Thursday 26 September 2013

Ironstone Species

G,day, i havn't had alot to tell lately as the gold has been slow and also i spent a few days and nights in town at the van park mainly to watch the footy.
Yesterday i was out prospecting and got to the top of hill covered with very dark ironstone,
the ground was a bit noisy [mineralization] but i managed to get a quiet signal and it turned out to be a good specimen, an hour later i had 19 specimens  with about 20 odd grams of gold, i wont know for sure how much gold until i smash them up in a dolly pot then pan it off.
 I went back there this morning and got another four bits, 2 species and 2 nuggets, over the next few days i will go back with some water and a gold pan to see if there is any fine gold in the soil,
as well as do some loaming.
Loaming is a way of finding out whether there is a reef nearby.
The fine gold is like a trail back to the reef.