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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: 585819" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>I think the real reason is that today people assume that the gold came out of present-day rivers, whereas this is incorrect and only a small part of it came from them. Most alluvial gold came from buried rivers many metres to tens and even hundreds of metres below surface, and few people dig shafts to those depths now (which overlaps with your last point, except that this was where MOST of the gold came from)..</p><p></p><p>The small amount from modern streams was further reduced by these being the "poor mans diggings" of the 1890s and 1930s depression, getting most of anything remaining).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 585819, member: 4386"] I think the real reason is that today people assume that the gold came out of present-day rivers, whereas this is incorrect and only a small part of it came from them. Most alluvial gold came from buried rivers many metres to tens and even hundreds of metres below surface, and few people dig shafts to those depths now (which overlaps with your last point, except that this was where MOST of the gold came from).. The small amount from modern streams was further reduced by these being the "poor mans diggings" of the 1890s and 1930s depression, getting most of anything remaining). [/QUOTE]
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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Where are the alluvial gold bonanzas of the past?
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