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Small Scale Gold Mining
Digging a hole like the old timers
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<blockquote data-quote="jethro" data-source="post: 52467" data-attributes="member: 1297"><p>Some years ago I found an old bench of alluvial wash hidden in some blackberry covered old sluice workings. The old timer chinese had stripped the overburden in preparation to washing it and then left it. I mined that block of wash out & put it through my trommel then followed the crevice in the bedrock that was exposed in under the bank for about six feet. the depth of overburden was about nine or ten feet but the wash was only worth taking outfrom about a foot above the bed rock, above that the gold was too poor. The wash was very bouldery and hard going with just a ballarat pick and buckets. A lot of the boulders were to big to go into the trommel so had to be stacked just like the old timers did. The best 2 blokes did in a day was 20 barrow loads through the trommel. I think we got 8 grams for our trouble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jethro, post: 52467, member: 1297"] Some years ago I found an old bench of alluvial wash hidden in some blackberry covered old sluice workings. The old timer chinese had stripped the overburden in preparation to washing it and then left it. I mined that block of wash out & put it through my trommel then followed the crevice in the bedrock that was exposed in under the bank for about six feet. the depth of overburden was about nine or ten feet but the wash was only worth taking outfrom about a foot above the bed rock, above that the gold was too poor. The wash was very bouldery and hard going with just a ballarat pick and buckets. A lot of the boulders were to big to go into the trommel so had to be stacked just like the old timers did. The best 2 blokes did in a day was 20 barrow loads through the trommel. I think we got 8 grams for our trouble. [/QUOTE]
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