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Post by poeticjustice78 on Mar 18, 2013 14:01:09 GMT 10
Hello everyone, I am Mandy and married with two teenage daughters, we go camping often and I have just got bitten by the bug after buying a pan and going up to the Yackandandah creek. I am planning on going out as much as possible either by myself, with my family or with my kids if hubby has to work. I am lucky enough to live close to beechworth, Yackandandah, Eldorado, and surrounds. We have also got old mines here that I am dying to go down them and have a look around but am also a bit scared to do so. I have found a few specks of gold over the past two weekends and I had a ball getting out in the open air and muddy although I have no idea what I am doing haha. Hubby even made me a sluice box and I broke it out on the weekend to try mu luck, it caught a few specks but I need to get a piece of the proper miners moss when I can get hold of some, but for now ill make do with my pan and shovel  Do nuggets even exist here in Vic creeks anymore lol |
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Post by donnybrook on Mar 18, 2013 15:10:36 GMT 10
Don't get gold fever. Lots of good men and women and families down your way. I am sure you will get lots of advice and help with things. Enjoy it; the greatest hobby in the world.
donny
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Post by jeffu on Mar 18, 2013 15:44:13 GMT 10
From an ex Albury-ite, welcome to the AGP. Great area you live in. Bethanga, plenty of gold and gems in your own back yard.  Yack is great, Beechworth and Eldorado great also. Happy fossicking Jeff |
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Post by nickmac on Mar 19, 2013 6:20:25 GMT 10
Hi there. If you cant get miners moss try a bit of lawn bowl turf. Fake grass. I use it and it seems ok .anyone else use it?
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Post by labrador on Mar 19, 2013 19:22:42 GMT 10
Hi Mandy & Family,
Look in the floor covering and matting in Bunnings, and floor places, there is all sorts of mats and carpets with places gold would be traped, keeping it in the traps is the trick, I used fake grass, form a tenice court, and it did catch and hold specks, a little hard to get it out when I washed it. there is a mat very mutch like miners moss as well.
I am a beginner as well, I like solving the problems I run in to as mutch as the hunt,
There are others on this fouroum way past where I am re inventing the whell.
happy hunting, good luck going down old mines, tread softly lol
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Post by poeticjustice78 on Apr 2, 2013 14:31:18 GMT 10
Only mine here that anyone could possibly get down would need to be a bit thinner and more agile than myself haha, I am thinking it may be the "gift tunnel" that you can see from the road. It is a shame they are all closed in, it would be awesome to get in there!! All the others that are fenced off are shafts and you would need to be a spider to get down there, no thanks!
We found some old pieces of round "pipes" that look to be left overs from where the miners may have drilled holes for testing or dynamite? Anyone know what these are actually called?
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Post by Ric on Apr 2, 2013 18:55:17 GMT 10
Hi Mandy, Welcome to the group.
How big are these 'pipes'? They could have been used to bring water to the workings from a dam or even to feed a Hydraulic nozzle for Hydraulic sluicing.
Cheers Ric
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Post by poeticjustice78 on Apr 12, 2013 12:30:45 GMT 10
Hmm perhaps that's not the right term. they are solid rock in a pipe/tube shape, seems to be from deep in a mine from a drill core maybe? Not sure |
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Post by Ric on Apr 12, 2013 15:36:12 GMT 10
Ahhh yes, They would be core samples. You are right, they are from test drill holes.
If you have a look at them you might even be able to see very fine gold in the rock. I have a number of granite core samples from southern NSW with visible gold in them.
Good luck with your adventures.
Cheers Ric
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Post by labrador on Apr 12, 2013 19:34:15 GMT 10
Sounds like core sampls, if they are gray and look like cement, with out native stone, The drillers some times drill in to a cavity and will pour tons of cement down the hole, on setting, they then drill in to it to keep the drill running true. When it comes up they disgard it, not worth taking back to the lab for testing, Thats is my thoughts
Labrador
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Post by phil on Sept 1, 2013 19:01:05 GMT 10
hi mandy im from wodonga and just getting into panning you were talking about miners moss ive heard a coarse woven door mat rubber from bunnings works a treat and is cheaper hope this helps  |
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Post by dirtdiggin on Sept 17, 2017 22:13:20 GMT 10
Hello everyone, I am Mandy and married with two teenage daughters, we go camping often and I have just got bitten by the bug after buying a pan and going up to the Yackandandah creek. I am planning on going out as much as possible either by myself, with my family or with my kids if hubby has to work. I am lucky enough to live close to beechworth, Yackandandah, Eldorado, and surrounds. We have also got old mines here that I am dying to go down them and have a look around but am also a bit scared to do so. I have found a few specks of gold over the past two weekends and I had a ball getting out in the open air and muddy although I have no idea what I am doing haha. Hubby even made me a sluice box and I broke it out on the weekend to try mu luck, it caught a few specks but I need to get a piece of the proper miners moss when I can get hold of some, but for now ill make do with my pan and shovel Do nuggets even exist here in Vic creeks anymore lol Hi Mandy Just wondering if you ended up finding anywhere good to prospect around your area? I'm also around this area but have found it hard to find locations. Cheers |
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Post by dazthomo on Jan 20, 2018 19:40:19 GMT 10
[/quote] Hi Mandy
Just wondering if you ended up finding anywhere good to prospect around your area?
I'm also around this area but have found it hard to find locations.
Cheers [/quote]
Yack creek is good, if you can dig a deep enough hole to get to the good clay underneath where the gold can be found.
There is a pic somewhere on the forum of the gold i pulled from Yack creek from around 100lt of classified material
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