Haha. My turn. To join the club. Had a bit of mercury amalgam {Well a tiny bit) hanging around somewhere out in the garage. Finally found it today. So thought, right I will get my first gold for 2021. Retorted it off, to get just gold sponge. And then did a quick open air melt. Haven’t lost my skills acquired from my beach black sanding days. Although in those days I was dealing of course with ranges between three and five ounces weekly to process. Sponge weighed 0.62 gram. Melted to give me 0.58 gram. Had to do the melt with no flux, as that I couldn’t find. Still it was a bit of fun. And hey I got gold on New Years day.
Wee bit of gold I sluiced up at moonlight today.
Looks like there’s been a few people digging round up there as I seen a few good size holes in the river that looked reasonabley fresh.
The roads in good nick but still a bit bumpy
A day of sniping with a few inquisitive eels for company. Always a bit of a surprise when you’re snorkeling, look up and there’s an eel right in your face!
Yea it’s quite rocky isn’t it.
That big bit didn’t want to go up the snuffer nozzle. I classifyed 3 buckets and I think I was no more than 2 hours all up
Bloody hell Henry. You’re not supposed to dredge in the fossicking area .
I spent a couple of hours there a few days ago & didn’t get a speck. You must have cleaned it out you bugger.
It was shoulder to shoulder down at campsite so ended up a long way up the creek for a bit of peace and quiet, worked out alright best result so far on the coast…
Hi Henry. That stands to reason. Bloody good result. Well done What you doing up the coast? You have better places to go
I wonder how many times those rocks have been moved & turned over outside the camp area at Slab Hut. It is a nice spot.
Yeah , l know of better places but last year we moved from Queenstown to Christchurch,so had to try out the closer public places .
Not a fan of Goldsboro , haven’t got a suitable vehicle for Moonlight , went up once in my Volvo V70 …need a bit more ground clearance.
No luck at lyall creek
It’s amazing how many people are digging out the same hole straight out from camp , knee deep, waist deep next time chest deep hope they get some color.
Hi guys.
A few bits from last weekend. All was found in old flogged ground using the Russian made X coils for the GPZ 7000. I received a new 15" Concentric coil from Russia for the Zed & went to an old haunt that had done itself dry on the nugget front. Not even 10 minutes into it I had a signal. Thinking for sure that it was just going to be a lead bullet head or .22 shell. Once I was getting down a bit & smashing out schist slabs & the signal was still there I was a lot more confident that it was going to be gold.
It wasn’t very deep but past my usual scrape & if it has moved I usually ignore it as being a surface shot gun pellet. Crazy small for a coil of that size.
In the cool of the evening before I went to a local spot close to home with the 15 x 10 elliptical X coil & managed two small bits & just on dark & deciding it was time to walk out I got a good signal. Again thinking it was just going to be a lead bullet head or a .22 shell but it lived on to depth & out popped a just shy of 3 grams nugget.
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What you doing up the coast? You have better places to go 
what method was used this time for that haul ? Looks like a few grams ?