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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
The Riddle of the Missing Gold
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 676205" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Whilst panning you will have done maybe many tens or even hundreds of pans. Among those surely there would be some duds even for creek 1. Unless the bucket wash is proven by panning the chances of dud buckets is probably just as high. It maybe just a matter of chance and just perseverance is required.</p><p>The number of colours in a pan is often correlated to size, smaller lighter colours much more abundant than larger heavier colours. That you are getting relatively higher number of colours per pan at creek 1 suggests they are towards the lighter end.</p><p>That introduces the possibility that your sluice is not set up to retain these lighter colours. One way to tell would be to retain and pan off the sluiced material to see if colours are escaping the sluice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 676205, member: 4728"] Whilst panning you will have done maybe many tens or even hundreds of pans. Among those surely there would be some duds even for creek 1. Unless the bucket wash is proven by panning the chances of dud buckets is probably just as high. It maybe just a matter of chance and just perseverance is required. The number of colours in a pan is often correlated to size, smaller lighter colours much more abundant than larger heavier colours. That you are getting relatively higher number of colours per pan at creek 1 suggests they are towards the lighter end. That introduces the possibility that your sluice is not set up to retain these lighter colours. One way to tell would be to retain and pan off the sluiced material to see if colours are escaping the sluice. [/QUOTE]
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The Riddle of the Missing Gold
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