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Posted : Tuesday, 26 June 2012 2:38:04 PM(UTC)
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streeter:

it's amazing sometimes how the gold sticks to the mid stream area. well, all the good bits. i guess it's usually where the best flow is, well, at least in the type of streams i'm in that are good bedrock. there is definitely a pay streak line, just got to find it.

i ground sluiced a stretch over a period and all the best gold was dead centre. and the bedrock was by no means regular. it has rough reef running off sideways on all angles, smooth bed, etc. still the pay streak ran straight thru the middle. i even got some good bits just sitting on the smooth bottom as they were heavy enough only to move further in a very good flood.

Another couple of guys sniped the whole stretch further after me, and what i had missed by me and found by them was also up the centre.

and i've seen this stream in some bloody big floods. it's amazing how the bigger rocks and boulders hold in place in these floods. once moved it's a whole nother story. it's easy to open up an area that's turns out to be a good spot just to have a good flood come along before you can work it fully, and come back and dig late to find squat as you have disturbed the sediments and it's all taken off.
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Streeter  
Posted : Tuesday, 26 June 2012 9:00:44 PM(UTC)
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I also dug off to one side with good results also will hit it hard and go for a longer stint this weekend and hopefully for my birthday on friday get some new gear to try, a screen for my bucket being the one that will help speed things up being what im looking forward to the most :)
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Posted : Monday, 2 July 2012 11:11:23 PM(UTC)
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went out on saturday got there at 11:30am battled with the river being frozen over but battled on none the less despite what i was digging up to be frozen solid,river half melted by mid afternoon only to start freezing up again , pan froze up on me and sides of the sluice started to ice up as well... cold cold day

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Posted : Monday, 2 July 2012 11:52:25 PM(UTC)
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streeter,

mitre 10 has a good sieve in the garden department. it fits perfect in a round bin they also sell. think both are 20 - 25 bucks. they are dark green from memory and the plastic bucket / bin has yellow rope handles. also good for packing all the smaller tools in.
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Posted : Tuesday, 3 July 2012 11:19:39 PM(UTC)
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will get a finer one the same as the blue one i have, here is a pic of some of my gear, detector is a minelab xterra gold with a dd coil also have plastic pans, buckets and other spades,trowels and scraping gear

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tramping pack is good its got those rock climbing clips for most of my stuff and it has something that my hammer and pick hang from too :)

minelab must work as im finding tiny objects like fishing nymphs even paper staples and bullet heads/casings but no gold yet

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