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Small Scale Gold Mining
Digging a hole like the old timers
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<blockquote data-quote="loamer" data-source="post: 52403" data-attributes="member: 981"><p>Your Vic Miners Right would be OK - depends on how big and the criteria all holes must be filled in. I have dug a few deep & wide holes following a reef line of gold on an old diggers area. It was in a fairly remote area and it was left open for a week while I worked on it. In the end it was filled in. The area had several surface reef diggings that were probably uneconomical for the old timers. Detecting around the remaining exposed reef was good and with a big coil a faint threashold break ended up being a deep embedded 1/2 ounce piece., so down and sideways I went to follow the quartz line. It was hard work, chisels & hammers, crowbar, pick, sledge hammer etc. but very rewarding. Give it a go but hard yakka.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loamer, post: 52403, member: 981"] Your Vic Miners Right would be OK - depends on how big and the criteria all holes must be filled in. I have dug a few deep & wide holes following a reef line of gold on an old diggers area. It was in a fairly remote area and it was left open for a week while I worked on it. In the end it was filled in. The area had several surface reef diggings that were probably uneconomical for the old timers. Detecting around the remaining exposed reef was good and with a big coil a faint threashold break ended up being a deep embedded 1/2 ounce piece., so down and sideways I went to follow the quartz line. It was hard work, chisels & hammers, crowbar, pick, sledge hammer etc. but very rewarding. Give it a go but hard yakka. [/QUOTE]
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