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Prospects dim for fossickers - The Age newspaper article.
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<blockquote data-quote="casper" data-source="post: 81084" data-attributes="member: 562"><p>You can see where it's going - we'll be allowed to use "traditional" tools to preserve the historic and low impact activity of "Prospecting" - living history I would describe it. </p><p></p><p>At the risk of being called a heretic I'll say that it is the modern High Banker that is the bad boy here... Understand that many people outside our hobby see the High Banker with associated pumps and noise etc, with gravel being furiously shovelled in to it as a "small scale mining activity" and Joe Public is alarmed. Be that as it may however because it falls into the category of a "sluice" what worries me is that two actual historic pieces of equipment that also fall into the category of sluices, the humble and passive "stream sluice", and the Californian Rocker or Gold Cradle will be collectively caught in the ban on sluices and we will only ever be able to see them in books or a museum in the future. For me the term sluice for the purposes of legislation is much too broad and needs delineation. Get involved in the PMAV or similar umbrella association and have your say and shape the future. Don't let outsiders make the decisions that will affect you.</p><p></p><p>casper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="casper, post: 81084, member: 562"] You can see where it's going - we'll be allowed to use "traditional" tools to preserve the historic and low impact activity of "Prospecting" - living history I would describe it. At the risk of being called a heretic I'll say that it is the modern High Banker that is the bad boy here... Understand that many people outside our hobby see the High Banker with associated pumps and noise etc, with gravel being furiously shovelled in to it as a "small scale mining activity" and Joe Public is alarmed. Be that as it may however because it falls into the category of a "sluice" what worries me is that two actual historic pieces of equipment that also fall into the category of sluices, the humble and passive "stream sluice", and the Californian Rocker or Gold Cradle will be collectively caught in the ban on sluices and we will only ever be able to see them in books or a museum in the future. For me the term sluice for the purposes of legislation is much too broad and needs delineation. Get involved in the PMAV or similar umbrella association and have your say and shape the future. Don't let outsiders make the decisions that will affect you. casper [/QUOTE]
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Prospects dim for fossickers - The Age newspaper article.
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