Prospecting with Siv

The first prospecting of the year didn't happen until mid-September, painting on our newly built house took more time than I had anticipated.

But finally I loaded up all the fun gear in the 4x4 and took off an early morning when the sun was shining - this time with my wife Siv and maybe she will make the first really good gold find - at least she handles the Goldspear and GPS like a pro and with a smile on her face :-)


We went North as usual and one of the streams I had scouted on maps during the winter looked really promising - at least it was a beautiful and serene spot of wilderness! We even found a sunny forest clearing to have a nice lunch, the normal "prospecting herring sandwiches" I usually bring :-)


I spent a few hours going through the usual 10 buckets of gravel - digging gravel and classifing it into a bucket and then running it through the sluice a small amount at the time.

This interesting image shows the tailings from the sluice clearly - hopefully the gold stays in my Eldorado sluice. A good workout but mostly a fantastic day out from the busy & hectic city life with jobs, computers, TV's, shops, etc.


This time I fine panned the concentrates out in the woods since it was such a sunny and warm late summer day (remember that we are further North than Anchorage Alaska up here in the North of Sweden so the autumn arrives early). There seemed to be some gold in this location so I brought the concentrates back home to pan them more throughly.

A superb day in the woods!