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<blockquote data-quote="Reg Wilson" data-source="post: 597395" data-attributes="member: 10941"><p>While working a claim on a terrace deposit in East Gippsland many years back, I came upon a wombat hole in the side of a slope. His 'tailings' heap had water worn wash in it so I took a bucket full and washed it. Surprise, surprise, gold, and some matchead sized bits. Needless to say, the whole heap got washed for a reasonable result.</p><p>I figured that any heavier bits may still lay on the floor of the tunnel, so I got a garden hoe and scraped as far up the burrow as I could. The result was more courser gold, one bit being easily detectable size.</p><p>The burrow seemed to be long abandoned, so I tied a cord to my Fox Terrier's collar and sent him up the tunnel to see how far it went into the hillside. I played out about twenty feet before he came back out. This told me how far in the wash was. I figured that the deposit was only six or eight feet deep. Here was a gold bearing terrace deposit some distance from my claim and from a different source. </p><p>I intended to work that deposit some day, but never got around to it, as other projects ensued. It is still there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Reg Wilson, post: 597395, member: 10941"] While working a claim on a terrace deposit in East Gippsland many years back, I came upon a wombat hole in the side of a slope. His 'tailings' heap had water worn wash in it so I took a bucket full and washed it. Surprise, surprise, gold, and some matchead sized bits. Needless to say, the whole heap got washed for a reasonable result. I figured that any heavier bits may still lay on the floor of the tunnel, so I got a garden hoe and scraped as far up the burrow as I could. The result was more courser gold, one bit being easily detectable size. The burrow seemed to be long abandoned, so I tied a cord to my Fox Terrier's collar and sent him up the tunnel to see how far it went into the hillside. I played out about twenty feet before he came back out. This told me how far in the wash was. I figured that the deposit was only six or eight feet deep. Here was a gold bearing terrace deposit some distance from my claim and from a different source. I intended to work that deposit some day, but never got around to it, as other projects ensued. It is still there. [/QUOTE]
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