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Hi all,
I thought id share a bit of a story/tip with you about a recent trip panning with a few friends.
I took Michael and Mick to a spot I had discovered to work bedrock pockets (see the video below for info on that). We spent a total of 65 hours working a spot no bigger than two land cruisers of the course of 3 days. We were utilising a 6 foot breaker bar to pop open a soft sandstone base that then released trapped pockets of gravel, yabbie pumping off the bottom and repeating the process to this tiny area.
All said and done we took home two nuggets, and around 3.5 grams of gold. It was hard work because of the process to access the pay, but the total soil we moved was less than a cubic meter, rich pay dirt in any ones books.
Well I went back, with the water clear and fresh eyes I found numerous small hair line cracks in and around the hoes we had created in the bedrock. I spent 6 hours slowly cleaning out each of them with scrapers, pry bar and yabbie pump. The end result, 'clean' bedrock gave me 1.71 grams of gold. Out of holes that had 0 visible gravel in them.
So I just wanted to say, even if a spot looks absolutely done like we find in Slaty and Reedy, it's well worth having a second look.
The Video:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S01irUqeNM-
I thought id share a bit of a story/tip with you about a recent trip panning with a few friends.
I took Michael and Mick to a spot I had discovered to work bedrock pockets (see the video below for info on that). We spent a total of 65 hours working a spot no bigger than two land cruisers of the course of 3 days. We were utilising a 6 foot breaker bar to pop open a soft sandstone base that then released trapped pockets of gravel, yabbie pumping off the bottom and repeating the process to this tiny area.
All said and done we took home two nuggets, and around 3.5 grams of gold. It was hard work because of the process to access the pay, but the total soil we moved was less than a cubic meter, rich pay dirt in any ones books.
Well I went back, with the water clear and fresh eyes I found numerous small hair line cracks in and around the hoes we had created in the bedrock. I spent 6 hours slowly cleaning out each of them with scrapers, pry bar and yabbie pump. The end result, 'clean' bedrock gave me 1.71 grams of gold. Out of holes that had 0 visible gravel in them.
So I just wanted to say, even if a spot looks absolutely done like we find in Slaty and Reedy, it's well worth having a second look.
The Video:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S01irUqeNM-