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What To Look For On The Goldfields (New To Prospecting)
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<blockquote data-quote="loamer" data-source="post: 20877" data-attributes="member: 981"><p><strong>3. White Mullock / Hilltops</strong></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/981/1374900653_white_mullock.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>You are walking through the scrub and see a group of white-mullock heaps at the top of and very close to the top of a hill. There is little or no quartz about but lots of smooth stones piled up about the place. What am I seeing - where do I detect?</p><p></p><p>1. You are seeing the results of the old timers finding an ancient elevated creek/stream line - this is a secondary gold deposit. Think of a modern stream with millions of years of erosion, volcanic activity etc etc. The stream bed now sits on the hill - an elevated and covered alluvial deposit. In this case they have dug deep holes through to the ancient stream bed. They have come across a layer of conglomerate, which in simple terms is rocks, dirt, gravel all 'welded' together.</p><p>2. They have dug down - if you see these deep holes with white mullock, check the different layers they have dug through.</p><p>3. The white mullock was that last thing out of the holes before finding the gold bearing gravels. It is like a talcy sand consistency.</p><p>4. Where do you detect? The heaps and where the mullock runs into water courses - the surrounding ground will be too deep for general patch hunting. You may actually be standing on a deep lead. These are great places for small coils and the heaps are very quiet with regards to mineralisation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loamer, post: 20877, member: 981"] [B]3. White Mullock / Hilltops[/B] [IMG]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/981/1374900653_white_mullock.jpg[/IMG] You are walking through the scrub and see a group of white-mullock heaps at the top of and very close to the top of a hill. There is little or no quartz about but lots of smooth stones piled up about the place. What am I seeing - where do I detect? 1. You are seeing the results of the old timers finding an ancient elevated creek/stream line - this is a secondary gold deposit. Think of a modern stream with millions of years of erosion, volcanic activity etc etc. The stream bed now sits on the hill - an elevated and covered alluvial deposit. In this case they have dug deep holes through to the ancient stream bed. They have come across a layer of conglomerate, which in simple terms is rocks, dirt, gravel all 'welded' together. 2. They have dug down - if you see these deep holes with white mullock, check the different layers they have dug through. 3. The white mullock was that last thing out of the holes before finding the gold bearing gravels. It is like a talcy sand consistency. 4. Where do you detect? The heaps and where the mullock runs into water courses - the surrounding ground will be too deep for general patch hunting. You may actually be standing on a deep lead. These are great places for small coils and the heaps are very quiet with regards to mineralisation. [/QUOTE]
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