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coal crevices - gold in coal

jase265		Posted : Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:02:02 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 2/08/2010(UTC) Posts: 24 Location: newzealand Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 1 time(s) in 1 post(s)		OK guys I have small problem, I know of a place that has a bit of colour in it, The problem is its in really small tight crevices of thick coal on the stream bed,what I need is a crevies sucker to get into some of the cracks an maybe some jelly to blow the stuff apart, just looking for ideas.My crevice sucker is to big for the cracks. any ideas would be great
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simon		Posted : Thursday, 6 December 2012 10:29:05 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 7/01/2011(UTC) Posts: 789 Location: Central Otago Thanks: 33 times Was thanked: 239 time(s) in 150 post(s)		smaller crevice sucker perhaps? try one of those little plastic bottles as a cheap option - buy or make it. coal would be great to catch gold. toughest thing will be watching you don't lose the trapped gold deeper into the coal if you try and break it. that said i reckon there will be more gold in the coal. try and break down into it 20 cm or so. maybe start where the biggest most likely fissures in it are.
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icemaneli		Posted : Friday, 7 December 2012 10:14:05 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Flake Groups: Registered Joined: 5/09/2012(UTC) Posts: 19 Location: Darfield Thanks: 1 times Was thanked: 1 time(s) in 1 post(s)		Yeah break it out, then pan it, coal is not very dense so it should be easy.

Dave		Posted : Saturday, 8 December 2012 5:10:32 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Dust Groups: Registered Joined: 25/11/2012(UTC) Posts: 0 Location: Central Otago		If you have a look on ebay.com.au they have some crevice suckers the size of a big pen