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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 647916" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Went panning with my FIL many years ago around the Kyneton area. He said that gold often got trapped in the roots of creek side grasses during times when the creeks flooded.</p><p>He then proceeded to rip up a few clumps, shake them off into the pan, and lo and behold!</p><p>Yes, agree that the origin of diluvial would be associated with the Noachian flood legend, as also words like “antediluvian“ to humorously describe people of my age as belonging to a period before the supposed time of Noah’s flood.</p><p>Getting back to the ”diluvial gold deposit”, it was only a few colours actually, but it’s presence however proved important to note, as many years later I returned with a small dredge and got about an ounce and a half of gold out of that small stretch of the little known creek.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 647916, member: 4728"] Went panning with my FIL many years ago around the Kyneton area. He said that gold often got trapped in the roots of creek side grasses during times when the creeks flooded. He then proceeded to rip up a few clumps, shake them off into the pan, and lo and behold! Yes, agree that the origin of diluvial would be associated with the Noachian flood legend, as also words like “antediluvian“ to humorously describe people of my age as belonging to a period before the supposed time of Noah’s flood. Getting back to the ”diluvial gold deposit”, it was only a few colours actually, but it’s presence however proved important to note, as many years later I returned with a small dredge and got about an ounce and a half of gold out of that small stretch of the little known creek. [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Metal Detecting for Gold
Gold definitions - "Alluvial", "Eluvial", "Colluvial" etc.
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