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....thank you - I had earlier seen a map of Australia showing "strewn field lanes" and now I better understand it all from your explanation.

Where is best? well it depends...., Today when speaking of the Golden Triangle the term generally encompasses the whole Central Goldfields Tourist Region and you can draw a triangle between any of the outer three of the nine major gold rush towns in the region (I stretched it to include...

......about 2.5km across

Whilst researching for a future fossicking foray I was toggling between satellite and terrain view on google maps and this interesting circular topographic feature caught my eye ....... tektites were common in the alluvial gravels at that location and this looks awfully like an impact crater to...

Hmmmm! Jaros has "gone to ground" ;)

thanks for the link BUT :( I cannot read the article cos it says its for subscribers only :/

published in The Mercury, Fitzroy, Victoria. 26th August 1876 The Driver's Song With tarpaulins unfolded at close of the day, Behold us encamped by the side of our dray, Forgetting the hills and the gullies we've passed, Content to have reached a safe haven at last. Forgetting the troubles of...

Did you tape the penny bangers to the big Sky Rockets and break the looped penny banger fuse so that it was double the length then place the Sky Rocket in a coke bottle and light both fuses at once :) AND did you work out the right trajectory so that the exhausted sky rocket with the still lit...

I've posted this before - stirring stuff :power: https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/eureka-stockade/clip2/#

..... the mining surveyor based at Foster was at Turton's Creek 4 days after the reported discovery and this is what he wrote:- ....and here is his sketch of the goldfield .... these pics are snippets from a larger map. casper

i think you're right - I am on shaky ground relying on memory at my age :) I seem to recall (here I go again :) ) reading that at the time of discovery that the gold was readily visible, glittering on the slate bottom, that suggests an exposed slate bottom ay.... I'll find the mention and post...

Hi Steve, Bring a long handle shovel and try and find the bottom. When I was there in 2015 there at No1 claim there was only a foot wide trickle of water and sluice stayed in the car. Back in 1870's when the creek was "rushed" the gold was found on a slate base and the "stripping" aka...

an easy one for baby boomers .... 3/5s/2d x 1/2s/6d

fencing wire through the holes and pliers to twist it - easy peasy :Y:

buy one at any camping store

60,000 ozs :) I knew that there was a 6 in there and it was a largish number O:) I'm well on the wrong side of 60 and so my next trip to Turtons will be for the scenery too ..... 'tis young persons country in there. I had it in mind to sample up to those dykes at the heads of the gullys but the...

Thanks for the corrections .... It is a magic place though isn't it, it feels positively primeval when down in the creek gully at N01 Claim, and it's home to tallest tree ferns I've encountered, a T-REX would'nt be out of place :D The "stripping" (the over burden) was said to be 6 feet on a...

Yes! palaeoplacer deposits, TURTON's CREEK in South Gippsland is one famous example. Fabulously rich, the gold was the size of wheat grains andeasily visible in the stream bed. It is said that 6 tons of gold came out of a mile stretch of the creek and in 3 months it was exhausted and the "rush"...

absurd you say! Hmmmm! and you have 12 posts - but enough for you to have learned that gold prospecting is all about "research" so I suggest that you seek out and read the original legislation Gazetted in 1881 and then we can discuss how it evolved to be relevant in the present day. casper

..... drop riffles ain't a new concept, mother nature has been doin' it for eons and MacKirk perfected it in ABS plastic. I use an elevated feed for my home brew Dream mat sluice and it's a "gold grabber" and in low flow situations I substitute with a MacKirk Sluice.