Finding known reefs?

NortheastGold · Jun 8, 2024

This might be a basic question, but how hard is it to spot a known reef?I have Avenza maps and I plan on copying the GPS coordinates of some known reefs into google maps then going to find them. I have heard the coordinates on these maps might be a bit off, but will it be obvious I'm standing on a reef by an outcrop of quartz?
Thanks

grubstake · Jun 8, 2024

NortheastGold said:
will it be obvious I'm standing on a reef by an outcrop of quartz?

More likely by a hole/holes in the ground where the quartz reef used to be, but it depends on the location. Which state are you talking about?

NortheastGold · Jun 8, 2024

grubstake said:
More likely by a hole/holes in the ground where the quartz reef used to be, but it depends on the location. Which state are you talking about?

Victoria.

grubstake · Jun 8, 2024

NortheastGold said:
Victoria.

Almost any Victorian gold-bearing reef has old workings (remains of a headframe, shaft, tunnels, other excavations) and a name, whereas barren reefs have few or no workings and probably wouldn't have been named. The more quartz lying around, the more likely that the reef was barren.

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