Post by rolley on Feb 18, 2013 10:08:02 GMT 10
GDay everyone, I just joined over the weekend, and haven't even had a chance to read the threads yet but I'm looking forward to learning quite a bit from the forums, and hopefully meeting a couple of people in my area too when time permits!
I'm a young fella, with three kids (single parent), and I've just started going prospecting this year for the first time. I absolutely love the outdoors, and can happily sit around in a creek all day! I've taken my oldest son out a couple of times but he gets REALLY bored and has hilarious expectations of finding huge gold nuggets (cute), then gets really disappointed when we leave with nothing haha.
On the weekends when I don't have the kids I'd like to go out more and get a bit more experience - and find somewhere where I can find the real deal (of course) ;D
All I've done so far is some panning and running a sluice box - all around the Rockhampton area, from Bouldercombe, New Zealand Gully, Morinish, Rosewood. I've been getting some interesting flakes but I think many of them are pyrites (I'll post some pics later in a different thread, maybe someone can help me ID things?), and I've only got one definite piece of gold (a tiny nugget) - and foolishly I have no idea which location I got it from haha.
Well.. that's me anyway, chat to yas again soon!
Rolley
I'm a young fella, with three kids (single parent), and I've just started going prospecting this year for the first time. I absolutely love the outdoors, and can happily sit around in a creek all day! I've taken my oldest son out a couple of times but he gets REALLY bored and has hilarious expectations of finding huge gold nuggets (cute), then gets really disappointed when we leave with nothing haha.
On the weekends when I don't have the kids I'd like to go out more and get a bit more experience - and find somewhere where I can find the real deal (of course) ;D
All I've done so far is some panning and running a sluice box - all around the Rockhampton area, from Bouldercombe, New Zealand Gully, Morinish, Rosewood. I've been getting some interesting flakes but I think many of them are pyrites (I'll post some pics later in a different thread, maybe someone can help me ID things?), and I've only got one definite piece of gold (a tiny nugget) - and foolishly I have no idea which location I got it from haha.
Well.. that's me anyway, chat to yas again soon!
Rolley