Hi fellow forum members.
I am going to say something to make a point, which I feel has to be made for the benefit of a lot of wishful members?
If you want to become a successful fossicker (prospector), “DON’T” just go to a location where you think that you have a good chance of finding Gold, and then spend your time jumping around like a jackrabbit all over the place in the forlorn hope of stubbing your toe on a very nice large chunk of it !!!
It very seldom happens like that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Do your research of a place carefully! Choose a location in that place where you think that you may have a good chance of finding “Reasonable” sized gold!
(Anybody can find fine float or flood gold, but its crap stuff to save, and you’ll spend all your time and efforts of hours, or days maybe, for a Bucks worth of gold in saleable condition.)
Go to your location spot, study it and its environmental contours--- I.e. Shapes, Forms, Outcrops, Exposures, Bedrock types, whether there’s bits of quartz rock around etc, or ironstone (iron stained rock), yellowish Sulfur stained rocks, or if you have studied somewhat, those formations that are termed “Gold Country”
( Of course, if you go to where gold has been found in the past, (“Best Bet“) then you will already be in gold country wont you!)
Choose where you will start to look for your gold.
Mark out, or grid mark a small area to search within, (say a square meter). ( Mentally doing this can help if in a creek bed.)
Process the ground within this small area thoroughly!
Digging to bedrock if possible in an Alluvial operation, and cleaning out all the cracks and crevices in this base rock.
If using a metal detector? Cover this little area with close overlapping sweeps, keeping the coil as close as possible to the ground. If you don’t get a signal to spur you on, consider removing the top 10 to 20 centimeters of soil and trying again!
Always remember that Gold always tries to sink down to the center of the earth, so it usually comes to rest at the lowest point within its latest environment whenever it is subjected to transportation by land changing weathering conditions, be this water, wind, or earth movements etc.
In respect of this Phenomenon, if you want to retrieve good gold, you need to dig for it!
If your only prepared to scratch the surface stuff, good gold will elude your efforts every time!!!
This also goes for dredging, you really must suck up the bottom stuff as best you can!
Cheers---Colin.
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