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Trapping Gold...

wally		Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 4:40:30 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Dust Groups: Registered Joined: 25/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 0 Location: dunedin		is that steam engine still sitting there ??????

kiwijw		Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 4:46:13 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 28/03/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,152 Thanks: 92 times Was thanked: 658 time(s) in 324 post(s)		. Edited by user Saturday, 9 July 2011 2:41:42 AM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified

madsonicboating		Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 4:56:51 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 21/03/2011(UTC) Posts: 674 Thanks: 187 times Was thanked: 157 time(s) in 127 post(s)		haha i can see the news in a few weeks time now... " 500 rolls of carpet dissappear from store, last seen heading up skippers canyon" LOL JW thats a fantastic story and bloody awesome photos to go with it!!
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Lammerlaw		Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 5:05:26 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 24/05/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,721 Thanks: 72 times Was thanked: 579 time(s) in 396 post(s)		In one creek in my place my daughter sat on rocks piled a metre up from the creek bed, each rock was far too heavy to lift - in other words heavy rock overburden to a depth of a metre - next time we were there it was clear bedrock for twenty metres and a deep hole downstream which I was going to dredge had disappeared...filled up! As I inferred above the idea of placing riffles into a creek is NOT practical unless there is unworked material immediately upstream and it is worked by controlled forces - ie a controlled flow of water - sluicing or the ues of a bulldozer in a steady controlled flow..In some rivers with large amounts of fine gold dissipated through the gravel the idea might have some merit..cross fingers and hope floods dont wash the riffles all away. Actually the idea amuses me - what the heck is wrong with merely working natural crevices below the area you want to work - if it is smooth bedrock for a long distance with no gold holding bottom then go further downstream to where there is. If there is no gold in natural crevices then what in tarnation makes anyone think that artificial riffles will do what natural ones dont because the gold aint coming down.

kiwijw		Posted : Friday, 17 June 2011 5:23:10 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 28/03/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,152 Thanks: 92 times Was thanked: 658 time(s) in 324 post(s)		. Edited by user Saturday, 9 July 2011 2:42:00 AM(UTC) \| Reason: Not specified

oroplata		Posted : Saturday, 18 June 2011 2:51:19 AM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered, Moderators Joined: 16/06/2011(UTC) Posts: 1,040 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 23 times Was thanked: 211 time(s) in 152 post(s)		wally wrote: i herd of a guy who dyna bolted a very strong set of riffles to bed rock ( in otago ) and came back 12 months later to spend 3 days looking for it and found it ( the riffles ) some 100 metres down stream all bent and buckled and no gold Bigger dynabolts next time, then?
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