On a few occasions I've seen people down at location Q where we usually fish the river panning. I've seen guys with just a shovel and pan, and I've seen a fairly involved setup with water pump and big sluice box.
The kids from the family with the sluice box came over when I got a fish to check it out, and they said that they had been finding quite a bit of garnet (my birthstone
) in the river, along with the odd flake of gold.
There's definitely more than just gold in there if you're at all interested in the semi-precious stones
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