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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Where are the alluvial gold bonanzas of the past?
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<blockquote data-quote="CreviceSucker" data-source="post: 585849" data-attributes="member: 1804"><p>Couldnt agree more.</p><p></p><p>Detectorists who got viable gold in the last 40 years should have accurately mapped the location , not just because of the way a reef or other type of deposit can shear or uplift but because they were probably only detecting the top 12 - 24 inches.</p><p></p><p>Detectors now can reach 2 - 4 feet deep and could have maintained viability , even where there is gold that only had the surface picked off those could be mined using open cut mines.</p><p></p><p>Now we have to hope that modern Geo's walk over the area with an XRF and choose to explore further with drilling exploration or that its found with LiDAR or combinations of radiometric and geo sampling analytics to rediscover those locations.</p><p></p><p>You have to admire the tenacity of the old prospectors who would dig those ~ 10 - 30 metre deep shafts chasing the old leads , like you say most modern diggers wouldnt scrape past 6 inches yet the old timers averaged 200 dud shafts before they found viable lunch money.</p><p></p><p>How likely is it for retired prospectors to report "yeah i found 297 ounces at surface back in 1991 at 34 29' 48" S x 150 47' 42" E and i think there is more" ? Personally i would like to encourage such behaviour :lol: </p><p></p><p>i bet 23.5661 percent of prospectors will run those GPS numbers now . lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CreviceSucker, post: 585849, member: 1804"] Couldnt agree more. Detectorists who got viable gold in the last 40 years should have accurately mapped the location , not just because of the way a reef or other type of deposit can shear or uplift but because they were probably only detecting the top 12 - 24 inches. Detectors now can reach 2 - 4 feet deep and could have maintained viability , even where there is gold that only had the surface picked off those could be mined using open cut mines. Now we have to hope that modern Geo's walk over the area with an XRF and choose to explore further with drilling exploration or that its found with LiDAR or combinations of radiometric and geo sampling analytics to rediscover those locations. You have to admire the tenacity of the old prospectors who would dig those ~ 10 - 30 metre deep shafts chasing the old leads , like you say most modern diggers wouldnt scrape past 6 inches yet the old timers averaged 200 dud shafts before they found viable lunch money. How likely is it for retired prospectors to report "yeah i found 297 ounces at surface back in 1991 at 34 29' 48" S x 150 47' 42" E and i think there is more" ? Personally i would like to encourage such behaviour :lol: i bet 23.5661 percent of prospectors will run those GPS numbers now . lol [/QUOTE]
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Where are the alluvial gold bonanzas of the past?
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