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Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold Beyond The Workings?
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<blockquote data-quote="VicGoldHunter" data-source="post: 518821" data-attributes="member: 9027"><p>Been thinking about this lately. My question is, can gold nuggets be found in areas that arent gullies/creeks or near them? All the shallow workings Ive been to on old maps or red GeoVic areas always bring me to old workings in creeks or what looks like old rivers/creeks that long dried up.Could I detect say 100-500m away from the old workings and still have a chance of nuggets or is the gold only in that old river bed? </p><p></p><p>What I see in a lot of YouTube videos of people finding gold is there not at or near old workings by the looks there just in what looks like virgin flat ground not a creek/gullie and there finding gold. Especially in WA so much is just in random flat areas with no old timer workings etc. is this whats called Eluvial gold?</p><p></p><p>Ive tried detecting in areas not near any old workings and just flattish virgin ground but find nothing, its just nice for a change not constantly digging up old rubbish. But my theory is all the old workings have well and truly been gone over and most of the detectable gold is now gone. If there on the maps for over 30-40 years I cant imagine the amount of detectors that have scoured over them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VicGoldHunter, post: 518821, member: 9027"] Been thinking about this lately. My question is, can gold nuggets be found in areas that arent gullies/creeks or near them? All the shallow workings Ive been to on old maps or red GeoVic areas always bring me to old workings in creeks or what looks like old rivers/creeks that long dried up.Could I detect say 100-500m away from the old workings and still have a chance of nuggets or is the gold only in that old river bed? What I see in a lot of YouTube videos of people finding gold is there not at or near old workings by the looks there just in what looks like virgin flat ground not a creek/gullie and there finding gold. Especially in WA so much is just in random flat areas with no old timer workings etc. is this whats called Eluvial gold? Ive tried detecting in areas not near any old workings and just flattish virgin ground but find nothing, its just nice for a change not constantly digging up old rubbish. But my theory is all the old workings have well and truly been gone over and most of the detectable gold is now gone. If there on the maps for over 30-40 years I cant imagine the amount of detectors that have scoured over them. [/QUOTE]
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