The climate in
Japan is subtropical to subarctic zone, with a lot of rain and snow and
mountainous areas. For these reasons, gold panning is mainly carried out in the
torrent river.The size of the
gold is flour, and a lucky person can obtain the size of 1 to 5 mm. Although
rare, some people get nuggets 10 mm or more. I am an old man without physical
strength and skills, so I can only get flour gold.
I dreamed of
getting a nugget of 10mm or more, but I thought it was difficult in Japan and
decided to look overseas.I surveyed
countries that have gold prospecting tours with metal detector suitable for my
physical strength.
Alaska, Canada and
Australia were nominated. I chose Australia because Alaska and Canada are cold
even in summer.
I
traveled to Australia 30 years ago, so I planned this trip related to gold.I visited the
Sovereign Hill theme park in Ballarat and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.
I wanted to do gold prospecting around Ballarat, but I expected that the possibility of gold discovery is low because there are thousands of fan, I booked a two-day tour in Kalgoorlie.
I wanted to do gold prospecting around Ballarat, but I expected that the possibility of gold discovery is low because there are thousands of fan, I booked a two-day tour in Kalgoorlie.
Kalgoorlie area is
a bush area near the desert and flat land, so it was suitable for prospecting
with metal detector.
About 10,000
peoples lived in the gold rush era about 100 years ago. For this reason, there
was a large amount of lead bullets and construction materials such as
galvanized steel that respond to metal detectors.
I was lucky enough
to get two small nuggets around 10mm, so this will be a memorable trip.
I am not good at
communicating in English, but the tour guide was kind enough to teach me.
My physical
strength is gradually declining due to aging, but I would like to visit again.
Many people are shaking the pan in the air to look for gold, so most people can’t find gold. Will anyone go Sovereign Hill for technical guidance? I think many children will be interested in the gold panning.
Gold Gold used in Sovereign Hill:
It is an artificial placer gold and I think it was made with a cutting machine.
Drawing machine to make a gold pan.
This is a picture of an old gold prospector and the appearance is the same as the present people.
This stone was used for the construction such as paving stones, but it was a laughing story that the stone contained fine gold.
Is there anyone who builds a house using this stone?
In old
Japan, there were many people who spent money on things that could not be seen
than good appearance. They
were called cool people.
The size is 3.5km in length, 1.5km in width, and 600m or more in depth. A working car larger than one house is visible at the bottom. The black spots on the slopes are traces of old mines. I was impressed by the passion of the miners who dug small tunnels than the size of the Super Pit.
There were a lot of flies and animal droppings.
1 cm nuggets obtained in 2 days (What is the definition of nuggets?)
Gold attached to the surface of about 50 cm white stone
Gold nuggets were sold
at the store: Small nuggets in the round cases were A$ 30- $ 300 and the big nuggets
had no price indication.
