Hi All
Here is the bits from today including my biggest piece to date
Just had to go through the rubbish to find it after I left it out on the bench to photograph and my wife "tidied " it up!! That was bloody stressful!!
Hey team me an a mate Had a go at goldsborough .find it real easy to get colour at goldsborough .me an a mate are beginners he runs the gold rat an me the keene .I find the keene sluice awesome as first bucket ya see the colour if its there as opposed to the gold rat you have to basically clean up to check for colour ,add riffle to gold rat hopper ? Both do the job .gold rat is faster to clean out . 2nd attempt sorry shit with phones and new to the forum .
Hey wheres the photo gone - you may not have waited long enough for it to load. I have had that problem. If that is so then can you edit - delete picture and add again but wait longer - love to see photo.
What??? Seen me do what? If you mean the post is so long then its a matter of patience - I learnt to put a picture ona nd wait for it to load - then the next one - then the next one and so on. But dont worry I have had plenty of botchups!
i know where you are . ive worked there quite abit in the past.
go straight down under your box its about 400 to 500 mm to parpa base . (bed rock) you will be surprised . caz and i would spend a weekend over there from chch (before i got a claim) not unusual for us to take a couple of grams for the weekend
Hey kiwikeith I plan to have a snipe an what not once I really get the bug , Its already kicking in haha . I am day tripping from chch for now until we go camping over the break . Awesome spot can’t wait to do a few days there
Two fellas camping an a couple of others showed up . I was surprised how quiet it was being so easy access and cracker weather. I’m.just heading over now for another play with the mother sucker hand dredge !will update if I get any colour .
I got colour ! . This time I decided to learn how to snipe or hand dredge with the mother sucker ,instantly i noticed the ribbed hose acting like a riffle and catching the fines so that’s getting swapped out once I find a decent clear hose . Ran bugger all material but definitely caught some flake like gold with the mother sucker .today I also learnt the snuffer bottle tricks to save panning the fine gold out . Really good day getting my head around a few things . Pan has lots of colour I just struggling with the black Sand .can’t wait to do a proper fossick bring on the holidays
Nice one mate, yeah goldsborough is the go we love the place whenever we are in the area we always go down for a few days and it never dissapoints, the trick there is to get to a spot no one has mined where the clay is near the surface, even though you may have a nice inside bend it has likely been mined before once we found a spot it was really avreage-poor looking spot but it turned out it had not been touched for years and pulled out dozens of pickers for the weekend, my advice is if you go up stream a bit the creek splits into two one that goes under the bridge one that the track follows off to the side, the one the track follows always has decent colour but it has been hammered all the way along and you always get decent gold but never GREAT gold, but if you go down and up the main creek under the bridge where not so many people have mined and get down to the clay layer you can strike it big time, one spot there we pulled out over 3 grams for less then 8 hours mining!
Cheers mate I plan to head back over its an awesome spot an just to get colour whilst learning helps big time .I had an idea of parking up the top of goldsborough track an walking down to the top end of the fossicking area to try find that Virgin spot . Have you walked the track at all ? Il definitely take your advice iv watched alot of ya vids an found inspiration cheers dan
Good going. So it wasn’t just a pleasant walk up a creek then where you could find a nice place, to sit down and eat your cut lunch.
My lips are sealed.
What does that big sucker weigh?
