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Post by cronicbadger on Jun 18, 2019 17:26:43 GMT 10
I've read how in ancient times sheep pelts were laid in gold-bearing stream-beds to collect gold. And in later periods some people laid carpet on the slopes leading to the creeks to collect gold washed out of the topsoil.
I'm thinking in the same mold as beekeeping, where hives have artificial wax panels to stimulate production, and other forms of farming where nature is assisted in its endeavours. In other words, passive "gold-farming" (and if that becomes an oft-used term, I claim first rights! :-) ).
So, disregarding laws (for the sake of the argument), is there an optimal way of re-configuring or augmenting the alluvial (and even elluvial) topography to capture gold better than nature can, without significantly altering the watercourse or flow? Have there been attempts at such things? A device or alteration that is left in place for months or even years at a stretch before "harvesting"?
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Post by Rowdy on Jun 18, 2019 21:51:49 GMT 10
About 15 years ago there were some people trying to sell carbon filled container that were put into the stream flow and were supposed to capture fine gold over a few weeks/months and all the lucky purchaser had to do was collect all the gold by treating the carbon in the containers.
I think these may have been a con job as I've heard nothing about them since. Either that or the people who bought them are doing so well that they are keeping quiet about them.
Rowdy
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Post by Flying Scott on Jun 19, 2019 19:27:05 GMT 10
You wouldn't live long enough to reap the reward.
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Post by nugget893 on Jun 26, 2019 8:03:42 GMT 10
Scott you mentioned that in ancient times they used sheep pelts. That was mainly the Romans. And that is where you got the word Golden Fleece. Also user by the petrol company "Golden Fleece.
Nugget893
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Post by Flying Scott on Jun 27, 2019 21:22:22 GMT 10
I wouldn't like to be the one washing the fleece to retrieve the gold
Flying Scott
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Post by moeee55 on Jul 5, 2019 12:53:16 GMT 10
I wouldn't like to be the one washing the fleece to retrieve the gold Flying Scott No ? - Why is that ? |
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Post by Andy on Jul 7, 2019 10:30:41 GMT 10
I wouldn't like to be the one washing the fleece to retrieve the gold Flying Scott No ? - Why is that ? |
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Post by moeee55 on Jul 10, 2019 20:43:18 GMT 10
that makes perfect sense Andy
Explains why I have never ever seen fleece as a suggested sluice trapping material
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Post by Flying Scott on Jul 11, 2019 21:12:44 GMT 10
Let it dry out and set fire to it.
I always used indoor outdoor ribbed carpet from Clark Rubber for my sluice. Green in colour
Flying Scott
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Post by moeee55 on Jul 12, 2019 23:45:58 GMT 10
I use vee ribbed rubber matting from Bunnings.
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Post by Thylacine on Sept 12, 2019 15:43:31 GMT 10
Logs have been placed across streams and staked into place so that they formed a baffle turning that length of the stream into a sluice. The builder just waited for rain, thunderstorms or a flash flood to fill his riffles and when the water subsided the rifles were dug out.
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