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Metal Detecting for Gold
Do puddlers provide useful information for gold detecting (probably not)?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 651589" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Just to add some of my thoughts here as well, is that I have seen puddlers located in gullies where there have been no gold workings at all.</p><p>The reason for their location was a good catchment for water and the old diggers would have had to cart their washdirt some distance from other diggings to have it processed. This would suggest that the washdirt would have had to have been quite rich as one would expect coming from the bottom of holes. Carting large quantities of low grade elluvial deposits to treat would have been very expensive for the old times.</p><p>I believe also that possibly some puddlers were built and operated communally or for a fee and were located not necessarily to treat gold from the gully where they were located but because they were central to the diggers they serviced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 651589, member: 4728"] Just to add some of my thoughts here as well, is that I have seen puddlers located in gullies where there have been no gold workings at all. The reason for their location was a good catchment for water and the old diggers would have had to cart their washdirt some distance from other diggings to have it processed. This would suggest that the washdirt would have had to have been quite rich as one would expect coming from the bottom of holes. Carting large quantities of low grade elluvial deposits to treat would have been very expensive for the old times. I believe also that possibly some puddlers were built and operated communally or for a fee and were located not necessarily to treat gold from the gully where they were located but because they were central to the diggers they serviced. [/QUOTE]
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