7am
16.2 degrees, no wind, clear blue sky.
Back
to our scrapes past Salgash Mine for another go at raking and digging out the
bank and around the areas we have found gold. I found a few little nuglets
straight up then worked over the area where we found the ‘hunker’. I got a
little ‘hello’ about 2 foot from the tree where we found it and then Steve dug.
As we got deeper the target got louder but we had also found a wire rope here
so I wasn’t optimistic. It started to blank out (making a loud screaming sound
– same as steel) but Steve was sure it was gold. He got it in the scoop then
straight into his gob again for a wash – yuk!! It was a heavier piece which was
so exciting.
I
had brought the camera this time.
The
new hole beside where we dug out the nearly 4g one under that tree root.
Our
‘landscaping’.
I
have already got those little nuglets from this little gully and it had given
us a few nuglets before so will dig it out more too.
Continued
scraping and digging the day away. The wind came up after lunch from the west
so I had to put on my earphones to hear the targets. Steve got out his detector
and put on his big coil to try and find a deeper ‘big’ nugget. Unfortunately he
only found a little one on the bank edge which he would have found with his
normal coil. We think we will sell that coil and a few of the others he doesn’t
use now as he wants a new ‘Evolution’ coil so he can keep up with me!! Ha ha.
We wandered down the creek further too as Steve had found two in the creek last
time. We only got one – nice and clean compared to the hillside pieces.
In
the end we got 14 nuglets and hunker and Steve got his one and only. Took another photo of our landscaping.
Steve’s
piles of raked spinifex. This is what the area did look like – we have only
found gold in this one area and nothing further up the hill which doesn’t match
up with the belief of the gold shedding from the top but we aren’t complaining.
Back
to the van for the weigh-in – Wow wee, hunker came in at 5.47 grams.
The
other 14 came to 2.92 grams and Steve’s one and only was 0.72 grams to a total
of 9 grams for today. You can tell the creek one – lovely and clean and smooth.
A great day so settled down for a drink and a few phone calls and texts to
brag.
Watched
the space station cross over above us as we waited for our shower water to heat
on the fire – it is so bright you can’t miss seeing it.
The
wind is getting stronger so closed up all the van.
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