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Hunting for "REEF" Gold....an approach for beginners.
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<blockquote data-quote="WalnLiz" data-source="post: 653347" data-attributes="member: 147"><p>The ground in "certain" areas is definitely not reflective of what it was over a150 years ago, but most surfacing was to a depth of only a few metres. It was generally chasing shallow alluvial leads where shafting was deemed too dangerous when tunnelling at such shallow depths."20 metres" would be closer to the depth of where the bedrock was for the larger "alluvial" nuggets in most of the Triangles ancient river courses, though in some areas the alluvial was substantially deeper. At this depth surfacing was rarely carried out. This is closer to the depth where shafts and tunnelling was the preferred method on most alluvial fields in the area from which many of the large nuggets were extracted.</p><p></p><p>What we are trying to determine in this thread is not "alluvial" digging but the type of geology where reefs were worked, and where the now disconnected stringers could possibly be located by mostly electrical loaming. Remember many sections of the disconnected stringers are still not exposed and some still have detectable gold within or shed from them. Stringers can have both exposed sections and sections broken away from early earth movements, especially if folding was associated at that time, giving quite a bit of horizontal separation The deep major reefs had all the gold bearing ore extracted and processed, and the lines of reefs with their many shafts generally offer only the odd bit of detectable gold thrown out with the mullock. The old timers unfortunately were very thorough.</p><p></p><p>I hope you don't get too discouraged Beer Drinker thinking that too much ground might have been massively changed by man to dampen your spirits in the hunt for reef gold....Wal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalnLiz, post: 653347, member: 147"] The ground in "certain" areas is definitely not reflective of what it was over a150 years ago, but most surfacing was to a depth of only a few metres. It was generally chasing shallow alluvial leads where shafting was deemed too dangerous when tunnelling at such shallow depths."20 metres" would be closer to the depth of where the bedrock was for the larger "alluvial" nuggets in most of the Triangles ancient river courses, though in some areas the alluvial was substantially deeper. At this depth surfacing was rarely carried out. This is closer to the depth where shafts and tunnelling was the preferred method on most alluvial fields in the area from which many of the large nuggets were extracted. What we are trying to determine in this thread is not "alluvial" digging but the type of geology where reefs were worked, and where the now disconnected stringers could possibly be located by mostly electrical loaming. Remember many sections of the disconnected stringers are still not exposed and some still have detectable gold within or shed from them. Stringers can have both exposed sections and sections broken away from early earth movements, especially if folding was associated at that time, giving quite a bit of horizontal separation The deep major reefs had all the gold bearing ore extracted and processed, and the lines of reefs with their many shafts generally offer only the odd bit of detectable gold thrown out with the mullock. The old timers unfortunately were very thorough. I hope you don't get too discouraged Beer Drinker thinking that too much ground might have been massively changed by man to dampen your spirits in the hunt for reef gold....Wal. [/QUOTE]
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