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captainrandom  
Posted : Thursday, 28 June 2012 10:02:49 PM(UTC)
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Hi all.

last time(which was also the first time) i posted on here i was planning a trip for the family to the coast for a gold mining trip. but that got cancelled do to a car accident.
I have a spot that me and my father always use to go to on the coast. but we think it may now have a permit on it. cant figure out if it does or not by looking at the maps.
I am also looking for a second hand (but as cheap as possible) sluice box and a metal detector(although they def not cheap lol)

any help would be GREAT!!!
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Posted : Friday, 29 June 2012 11:16:10 AM(UTC)
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Posted : Friday, 29 June 2012 11:44:07 AM(UTC)
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captainrandom:

as gingerbreadman has given the link for the permit map, why not look up if there is a claim and maybe try and contact the owner. i'm sure if you introduce yourself they may let you have a sluicebox on it.

if not there are plenty more waterways to try on the coast. if you look through past posts you will find mentioned various spots that may yield gold.

there are not too many good sluiceboxes for sale secondhand. why not build one yourself? it's pretty easy. doesn't have to cost much / anything if you have the time to hunt out all the bits you need. the rush miners often had nothing to work with and fashioned boxes out of all sorts - sticks for riffles, rocks for sides, a bit of moss etc rammed in under the sticks.

i remember reading that during the initial dunstan rush a farmhouse had every board of it's outbuilding removed for material to build boxes. someone even bought the lady of the house's baby cradle to use as a cradle for gold recovery!

yes, detectors aren't cheap. not for a good one. yet if you are serious about detecting a machine that costs $800 - $1200 can easily pay itself off if you use if frequently. look at some of the forum members. i think some have probably paid their's off just finding current coins.
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captainrandom  
Posted : Saturday, 30 June 2012 8:19:50 PM(UTC)
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Thanks!
I had a look at that map but the govt map is very different?

i keep seeing these plastic ones on trademe.
http://www.trademe.co.nz...isting.aspx?id=489146338
they dont come apart to be washing into a bucket or pan. has anyone used these before?
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Posted : Saturday, 30 June 2012 10:34:43 PM(UTC)
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I have one of those and know the guy that sells them. At $55 not a bad investment, but there are issues. Being plastic they tend to float unless you weight them down with a large rock or something. They also can twist and are not as ridgid as a metal sluice. As you noted clean up is not as easy as rolling up a rubber mat into a bucket.

The good thing is provided you can work with the shortcomings, they will catch gold.
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captainrandom  
Posted : Sunday, 1 July 2012 12:20:10 AM(UTC)
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Oh that's good! someone with experience with one :)

How do you manage to wash it all after you've finished sluicing?
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Posted : Sunday, 1 July 2012 8:51:06 AM(UTC)
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Hi captain,you can get a new goldbug for around the 800 mark and there are a couple people on here such as lammerlaw and Hatter that can attest as to how well they work on gold....
good luck with your trip to the coast and may the gods bring you plenty of gold....i will get over there or into central otago one day..lol
Chris - Fisher Dealer http://www.puiakisupply.co.nz/
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Posted : Sunday, 1 July 2012 12:00:46 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: captainrandom Go to Quoted Post
Oh that's good! someone with experience with one :)

How do you manage to wash it all after you've finished sluicing?


Ok, short answer... very carefully... hehehe.

It's not too difficult, you lift the front end up out of the water flow and carefully push the rocks etc holding the sluice in place out of the way. Then place on the river bank with a large gold pan at the back end, raise the front by placing a large rock or something under it and take a bucket of water and slowly wash the black sand and whatever else is caught in the riffles into the gold pan. You can then pan the concentrate and hopefully find some color.
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