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3 hours of scratching and panning
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 2:12:46 AM(UTC)
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not much but it's color :)

panning is painfully slow with not much result but man it sure is the shit just being out there enjoying the tranquility!
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 9:27:00 AM(UTC)
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Looks good to me for just 3 hours.
What do you reckon it is worth?
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 10:02:23 AM(UTC)
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I'd be bloody excited to find that with a pan in 3 hours. If you had a little sluice box you'd have 10 times that, probably for less effort too.
Now that would be an even more splendid result.

Good to see you taking a bit of time off from swinging that coil.
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 12:46:55 PM(UTC)
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I'd be bloody excited to find that with a pan in 3 hours. If you had a little sluice box you'd have 10 times that, probably for less effort too.
Now that would be an even more splendid result.

Good to see you taking a bit of time off from swinging that coil.


Yeah haha I did take the whites XLT with me for prospecting but didn't have time to get it out and go wandering. Theres not a lot here it's pretty flakey stuff....I did put 5 buckets through my sluice but with no classifier I found it to be too time consuming sorting out the flow and blockages....I panned some of this from that sluice concentrate last night but it was very minimal as to what I was finding by test panning a few different places. Only the second time I've been and done panning but have learnt heaps of good advice from all the good buggers on here...it def paid off knowing a few tricks I wish I could do it all day every day...ya can't beat being out in the wop wops!
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 12:49:22 PM(UTC)
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Looks good to me for just 3 hours.
What do you reckon it is worth?




yes I took a few macro closeup photos to be able to choose the one that made it look the bestest haha..there's really not that much here but it's enough to look the part :)

worth? Worth it just to finally have some in a bottle...probably coulda brought this much for $5 lol
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 3:03:34 PM(UTC)
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You hit the nail on the head when you said just being out there - that is the main object I think.

As for the gold - I guess that finding it is the bonus - the icing on the cake and a little is better than nothing.

I think you have done OK - good going and great to see it and also remember that it mounts up.
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 7:07:14 PM(UTC)
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good work mate, if it was easy everyone would be doing it, next time your in queenstown give me a yell would be happy to take you for a look, by the way i work with you mate Justin...
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 7:12:59 PM(UTC)
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Jeez dan that is great going! Lovely colour indeed! I'm hoping yo get a week off or so over summer and try my hand with an old pan I have. And the goldbug lol
There's another to find and I'm gunna find it!
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 10:22:08 PM(UTC)
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Bloody hell msb-id be rapt with that after 3 hours panning-good effort.
And youre right-doesnt matter if you find anything or not its all about being out there doing it.
Godd gold and good on ya!
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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 11:13:30 PM(UTC)
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good work mate, if it was easy everyone would be doing it, next time your in queenstown give me a yell would be happy to take you for a look, by the way i work with you mate Justin...


aww yeah gidday mate cheers and yep I will do that...ol Justy has mentioned you a couple of times...how is the mad maori doing I havn't had a beer with him for a long time!!

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Posted : Thursday, 27 September 2012 11:18:52 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Lammerlaw Go to Quoted Post

You hit the nail on the head when you said just being out there - that is the main object I think.

As for the gold - I guess that finding it is the bonus - the icing on the cake and a little is better than nothing.

I think you have done OK - good going and great to see it and also remember that it mounts up.



Haha so right lammerlaw...the missus said geeze that's not much (gold runs in her family) and so I says yep not much but "not much" MORE than I had beforehand....good excuse to head bush again another hundy trips and the wee bottle might be full!

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