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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Detecting bigger gold in NSW...."Alluvial" vs "Eluvial"
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<blockquote data-quote="Moneybox" data-source="post: 663479" data-attributes="member: 3960"><p>About three years back we dropped in and met a guy working a mining lease at the old ghost town of Mainland. I'd heard about his 50oz chunk that he pulled out. We didn't get to see the nugget but watched him gnawing away at the bedrock 4m down. He had a single tine on a 50T excavator and was scratching small grooves in the rock about 150mm apart and then doing the same at 90° to eventually chip the rock away. I'd have given up long before that and hit it with a drill and explosives but that's what 50oz does to you. He was sure there'd be another one down there but I've never heard about it and I'll bet he's spent all that he got out of that one looking for the next <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moneybox, post: 663479, member: 3960"] About three years back we dropped in and met a guy working a mining lease at the old ghost town of Mainland. I'd heard about his 50oz chunk that he pulled out. We didn't get to see the nugget but watched him gnawing away at the bedrock 4m down. He had a single tine on a 50T excavator and was scratching small grooves in the rock about 150mm apart and then doing the same at 90° to eventually chip the rock away. I'd have given up long before that and hit it with a drill and explosives but that's what 50oz does to you. He was sure there'd be another one down there but I've never heard about it and I'll bet he's spent all that he got out of that one looking for the next ;) [/QUOTE]
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Detecting bigger gold in NSW...."Alluvial" vs "Eluvial"
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