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Coro Gold 2
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Posted : Friday, 12 August 2011 10:45:12 AM(UTC)
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Went out for a bit of a scratch on Wednesday and ended up with these few specks for my efforts.

CGN 110811

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1864hatter  
Posted : Friday, 12 August 2011 11:08:14 AM(UTC)
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Thats some sweet looking gold, its so rough and crystalline compared to what we get down here. You are doing well to get this sort of gold up the coro from what ive heard its pretty crap for alluvial. keep up the good work! How did you get this lot? Just panning?
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Posted : Friday, 12 August 2011 11:21:23 AM(UTC)
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That looks like a bagfull to me gjj, thanks for sharing.
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Posted : Friday, 12 August 2011 11:52:56 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: 1864hatter Go to Quoted Post
Thats some sweet looking gold, its so rough and crystalline compared to what we get down here. You are doing well to get this sort of gold up the coro from what ive heard its pretty crap for alluvial. keep up the good work! How did you get this lot? Just panning?



Hi Hatter,

Just a little sluice box and a sucker. That pvc downpipe tennis ball sucker really seems to do the business. If you're into the manual extraction method, maybe we could call it 'mem', it really is worth making one up. See post by kiwisouth under "yet another crevice sucker design"

Gary
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Posted : Friday, 12 August 2011 9:58:20 PM(UTC)
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Hi gjj109,
great looking gold!!
nice to see that colour,
more than a few specks there,
good post
Steve
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Posted : Saturday, 13 August 2011 12:50:30 AM(UTC)
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great find..looking gold
Chris - Fisher Dealer http://www.puiakisupply.co.nz/
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