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<blockquote data-quote="The Green Wanderer" data-source="post: 53272" data-attributes="member: 784"><p>Hi Ozjono,</p><p>just a little bit of context to go with your post. The dredging operation in miriwinni is a commercial operation dredging the eubanadgee swamp lands at the east end of the russell river about an hour or so from cairns. Theyre after all the deep alluvial gravels dumped there over the last few thousand years. The russell used to be a minor goldfield up here a hundred years or so ago, at the time it was only mined along the rivers edge by hand and then later in terraces up the sides of an increasingly steep gorge. Eventually it was abandoned as the bullocks could only get so far through the jungle and equipment couldnt be carried much further up the mountain side. </p><p>Today its all farms and private properties up and down the lower reaches of the gorge to the highway and swamp and cane farms on the other side.</p><p>Not sure of the extent of the gold deposits left up there but given that the area is an extensive national park and the sheer density of the jungle growth I would expect there to be some decent veins left that could be viable by todays standards if it were possible to get past the DPI and the greenies. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Green Wanderer, post: 53272, member: 784"] Hi Ozjono, just a little bit of context to go with your post. The dredging operation in miriwinni is a commercial operation dredging the eubanadgee swamp lands at the east end of the russell river about an hour or so from cairns. Theyre after all the deep alluvial gravels dumped there over the last few thousand years. The russell used to be a minor goldfield up here a hundred years or so ago, at the time it was only mined along the rivers edge by hand and then later in terraces up the sides of an increasingly steep gorge. Eventually it was abandoned as the bullocks could only get so far through the jungle and equipment couldnt be carried much further up the mountain side. Today its all farms and private properties up and down the lower reaches of the gorge to the highway and swamp and cane farms on the other side. Not sure of the extent of the gold deposits left up there but given that the area is an extensive national park and the sheer density of the jungle growth I would expect there to be some decent veins left that could be viable by todays standards if it were possible to get past the DPI and the greenies. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]
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