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Advice on "to pan or not to pan"
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<blockquote data-quote="Guest" data-source="post: 65976"><p>Hey Bazz, What i have found is that a lot of blokes dont dig deep enough, they go around digging heaps of test holes testing for gold but in reality they are only scraping off the top layer of the creek bed, i have tested creeks and found nothing in the first 4 or 5 pans then heaps in the next. When testing maximize your chances by testing behind rock,logs in creviceses and sticking to inside bends. And make sure you dig deep enough to know what layers are in that creek bed, the gold may be deep down or on false bedrock or under a clay layer, etc. I do heaps of reco trips, mainly because I like the adventure but the extra time digging proper test holes pays off in gold. If after that you dont find color, scrap that section off creek and find another. A yabby pump is really good for testing as you can get a good deep hole without having to move to much extra material, you can cover a lot of ground in one day with the pump and a pan. Cheers Balx</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest, post: 65976"] Hey Bazz, What i have found is that a lot of blokes dont dig deep enough, they go around digging heaps of test holes testing for gold but in reality they are only scraping off the top layer of the creek bed, i have tested creeks and found nothing in the first 4 or 5 pans then heaps in the next. When testing maximize your chances by testing behind rock,logs in creviceses and sticking to inside bends. And make sure you dig deep enough to know what layers are in that creek bed, the gold may be deep down or on false bedrock or under a clay layer, etc. I do heaps of reco trips, mainly because I like the adventure but the extra time digging proper test holes pays off in gold. If after that you dont find color, scrap that section off creek and find another. A yabby pump is really good for testing as you can get a good deep hole without having to move to much extra material, you can cover a lot of ground in one day with the pump and a pan. Cheers Balx [/QUOTE]
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