Gold and Gem Fossicking at Racecourse Creek (NSW)

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@shanemiller667 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking Jason-its a shame there wasnt more gold-im only 90 minutes away from racecourse creek-pls keep the great videos coming

@InSearchOf...Australia 4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! I feel I need to give it another go sometime. Maybe look for older gravel beds away from the river or dislodge a bolder in the river. You always have Campbell’s River!

@gabivalla6279 4 ай бұрын

Fossicking and prospecting realities, fairly shown, Jason. The sighting of rounded rocks is a good take-away, as is being fair on yourself, that you'd only put in as much effort as the prospects allow for, once you get there. Dams and other earth-moving like road cuts might expose in patches what might take enormous effort to reach with your own steam, and on a smaller scale, digging where others had opened holes for you, and leaving their fieldwork for you to see, maybe as a decoy they'd found the ground unproductive, or didn't dig deep enough or in the right spot. I'd dig behind any of the boulders, work out at least if indeed it were the historic watercourse. Boulder clusters slightly off the current flow that your drone might spy might be the go, depend on whether their entrapment there does the same for gems and for gold. Either will satisfy of course. On that, have there been past success sites, ones you haven't used the drone to visually explore them differently with the new technology? It's comparable to spying on your past sites when satellite images became more easily available, the different perspectives can change your thoughts with new info on features and details previously unknown, historic workings easier to see from above, satellite level to drone scale, thus easier to understand what you're looking at at ground level. Pardon the essay, do! Written while it spits hail on my windows with "Winter Fightback, Part Deux: The Hobarting" going live. May it scour open some paystreaks nearest your abode... You like out-there thinking outside boxes, here in Victoria, certain goldfields sites get disproportionate amounts of lightning strikes, whether you've websites to see for such coincidence for where you know about, eh? Cheers, stay cheery, and uncheesed off!

@InSearchOf...Australia 4 ай бұрын

I certainly will be taking advantage of the drone to find alternative places and possible hotspots. With Racecourse creek I needed to fly it in closer as when I ventured to spots seen from above, the extent of the blackberries hadn’t been made clear. The impromptu stop was a curiosity and, I have to admit, I was mostly looking for indicators. There were considerable diggings in the area, so I think gems had been found. I will return to try and map out the potential places for better results. However, next week it will be back to gold at Tuena and Trunkey where I will apply the advice given to me from my last outing and with the addition of the detector. The constant learner that I am.