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26/5/2009gold prospecting Submitted by Paul G on Sat rocks and soil and i don't have a shovel big enough I also got told a place were you can get Rubys out of the quarts reef now that would be something No gold around perth not in nuggets most quarts reef do contain gold
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Victorian Online Gold Maps is an easy to use mapping package to help gold prospectors discover gold bearing ground in Victoria It can be used on a PC tablet or mobile phone The Victorian Gold Maps can be viewed in either map view or satellite view using Google Maps You can even get directions to the gold mine or other feature of your choice
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Quartz reef mining played an important role in 19th century gold-mining districts such as Bendigo Victoria Central Otago in New Zealand and the California mother lode In at least the shallow oxidized zones of quartz reef deposits the gold occurs in its metallic state and is easily recovered with simple equipment A reef is another term for a vein of some mineral or ore and has
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The Christmas Reef Mine was certainly mined with zest in the latter part of the 1800's but apparently the reef was lost and despite several attempts to relocate the reef all were unsuccessful The reef generally ran north south as do most of the gold reefs throughout the gold fields and it was followed and tried on several occasions to relocate the main reef once again with no success
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Rich reef gold was also mined in a number of narrow veins that occurred at the Palmer's Oakey and Queen of the Ranges mines About 11 km west of Sofala at Box Ridge reef gold was also worked However records show that gold can be found in large irregular masses within the mineralized country rock in many other areas of the district
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Years of experience have shown that there are certain formations which can safely be excluded from the search for finding gold nuggets Such areas include the Great Artesian Basins of the interior of Australia and other sedimentary basins of varying depth in which coal oil shale and opal constitute the more likely items of mineral wealth
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Gold prospecting is the recreational act of searching for natural gold deposits in the ground using tools such as gold detectors gold pans and gold sluices The Victorian Goldfields are a popular destination for gold prospectors with many of the world's largest alluvial gold nuggets found in the area (including the famous Welcome Stranger )
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22/4/2015Re: Blackwood Goldfields - Albion Reef Detrackozi on Tue Apr 21 2015 6:27 pm I love research and best of all to head out and see it all for yourself at how hard they worked back then for a bit gold yes it might be abit over grown in some places but that good to me as it just means less would of bothered to try there luck
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16/1/2020But Reef Hills - go for it And there is detectable gold in Reef Hills Found some a few years ago with the Gold Monster Bloody tiny though There is a bit of cowboy action go on in there sometimes as have seen large areas that have obviously had trailers backed in and loads full of potential gold bearing dirt taken away to process
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12/9/2014Gold on the reef? on: September 12 2014 09:32 PM Has anybody found any gold on the reef? other than microscopic gold that is so small that you wouldn't know it if you were staring at it other wordshas anyone picked up a rock smashed it and seen a visible gold vein inside it?
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Reef prospecting entails locating gold bearing quartz veins The majority of the accessible reefs have most likely been found by early prospectors and explorations as a result remote and poorly outcropping reefs are more probable to be found These days in the short term this form of prospecting is not as rewarding as metal noticing
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If you go north 13 miles there is a dirt road to the west here you will find the Rackensack Mine and south to another old mine which produced lode gold Other area mines: the Mex Hill Lucky Gus A B Bell Dallas-Ft Worth and Gold Reef all produced lode gold
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If your local gold is alluvial (river) gold then you will need different tools to someone whose local gold is reef (vein) gold Most new prospectors in New Zealand will be targeting the alluvial gold because of the comparative ease and accessibility of this kind of prospecting
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Gold Prospecting Books starting from $25 Ring owner for individual prices Gold and Ghosts books 4 Volumes set are $2100 for the four books A tour of Georgetown Mining District are $850each Gold prospecting book $40 Angor to Zillaton $110 all other books ask for prices
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Gold Gem Prospecting There are two designated fossicking areas – O'Briens Creek near Mount Surprise and Mt Gibson near Innot Hot Springs both off the Savannah Way Here alluvial and colluvial deposits contain gem-quality topaz most of it colourless
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GOLD OCCURRENCES IN QUEENSLAND GENERAL OVERVIEW: QUEENSLAND Geological information on the old goldfields of Queensland provided here is taken from the Department of Mines in Queensland and the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra This edited information comes from early Geological Reports Mining Guides and the like which have been written by the various
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The Western Gold and Uranium Corporation bought the mines of Silver Reef in 1948 and commenced mining operations in 1951 Just like the previous mining companies the Western Gold and Uranium Corporation could also not continue with the works for longer periods of time
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Reef nuggets in Tasmania? Hard Rock Prospecting miguel 1 June 2019 05:54 #1 Has anyone found reef gold with a metal detector in Tassie? Over in Victoria I've found a few pieces over reefs where there was no sign of alluvial transport of material in shallow ground but in
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