Duckys Thread - Georgia Panning and Prospecting.

[TheGoldProspector]

Anniversary was good. The wife let me sleep in and made me breakfast. We hung around the house with the kidos and I did some yard work she has been asking me to do for weeks. Then I made her dinner... Hamburger helper... Would've taken her out for sushi but boy are we broke lol

Glad you spent time with your family! Congrats

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Hey, it's the time spent together that matters most! 2 thumbs up!

 

[Oregon Viking]

I hope you get back out there...and find a LOT of the Georgia gold!

 

[Sideways Sherry]

How's that Angus MacKirk working for ya?

 

[Duckwalk]

Ugh i havent been out in well over a month it seems. Bad luck, last min things coming up, injured back, ect... im going to try and head out tomorrow afternoon but mostly to explore the creek and look for bolders or bedrock. theres also another creek on the property id like to visit. much larger and fast water with an excellent history of gold recovered in it. i hit the small creek because im sure no one has really hit it hard before.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Ugh i havent been out in well over a month it seems. Bad luck, last min things coming up, injured back, ect... im going to try and head out tomorrow afternoon but mostly to explore the creek and look for bolders or bedrock. theres also another creek on the property id like to visit. much larger and fast water with an excellent history of gold recovered in it. i hit the small creek because im sure no one has really hit it hard before.

Wise you are, the small creeks often have more virgin material and less overburden...quietly seek them out to find your treasure!

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Heavy pans bro!

 

[strickman]

hope you get out soon,may the color be with you.

 

[Duckwalk]

Got out today! First time in over a month. Spent most of my time exploring the creek. I got WAY more spiderwebs in the face than I did gold. Going to process my cons later. Also took some video which I will be editing and posting.

 

[Duckwalk]

Welp, after a bit of editing and rotating the videos (because im a moron and recorded them with my phone the wrong way). Here is the video from today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNAi0qFkH-g&feature=youtu.be

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Glad you were able to get out, where's your final cleanout's prize pic? Oh by the way, love those green plaid shorts! ;-)

 

[Duckwalk]

Haven't processed my cons quite yet. Kids wanted to play as soon as I walked through the door. Will post sometime this week. Those are my swim trunks.

 

[Duckwalk]

Was hoping to get out last Sunday but my father had a heart attack. This is his 6th one. he is 73 and still kicking. He should be released from the hospital by tomorrow. keep him in your thoughts. its been a rough couple of years for him.

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Praying for your father, and for you and the family to be strong!

 

[rodoconnor]

Ducky ,sorry to hear about your Dad. I lost mine 3 years ago after a lengthy series of health issues. Stay positive man

 

[Duckwalk]

Thanks for all the thought on my dad. He is home and doing much better. The blockage is in a narrow part of the artery and is inoperable but they are trying some medicine to take care of it.

Not to get off topic but has anyone tried the garret super sluice gold pan? The thing looks massive but I want to try one.

 

[KevinInColorado]

Thanks for all the thought on my dad. He is home and doing much better. The blockage is in a narrow part of the artery and is inoperable but they are trying some medicine to take care of it. Not to get off topic but has anyone tried the garret super sluice gold pan? The thing looks massive but I want to try one.

Sending my support for you and your dad too Ducky...
I have a Garret SuperSluice pan. Freddy Dodge (yup, the guy from gold Rush who actually knows his S**t) gave it to me. He gets free stuff all the time of course and he didn't like it so now it's mine As he said, it is VERY heavy for a gold pan. However the deep grooves mean you can pan really aggressively and I've been impressed at how well it catches the fly poop even then. Due to the weight, it is a two handed pan but I like how much material it holds and those aggressive, huge grooves. Not a pan to use for sampling but a great production pan when you are limited to panning (such as on the Green river in Utah where sluicing is banned and wouldn't work anyway) and just want to crank out lots of heavy cons for finish panning later.

 

[Duckwalk]

Judging by the water flow at the creek I've been working (seen in my YouTube videos) I think I could move more material in a super sluice pan than my small AM sluice. Think it would be worth the money for the pan?

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Has anybody checked out the new Gold Hog Pan?

http://www.hogpan.com/

 

[Sideways Sherry]

Ducky do you have any of that punch plate left?

How's your little sluice doing?