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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: 648146" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>The northern limit of those marine gravels shown by Hawkear is mostly the Mt Erip Reserve, Moonlight Creek, Pitfield and Dereel (on the ridge south from Misery Ck road). Because they sunk through them to get to the old river valleys with gold-bearing gravels beneath, I would suggest that nuggets would only be on mine dumps not in areas covered by extensive marine gravels. The marine gravels are mostly only a few million years old, the underlying river gravels 20-30 million years. Erosion south of some of these areas has stripped the marine gravels away, so you see the old river gravels exposed around Dereel itself, Rokewood, Cap Clear, Illabarook etc.</p><p></p><p>i.e. the marine sands are the unshaded area on this map that Dereel sits on the northern boundary of, and that Cape Clear sits between two of its areas.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]2773[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download/vital:1315/DS1?view=true[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 648146, member: 4386"] The northern limit of those marine gravels shown by Hawkear is mostly the Mt Erip Reserve, Moonlight Creek, Pitfield and Dereel (on the ridge south from Misery Ck road). Because they sunk through them to get to the old river valleys with gold-bearing gravels beneath, I would suggest that nuggets would only be on mine dumps not in areas covered by extensive marine gravels. The marine gravels are mostly only a few million years old, the underlying river gravels 20-30 million years. Erosion south of some of these areas has stripped the marine gravels away, so you see the old river gravels exposed around Dereel itself, Rokewood, Cap Clear, Illabarook etc. i.e. the marine sands are the unshaded area on this map that Dereel sits on the northern boundary of, and that Cape Clear sits between two of its areas. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1657592443177.png"]2773[/ATTACH] [URL unfurl="true"]https://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/services/Download/vital:1315/DS1?view=true[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Where are the alluvial gold bonanzas of the past?
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