gold, platinum, Walhalla?

first Question on here?!
i do a lot of fishing at Walhalla and have got the bug for gold. Dew to fish not biting (and needed to do something till they came back on the bite)
now i seem to spend most of my time prospecting and not fishing!
i have found gold and think i have found platinum but cant be shore
have also found Quartz with gold in it
*how do i tell if it is platinum? (as it stays in the pan with the gold)
*which is the best way to remove the gold from the Quartz?
and any new placers in the area worth looking around for gold....

Thx any advice would be appreciated

i would keep the gold in the quartz mate its worth more that way about wallhalla sorry i can't help

G,Day xiv, depending on where you are looking, mercury coated bits of gold are in the majority compared to the native yellow around Walhalla these days.However Platinum was associated with the Copper and Gold at Coopers Creek.

thx for the info i have also worked the coopers creek area as well, manly in the Thompson river
but how do i know if i have platinum in the pan, they r about match head size. or smaller.
any info on other placers in the area would be great
dew to the floods the areas i have gone in the past r now really deep under sand and rock and to get to bedrock will take me a month of Sundays to work