If its easy everyone would be doing it.

Well the title about sums it up.  The last couple days we have worked hard to try and find some yellow with no results.

Wed July 20th - I arrive at site and instead of moving close to the river we decide to try another hole up top.  After running all day we clean up and fine very little gold.

Thurs July 21st - Moving day. We decide to move the trommel closer to the river and dig down there.  After a couple hours of moving the trommel, hoses, and setting it up again we start mining again.  We mine for just over 4hrs before shuting it down for the night. We decide to leave sluice box and clean it tomorrow.Long day here I left PG before 8 am and got home after 8:30 pm.

Friday July 22nd - I am once again excited to arrive at site and see what the new ground brings.  It is pouring rain when I arrive and we get to work after a minor fix on the pump. After 14 buckets from the excavator we take a quick lunch.  It is now time to clean the sluice and do some panning.  After cleaning all of the sluice and then panning it out we are left with very fine gold and a few flakes.

So....  we are running out of ideas?????

It is either the fine gold is so fine it runs right through the sluice..  OR ... not that much gold under the ground.

We might have to shut it down fairly soon as no point operating when we find $20 of gold a day.

All The Best,

Gold Miner James