Post by jeffu on Apr 23, 2016 20:25:55 GMT 10
First trip to Oallen for a couple of months. Day started not so good, got about 18km from home and almost passed out from petrol fumes. Pulled over and found the cap on my jerrycan was split and petrol was spilling everywhere. Drove back to Queanbeyan a bought a new one. Continued on to Oallen, got there about an hour later than usual and was surprised, a long weekend and there was no campers.
Set up the highbanker and began throwing dirt in.
Had many people stop by and have a chat, a couple of "newbie" gold prospectors, a whole family from Sydney, dad, mum and the 4 kids. He built his own HB based on the Wal Banker, the best home made unit I have ever seen, very well built. This was his first day using it, never seen 4 kids so keen.
A very enjoyable day all round, did my cleanup at about 4.00pm, gold was down a bit, around 1.2g, will do a final cleanup tomorrow. The new GoldWell Vortex HB seems to be working way better than I could ever imagined. It is holding more sub 50 mesh than I have ever seen at Oallen, big draw back with it's efficiency is that it also holds ever bit of black sand as well
Anyway, it was a fantastic day, wouldn't have mattered if there was no gold. Met some truly nice people.
Jeff
Set up the highbanker and began throwing dirt in.
Had many people stop by and have a chat, a couple of "newbie" gold prospectors, a whole family from Sydney, dad, mum and the 4 kids. He built his own HB based on the Wal Banker, the best home made unit I have ever seen, very well built. This was his first day using it, never seen 4 kids so keen.
A very enjoyable day all round, did my cleanup at about 4.00pm, gold was down a bit, around 1.2g, will do a final cleanup tomorrow. The new GoldWell Vortex HB seems to be working way better than I could ever imagined. It is holding more sub 50 mesh than I have ever seen at Oallen, big draw back with it's efficiency is that it also holds ever bit of black sand as well
Anyway, it was a fantastic day, wouldn't have mattered if there was no gold. Met some truly nice people.
Jeff
Good, you can keep the campers down there. 
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