Nice haul, mate! Kudos to you for being an absolute genuine bloke with your content. No exaggerated garbage, just hard work and real results. You are more inspiring than you could believe. Thank you for another enjoyable episode. Looking forward to the next one!
Cheers and thanks. Yes, it is painfully real at times. I’m feeling yesterday’s exploits in my muscles today, but I guess it is a good thing being out there moving about. Next one should be Uralla. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to me.
A fair overview of the sluices' pluses and minuses, Jason. On the fiddly assembly and disassembly not ideal, we'd do the process on a blanket on the banks, but that's not ideal either I guess. On locations to search, we're watching local Victorians in smaller creeks with steeper gullies, whether the rivers and creeks you're targetting have more hilly feeder tributaries that may be harder to find and access, compared to the broad waters and crossing points that host regularly the weekend and regular prospectors that leave these areas relatively bare, but as you're finding, testing more places and you learn to think for different approaches on repeated tries, adding to the learning overall. An extended comment for an extended edition, keep up the good work! Gabi of Narre Warren, Victoria.
Thanks, Gabi. My waders pocket became the sluice components mobile storage unit. I will look into feeder streams in the future. I find the most valuable thing I find on these expeditions at the moment is improved knowledge about the area. Research is good but prospecting is an in the field experience type of learning as each area has its own idiosyncrasies. Hope the weather is better now down in Mexico.
Keep it up mate !! Tunea is a mint spot and one day you’ll hit a nice patch and say wow 🤩 Yes lots of flood gold but lots and lots of nice pickers in the right areas aswell.. 👍👍👍
I can see that. Once I venture down river, I saw how there was so much potential. It deserves a few days effort to find those coveted "nice patches" that you mention. Cheers.
My large sluice which joins together to make it easier to transport, often has more gold in the overlap where the two pieces join together than I get in the mat.
There must be a more efficient design for that fold away sluice-a good looking piece of kit but surely something less complicate. Thanks for the video- we love Tuena- gold is usually solid- the town is awesome- had the pub reopened when you were there? They were refurbishing it when i was there a year ago. We often pan exactly where you were but we dig down 3 ft or so to the clay layer- You met craig did you lol - he is a legend - All the best
I think I got what I paid for…it was relatively cheap. The pub still seems to be in the process of redevelopment. Yes, it’s a great little town and I feel I only scratched the surface of the gold potential. Cheers.
If I may, I'd offer a tip for beginner sluice owners, something I wish I'd known... whatever hardware nuts and bolts etc your new sluice comes with, get spares and put them in your kit or bolt them to the sluice somewhere out of the way. At some point you will drop that wingnut into the creek where it will immediately vanish. The gold gods claim their due in such ways. Cheers for the vid Jason :) Will you be going to the mineral and gem show at Hawkesbury showground next weekend?
Yes, I learned that with the Gold Rat. It was why I happened to have spare wing nuts. It was just blind luck that they fit. Oooh! Mineral and Gem show. I would have with bells on but I've already set my sites and bookings to do a northern sojourn to Uralla, Glen Innes, Torrington, and Nundle.
15:14 i got the one size down from this. Ran some black springs dirt into it, the indicator riffles picked up alot of gold but i couodnt recover it in the pan. My panning is still a work in progress 😅
@@tolgamatouk7206 it can be tricky if gold is smashed flat as it easily moves in the pan. I think everyone keeps refining. I watched a huge flake slip over the lip one day and have since been extra careful.
There is a forward classifier for your gold rat that will eliminate classifying prior to sluicing, look up forward classifiers at gold rat, it will speed up the process
@@waynewelsh4051 I have seen these and aim to get one soon. Anything to speed up processing is great. Thanks for reminding me. I assume they fit the mini sluice.
Nice haul, mate!
Kudos to you for being an absolute genuine bloke with your content. No exaggerated garbage, just hard work and real results. You are more inspiring than you could believe. Thank you for another enjoyable episode. Looking forward to the next one!
Cheers and thanks. Yes, it is painfully real at times. I’m feeling yesterday’s exploits in my muscles today, but I guess it is a good thing being out there moving about. Next one should be Uralla. Fingers crossed the weather is kind to me.
It’s a lot of hard work, but damn it must be satisfying to find those specks!
You’re right on both accounts. When one pan gets a lot of colour, the physical pain goes away.
Some nice reward for your efforts. The more you learn about a place the better your digging decisions will be. Keep searching, thanks for sharing.
That’s absolutely true. I think when I return I’ll be able to test my own theories derived from trying there twice now. Cheers.
A fair overview of the sluices' pluses and minuses, Jason. On the fiddly assembly and disassembly not ideal, we'd do the process on a blanket on the banks, but that's not ideal either I guess.
On locations to search, we're watching local Victorians in smaller creeks with steeper gullies, whether the rivers and creeks you're targetting have more hilly feeder tributaries that may be harder to find and access, compared to the broad waters and crossing points that host regularly the weekend and regular prospectors that leave these areas relatively bare, but as you're finding, testing more places and you learn to think for different approaches on repeated tries, adding to the learning overall.
An extended comment for an extended edition, keep up the good work! Gabi of Narre Warren, Victoria.
Thanks, Gabi. My waders pocket became the sluice components mobile storage unit. I will look into feeder streams in the future. I find the most valuable thing I find on these expeditions at the moment is improved knowledge about the area. Research is good but prospecting is an in the field experience type of learning as each area has its own idiosyncrasies. Hope the weather is better now down in Mexico.
Keep it up mate !!
Tunea is a mint spot and one day you’ll hit a nice patch and say wow 🤩
Yes lots of flood gold but lots and lots of nice pickers in the right areas aswell.. 👍👍👍
I can see that. Once I venture down river, I saw how there was so much potential. It deserves a few days effort to find those coveted "nice patches" that you mention. Cheers.
My large sluice which joins together to make it easier to transport, often has more gold in the overlap where the two pieces join together than I get in the mat.
I can see that. When I tilted the top feeder, a low pressure point was created and I saw a fleck of gold and black sand collect at the join.
There must be a more efficient design for that fold away sluice-a good looking piece of kit but surely something less complicate. Thanks for the video- we love Tuena- gold is usually solid- the town is awesome- had the pub reopened when you were there? They were refurbishing it when i was there a year ago. We often pan exactly where you were but we dig down 3 ft or so to the clay layer- You met craig did you lol - he is a legend - All the best
I think I got what I paid for…it was relatively cheap. The pub still seems to be in the process of redevelopment. Yes, it’s a great little town and I feel I only scratched the surface of the gold potential. Cheers.
Thanks for the video.
Nice gold.
Moving around the area pays off.
Uralla, Wooldridge Fossicking and Recreation Area
That's my next stop! Haven't been there since I was a kid so it will be like going the first time other than knowing to look for the clay layer.
If I may, I'd offer a tip for beginner sluice owners, something I wish I'd known... whatever hardware nuts and bolts etc your new sluice comes with, get spares and put them in your kit or bolt them to the sluice somewhere out of the way. At some point you will drop that wingnut into the creek where it will immediately vanish. The gold gods claim their due in such ways. Cheers for the vid Jason :) Will you be going to the mineral and gem show at Hawkesbury showground next weekend?
Yes, I learned that with the Gold Rat. It was why I happened to have spare wing nuts. It was just blind luck that they fit. Oooh! Mineral and Gem show. I would have with bells on but I've already set my sites and bookings to do a northern sojourn to Uralla, Glen Innes, Torrington, and Nundle.
Watched, liked and subbed. Great video. Congrats🎉🎉🎉🎉
Cheers. Glad you liked it.
15:14 i got the one size down from this.
Ran some black springs dirt into it, the indicator riffles picked up alot of gold but i couodnt recover it in the pan. My panning is still a work in progress 😅
@@tolgamatouk7206 it can be tricky if gold is smashed flat as it easily moves in the pan. I think everyone keeps refining. I watched a huge flake slip over the lip one day and have since been extra careful.
There is a forward classifier for your gold rat that will eliminate classifying prior to sluicing, look up forward classifiers at gold rat, it will speed up the process
@@waynewelsh4051 I have seen these and aim to get one soon. Anything to speed up processing is great. Thanks for reminding me. I assume they fit the mini sluice.