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So I have decided to move back to WA in search of gold in the form of a big paycheque! And I have decided to sell all i have. Should I bother taking my river sluice over there - i can't think of a place i would be able to use it

So here's how today went. First get to my digging spot - looks like i got some pailing to do....... Unpack the gear - the dog just has to be in the pic Removed the water from the hole After a couple of hours picking, shovelling, classifying and running buckets of material through the...

Ok so I have been keeping all my sluice concentrates after panning in a big garbage bin. Well yesterday I went and bought some gear to sieve down my smalls and to make a gold recovery mini sluice. So I bought some flyscreen and cut the bottom of a bucket out, riveted the screen mesh to the...

Guarding the sluice....... you can see heaps of black sand and also a little bit of nice colour there Not bad for a couple of hours river sluicing considering i'm bloody new to this game i reckon i'm doing alright

OK so here goes, this is i spose a unique design. This is a very simple one and I'm sure soon enough I will need to make improvements Decided to use marine ply - figured it should be ok. Was given a bread crate so decided to use it - ran out of battery in my jigsaw to cut "L's" into all of it -...

So yesterday i built a river sluice (pics to come once i am able to post pics - should be after this post i think), and my garrett gold panning kit arrived the day before. So I headed out to the river today to have a crack - found a nice corner where there was plenty of gravel on the inside of...

So I understand that its a huge no no doing any prospecting in the national park - i'm ok with that. However National Park owns the land I think its 20m or so above the high water mark of Eucumbene & Jindabyne. The land below that is Snowy Hydro, I know this because of doing some weed spraying...

G'day all, Alex here from the snowy's. First up, I've never done any gold prospecting at all in my life but i've always wanted to - its always intrigued me, and I have decided to move my curiosity to actually having a go. I know sweet bugger all about any forms of prospecting, just know that...