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When I see something like this, bent up like plasticine, it immediately says MOLTEN. My first reaction is that its a TEKTITE. There are two theories on Tektites - 1. They are formed when a meteor smashes into the earth with great heat and force the surrounding rocks etc to shoot up into the air...

Not much to report Sprint32. There is nothing I can do except wonder where they got my research material from. Well, that's not quite true as they could only have got it from two sources and I'm not prepared to take either of them on. And to make matters worse, Covid wiped us out as we were...

F1A4 Level 3 (Ground Balance button on top of the handgrip) + Battery charger, Body Jacket, SEF coil (390 by 300), Razorback Coil Miner John ML Series (260 by 160), Headphones + Exterior Speaker. $2400 Car Frig (hardly used) $100 240 v generator (hardly used) $100 Garvin Etrex 20 $90 Shaw...

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I have written permission to prospect for gold over approx 180,000 acres. We are working on one particular property of approx 450,000 acres with a government licence (Exploration Licence) over 27 square kilometres. I woke this morning to discover that a Chinese gold mining company has applied...

With the grades you have you must do something. You can't just sit back and do nothing. Sooner or later details will get out and someone else will benefit. Crushing is not an option. The more people know what you're doing and the results you're getting the more chance there is that you'll lose...

I forgot to mention: if I do find that ore body and Mining Companies are interested, the STARTING price is $50,000,000. Harlequin

A few things to ponder: 1. If 100 kg sample = 6.23 gms then 1000 kg (1 ton) = 62.3 g/t ! 2. Many producing mines in Australia operate at less than 3 g/t e.g. Granny Smith (Goldfields Australia) ....5.6 g/t Cadia Valley (Newcewst Mining ) .....1.22 g/t Ravenswood (Resolute Mining) ....2.09 g/t...

Thanks for the well informed info re diamond cutting.Sorry I haven't replied sooner as I have only just read your post as I have been in the midst of moving house. I will certainly follow your advice.

I have found On Site Laboratory Services at 2 Abel Street Bendigo to be both efficient and friendly. The last lot I sent in averaged around 2 kg a specimen. But they will take smaller ones if you get in touch. Other assay offices I approached had a minimum of around 50 specimens between 2 and...

And finally. Never mention the word "gold" in the local pub or anywhere else. The locals know or suspect you're prospectors so don't make things harder for yourself. Have an answer ready: gypsum, magnesium, arsenic ( a good indicator of gold but they're not to know that), or simply," we're just...

The Geophysics department in each state can help track down the data for the area you're interested in. The NSW department was both helpful and friendly. I found the pages I was looking for but they were filled with squiggly lines and they meant nothing. But at the end was a summary of the data...

Thanks Macca and Jethro for your vote of confidence. A bit of alluvial gold was not what I was looking for. I wanted to find enough to justify a mine. A bit ambitious you think? My Dad used you to say, "If you aim at nothing you'll always hit it." Some years ago I was invited to speak to a group...

Things have changed: we're not going to the site next week after all. My driller has had a motor bike accident and is in hospital with multiple fractures etc. It's an 8 hour drive from Melbourne, then setting up camp again etc etc. I can't do it alone so a change of plans is called for. I was...

Thanks Newbie - great practical advice from one who obviously knows. We're going to the site next week so we'll give it a test. You correctly identify the ground- "shitty surface clays and gravel. " I was researching Bentonite and read it was used extensively to stabilise dam walls. I wonder if...

Thanks for the suggestion. I do have 3 spare diamond bits so that's not the problem. I didn't realise that quartzite is so hard that is smoothes and polishes the diamonds with the result that they can no longer cut. The solution is to continuously "dress" the bit by rotating it at speed in a...

Ben, I presume the host rock is quartz as you mention an outcrop nearby. The comments so far are correct and what it comes down to is small versus big time mining. The big miners will pay up to $1,000 per ounce to recover the gold but they won't even start unless they have a proven deposit which...

No - I'm a total novice when it comes to drilling.I spent 2 years researching a particular site,assayed some specimens (2-3g/t) and decided to get a licence and get stuck in. Decided on the Shaw Backpack diamond core drill because it is light, portable and from those who know, the best on the...

Thanks for that. When I bought the drill I did not get the advice you give re dill fluid and lubrication but from now on I will follow your advice .Thanks again.

My Prospect is mostly surface and we are just beginning a drill programme - hopefully within the next month or so. In the meantime I tried out the drill on a slab of quartzite from the site. It ground away but very slowly and used a lot of water. (We have to cart our own water to the site- a...