanks for the advise, I just need to find somewhere with enough water flow to run it :)

Howdy, I Just bought a new EZ Sluice and I cant wait to try it out !! can anyone suggest a creek thats not to far from Melbourne where I can give it a run ? Thanks

Hi Loamer, Thanks for that ... great information.

Hi, I am new to prospecting and was Just wondering about the red sections (Shallow gold workings), are these shallow enough to dig a few sample holes and have a chance of finding gold ? I was thinking I might get some sample buckets and pan them out at home ? James

Hi All, I am building my first Recirculating Sluice its about 20 cm wide and 70 cm long, I am using Vmat then Miners Moss then expanded mesh. All these materials put together is about 2 cm thick , should I have my water flow hitting that edge then up the 2 cm rise and if so should I put a small...