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Post by Rowdy on Feb 20, 2015 14:44:37 GMT 10
While prospecting what mistakes have you made that you wont again. One that I made was getting all my concentrates in a jar to pan off at the next weekend. After panning it all off I then decided to have lunch and to leave the pan with the gold in it to dry sitting on the tray of the ute.
While I was having lunch the wind came up and when I went back out all the gold was spread over the back of the ute.
I did recover some of it but 75% of it is floating around the back yard somewhere.
Rowdy
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Post by Andy on Feb 20, 2015 15:44:20 GMT 10
I was once trying to move a large half buried rock at the side of the creek when my hands slipped off the rock & I ended up sitting in the creek...in the middle of winter. Boy was that water cold.
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Post by Flying Scott on Feb 20, 2015 21:24:22 GMT 10
I was prospecting in the upper Goulburn back in the 1980s, Came across a seam of gold in quartz, Because it was in the river bank I had no rights over it In other words the prospectors permit didn't permit me to disturb the river bank. My mistake was. I should have thrown caution to the wind and taken out a miners right and followed the seam. My eyesight is too far gone now, to get involved in any prospecting activity, and my 2 sons have no interest. That gold is still there and will be there for centuries to come.  Flying Scott. |
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Post by Rowdy on Feb 22, 2015 10:11:32 GMT 10
Another mistake I made was I used a pick up hose on my pump that had a spiral groove on the inside. Although I thought I had sealed the inside with silastic at the fittings each end it was still sucking air. After a very frustrating couple of hours trying to get the pump to deliver water to the sluice I had to pack up and head home and a wasted weekend of fossicking was the result.
Rowdy
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Post by mushmouse on Feb 22, 2015 22:19:28 GMT 10
Many years ago found a very profitable hole that 3 cracks fed into. The kind of takings that you can see gold sitting in the gravel in each hand tool scoop. Not game to leave any behind, decided to fill a 20 litre bucket of the gravel to take home and work it there. Partner decided to leave the bucket at his place. Next morning his dad finds the bucket of gravel, has no idea what it was, and decides it will make good roughage to spread across the chook yard. Needles to say there was a lot of jokes about golden eggs.  |
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Post by Rowdy on Feb 23, 2015 13:30:08 GMT 10
I've heard of flys..t gold before but never chook s..t gold.  Rowdy |
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Post by phillip on Feb 23, 2015 17:12:55 GMT 10
gday flying scott ill come out with you any day mate beer supplied mate
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Post by Flying Scott on Feb 23, 2015 21:05:11 GMT 10
I could point it out for you Phillip.
not far from where Sailor Bills Creek runs into the Goulburn River.
Flying Scott
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Post by phillip on Mar 2, 2015 16:58:36 GMT 10
ill have to take you up on that mate cheers let us know if i can meet up with you thanks
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Post by phillip on Mar 2, 2015 19:05:37 GMT 10
getting married must be the worst wont do it again and it makes losing 75% of your gold not to bad but serious it bloody intefers with everything to do with prospecting unless your bloody lucky
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Post by shivan on Mar 12, 2015 12:33:49 GMT 10
Have made lots of little mistakes whilst prospecting. From treading on my snuffer bottle, to leaving glass gold vials in my pockets whilst digging.
The last mistake I made was misjudging a jump between two big rocks in a creek. The rocks were slippery and I was expecting to slip a bit after I had hopped across, but as I went to jump, my front foot slipped off the rock I was standing on. Sending me head first into the rock I was jumping to and the creek. Managed to jar my arm as I was coming down and wedge myself so my head was only just above water. Lucky I had a mate there to pull me up, no major damage but a big reminder how quickly things can go south.
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Post by geoff on Mar 22, 2015 10:12:29 GMT 10
The stupidest thing I ever did was move from a spot which was giving me a good return. The logic at the time was it must be better just up on the corner. Next day I went back to the original spot and just worked my way forward to the corner. Cost me nothing except having to move some tailings, but still can not work it out why I thought it was a good idea. Small hidden creek which I never saw any evidence of another person. But of course there was lots of of plain mistakes all of which rarely get repeated (I hope). Will get some new waders since the three patch attempts have failed and it gets COLD in the winter. Geoff
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Post by chris t on Mar 22, 2015 11:55:28 GMT 10
My mistake was not learning all about this highbanking years ago when I was young and fitter lol
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