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Digging small alluvial shafts - info needed
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<blockquote data-quote="AtomRat" data-source="post: 169107" data-attributes="member: 3111"><p>Sorry, didn't get to reply last night, the kids on the thread stopped my phone working for some reason.</p><p></p><p>Back creek - watched their painful vid a few months ago, its at least a hint from YouTube.</p><p></p><p>Gday Sniffy, it certainly is fun and a change from other prospecting digging a shallow shaft. Its no different to any other hole though, its still hit and miss, but sometimes easier to see where the gold lays in the shaft.</p><p></p><p>Keep away from sands, dirt and loose clay as they make the walls collapse within 1meter.</p><p></p><p>Not all my test shafts have been where old timers had been but with little result. Next shaft will be between two old shallow alluvial pits.</p><p></p><p>If a good layer gets hit, usually specks still but the size can vary in each hole.</p><p></p><p>I'm mostly interested in how to identify a loose wall before it drops and use timbers to hold up loose falling material.</p><p></p><p>And I never mind getting asked. A lot of what I do is not targeting easy gold or a gold deposit, but diggings shafts along points of interest I find. More kind of like geological surveying. Of course if gold is involved it makes it more fun and I pickup half to a gram in each dig I go out easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtomRat, post: 169107, member: 3111"] Sorry, didn't get to reply last night, the kids on the thread stopped my phone working for some reason. Back creek - watched their painful vid a few months ago, its at least a hint from YouTube. Gday Sniffy, it certainly is fun and a change from other prospecting digging a shallow shaft. Its no different to any other hole though, its still hit and miss, but sometimes easier to see where the gold lays in the shaft. Keep away from sands, dirt and loose clay as they make the walls collapse within 1meter. Not all my test shafts have been where old timers had been but with little result. Next shaft will be between two old shallow alluvial pits. If a good layer gets hit, usually specks still but the size can vary in each hole. I'm mostly interested in how to identify a loose wall before it drops and use timbers to hold up loose falling material. And I never mind getting asked. A lot of what I do is not targeting easy gold or a gold deposit, but diggings shafts along points of interest I find. More kind of like geological surveying. Of course if gold is involved it makes it more fun and I pickup half to a gram in each dig I go out easily. [/QUOTE]
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