I cant help it JohnâŚyes your rightâŚbut l am a traditionalist. As for keeping well, not really, but life goes on and one always hopes that tomorrow is a better day. Hope all is going well up your way. I nearly bought a 50 acre block in Conroys Gully and moved up that way but demurred too long.
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Thanks JW I will make up one of those classifier Buckets, I have a Crevice Sucker (Sniffer / Snifter) but its a bit too big to cart around the Coro Bush so I may make one of those small ones to throw in the pack⌠Just hope we get some nice weather after the Lockdown so I can get up there and get into itâŚ
these are some of the things I take walking. bent screw driver its almost as bent as me. teaspoon beaten flat on the end and ground flat . big syringe leave that up to you to work out what I do with it. cut down rake , home made viewer big enough to put a small touch in to light up the bottom of the creek last of all the oil diff pump works just as well for sucking, its short and fits in the pack, make sure it is clean.
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Are you going gold mining or are you a Gynaecologist who specialises in abortions or is the big device for giving enamas as a result of constipation caused by eating baked beans for a week?
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In all honesty Julian I use the smaller one far more than the big one. The most use I gave the big one was on those little creeks in the Coro but it always came back to using the smaller one for the final clean up of the bedrock cracks & crevices. The beauty is you can suck up water & pump it back out under pressure to flush the cracks & crevices & stir up the material in the bottom & on the up stroke suck the material & any gold up before it settles again. Just a matter of when you think the retention chamber is full or close to full, just slip it off & dump the material into your gold pan.
This photo is up a Coro creek & shows the classifier buckets, crevice scraper, the grey 6" PVC pipe is an underwater view finder that I had a bit of glass cut & siliconed up 20mm from the end. Having it 20mm up saves it from getting too knocked about by resting it on rocks. That did create a bit of an air pocket so I drilled some holes in that lip to let the air escape. Great for spying into the water & to see with great clarity. Essential. I now make them out of 4" PVC & not as long. Comes in handy for having a drink of water too. Also good for priming pumpsâŚmaybe not in the CoroâŚssshhh. 
View finder
Sucker, sniffter, sniffer 
& crevice scrapers & sucker bottle.
JW 
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Geee Keith, I didnât think you would be in to smack. Is that for the depressing days of no gold? 
The needle isnât very sharp. You must be tough buggers on the coast. I like that little cut down rake. That will fit nicely in my backpack for my detecting missions up in to the hills.
JW
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You can buy these on TradeMe for those hard to get places. 
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smack is really worth getting into . I get caz to smack me , tie me up, beat me , im getting so excited, SMACKING,
the blunter the needle the more pain. oh did I mention SMACKINGâŚ
I am disassociating myself with this site because you guys are just too rude for me - in fact I might have to go and watch my wife smack the pony to take my mind off the bad influence some of you are.
English is sure hard to understand - I should go to China to teach English over there so that when they invade we will all think that the circus has come to town - I will confuse them âAfter I have had a bit of smack I might go smack my wife after I watch her smack the ponyâ.- three different definitions for one word in one sentence, nearly as good as the ONE word sentence I used on a foreigner who nearly ran into me in Auckland when I gave the Arsehole the fingers and screamed out at him in the middle of the CBD âFucking fucked fuckerâ and that is a complete phrase which makes complete sense using only one root wordâŚHmmm did I say root word? Is fuck a root word?
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Careful with all that smacking, you will get yourself all worked up & next you will be going next door to smack the neighbour. 
JW 
These are the tools I use to work any sort of crackâŚweather diving down deep or lightly scratching the surfaceâŚguaranteed results every timeâŚlol!
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Cant beat a little cold chisel & hammer. 
Has been my main source lately in smashing open schist cracks & crevices in getting gold signals out with my detecting. My trusty pick just wasnât doing the job. Even screw drivers work a treat in peeling out the schist with the help of a belt with a hammer.
Result from that one crevice. The signals & gold just kept coming.
By the way Mel. What use is that trouser snake but plug on the gold. Or did you just slip that in? 
JW
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Toolkit porn, i like it.
HI JW, that looks great I want to get down to there, up the back of Thames township, any hints as to where
It amazes me how some people want a free lunch when it comes to gold. Especially a first time ever poster. So noâŚsorry⌠do your own research plus the hard yards out in the field just like I & many others have had to do. That is all it takes. No gold is easy gold but it is there & just depends how passionate you really are about it. The research is actually a lot of fun & you will also learn a lot. Makes it all that much more self rewarding when your research & time out in the field pays off for you with some finds. One bonus for you is that you know Thames had gold & no one ever gets it all. So just get out there & be adventurous. Nothing ventured nothing gained.
Good luck out there
JW
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so right there jw. just the other day it was âlet me know when your track is cut up the glasseyeâ funny no mention of âlet me know when you are cutting again and i will come and give you a handâ the chainsaw and cutting gear is heavy normally the rewards are worth it.
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I agree and have learnt many lessons about people on this site. Hosting people and then finding that they go back later to the places you take them or being too pushy. People who want something for nothing. There are some fantastic people on this site who are and always will be welcome and who have been kind to me but l tread warily of newcomers now.
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Hi Packer⌠I have found gold in most of the creeks between Thames and Coromandel⌠Nothing anywhere near as impressive as the specimens âJWâ has found but I will keep hunting as there must be some he left behind 
Its a good place to hone your panning skills for when you can get down south if you can save the minute particles from Coromandel the South Island gold is a breeze⌠Here is a link to the location of known gold Veins that may help Dropbox - Bonanza Epithermal veins from the Coromandel.pdf - Simplify your life
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Hi Julian, thanks for the heads up, knew someone would be a wee bit kind, as I can only get down to Thames 1 or 2 times a year, so I have to be as productive as possible
On that note I am trying to get down to Canvastown and then Slab Hut sometimes in Nov, so as you say fine tune up my small sluice and panning techniques
Thanks again
Then you have plenty of time to do a lot of research & reading of books on gold in the Coromandel. The answers are all there, then it just comes down to the hard graft out in the field & having the right gear.
I donât mean to be a prick but it is an unwritten law among gold miners that you donât ask where someone is finding their gold. Kind of a gold miners creed that gold miners understand & stand by. It takes a lot of trust for someone to reveal locations. That trust has to be earned & is not just given out to complete strangers. I am sure you can work out why. Lammerlaw has touched on it as has kiwikeith. People always want something for nothing & often with very little effort on their behalf, like kiwikeiths track cutting. The arsehole wasnât prepared to give him a hand but willing enough to walk it when all the hard graft has been done. I am totally with you kiwikeith.
JW
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