Nice looking country and congrats on what you have found so far. Bit of bad luck you have to leave.
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Farout, well done, you'll have to name it AusFX Reef, awesome!
Wally69 said:That place sounds like it has all the signs that dreams are made of AusFX
Hope that gold fever doesn't hit too badly when you are 10,000 miles away.
Now why didn't Wally's Reef have any gold in it, doh!
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That's what happened last time I was in London for work, it was horrible! hahaWally69 said:That place sounds like it has all the signs that dreams are made of AusFX
Hope that gold fever doesn't hit too badly when you are 10,000 miles away.
It probably already has a name, but I'll think of something more catchy
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Made it back out to the private property today.
No luck on the nuggets, I spent more time scouting and looking at the different gulleys and digging test holes looking for the gravel I like to see.
It seems to be unlike any ground I'm familiar with, heaps and heaps of gravel on the top near the reef, then it seems to just dissapear once the top soil appears. If it does have a gravel layer its very, very thin. Does this perhaps mean its deeper down, or that there just isnt much alluvial gold?
I explored a bit more of the property, found another hill with another reef that had been mined, but the weather was turning and making the GPZ misbehave a bit, so I didn't detect it.
While I didn't have any luck on the nuggets, I decided to do a bit of sampling in the creek with the pan. The very first spot I picked was in and around a log that had been there for a while. To my absolute pleasure, I got 3 of the biggest little pickers I've ever had in a pan... In the very first pan!
I sampled up and down the creek a bit, but didnt find another hole as good as this first spot. a couple more pans and I had almost enough gold to make a baby nugget, 0.07 grams.
I might try and fit in 1/2 a day of panning there, and this time bring the shovel and classifying gear! If it keeps on giving I might get a highbanker when I return from London.
All I need now is to figure out where the nice detectable nuggets are hiding and I'll have my own private prospecting paradise
And in case anyone is wondering, the deal I have with the landowner is that he gets the second Kilogram of gold I find
No luck on the nuggets, I spent more time scouting and looking at the different gulleys and digging test holes looking for the gravel I like to see.
It seems to be unlike any ground I'm familiar with, heaps and heaps of gravel on the top near the reef, then it seems to just dissapear once the top soil appears. If it does have a gravel layer its very, very thin. Does this perhaps mean its deeper down, or that there just isnt much alluvial gold?
I explored a bit more of the property, found another hill with another reef that had been mined, but the weather was turning and making the GPZ misbehave a bit, so I didn't detect it.
While I didn't have any luck on the nuggets, I decided to do a bit of sampling in the creek with the pan. The very first spot I picked was in and around a log that had been there for a while. To my absolute pleasure, I got 3 of the biggest little pickers I've ever had in a pan... In the very first pan!
I sampled up and down the creek a bit, but didnt find another hole as good as this first spot. a couple more pans and I had almost enough gold to make a baby nugget, 0.07 grams.
I might try and fit in 1/2 a day of panning there, and this time bring the shovel and classifying gear! If it keeps on giving I might get a highbanker when I return from London.
All I need now is to figure out where the nice detectable nuggets are hiding and I'll have my own private prospecting paradise
And in case anyone is wondering, the deal I have with the landowner is that he gets the second Kilogram of gold I find
