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Kane
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Early this week, I got a message from brother.
Titled ( got a gift for ya )
I need an address to send you something.
On Friday afternoon when I got home. The wife said " Got some mail from Rob "
I opened it up and had this little package inside.
So I got a little excited.
So I opened it up and put it in a clean up pan.
If you look closely you can see a few bits in the dry pan.
This was clearly seen by my father in-law, who had a big smile, and an even bigger smile when I put the pan down. As the wife had asked me to put the little one down for a nap.
I came back out and the old boy was still sifting through the dry dirt with his finger, and putting some of the bits of gold to one side of the pan, still with a big smile on his face.
"Hey, there is some gold in here"
I told him to leave it alone, and you can help me pan it out tomorrow.
So today when I got home from work, I headed straight to the shed to get out the panning tub out and filled it with water. With the old boy watching on.
After a quick wash, I started to pan it out.
Every time I washed out the dirt, I could see some small gold in the heavies.
I took my time with it, as the tin isn't the easiest to pan out.
I'm sure I missed some of the really fine gold, but I'll re run it on the miller table.
Some of the gold is that small you can barely see it.
I give anyone the challenge if they can pan it out in one go, and anyone still new at panning, it is a great way to learn.
I had so much fun panning out the small bag of good old palmer river concentrates from brother Robs mine.
So after I panned out to clean gold, I dried it out and put it on the scales.
After this i decided to smelt it down into a little button. Just to remove any of the small bits of sand, tin and dirt from the gold.
All in all. I ended up with just a touch over half a gram of gold.
Not bad from a 300gm bag of concentrates.
I think I might have to buy a few bags off him and give them to some friends as a present.
If anyone wants to try a bag of Palmer River dirt, send brothe a PM.
I'm sure he can help you out.
Cheers Kane.
Titled ( got a gift for ya )
I need an address to send you something.
On Friday afternoon when I got home. The wife said " Got some mail from Rob "
I opened it up and had this little package inside.
So I got a little excited.
So I opened it up and put it in a clean up pan.
If you look closely you can see a few bits in the dry pan.
This was clearly seen by my father in-law, who had a big smile, and an even bigger smile when I put the pan down. As the wife had asked me to put the little one down for a nap.
I came back out and the old boy was still sifting through the dry dirt with his finger, and putting some of the bits of gold to one side of the pan, still with a big smile on his face.
"Hey, there is some gold in here"
I told him to leave it alone, and you can help me pan it out tomorrow.
So today when I got home from work, I headed straight to the shed to get out the panning tub out and filled it with water. With the old boy watching on.
After a quick wash, I started to pan it out.
Every time I washed out the dirt, I could see some small gold in the heavies.
I took my time with it, as the tin isn't the easiest to pan out.
I'm sure I missed some of the really fine gold, but I'll re run it on the miller table.
Some of the gold is that small you can barely see it.
I give anyone the challenge if they can pan it out in one go, and anyone still new at panning, it is a great way to learn.
I had so much fun panning out the small bag of good old palmer river concentrates from brother Robs mine.
So after I panned out to clean gold, I dried it out and put it on the scales.
After this i decided to smelt it down into a little button. Just to remove any of the small bits of sand, tin and dirt from the gold.
All in all. I ended up with just a touch over half a gram of gold.
Not bad from a 300gm bag of concentrates.
I think I might have to buy a few bags off him and give them to some friends as a present.
If anyone wants to try a bag of Palmer River dirt, send brothe a PM.
I'm sure he can help you out.
Cheers Kane.
