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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks Mike I'll post some more soon  |
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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nice finds  |
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United States
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Wow...what can I say? Wow!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Your very welcome to try your luck over here Mike Just a small sample of what's still coming out of the ground here MGT And  to the forum Bennie hope you enjoy regards Harry |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'Day Trek 45 some make a living out of detecting but for most people its a hobby,it also gives them a little extra in there pocket with some finding the retirement nuggets,my mates a Kiwi and the gold he finds has paid for his many trips back home and his new $6500 Minelab detector as well regards harry Edited by nuggethill
03/02/2009 3:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Here's another just a small 4 grams  interesting shape |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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From the land of the Bluenose.....man that is great. Hope the hip works out okay. My step father had both done and is now back golfing. Thanks for sharing the photo!
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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My pleasure sarkany,The hips O.K.now and the next thing I need to do is update to a new detector when the new model is released onto the market,I'll post some specimens (that's gold in quartz) next. |
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Australia
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Well as promised I said I would show you a few species and this is the first one,I've crushed all larger species in a mill to extract the gold and some of these are the by product,The rest are detected.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's pretty neat Harry. So this one was crushed in a mill. Is that usually how it's done when it is mixed with quartz? Now to get the remaining gold out of that piece what would you do? Just mill it some more until all quartz is crushed out?
Now this piece looks different than the one posted above. Is that a result of milling or is it a different type of gold? Sorry for all the questions I am just curious.
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Bedrock of the Community
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The gold/quartz mix looks a lot like California vein gold. |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'Day Mike and yes DVCollector this is vein gold or what we call reef gold,Mike normally I would leave this in the mill/crusher until the quartz had been crushed to powder then separated by panning,I don't like to use mercury to extract the gold even tho easier a bit more dangerous  this is another look at it with a sharper photo Oh and P.S. The difference between alluvial gold and reef gold is the alluvial gold has bleed from the reef and traveled away by water hydraulics smoothing the gold and reef gold is very course also can be an indication of a close gold shedding reef Edited by nuggethill
03/09/2009 09:34 am
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Pillar of the Community
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G'Day all,This is a goldfield find from Victoria and I did find this about a foot down,Its a 4 penny weight for weighing gold on a scale  Also an alluvial specie  Edited by nuggethill
03/10/2009 08:54 am
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Thanks for the info Harry. I understand things a little better now. With that kind of gold laying around I probably would have gold fever. Maybe it's a good thing it's not easily accessible to me.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Yes Mike I know what you mean  I some time's get those itchy feet too  , I have a few more photo's tho I think I'll save them for another month  I'll just throw these two up,the first is some elluvial species (found between reef and creek) opposed to alluvial (found in creek) and the last are just fly specks   Oh P.S.had to post as I didn't want to sit on 313  Edited by nuggethill
03/12/2009 02:29 am
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