Results from WA trip

I'm not long back from a trip over west. I've taken the gold out of acid so I can post some pics.

All up I got about 70 nuggets and speccies. Not sure of total gold weight yet as I have to ascertain the specific gravity of a number of speccies. But anyway for now the tally is 38 nuggets for 24.3g, 10g of crushed gold and 22 speccies with the best ones weighing 21g and 18g of gold content. So that's 73g known and I should get a bit more from the other 20 speccies I have to decide whether to crush or weigh with specific gravity.
A bloke who does the demonstration of panning at the Boulder markets crushed some speccies and panned them for me. He used a drill with a homemade attachment (one of his mates lent it to him) that enclosed some chain links. The tool did a fast job of reducing the speccies to dust and made a lot of the gold into round balls which he then had to make sure didn't roll off somewhere. I had to use acid on the gold collected to remove the chain link metal. The crushing resulted in some extremely fine dust being tossed onto another mate's garden - too hard to collect and some of the dust was floating on the water.

Anyway some pics.

A nice little collection of gold
Well done

Thankyou for sharing with us all

Well done

Thanks Jen and Annie.

The first part of our trip was at a WA Forum meet near Leonora - I think at least one if not both of you belong to that Forum too. At some stage I would hope to meet up with you.

Very nice nuggies and species there Detectist.        Congrats for your finds and thanks for sharing your story and pics.  

Cheers.

Mike.

Detectist wrote:Thanks Jen and Annie.

The first part of our trip was at a WA Forum meet near Leonora - I think at least one if not both of you belong to that Forum too.  At some stage I would hope to meet up with you.  

Yep both Annie and I are members of the other forum..
We went to last year's forum meet up.. was a great time catching up with forum friends
Some we knew.. some we just met for the first time on the meet up.
Thats where we first met Annie

G'day Dan ,

Some impressive species & nice Gold

Well done on a successful trip

Anthony. ( ANT1967 )

Thanks Mike and Anthony - lots of fun involved.

Now, if only the GT would be as cooperative!