Thanks a lot bro, yeah it was some very solid colour in the end!

Thanks a lot bro! I have seen a few of your videos and they are awesome! Thanks for watching!

Cheers bro, they key is that we just keep testing, testing testing until we find a spot we are happy with and if we don't we just walk back down and keep testing, we just don't really settle for only a little bit of gold anymore lol, although often it means when we are out prospecting we are not actually mining but when we do eventually hit a spot it's normally pretty good.

@@TheSluicers well you keep testing and when you find another good spot...tell dad to....Keep Digging...!!! 😂

@@bbdgha Pretty much 😂. We actually went out this weekend and I dug the intire decent 10 bucket hole myself, by far the most digging I have ever done in 1 go. Should have the vid up within the next month :).

Thanks a lot bro! It was a nice solid haul considering it's such a hard hit site!

Nice results mate which area of the west coast is that as I live over here on the west coast .

@@craigosgold5940 I was going to keep the location under wraps but really anyone who has been there would reconizge that it is at Goldsbrough fossicking area. It has been hit pretty hard but if you can find an untouched spot it's very good, we got our best trip in overall from there (be it moving a ton of gravel). But yeah it's a neat spot if you want to check it out :).

@@TheSluicersI thought so when I seen the clay, yeah I go there often find lots of fine stuff but anything of decent size comes from older packed gravels. smooth sluicin and golden luck recoveries

Thanks a lot! That’s a good plan yes, at this location the bedrock is soft so you can just scrape it off, but very good strategy normally yes.

Definitely lol, it looks like tons in the sluice and final pan but when you actually separate it it almost always ends up less, it was still a pretty great haul though!

Awesome, yeah it’s an amazing place with a heap of gold! Yeah for sure your welcome, tourism is a huge part of NZ culture and plenty of places around. Cheers

@@TheSluicers Salam brother

Thanks a lot! Yeah the price has went up a fair bit recently which is great would be epic if It could reach those high prices soon in the future, could just about make a solid full time wage just off prospecting then!

$145 at current gold value

Nah no license needed to sell gold and I believe no tax on it either. I haven’t actually sold any personally just stashed it up or given away on KZfaq, but I know just about any jeweller will buy it a little under spot, the New Zealand mint buys gold a bit under spot, selling alluvial gold on trade me or Facebook can be really profitable and yeah I’m no expert but those are a couple ways, I’m sure there is plenty more too.

Thanks a lot bro glad you enjoyed :)! Yeah it was definitely a very solid day in the end just looked like a bit more in the sluice (as it does lol).

Definitley, they are rare anywhere thus their price and excitement when found, in our entire prospecting history we had never found a single piece over 1/5th of a gram up until January this year, (since then we have found about 25+ pieces above that 1/5th of a gram margin we consider a nugget). But yeah extremely rare for sure especially at public fossicking sites.

@@TheSluicers You should visit Thames gold mine!

​@@TheSluicers Thanks, I'll keep my eye out for it! :)

I have heard there is some pretty good colour down there, currently we mostly just do the coast as it’s so much closer for us but we will definitely try down there in future!

Sadly there aren’t any “public fossicking areas” but I’ll be honest if your just trying panning there are probably plenty of places you could try go. Any larger scale mining obviously needs a permit of which there are a few granted in the coromandel.

Well if you call it that, this is a creek that is hit by constant floods whenever is rains which naturally move 100000x the amount of dirt, and does that damage nature no, the damage done by moving around a few rocks is 0, maybe if we were digging into the banks and into the roots of trees then maybe you could call it doing some small damage but digging in the creek bed there are no life forms damaged or harmed if anything it benefits the ecosystem I have often seen peoples holes as sanctuary’s for things like Fish and Freshwater crayfish, yeah “Mining” mining can do some damage (eg full scale diggers mining bush) but even that is carefully monitored so it does not ruin the environment and even with smaller scale machinery like Dredges it does next to no damage unless your intentionally trying to. And yes it’s just a bit of gold but it can make a full time income for some and is a heck of a lot less harmful then so so many other jobs, yeah the old timers in 1860 did literally move mountains, wash out cliffs to get to the gold but no one knew any better then and the government was literally funding them to do so as it was so good for the economy it fueled New Zealand for what it became today, and modern day small scale mining like this, the damage is nothing. Sorry if I rambled on a bit there lol, it’s just small scale mining is not Messing with nature it’s just spending time out in nature, one person going off a track and treading on a dozen saplings probably does more long term “damage” to the environment then the intire Prospecting community combined. But all things aside thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed the video :).

Exact location is available on the Patreon but it’s somewhere in the west coast

@@TheSluicers sweet as, in fron auckland been considering giving this a crack

@@classmst89 Its an awesome hobby for sure, gotta spend a lot of time or know the right people to find the good spots but yeah it’s a great hobby

This is at Goldsborough public fossicking area. The creek itself I believe is called Shamrock Creek.

Thanks great work

@@TheSluicers have you found any nuggets or pickers metal detecting there ?

@@jacktopliss5185 Nah nothing at all sadly, almost all the big surface gold there has been taken and detected over hundreds of times, although you can get a heap of finer stuff if you hit an untouched deposit.

@@TheSluicers ok thanks

It is somewhat small gold no massive nuggets or anything but nothing super tiny like very little dust which is generally called "Fly shit" it all adds up though you can get way way more gold from a creek full of "Fly shit" then a 1 off nugget patch.

@@TheSluicers Gold is gold and it does add up , just keep on doing what you are doing and it will pay off in the end It would be great if we had water like NZ over here in Western Australia it would make prospecting for gold a hell of lot easier.

I was also worried about losing fine gold when I first started with that sluice bro but since then, I have tested that sluice 3 times out of river 3 times putting through even ultra ultra ultra flour gold in high flow and it catches easily 95%+ of all ultra fine gold and 100% of anything bigger then tiny flake, I have never seen anything bigger then a tiny spec in the tailings in all our trips and have lost almost nothing when putting through multiple grams of all sizes of gold from pickers-dust it catches a very large amount of the gold, there is a reason its so popular, it has a higher recovery rate then our orignal classic riffle sluice and even our massive Keene A52 seem to recover such a high %.