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Nice yellow gjj109.
Is that silver with some of the smaller pieces?

Nice. But why dont you keep all your Coro gold posts & pics all on the same page instead of doing a new page each time you find something & share it with us? I actualy think there is a page way back on coro gold. That way all the Coro stuff is kept together & easier for all to follow

Cheers

JW :).

Hi Gary,

Last time I saw Mercury in a creek was up at Ngawha Springs back in the 60's. There was actually some quite big globules
of it on the creek bed.. No gold though. Mercury is quite toxic I think.
That gold sure looks good - hope you get more soon.

yes\you are right mercury is VERY toxic especially the fume
gold (i think this is how it works) is absorbed into the mercury some how you put the murcury and gold with the fines eg iron sand in a container shak around and the mercury sucks up the gold and leaves the black sand behind you then boil of the mercury and you are left with a hockey pokey of gold

if this is the case then you should keep all the mercury because it has gold in it
i have seen it being done so this is basicly how it works im sure some one out there will have a better idea of how it all works

remember mercury is dangerous and can be absorbed through the skin while touching it

Spring is in the air so I went for a stroll up the creek and threw a few shovels of gravel through the sluice.

I was pretty chuffed with the outcome.




Here are the little bits as well




And because these pieces are relatively hard to come by up here, I thought I would give this one a picture by itself.

Nice finds gjj, was that a days worth of shoveling.
Mem

Seems it has pretty quiet on the Peninsula over the past few months.

Went for a wander to the top of the hill for a few hours one day last week.

Managed to separate a few colours from the gravel. A shame it's not of the same quality as the nuggets being displayed by those fortunate South Islanders but I guess you play the hand you are dealt.

Man, that's coarse gold! Hasn't travelled far from the source.

Went for a walk earlier this week to yet another place. Didn't do particularly well but I thought I would post this picture to show the different shapes. The bits are about 3-4mm in size.

My daughter has one if those with pieces from the South Island. I have a spare locket lying around somewhere. Might be a great idea to score some brownie points with her indoors on some forthcoming anniversary. Thanks for jogging the memory.