TheSilentBugler
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It's a shame Wally, didn't your mother teach you not to over rub your nuggets?
Nice looking nug either way
Nice looking nug either way
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wow! beautiful nugget mateWally69 said:SDC strikes again on aluvial workings
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how deep it was?
joao garimpeiro said:wow! beautiful nugget mateWally69 said:SDC strikes again on aluvial workings
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how deep it was?
about 2 inches deep in worked soil
mbasko said::lol: no worries - seen your icy road post & thought ya must've headed there.
I'll be up a hill myself tomorrow so hopefully I can find some too
I have never quite made it to Tuena, was planning to do a loop through there yesterday for a stickybeak but getting that first nugget on new ground sucks the time away and a few dark clouds appeared late afternoon so I turned around.
I am heading to the NT to swim with the crocs next week, so you guys will have to take all the Tuena gold for yourselves. :lol:
Wally69 said:SDC strikes again on aluvial workings
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Hey well done mate, just a day trip was it? Way too cold out there for me at the moment. Mmmmm NT perfect this time of year..... Wish I was coming, I'm sick of winter.
Heatho said:Wally69 said:SDC strikes again on aluvial workings
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Hey well done mate, just a day trip was it? Way too cold out there for me at the moment. Mmmmm NT perfect this time of year..... Wish I was coming, I'm sick of winter.
Yes mate, a great unplanned day trip. The evening before the Mrs told me I was uninvited from a girls/kids catchup that has been sitting in my diary for weeks, then at 4:00 in the morning the buzz saw started, so with a free day to myself I thought bugger it, I'm out of here.
a bit of an explore, a quick swing and a takeaway bucket of Black Springs sapphire wash was far more appealing than a broken sleep and fixing broken windows. A couple of surprise nuggets put the icing on the cake.
Sounds like the perfect day, awesome!
Can't complain about that for an unplanned, last minute trip. Gold & a gem!
And just when I thought it was all over.......
Checked out my hot rocks from the trip....
Nice little Quartz vein running through magnet attracted ironstone....was thinking this might have a chance but no gold
Thought this one was all ironstone as it gave a solid SDC response (reconstructed for photographic purposes as I had mentally dismissed its potential)
I was surprised to see white once it was cracked open and if you look carefully, you might just be able to make out a spot of yellow
Checked out my hot rocks from the trip....
Nice little Quartz vein running through magnet attracted ironstone....was thinking this might have a chance but no gold
Thought this one was all ironstone as it gave a solid SDC response (reconstructed for photographic purposes as I had mentally dismissed its potential)
I was surprised to see white once it was cracked open and if you look carefully, you might just be able to make out a spot of yellow
Wally69 said:
Crikey mate don't tell me that hotrock spot with thousands of hotrocks has gold in all of them........
Weeeee's rich dang it..... Maybe Heath.....just maybe.........let me know how you go :lol:
It looks like I have confirmed that it pays to take a close look at your hot rocks. Since owning the SDC I bring them all home, this is the first pleasant surprise but my rock garden is growing nicely.
It looks like I have confirmed that it pays to take a close look at your hot rocks. Since owning the SDC I bring them all home, this is the first pleasant surprise but my rock garden is growing nicely.
Is it wrong that a pic like that can put a big smile on a grown mans face ???Wally69 said:Acid treating a specimen is like slowly unwrapping a Christmas present
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Thats a cracker Wall...well done
They say small things amuse small minds, I would prefer to be working on a several kg specimen that's for sure but I like to try and understand how the gold is formed and if I can get the specimen looking nice I'll leave it as something I can show my family and friends or perhaps sell one day. I do laugh at my obsession with gold regularly and the smaller it gets the more I laugh, or cry.
I have removed some from the host rock entirely and they will eventually be melted down with my other nuggets to make something for the Mrs.
In regard to acid, I use bickies acid (H2Cl) from bunnings and finish off with Alibrite as the acid leaves a yellow stain. I find the acid works fast on the ironstone and a toothbrush will progressively remove it. The acid also works it's way into the fine Quartz cracks and interface with the gold. I like to carefully prize chunks away with a needle pointed tool to reveal the gold crystals.
Here is the latest, you can see the Quartz crystals and where the ironstone has filled the voids.
what made the gold form there ??? and not elsewhere ???
I have removed some from the host rock entirely and they will eventually be melted down with my other nuggets to make something for the Mrs.
In regard to acid, I use bickies acid (H2Cl) from bunnings and finish off with Alibrite as the acid leaves a yellow stain. I find the acid works fast on the ironstone and a toothbrush will progressively remove it. The acid also works it's way into the fine Quartz cracks and interface with the gold. I like to carefully prize chunks away with a needle pointed tool to reveal the gold crystals.
Here is the latest, you can see the Quartz crystals and where the ironstone has filled the voids.
what made the gold form there ??? and not elsewhere ???
I cant wait to try it ..thanx for sharing mate.
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