Out & About

Out & About x 3

It is that time of year again where as I will be popping in and out of the site. I will share some moments of our last trip with you. We were on very good gold but as with all gold you must work for it. I do hope you enjoy the photos.

Cheers
James 101.



Some black sand





Clay cutting. There has been a lot of talk about how to work clay, this photo shows just how the Banjo/Highbanker cut’s through the clay we were working.



My dig area a work in progress. This series of photos will show just how much material can be put through one on these little units.











Some of the men in action and the gold they were retrieving at that point in time. Cleanup’s were running from 5 gram, 3 gram to 2 gram days.





















Before any type of serious digging was done we had to find where the cutter was running. The below photo shows just how we do that.



My Camp




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Some Really good pictures there James (1 picture really is worth 1000 words) looks like a great spot to setup camp

Did you dig that channel to allow water in to the pit to make it easier to dig or was there some other reason ?

Mate it was more of a case of letting the water out. That was also the gutter line which was also dug .

Cheers James

G'day James great to see you and the others are still onto some good gold. The story and great pics makes us all want to get out there. Some very nice colour in those pans as well, thanks for sharing with us all. . Good luck on your next outing and please keep us informed thanks again.

Cheers.


Mike.

Yer were on good gold Mike, it was hard to come home. In a week or so it will be back into it. Cheers mate. James

Awesome photos.
Bet that was hot work but what an epic setup!

Jerry mate hot boy was it hot but the gold gave us incentive to keep going. We had a ball cheers mate

Great post James

Your first pic with the banjo in view
"What's the pump doing there? Why they letting water in the trench?" Oh Ok the waters running left to right

I'm bursting at seems to get out and this post ain't helpen one bit, your u bad man

Top photos James !
How many grams per hot days effort makes you happy ? your share only

Jack .

Hi S/D yes the water was a big concern it was flowing through the sand and it made life very hard indeed. The work face had to be benched this was done to stop the sand sliding down into the dig area which was another ½ meter under the water line. The best gold was in the clay. Jack mate we worked on our own what we found as an individual we keep. The gold was running per man at 5 gram 3 gram 2 gran or there about at days end.

Cheers James 101

The work face had to be benched this was done to stop the sand sliding down into the dig area which was another ½ meter under the water line.



The best gold was in the clay. This is how the Banjo jetting system works on clay.



Had a mate spend a night with us.



I wanted to post these photos with the above post but there was a bit of trouble with my photo bucket account it is all sorted now. cheers

mate whats the name of the pan with the dropped section in the base, kinda quadrant . i do remember a thread a few weeks back about that pan but cant remember the name of it ,

thanks in advance
johno

Hi mate you will find the info here. cheers James

https://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t12529-the-gold-king-gold-pan

This one ?
https://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t14059-does-one-pan-do-it-all