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Peter Rose


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Any grey nomads out there fossicking or panning for gold If so where is best place to do this ?



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Australia is good.

Would you care to be a little more specific? A state would be good.

Panning is not a gold recovery technique it's a prospecting one - people do find gold with pans but there are better ways to do it.



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Yep, Dunolly Vic. 2250 metres south west of the pub. Look for the "X". 300gram nugget 30cm deep. See ya at the pub....

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Areas where gold has already been found and where you can prospect legally. That is very much the general rule for those prospecting as a hobby.
Lots of stuff on the net including prospectors forums and the mines dept of each state is a good place to start.

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The ''GOLDEN TRIANGLE'' in Central Victoria, very popular 



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Probably next to a creek. Lol

Really DD did you forget your happy pills again today ?

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Where it is.......smile



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Canberra . There's a few nuggets down there !!

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Polititians' pocket.

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I'd only fossick where there is gold.

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dieseltojo wrote:

Where it is.......smile

Here's an interesting article on Victoria's Golden Triangle.

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2016-10-21/gold-rush-central-victoria/7938342



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Buy a nice bottle of single Malt or two and get nicely pissed.

99% of you will get more out of that.

I do Chuckle.

Only bloke I ever knew any profitable out of that game was 40 yrs ago.
Owned 100 acres of land down South.
Ran sheep on it. Plus poked around for gold and Opals.

Was Perfect Building sand under it for 80 ft or more.

Had a sand contractor build weighbridge. access, and office.
Allowed him to haul it out at ???$$'s a ton over the scales.
Leaving the rather large nice empty "Drive into" hole in the ground.
ON main rd.
WITH weighbridge ready installed, behind.

THAT eventuated as local Council dump.
Which HE got paid ??$$'s a load\ton for, to fill it up again.
All it cost him was revegetation afterwards.

over 20 yrs very nice income for a bit of sand and dirt to cover it.

THAT..., Is gold mining. Just different materials.

PS. He also did very well at fossicking and those Mine seeking things
in the Noarlunga gorge behind them.

I went with him and Steve (SIL) coupla times when shooting foxes.
Still have (I Think) my old pans in garage.

There is (Was) a fair bit there in '50's to '90's..
we came out with some every trip

My findings Paid for a pr of $2k ear rings for missus one yr.
On 20th anniversary ('83).

More a dreamers game nowadays. Methink's.

The old "One day....Maybe" syndrome, hey.

enjoy it. Lots do.



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Well I bet Peter Rose took all that in as valuable information to his question. Wow..... A civil answer would have been appreciated.

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Dickodownunder wrote:

Well I bet Peter Rose took all that in as valuable information to his question. Wow..... A civil answer would have been appreciated.

He received civil answers to an ill conceived, ill presented and impossible to answer question.

And, frankly, it's not your job to vet answers... again....

And, double frankly, why didn't you answer his question rather than simply posting a one-liner criticising others, again?

 

 



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Mike Harding, I didnt provide an answer to his question because I have never actually panned for gold, however, maybe like many others I am interested in helpful replies.

It is a bit rich that you are telling me that I am vetting comments with your comments above stating that in your words,

" ill conceived, ill presented and impossible to answer question"

Mike, if that is not vetting someones comments then at least some of us are wondering.

I do note that another member on here chose to start another topic with the OP's name in the topic so as to provide, at the least, an interesting story relating to fossicking for gold.

I see that the admin have edited the racial comments from one of the posts above. That is a good start.

I hope they keep it up and tidy this forum with editing similar to what they have done above so it may attract more diversified contributors that arent put off by the rambling of a minority that appear to be dragging the quality of this forum down to a point where good people do not want to contribute.

Cheers



-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Monday 3rd of July 2017 09:18:51 PM

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Here is the link to a post which may have been considered a reasonable reply to the OP's question

thegreynomads.activeboard.com/t63708976/for-peter-rose-and-others/.

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Clermont, Central Qld is a known hot-spot. Ask at the caravan park.

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