Todays Platypus GOLd for me , a Bannanza

[Grubstake]

Hi! DOC, boy those bungees sure helped, and the hats did the trick, brought me luck. My uncle and Larry went with me today, my uncle got one a 1,5 DWT and Larry got skunked. but I made out like a bandit, over 3/4 of an oz of nice Platypus gold. Grubstake

 

[bris dave]

It would seem you are on a reasonable patch or at least in a good area.
However, what I have noticed is that al your gold seems to be on the larger size, not that that is a bad thing!
Is this new Platypus coil finding the really small stuff under 0.3grams with any consistency?
To me that is the test of a good coil. The bigger stuff is relatively easy to find by comparison, but the really litle peices are the proof.

 

[Grubstake]

Bris Dave, what they did when they worked this area, is screen the matiral down, run it threw sluices and the bigger matrial discarded, thats why everything is big. Yes i'm findin little bits of iron and even BB's with the Platypus, I'm sure its not losing anything. Grubstake

 

[bris dave]

Sounds like the miners didnt do a very efficient job of washing their dirt.
In my operation we screen through 3/8" or 1" punch plate on the shaking screen with all the fines which pass through this screen going through the sluice.
If there is any larger pieces likely to be present we can spread the oversize and detect that later.
The real fun is had detecting the dug bottoms at the end of the day for the bits missed by the excavator.