My long range field trip

[Dedevil]

I now know there is a rule number 3- Dont go chassing gold in the middle of the night after drinking beer at the pub.

I went out and set up the trommel and camp beside a dam. Then thought it was too late to start so went and drank beer at the pub. After the pub I thought i was invinsable and went mining. I tripped over and almost broke my leg! I spent the next two days just panning and got a few specks.

rgds

[Dedevil]

I did try and dig some gold a week ago but my knee is still too bad.
Here is a picture of the gold from the 1 x 20 litre bucket that i managed to pull out.
2.4 gramms which sold for $Au 90.00 (the gold price is down)
Still not bad from one bucket.
I will rest my leg and try again next week.


rgds

[Geo]

Hohoho...
I will come for help!!!!

Regards

[Dedevil]

Yes You can come for a holiday Geo.

The weather here is 34C - 37C and very hot and dry. We will be going into winter shortly and it snows here 0C - 12C . So bring some warm clothes.

As soon as the winter rain starts the fire bridage will be burning off the bush.
Probably in April. Then it will be excellent ground for LRL as the bush has never been burnt off since the invention of the metal detector. At the moment it is very thick and hard to swing a coil around the wooden sticks.

I have made a modification to the trommel; so anyone who wants to make one you must have it revolving at least 1 revolution every 2 seconds. I just changed the size of the pulley on the motor. Also i changed from a boat bildge pump to a boat high pressure 12v cleaning pump. This high pressure spray helps break up the clay and rock.

The 2.4g from a bucket was a bit lucky I think, they are not all that good. Funny enough I have been throwing this dirt out so I can go deeper. I still think my divining rods are pointing to a place in the old creek bed that the old miners have missed and that i can get up to 6 oz a day. I "think" that because it is so dry the only thing that can be triggering the rod responce is the iron in the creek. Whats your thought? The pieces of iron are about the same size as the gold in the picture and i guess that when in concentrated form this would build a electric charge.

I read an old mans notes (he is dead now) and he said 60 oz nuggets were found in this area. I do not know whether to believe that it was 1x60oz or that they got 60oz of gold from the one shaft (lots of small nuggets) which they dug down into the ground.

Last trip I found a untouched chinese shaft. Well there are 3 shafts actually. They are oval shaped and are in a triangle about 4 meters apart. The shaft goes down about 3 meters then the "drives" tunnells go horizontally between the shafts. I made a dd detector while my leg is healing and will take it down the shafts next week.

rgds

[Geo]

Originally Posted by Dedevil

Yes You can come for a holiday Geo.

The weather here is 34C - 37C and very hot and dry. We will be going into winter shortly and it snows here 0C - 12C . So bring some warm clothes.

As soon as the winter rain starts the fire bridage will be burning off the bush.
Probably in April. Then it will be excellent ground for LRL as the bush has never been burnt off since the invention of the metal detector. At the moment it is very thick and hard to swing a coil around the wooden sticks.

I have made a modification to the trommel; so anyone who wants to make one you must have it revolving at least 1 revolution every 2 seconds. I just changed the size of the pulley on the motor. Also i changed from a boat bildge pump to a boat high pressure 12v cleaning pump. This high pressure spray helps break up the clay and rock.

The 2.4g from a bucket was a bit lucky I think, they are not all that good. Funny enough I have been throwing this dirt out so I can go deeper. I still think my divining rods are pointing to a place in the old creek bed that the old miners have missed and that i can get up to 6 oz a day. I "think" that because it is so dry the only thing that can be triggering the rod responce is the iron in the creek. Whats your thought? The pieces of iron are about the same size as the gold in the picture and i guess that when in concentrated form this would build a electric charge.

I read an old mans notes (he is dead now) and he said 60 oz nuggets were found in this area. I do not know whether to believe that it was 1x60oz or that they got 60oz of gold from the one shaft (lots of small nuggets) which they dug down into the ground.

Last trip I found a untouched chinese shaft. Well there are 3 shafts actually. They are oval shaped and are in a triangle about 4 meters apart. The shaft goes down about 3 meters then the "drives" tunnells go horizontally between the shafts. I made a dd detector while my leg is healing and will take it down the shafts next week.

rgds

Hi Dedevil.
If you are good with rods then it is gold.
Do you know the way to discriminate between gold and iron??? Do you use sample at your hand???
When i use sample at my hand and make triangulate to a place.. if the three lines don't give me only one point then it is iron. If the 3 lines gives me one point (center) then the object is the same material with the sample at my hand.

Regards

[Dedevil]

I am good with the rods but the gold is not in one spot like a coin. It is spread out along the old creek at 3 meters below surface. The picture shows a very similar creek. I am currently on the higher bank and not far away is the bend in the creek where I think there will be alot of gold. It is about 40x40 meters area. I will sink a shaft there next week.

Yes the triangle method does work well. I use plastic shopping bags to put the soil into and when the signal disappears from the hole I divine the bags.

I have been told that it is best to use local gold when divining. I did ask a jeweller if he could make me some L rods with my gold and he looked at me with a strange look.
I will keep some gold for a pendulim. Keep it in a small container and use silk string to suspend it.

rgds

[Dedevil]

After being unwell for some time and now feeling better I decided to go have a look around the bush. Have a look what I found.