Gold Fossicking

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Another Swirl at Site 4: Detector Trouble, Possible Colour, and Lessons From the Creek

26 Jun 2026 12 minute read 0 comments JaysnDees

I started this fossicking trip with a bigger plan than usual. The idea was to leave earlier, test the new metal detector, scout around the approximate Never Mind area, check a location I had marked from my own Prospect heatmap research, and then fi...

Another Swirl at Site 4: Detector Trouble, Possible Colour, and Lessons From the Creek

Learning From the Waste: Re-Panning Tailings, Testing Technique, and Finding Suspicious Silver

22 Jun 2026 12 minute read 0 comments JaysnDees

I did not head out to any new fossicking sites for this experiment. This time, the learning happened at home. Instead of collecting fresh material from the field, I went back through some of my own waste material from previous fossicking and panni...

Learning From the Waste: Re-Panning Tailings, Testing Technique, and Finding Suspicious Silver

Not the Dream Nugget: Three Fossicking Tests and One Possible Fleck of Gold

13 Jun 2026 8 minute read 0 comments JaysnDees

The night before this fossicking trip, I had a dream that I was panning in a specific section and found a gold nugget about the size of my head. That did not happen. Not even close. What I may have found instead was a tiny fleck of gold - which is mu...