tinpan
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Hi all,
In 1852 German Gully was alive with Alluvial mining activity, panner,s craddles and mudhole puddlers . High above them was the Colluvial hillside miners with long tom sluices. Often they worked together and hand dug large water dams above the sluices and had water transfer trenches. camp was often set just below the dam wall and tents gained some shade and protection from the wind.Today i went out to where i had located a miners camp some time ago. I decided to hunt the sluice line and trenches. Lots of hand-made nails from the crude wooden sluice sides .The sluices where made from local tree Grey box gum as there was little good timber to be had. Some of the sluices in this gully were over 100 feet long. Takes alot of work and water to wash the gold out of the hard pipe clay.
after about 2 hours Finaly the right aggressive sound. Great thing about using a 12x6 mono ecliptial coil is can use your coil nose as a pin-pointer. Take the coil back from target until there no signal and then sink your pick forward of target and get one clump of clay out. Run clump over coil 'got ya" Split clump in half and when a few seconds by reducing and splitting ,you have your target in your hand. simple quick and easy. The thought like another post of taking small scoops out one at time and waving small hand fulls over the coil is slow and making far to much work of retrieving the target.
i can get a one grammer in seconds. Seems my idea works well.
tinpan
In 1852 German Gully was alive with Alluvial mining activity, panner,s craddles and mudhole puddlers . High above them was the Colluvial hillside miners with long tom sluices. Often they worked together and hand dug large water dams above the sluices and had water transfer trenches. camp was often set just below the dam wall and tents gained some shade and protection from the wind.Today i went out to where i had located a miners camp some time ago. I decided to hunt the sluice line and trenches. Lots of hand-made nails from the crude wooden sluice sides .The sluices where made from local tree Grey box gum as there was little good timber to be had. Some of the sluices in this gully were over 100 feet long. Takes alot of work and water to wash the gold out of the hard pipe clay.
after about 2 hours Finaly the right aggressive sound. Great thing about using a 12x6 mono ecliptial coil is can use your coil nose as a pin-pointer. Take the coil back from target until there no signal and then sink your pick forward of target and get one clump of clay out. Run clump over coil 'got ya" Split clump in half and when a few seconds by reducing and splitting ,you have your target in your hand. simple quick and easy. The thought like another post of taking small scoops out one at time and waving small hand fulls over the coil is slow and making far to much work of retrieving the target.
i can get a one grammer in seconds. Seems my idea works well.
tinpan
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Great story and excellent find !!
