What is it

[Martye77]

Hi all

Im New to this forum and new to prospecting.

Was up at Kamarooka ( Rush Dam) last weekend and was wondering if anyone can shed some light on what I was looking at.

Man made obviously ploughed with old machinery, looks like tailings from Puddler or maybe the cyanide dump ?????

Regards Marty

 

[Jaros]

Trotting track?

 

[Ward69]

Low depression in the ground Normally fills with water in good years. You can find then in west and north of vic

 

[Rockhunter62]

Don't think that you would get vegetation growth like that on an old cyanide dump. All the old leaching ponds I have seen are bare of all growth.

Cheers

Doug

 

[samrota]

A previous surfaced area? I'm seeing parallel lines or is it just me viewing on an old ipad mini screen?

Poorly revegged area. Circle of trees 'hiding' the work done?

 

[Ward69]

Nah. We call it a Baby sinkhole Some form collapse of the surface layer When it fills with water it will deepen over time. In a million years

 

[Smoky bandit]

A very old crop circle :Y:

 

[Jum]

Id support the sinkhole theory from eons of time being filled with water the mostly the circle of trees further by saying as it fills with water it would deposit all the dry bark leaves n branches on mass around the rim leaving perfect mulch as water drains. Over time with a multitude of this process, the layer breaks down allowing the tree line to prosper in a super organic rim. The soil inside n out of the depression are suffering from a normal low nutrient Aussie bush. correct me if Im wrong its all I can come up with from my veggie garden knowledge.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Some sort of harvested illegal Crop?..... ex-Corn Field....

LW.....

 

[silver]

Had a quick look

so down and to the left

to me that looks like lines in bedrock.... probably folded at 90* way back in ancient times..... you'd recon they coulda acted like rifles where the water flowed across em the right way (if only that water was dragging gold along eh )

 

[Licking windows]

Trotting track?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: very clever and funny jaros. Pissa :Y:

 

[Smoky bandit]

Our old trotting track looks exactly the same after 20yrs of nil use. :Y:

 

[Jaros]

Memories-the Bedrock Races!

 

[Martye77]

Hi and thank you to those that took my post seriously.
Its a shame some people just seemed to make fun of it.
Thanks to Silver, yes you are correct down and to the left is a Surfaced area.
The circle im looking at has ploughed ground and is all red gravel and quartz through out.
Thanks to Rockhunter62.
Samrota - No your ipad is fine, you are seeing lines in the ground from the ploughing, it looks to be levelling of old tailings. The old plough rippers i found were pretty rusty and used.
It must have some history somewhere, I may try Bendigo historians.

Once again thanks to those that tried and good hunting.

Regards Marty

 

[savage bitter]

could be just an area were they tested a plough of some sort reps would bring them out and go to town on an area go in circles around things to show what it was able to do we have something very similar on one of our clay pans where they pulled a stick breaker type plough and from the air it looks like a speedway track and all the saplings grew well were it was ploughed

 

[RM Outback]

Not sure but very interesting, the vegetation looks to be post ploughing. Possible as sb said a test plough site leaving a depression allowing the trees and shrubs to take hold. Given the plough lines run through it equal to those outside suggest post imo. Can you give the size of the area, width, circumstance and have you walked the ground.

 

[LONEWOLF]

Its a shame some people just seemed to make fun of it.
Regards Marty

Welcome to PA.... We , well most Members have a joke or 2 on here... so lighten up and welcome to PA..

LW....

 

[wiley coyote]

It could be an old mining claim. To restore the site, It had to have windrows dozed across the fall of the slope to combat erosion. sometimes it also had to be deep ripped between the windrows so seeds and rain water could drop into the ripped lines. That's what I'm seeing anyway. No windrows etc., no bond back! wiley

 

[silver]

Hi and thank you to those that took my post seriously.
Its a shame some people just seemed to make fun of it.
Thanks to Silver, yes you are correct down and to the left is a Surfaced area.
The circle im looking at has ploughed ground and is all red gravel and quartz through out.
Thanks to Rockhunter62.
Samrota - No your ipad is fine, you are seeing lines in the ground from the ploughing, it looks to be levelling of old tailings. The old plough rippers i found were pretty rusty and used.
It must have some history somewhere, I may try Bendigo historians.

Once again thanks to those that tried and good hunting.

Regards Marty

Yeah... we all ad lib a lot of fun on here as we go.... shooting from the hip so to speak lol erfect:

 

[jethro]

Could it be an area of subsidence caused by an old alluvial deep lead drift that has been mined out underground. THere are a few of these areas between Chiltern and Rutherglen that just look like swamps. Are there any deep lead mines in the area.