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Trying find any gold to make the trip worth it. Went to sofala under the bridge, no luck. Any chance hill end will have it? Only panning. Thank u
Wow, thanks for contributing.Horse said:even after a flogged out season at Sofala...you can get a show of colour.
Just have to dig in the right spots, find a crevice, obstruction of some sort.
Hill End....you can find gold....just go down to Tambaroora...to the public fossicking grounds....knock a bit of dirt out the bank there...there is trace color in that....that is the dirt used by the panning tours.
When working at History Hill...a 10 yr old School girl picked up a 3 dwt piece out of that stuff.
If you do not like the "public" places...find a creek, gully...locate a gold hiding sort of obstruction and throw some dirt in the pan.
If there is some water about....there are many, many gullies that have color.
Just do not fossick within the NPWS areas...or you might get in the poo
lshallperish said:About 1km before you get to the town of hill end there is this place where we stopped and it had a sign of what happened here, it was talking about how the Asian gold miner's would pan in this area. There was awesome looking rock formations going on, it also had a little cave you go through but it just got to scary for me to be honest however I just couldnt help picture a big ass gold ore stuck in these rock formations haha. Does anyone know the name? I forgot.. there are wooden type stairs that goes down to what it looked like a old dried out river/greek/stream but we went there when there was a recent flood going on so it had a bit of water but still walk -able
Anyone find colour there? Only thing I found was gold the size of a dot
sususydney said:Wow, thanks for contributing.Horse said:even after a flogged out season at Sofala...you can get a show of colour.
Just have to dig in the right spots, find a crevice, obstruction of some sort.
Hill End....you can find gold....just go down to Tambaroora...to the public fossicking grounds....knock a bit of dirt out the bank there...there is trace color in that....that is the dirt used by the panning tours.
When working at History Hill...a 10 yr old School girl picked up a 3 dwt piece out of that stuff.
If you do not like the "public" places...find a creek, gully...locate a gold hiding sort of obstruction and throw some dirt in the pan.
If there is some water about....there are many, many gullies that have color.
Just do not fossick within the NPWS areas...or you might get in the poo
thats nice observing, where are you from Horse?
you obv do metal detecting your self? right?
I got mine like a week now, been trying to use all metal mode on gold bug pro giving off different high pitch sounds, quite interesting to distinguish an item and depth by listening and numbers display lcd. 8)
lost a bit said:lshallperish said:About 1km before you get to the town of hill end there is this place where we stopped and it had a sign of what happened here, it was talking about how the Asian gold miner's would pan in this area. There was awesome looking rock formations going on, it also had a little cave you go through but it just got to scary for me to be honest however I just couldnt help picture a big ass gold ore stuck in these rock formations haha. Does anyone know the name? I forgot.. there are wooden type stairs that goes down to what it looked like a old dried out river/greek/stream but we went there when there was a recent flood going on so it had a bit of water but still walk -able
Anyone find colour there? Only thing I found was gold the size of a dot
I think you may be talking about the golden gully arch
lab
Horse said:lost a bit said:lshallperish said:About 1km before you get to the town of hill end there is this place where we stopped and it had a sign of what happened here, it was talking about how the Asian gold miner's would pan in this area. There was awesome looking rock formations going on, it also had a little cave you go through but it just got to scary for me to be honest however I just couldnt help picture a big ass gold ore stuck in these rock formations haha. Does anyone know the name? I forgot.. there are wooden type stairs that goes down to what it looked like a old dried out river/greek/stream but we went there when there was a recent flood going on so it had a bit of water but still walk -able
Anyone find colour there? Only thing I found was gold the size of a dot
I think you may be talking about the golden gully arch
lab
Certainly sounds like Golden Gully....it was a Chinese hot spot.
Did you notice the round tunnels in the walls?
sususydney said:hi perish, are you going back to barthurst or hill end again? if you've got a seat for me, I will half the petrol and we hunt together; let me know so I can get my panning gear as well
lshallperish said:sususydney said:hi perish, are you going back to barthurst or hill end again? if you've got a seat for me, I will half the petrol and we hunt together; let me know so I can get my panning gear as well
No worry's I'll let you know when I go again, it cost me 46 bucks from sydney to bathurst, to sofala, to hill end, back to sydney =)
sususydney said:lshallperish said:sususydney said:hi perish, are you going back to barthurst or hill end again? if you've got a seat for me, I will half the petrol and we hunt together; let me know so I can get my panning gear as well
No worry's I'll let you know when I go again, it cost me 46 bucks from sydney to bathurst, to sofala, to hill end, back to sydney =)
wow thats good value! ok, I will half the petrol and carry food for both of us and coffees for the drive as well. I could get great pastry/ chocolate croisant; salmon bagel; ham &cheese croisant *drools*
so how long do you want to go for?
by the way do you know any spot yet? or should we explore the region and look for a good spot to hunt?? the problem to find a spot is actually being there examining the soil, so I will do research and find the best spot for the hunt.
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