A Day At Tambaroora & Turon River

[TheFossickingKid]

This morning we were off to Hill End for a dig. Dad dropped me of at a spot at Tambaroora that had a lot of crevices that looked promising.

After a few test pans around the place that all showed no gold I decided to go around the place with the pin pointer to see what I could find. I found a few peices of metal but no gold. After awhile it started to rain so I packed up and went back to a mates place.

We left Hill End at around 3 in the afternoon and decided to stop by at Coles Bridge.

There was only big pools around with no flow at all. I did a few test pans near the bridge with no gold. Dad took a walk down the river and came across a big hole in the river. There was plenty of tailings piles around. I took a walk further down the river and found more holes that had been left unfilled.

We did a test pan in the hole and there was 1 good size flake of gold. So we dug some dirt out of the hole and filled our buckets up and put them in the ute to take home

Will go through the dirt tomorrow and post the result of what I get.

Some photos of the Turon

One of the holes that were unfilled

 

[GaryO]

Thanks for sharing fk

 

[Jaros]

Can't wait to see the results.
Jaros

 

[HeadsUp]

Spots on the tambaroora that are easy to get to have been flogged , look for places where people may not have been snorting up the crevices through a big drinking straw , bit more out of the way and you will find chunky bits in the crevices.

its a beautiful bright yellow there too , high purity.

in summer when we have a drought , look along the rock bars and you will see clumps of dead grass growing in the crevices , dont worry too much about those as the crevices will be shallow , however if you look for green grass in the crevices it usually means the crevice is very deep so it will probably hold more gold. ( shallow crevices with dead grass can still be worth digging though as well and assess their rewards by sampling )

On the Turon , some people dig a few feet downstream of a tree on the gravel bars however the smart thing to do is look for very old very big dead trees.

that gives you two things , the tree is dead so you can dig under its roots closer to the base of the tree without pissing off the rangers , secondly if the tree was 60 years old when it died and it looks like it died 30 - 40 years ago , then you have 100 years of flood gold under its roots .