Rocky River Gold Prospecting - Fossicking with the Gold Rat River Sluice | Uralla - NSW, Australia

[Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to another little weekend adventure i'm here at beautiful rocky river which is located about an hour's drive east of tennerfield here in new south wales australia this place is known to be a historic gold rush area so what better place to come camping for the weekend and to do a bit of foster king while we're here i'm by no means an expert at prospecting but today i've upped my game by bringing a river sluice we've set it up in this little channel here we're using the 10 inch river sluice by gold rat and already it seems pretty promising we're starting to see a few little specks pop up the only problem with this current setup is that where we're digging our pay dirt is literally on the other side of this boulder so we're having to lug up buckets and buckets of dirt to feed through the sleeves it's a bit of a challenge but hopefully it all pays off [Music] just to further explain my slew setup for today as i mentioned before i'm using the 10-inch gold rat river sluice gold rat is an australian-based company that have developed a special type of matting for this loose it's called dream mat and it's made up of all these little spiral cells so as you feed your pay dirt down the sluice all the heavier materials caught in these little pockets the surface level sediment is fed through and hopefully what you're left with is a few pieces of gold [Music] i'm not 100 sure you'll be able to see this on camera but if i zoom into these little cells just in the corner here you should see a couple little shining specks of gold [Music] so [Music] my [Music] we've had a pretty casual day of sluicing here at rocky river but now the time has come for us to pull the sluice out of the water clean off the mat and see what we've [Music] found [Music] so we have successfully transferred all of that refined material from the dream mat now the final stage of this process is to take what we've collected and give it a good pan [Music] back home after an awesome weekend away at rocky river that place was the perfect site to go and test out that new sluice and after feeding just a few buckets through this is the final product check out all of these little flakes of gold given that that is my first time solution i'm really happy with that end result now i know i won't be fast tracking my retirement with this amount of gold but i did have a lot of fun collecting it there is definitely an art to searching for gold it can be a very hit and miss process but when you finally come across just a few little specs regardless of how much you find it is a very satisfying experience if you've enjoyed today's video feel free to hit that like button or even leave a comment and don't forget to hit subscribe if you'd like to join me on future adventures until then thank you for watching and we'll see what tomorrow brings [Music] [Applause] [Music] quick fruits find the nuggets where are they where the nuggets quick dig them up dig it up

Channel: Tom Papworth

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Id: L5mazZB76Wc

Length: 6min 20sec (380 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 29 2021