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Well I could not make it to Eldorado but I managed to to the second best thing, got some gold from my local spot. Its the second time I've used the sluice and the first time I got some gold in it! It's not much but it is a start. I think I had the sluice set up right, certainly had a good...

A question for our new category! I have two quartz veins separated by around 30 meters both with different levels of gold and mineralisation and geology. Vein 1 runs NW and appears to be hosted in gneiss rock (hard to break open), the gold is chunky and there is not a lot of mineralisation in...

So I have been crushing some rock which contains a few small pickers, after panning the crushed rock and removing the black sand and also the dolly pot steel with a magnet I was left with the following. I dont have much experience with normal black sand because I've not found a heap of it in...

The creek where I prospect is almost dry, but while poking around I came across this interesting quartz vein. I managed to break a piece off and take it home, under a loupe the quartz looks all rusty and mineralised, is this quartz with ironstone? If it is where to from here? The creek does...

I just finished watching the video below and found it interesting, I've not seen Prospector Jess mentioned here before so I thought I would post it up. I think he also has a paid service but there appears to be a fair bit if stuff on You Tube. His channel can be found here...

So I found myself a little creak which has a few flakes of gold in it which Im happy about and being new to prospecting I decided to dig a hole where I found the gold, the theory is that gold sinks because its heavy. What I found was this, there was nothing in the first 10cm, the next 10cm...

Gday All, A little bit about me, Im a long time forum stalker and first time poster from the Gippsland region! I have always wanted to get into prospecting and this year the missus got me a panning set for my birthday. After doing some research online and coming across this forum I have...