You know how some people salivate, at the sight of certain foods? Well that yellow stuff, especially pieces that size seems to have the same effect on me
. But cant say i have ever seen to much of it in the wild.
. I went to an old goldfield just outside Leyburn in Qld once. I took my old ADS, and old mate brought along a couple of gold pans. After a few hours detecting in the water of the creek we were at, I was ready to give up with disgust. My friend had really just taken me there to show me where it was and was more interested in drinking beer, as that was all he had done all day. I said to him " You sure there's any gold round here, or are you yanking my chain "? "yeah " came a fast reply next thing you know he is by the creek pans in hand and proceeds to tell me I would have more luck with one of those. He gives me a quick lesson on it's use, then left me to it. After an hour of me trying, and him calling instructions from his shady spot on the bank. I pretty much told him he was full of it ( not Gold ) although the beer he was drinking was called "4x gold " ( seriously ) he replies that i just needed the right technique. so i invited him to show me how it was done or to shut the hell up. so he gets up grabs a pan fills it from the bottom of the creek and proceeds to work the contents after 15/20 minutes he says here see this. It was the first time I had ever seen gold in the wild, and the last so far. in the bottom of his pan was a tail of bright yellow gold dust. Would have been 10mm long and a mm wide no idea how thick, but it looked impressive to this greenhorn. All of a sudden I'm full of renewed enthusiasm, when he dips the pan into the water again and rinses out the pan. Gold and all. I was rather taken aback and said what the hell are you doing to which he replied getting more beer and heading home lets go.
Needless to say I will never go prospecting with him again, he would probably find a nugget, then try and see how many times he could get it to skip across the surface lol.
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