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Creswick and Wedderburn - Golden Triangle Newbie
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<blockquote data-quote="Xadz" data-source="post: 640399" data-attributes="member: 4757"><p>So it's official I'm hooked. </p><p></p><p>Went out to Creswick today. Omg, I actually couldn't believe my eyes, old timers ruined that place in the search for gold. It was like nothing I've ever seen before.</p><p></p><p>Now I followed some Geovic research and some old gold maps and pretty much explored for 3 hours and detected for 3 hours. I noticed a few things.</p><p></p><p>1. All the giant workings (near Slatey creek and Hamburg hill) all had GIANT mounds of quartz heaps everywhere, I tried detecting it but came up with nothing. Am I suppose to be detecting the heaps or the actual gullies they've created following gold?</p><p></p><p>2. There are some complete parts of the forest that haven't been dug at all so I would assume that the old timers knew there was no gold to be had there and I would be wasting my time going through there?</p><p></p><p>3. Hot rocks are real, everything I found today seemed to be a hot rock, I brought them all home to smash and try my luck but they were lighting my detector up. Is this normal?</p><p></p><p>4. Is there any good sources of what I should be looking for, particularly for Victoria. I'm just not really sure what im suppose to be detecting, I know that sounds stupid it was just very overwhelming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Xadz, post: 640399, member: 4757"] So it's official I'm hooked. Went out to Creswick today. Omg, I actually couldn't believe my eyes, old timers ruined that place in the search for gold. It was like nothing I've ever seen before. Now I followed some Geovic research and some old gold maps and pretty much explored for 3 hours and detected for 3 hours. I noticed a few things. 1. All the giant workings (near Slatey creek and Hamburg hill) all had GIANT mounds of quartz heaps everywhere, I tried detecting it but came up with nothing. Am I suppose to be detecting the heaps or the actual gullies they've created following gold? 2. There are some complete parts of the forest that haven't been dug at all so I would assume that the old timers knew there was no gold to be had there and I would be wasting my time going through there? 3. Hot rocks are real, everything I found today seemed to be a hot rock, I brought them all home to smash and try my luck but they were lighting my detector up. Is this normal? 4. Is there any good sources of what I should be looking for, particularly for Victoria. I'm just not really sure what im suppose to be detecting, I know that sounds stupid it was just very overwhelming. [/QUOTE]
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