Final Day Prospecting Wanlockhead Nov Nice Pickers
Nov 30, 2016 4:07:50 GMT 10
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Post by goldgrabber on Nov 30, 2016 4:07:50 GMT 10
Some nice gold pickers found here on day 4, the last day of my recent gold prospecting trip to Wanlockhead, Scotland.
Every pan after sluicing a bucket of material had shows of gold which is always nice to see including a few nice sized pickers. I worked the hole for about 10-11 hours total before heading back off home and I did my best to recover as much material as I could with very little remaining after I finished. I used my underwater viewer to locate large rocks I couldn`t suck up with my manual gold pump to get to the gravels beneath, then using a garden weed scraper I got into and cleared out as many of the cracks and crevices I could get at, moving the material into an area I could then get to with the manual gold pump. Once I had finished, I filled the hole back in with a pile of tailings I had piled up along with large boulders to level the hole off.
Not a record breaking amount of gold recovered but not a bad amount for the day and it was a lot more than I found in the first 2 days gold prospecting a different stream so deciding to move ground was a very good idea.
Every pan after sluicing a bucket of material had shows of gold which is always nice to see including a few nice sized pickers. I worked the hole for about 10-11 hours total before heading back off home and I did my best to recover as much material as I could with very little remaining after I finished. I used my underwater viewer to locate large rocks I couldn`t suck up with my manual gold pump to get to the gravels beneath, then using a garden weed scraper I got into and cleared out as many of the cracks and crevices I could get at, moving the material into an area I could then get to with the manual gold pump. Once I had finished, I filled the hole back in with a pile of tailings I had piled up along with large boulders to level the hole off.
Not a record breaking amount of gold recovered but not a bad amount for the day and it was a lot more than I found in the first 2 days gold prospecting a different stream so deciding to move ground was a very good idea.
