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<blockquote data-quote="bend" data-source="post: 334771" data-attributes="member: 4811"><p>Keep practicing with the pan then. Use your pan to sample rather than a banker, or run a bucket through the banker for a larger sample, an hour is a lot of shovelling for a little gold. If the creek is mostly fine gravel/sand then you can try using a probe to find dips in the bedrock or patches of larger stone which might indicate drop out zones. </p><p>As much as things like miller tables and bankers speed up your recovery you have to be digging in the right spot in the first place, which means sampling before you spend an hour shovelling. Lots of different ways to sample, but the general idea is to work a small but representative amount from likely looking spots to see if they're worthwhile, before you spend energy and time digging.</p><p>Edit: if you think it's coming from around the battery then I'd try moving closer to that, even working the ground underneath if you can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bend, post: 334771, member: 4811"] Keep practicing with the pan then. Use your pan to sample rather than a banker, or run a bucket through the banker for a larger sample, an hour is a lot of shovelling for a little gold. If the creek is mostly fine gravel/sand then you can try using a probe to find dips in the bedrock or patches of larger stone which might indicate drop out zones. As much as things like miller tables and bankers speed up your recovery you have to be digging in the right spot in the first place, which means sampling before you spend an hour shovelling. Lots of different ways to sample, but the general idea is to work a small but representative amount from likely looking spots to see if they're worthwhile, before you spend energy and time digging. Edit: if you think it's coming from around the battery then I'd try moving closer to that, even working the ground underneath if you can. [/QUOTE]
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