Areas surrounding Warragul

[owenh1]

Afternoon all..

I'm a pom moving over to Australia at the end of the year and looking to get into a bit of detecting/panning when i finally arrive in Victoria. To start with I will be based around Warragul, any tips for somewhere fairly local to try my hand? Pretty amateur, just a few panning trips before.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers

 

[Secret Squirrels]

Hi owenh1, and welcome to the forum. sorry i can't help you with your query as i'm not from that way. It may be afternoon in your hometown but it's like 2am here so you probs won't get any responses till tomorrow mate in the meantime have a look around at the topics and you may find some answers already posted, there is also a search button where you can type in key words to help you find what your after. Enjoy. SS. :Y:

 

[Occasional_panner]

I posted this somewhere else, but it's useful to you here too.

Have a look here to find public land http://mapshare.maps.vic.gov.au/MapShareVic/index.html?viewer=MapShareVic.PublicSite&locale=en-AU

Have a look here http://earthresources.vic.gov.au/ea...-prospecting-and-fossicking/land-access-rules

And here for parks which have exemptions where you can prospect in http://parkweb.vic.gov.au/visit/popular-activities/fossicking

Then to top it off, cross reference that area with geovic to see if it's likely to be gold bearing http://er-info.dpi.vic.gov.au/sd_weave/anonymous.html

Here is a bloody ripper of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0jwCaAa1ck&t=616s

Links fixed.

 

[roadkill]

ill hopefully be starting to explore the warragul area shortly.
South of the town towards seaview there was a rush, but i havnt been able to find a great deal of information yet.

 

[user 4386]

ill hopefully be starting to explore the warragul area shortly.
South of the town towards seaview there was a rush, but i havnt been able to find a great deal of information yet.

Possibly you are thinking of an alluvial find in terrace gravels at Bear Creek near Warragul South. I have the exact location but it produced absolutely bugger-all. Much better areas to explore (there were others such as south of Moe - all a dead loss).

 

[roadkill]

thats the one mate. iv been reading about some colour found in the creeks around warragul and in some places giving up quite a bit. But, as you would know, finding that spot that people are talking about is next to impossible, thats if it even exists in the first place.

 

[user 4386]

thats the one mate. iv been reading about some colour found in the creeks around warragul and in some places giving up quite a bit. But, as you would know, finding that spot that people are talking about is next to impossible, thats if it even exists in the first place.

I do have its exact locality recorded to within a few hundred metres - there was a GSV geological report on it. However it really was nothing (and sorry but I don't have time to hunt it out - if you go to the GSV site and know how to do a search on Bear Creek Warragul, those three words are in the report title.

 

[user 4386]

A lot of people confuse Bear Creek Warragul with Bear Creek at Waratah Bay (also very minor gold).

 

[roadkill]

ill have a squiz mate. i think the creeks i was hearing of were about 10 minutes north-north west of warragul. so that would put it heading up towards neerim roughly.

 

[bumdags]

I live in gippsland. There is plenty of creeks that carry some colour in the district. Has been pretty flogged out when you were aloud to dredge. And still dredging going on.
Glodirocks- i have been to bear creek and got colour. Very minimal tiny specks. They put in a hell of a lot of work. I thought they would have pulled a fair bit out of there. Especially for the work they put in.
What is the gsv site?
What do you mean by south of moe is a dead loss?

 

[roadkill]

bumdags im keen to try out bear creek at some stage. any chance you could fill me in on some information about it? happy to talk via PM

 

[user 4386]

I live in gippsland. There is plenty of creeks that carry some colour in the district. Has been pretty flogged out when you were aloud to dredge. And still dredging going on.
Glodirocks- i have been to bear creek and got colour. Very minimal tiny specks. They put in a hell of a lot of work. I thought they would have pulled a fair bit out of there. Especially for the work they put in.
What is the gsv site?
What do you mean by south of moe is a dead loss?

I am talking about immediately south - fine gold, negligible production
GSV = Geological Survey of Victoria. Much discussion of Geovic on this site (do a search).