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Gold in AP40 road metal

Toko		Posted : Sunday, 2 March 2014 7:15:17 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Dust Groups: Registered Joined: 8/02/2014(UTC) Posts: 0 Was thanked: 1 time(s) in 1 post(s)		I have been building a highbanker for my sluice today and needed to do some test runs to see how things flowed. The only gravel I could find was a pile of AP40 gravel we use on the driveway, so I put about 4 shovel fulls through. Everything seemed to work pretty good and I thought what the heck I may as well pan out what Id caught. I ended up with about 30 colours . I had packed the sluice up by then but I went down later and got 6 fine specks in a pan. So I guess if you cant afford a claim or you cant get to a public fossicking area you can always get paydirt dropped off to your home

gavin		Posted : Sunday, 2 March 2014 7:42:44 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Administrators, Registered Joined: 20/02/2010(UTC) Posts: 1,326 Location: Christchurch Thanks: 736 times Was thanked: 535 time(s) in 287 post(s)		I've always wondered if gold makes it in to the road metal - now I know!!
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goldstalker		Posted : Sunday, 2 March 2014 7:55:21 PM(UTC)
Rank: Gold Ingot Groups: Registered Joined: 11/10/2012(UTC) Posts: 454 Location: greymouth, west coast Thanks: 6 times Was thanked: 67 time(s) in 57 post(s)		they dig gravel out of the lower end of the river ive claimed it has good gold and its all in the road :(

oroplata		Posted : Sunday, 2 March 2014 8:23:02 PM(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)		I recall one of the Alaska gold programs had someone claiming a lot of the gravel drives in certain areas still have nuggets mixed in with them. Drooooool.
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