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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Where are the alluvial gold bonanzas of the past?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 583769" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>I'm not sure whether Turton's Creek was a palaeoplacer or a true placer (there are some in Victoria). I have examined it - looked a bit more like a placer to me. although some Geological Survey geologists claimed that it had been a palaeoplacer and the modern stream had followed a similar course, repeatedly cutting through the Palaeoplacer and deriving some gold from it. It did not last long because frankly it was a crummy little goldfield. Be wary - from memory (which is deteriorating with age) it only produced about one and a half tons of gold (local anecdotes often differ from the records of the Mining Wardens, which is what I use for production figures - but they can be incorrect also, just less often). Every local wants to increase the importance of where they live. An interesting field though, in that the ultimate primary source of the gold was never found....the reason that I explored around there. Perhaps those figures included the more important Foster production nearby. The gold was coarse as you say, with some nuggets, and minor osm iridium was also produced (initially discarded).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 583769, member: 4386"] I'm not sure whether Turton's Creek was a palaeoplacer or a true placer (there are some in Victoria). I have examined it - looked a bit more like a placer to me. although some Geological Survey geologists claimed that it had been a palaeoplacer and the modern stream had followed a similar course, repeatedly cutting through the Palaeoplacer and deriving some gold from it. It did not last long because frankly it was a crummy little goldfield. Be wary - from memory (which is deteriorating with age) it only produced about one and a half tons of gold (local anecdotes often differ from the records of the Mining Wardens, which is what I use for production figures - but they can be incorrect also, just less often). Every local wants to increase the importance of where they live. An interesting field though, in that the ultimate primary source of the gold was never found....the reason that I explored around there. Perhaps those figures included the more important Foster production nearby. The gold was coarse as you say, with some nuggets, and minor osm iridium was also produced (initially discarded). [/QUOTE]
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Where are the alluvial gold bonanzas of the past?
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