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Last pans for 2024 in one of the prettiest creeks you'd hope to find gold in, Ewingar. Timbarra, Bulldog, Ewingar all er...
29/12/2024

Last pans for 2024 in one of the prettiest creeks you'd hope to find gold in, Ewingar.
Timbarra, Bulldog, Ewingar all eroding from the same source, differing characteristics depending on distance travelled.

All good things come to an end, the big rock in the middle of the river is paid out. While there is still a bit there it...
08/12/2024

All good things come to an end, the big rock in the middle of the river is paid out. While there is still a bit there it's time to move on and find another hotspot.
The 2 pan pics shown are 1) from a few hours yesterday (still decent size flakes, no zircons, scraping the bedrock) and 2) last 3 cleanups together (easier to do the final clean with more gold). So most gold and zircons/sapphires were in the upper layers of wash (easily identified by ironstone balls/black sand levels).
Pic 3, focused on the gold not the tiger snakes.
Take outs - dig downstream of big rocks, deeper is not always better, follow the heavies, different channels in a river carry/deposit different gold/gems, different wash layers can originate from different sources.

With the water releases from the dam winding down for summer, the Snowy gives ups it's treasures. Couple hours panning y...
26/11/2024

With the water releases from the dam winding down for summer, the Snowy gives ups it's treasures. Couple hours panning yesterday morning.

Lead head from the lake
24/11/2024

Lead head from the lake

Lake finds.
19/11/2024

Lake finds.

PB on Lake Jindabyne this morning, what a slug and a sunbaker. Woo hoo 🤣
18/11/2024

PB on Lake Jindabyne this morning, what a slug and a sunbaker. Woo hoo 🤣

Results from a day in the creek.
14/11/2024

Results from a day in the creek.

Nearly done
31/10/2024

Nearly done

Yesterday a mate and I tripped out to the most westerly point on the NSW main range - Watson's Crags. The Kosciuszko ran...
27/10/2024

Yesterday a mate and I tripped out to the most westerly point on the NSW main range - Watson's Crags. The Kosciuszko range is mainly characterised by ionic granite tors but the tops of few mountains such as Curruthers Peak are composed of juicy looking quartz/mica schists. These schistose beds never show mineralisation (rusty weathering) but on the western side of Tension Woods Knoll just west of Mt Twynam we discovered a highly mineralised band of thick quartz running north south. You could walk across the band seeing clearly the halo effect this intrusion had on the surrounding country rock. I should have taken a sample but that's a no no. I do wonder if they were mining similar geology one ridge over in the historic Grey Mare mine (also located on the top of ridgeline).

Picking up fishing gear lost to a crystal clear mountain river.
26/10/2024

Picking up fishing gear lost to a crystal clear mountain river.

The treasure collection is regrowing as the lake level drops
24/10/2024

The treasure collection is regrowing as the lake level drops

Tokachi obsidian takes a lot of work to produce a nice finish, lost count of the hours these took to cut, shape, grind a...
22/10/2024

Tokachi obsidian takes a lot of work to produce a nice finish, lost count of the hours these took to cut, shape, grind and polish.

Gold just went past $4000 per Oz. Happy days.
16/10/2024

Gold just went past $4000 per Oz. Happy days.

Got a few obsidian cabs to do.
15/10/2024

Got a few obsidian cabs to do.

Bit of time on the grinding wheels Lismore Gem & Lapidary Club.Tokachi obsidian, a black lustre reveals hidden beauty wh...
05/09/2024

Bit of time on the grinding wheels Lismore Gem & Lapidary Club.
Tokachi obsidian, a black lustre reveals hidden beauty when lit (like a lot of us I guess).

Lake loot and waterfall treasure - 925,bling, copper coins, killer muppet and couple beaver tails. I must have detected ...
04/09/2024

Lake loot and waterfall treasure - 925,bling, copper coins, killer muppet and couple beaver tails. I must have detected these falls a dozen times, 100s of coins and jewellery over the past few years. There must be an absolute treasure trove on underneath the falls.

Back on the lake treasure
15/08/2024

Back on the lake treasure

I love the thrill of finding coins. Hunting sinkers and lures lakeside, coins dropped by fish killers are a bonus. Alwa...
30/07/2024

I love the thrill of finding coins. Hunting sinkers and lures lakeside, coins dropped by fish killers are a bonus. Always cool seeing the year of mintage and the condition, giving you some idea of how long ago they were lost.
I moved a rock expecting a sinker but pulled a visible 20c wedged in a crack, ran the coil over it again, bingo 10c hidden in the same crack.

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