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<blockquote data-quote="grubstake" data-source="post: 656811" data-attributes="member: 4012"><p>Sounds like there was a single, smallish but productive gold mine and lots of attempts to find more nearby, both along strike from and parallel to the Golden Leaf reef system. Shafts like those pictured were routine for exploration in WA during the early gold rush and a party of 3-4 blokes with hand tools, buckets, barrow and site-constructed windlass, props, etc., could sink a 10 metre shaft in about a fortnight.</p><p></p><p>Any quartz encountered was quickly sampled, dollied and dry-panned (unless water was available after infrequent rainfall), for any signs of colour. It was brutally hard work, whether in the harsh sun and dust of endless summer or the bleak cold days and freezing nights of winter.</p><p></p><p>The Hesperian Press reprints of old miners' first-hand accounts (<em>Mates</em> & <em>Gold</em> by NK Sligo, is a good place to start), tell the tale, in all its unglamorous but fascinating detail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grubstake, post: 656811, member: 4012"] Sounds like there was a single, smallish but productive gold mine and lots of attempts to find more nearby, both along strike from and parallel to the Golden Leaf reef system. Shafts like those pictured were routine for exploration in WA during the early gold rush and a party of 3-4 blokes with hand tools, buckets, barrow and site-constructed windlass, props, etc., could sink a 10 metre shaft in about a fortnight. Any quartz encountered was quickly sampled, dollied and dry-panned (unless water was available after infrequent rainfall), for any signs of colour. It was brutally hard work, whether in the harsh sun and dust of endless summer or the bleak cold days and freezing nights of winter. The Hesperian Press reprints of old miners' first-hand accounts ([I]Mates[/I] & [I]Gold[/I] by NK Sligo, is a good place to start), tell the tale, in all its unglamorous but fascinating detail. [/QUOTE]
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