![]() ![]() The rock pools being where the gold is hanging out. These few pics are of my first gravity dredge attempt. I used the pipe to try & drop the water level in the hole but it wasnt big enough to do that. Then realised how deep the hole was getting. You will notice the sluice box set up at the top of the waterfall in the middle of the below pics where I was shoveling material out of the hole into the box. At the base of each waterfall is a rock pool carved out over the years from the waters continual impact from the falls. Plus where I was working was in a creek that was carving its way thru schist/quartz bedrock dropping steeply down a series of waterfalls. I knew with the shovel I wouldnt be able to get everything off the bottom. I was up to my chest in waders & the water bloody cold. Wishing I had a suction dredge that would be able to suck up every morsel off the bed rock at the bottom of the hole I was getting deeper down into, & the bottom wasnt far away. Like the gravity dredge.īack in '93 I was sluice boxing away, with that box I have now made into my highbanker/banjo, shoveling gravel thru, as you do. And they were all available to any body for nothing. That there were plans out there, on all my ideas that I thought I had invented & was going to make my fortune on. Otherwise I would still be computer illiterate. It was this passion of gold mining that got me onto & into computers in the first place. ![]() ![]() Well so I thought, until when I hit the net & dicovered that there is nothing new under the sun. Thinking I was pretty clever & was the only person to have done so. ![]() Made most of my own gear from the top of my head & with a bit Kiwi ingenuity. I got hooked back in '93 & have pretty much just done it all on my own, as in by myself. Never ceases to enthral & amaze me on all fronts. This game of gold hunting, mining, fossicking, panning, sluicing, detecting, dredging etc & what ever else you might want to call it sometimes. ![]()
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