The Innovative Gold Prospector
The Innovative Gold Prospector
Some ideas and speculations for practical minded ‘do it yourself’ gold
prospectors. The introduction of detectors has seen a relative
information decline about other means of finding gold.
Manufactured
products have also replaced a lot of backyard construction and
experimenting. This manual has been inspired by ‘Ion Idreiss’s
Prospecting For Gold’ and is for the backyard workshop individualist and
seeks to encourage the tradition of Australian innovation.
The manual
looks at aspects of panning, sluicing, cradles, trommels, hard rock
prospecting & stone crushing, mercury amalgamation and windlass
construction and numerous small tips and ideas from the point of view of
learning, experimenting and 'doing it yourself'.
It requires basic
prospecting skills & language jargon, workshop & tool knowledge
and a flair for engineering things out of junk. There are no
construction plans.
Topics Covered:
- Introduction
- Panning
- Sluicing
- Cradles
- Trommels
- Potential of Reef Prospecting
- Searching for & Testing Reefs
- No Dig Stone Supply
- Dollying
- Small Scale Stone Crushing Plants
- Mercury Amalgamation
- The Windlass
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