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Post by snowygold on Apr 23, 2021 11:12:02 GMT 10
Hey guys , everyone a bit quiet
Be good to see a few posts!!
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Post by Rowdy on Apr 23, 2021 20:28:52 GMT 10
We would all like to see a few posts. Unfortunately in my case I haven't been able to get out and find anything. I keep telling myself next week but then swmbo finds another reason to keep me away from what I love doing.
Rowdy
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The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away!
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Post by mushmouse on May 3, 2021 22:45:19 GMT 10
We would all like to see a few posts. Unfortunately in my case I haven't been able to get out and find anything. I keep telling myself next week but then swmbo finds another reason to keep me away from what I love doing. Rowdy Pack a nice lunch for 2 , burn the To Do list and take missus with you..  . The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away! |
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Post by Rowdy on May 4, 2021 15:52:31 GMT 10
Hi mushmouse, been a while since I've heard from you. How are things in your part of the world. Unfortunately Mrs Rowdy doesn't like the outdoors so I'd better just pack lunch for one instead. The house and yard has been a bit run down of late and needs to be worked on. Some days I get up and say to myself Nah not today and it seems to be happening way too often. Maybe tomorrow!
Rowdy
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away!
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Post by mushmouse on May 5, 2021 20:17:30 GMT 10
Hi mushmouse, been a while since I've heard from you. How are things in your part of the world. Unfortunately Mrs Rowdy doesn't like the outdoors so I'd better just pack lunch for one instead. The house and yard has been a bit run down of late and needs to be worked on. Some days I get up and say to myself Nah not today and it seems to be happening way too often. Maybe tomorrow! Rowdy The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away! Hey Rowdy, things are good but busy. Things were a struggle on the chase with lockdowns and weather issues. Hope you get to get out soon and get some 'you' time. Goodness knows we all need it. PS -tackle the little jobs first. Gets the circulation going plus a few credits 😉 |
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Post by cronicbadger on May 7, 2021 16:47:24 GMT 10
I'm planning to fossick around Uralla for a week in mid-June, and maybe visit the Glen Innes are for sapphires as well.
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Post by cronicbadger on May 21, 2022 19:48:49 GMT 10
Since my previous post mid-2021, I've travelled to Uralla three times. The first two trips were in 2021 and were a literal washout, with the rain following me wherever I travelled. The river was too high for sluicing, and too high to reach the best sections.
However, my third trip was a success. I've just returned home today after spending a week up there, mostly sightseeing and visiting family, but also a few days on the river with my latest aquisition - Gold Rat's 888 river sluice, 8" wide with Dream Mat minicells.
Tomorrow I will put a full report, with photos, in the Photos sub-board. But for now:
Uralla gold is 99.9% pure, and super-fine - "flour gold". I think of Rocky River as New South Wales' equivalient of Victoria's Reedy Creek - abundant but extremely fine gold.
After some test panning, I found a spot yielding at least 50 specks per shovelful and set up the sluice. The sluice was perfect for the conditions. I classified to both 1/4 and 1/8 mesh, and both seemed to work equally well, likely because of the low clay content. The mat cells held onto the heavies very well, and my containers of concentrates are surprisong heavy for the volume. Tomorrow I will pan the gold and gems (zircons, sapphires) from the concentrates, but based on the results from the dozen or so test pans, and a sneaky peak of the tailings of one of the mat cleanups, I think I did rather well. :-)
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Post by nugget893 on May 26, 2022 8:35:31 GMT 10
Cronicbadger is there black sands in that river like what Reedy Creek has???
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Post by cronicbadger on May 26, 2022 22:16:10 GMT 10
Cronicbadger is there black sands in that river like what Reedy Creek has??? Yes indeed. Not all black, but dark and heavy enough to keep half the gold under the sand no matter what, and means the only way to reveal all the gold is to carefully pan off the heavies out the back of the pan - very carefully and slowly. I've been busy the past few days and had to delay posting my trip and cleanup report. I'll try to do it tomorrow. |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 0:24:05 GMT 10
Have you tried a Miller table to seperate them ?I have a small one you can try if you want to Ron No  ? |
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Post by cronicbadger on Aug 9, 2022 21:14:21 GMT 10
Have you tried a Miller table to seperate them? I have a small one you can try if you want to Ron Alas! I don't find enough gold to warrant such a device. :-) I eventually seperated it the old-fashioned way. I put photos of the end result in the Photos subforum (with my trip report). |
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Post by cronicbadger on Aug 16, 2022 15:48:00 GMT 10
I'm going back to Uralla next week, and will be out on the local waterways daily as long as the weather permits. I'm learning the ins and outs of the GR 888 sluice and improving the yields. I might even find the gold pan(s) I lost.
Yes, On my last trip I lost my good plastic pan. That's twice now. The previous trip I left the same model pan (combo of deep riffles and a section of small finishing riffles) on my car roof and drove away from the camping area. This last trip (May), I filled my replacement pan with some excellent gold-bearing gravels, submerged it, turned away to pick up a sieve, and it was gone! It was probably pulled away along the bottom by an undercurrent into the middle channel.
Incidentally, I recently learned my Uralla relative's backyard was, back in the 1850s goldrush, an old watercourse where alluvial gold was mined briefly but intensively. I'm now wondering how I would go if I brought a backhoe in to do some freelance excavation work there. :-)
Jokes aside, it is very tempting just to do a few "test postholes" and sample the cores!
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