Yes I know you won't want to tell me and that is ok. I was just thinking of easing back into it in the greater Dunolly to Inglewood area for a few days... :) I'm not a complete beginner just haven't been around here for a bit!
I'm afraid I'm going to stay a little bit anonymous on here regarding who I work for.
You can get a PL with consent from the EL owner or after 2 years of the EL... so theoretically the trick would be to establish good relations with the EL owner... A lot can be achieved just through negotiation...
Well even the low grade is "Ore" hahaha I'm not a mining geologist by background, I'm exploration - we're interested in things that make the line go up
Regards Jaros' strange intervention. To remove threads where Goldierocks has contributed such knowledge and experience would be criminal. Don't like it, don't have to read it. It's not wasting anyone's time.
I made my small contribution on the grounds that if you're into gold you might also be...
Yeah a lot of these old terms only survive because, especially in places like Victoria where no substantial exploration took place for nearly 100 years, the only literature is OLD. Plus the newer geological papers are in 'modern geology speak' i.e. post-plate-tectonics. So there's a real...
If you're in Victoria, note that you can't get a prospecting licence (which allows for the sort of small scale mining you're talking about) over an area that already has an exploration licence (or application) or mining licence on it. So you need to check if where you're currently prospecting (I...
If you google "sedimentary rock cycle" and look at the images, you will quickly discover that geologists are really bad at doing diagrams. This one I found, however, is almost useful:
The main thing to note is that clay, shale and slate are all of the same "family", with slate being the...
It's understandable to think of asking a forum like this for tips... in nearly ANY OTHER PASTIME it's considered fine to asks for tips. It is definitely a quirk of gold prospecting the level of caginess, but there's plenty of history there and, after all, gold is literally money, so no wonder...