anyone tried chichester dam area

[jaksdad]

My family hail from up around Chichester dam, my uncle told me a story of how during construction of the dam a heap river soil was dumped on what is now the old Chichester cricket pitch.
He has an old old cheapo detector and says when he ran it over the cricket pitch itself it indicates there's gold underneath. So it stands to reason the creeks under the dam wall may yield some nice yellow treasure.
But this is just a theory of a complete newbie, maybe I'm way off.

 

[Parko]

Do some research. If there was historic mining you might be in luck. Nice shot of the dam being built.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-20/chichester-dam-construction-14-7-1920jpg/6712930

 

[jaksdad]

williamsvalleyhistory.org/mining

 

[jaksdad]

Sorry about the dodgy link, I only have a crappy windows phone to access the net.
Should work if you copy and past it into a search though.

It basically talks about the gold mines at wangat, just below the dam, Angus and Coote actually setup a shop in dungog to purchase gold off the miners, so there was actual gold mining in the area.

 

[Tathradj]

My Cousin works the farm opposite the old cricket pitch. LOL
He is currently researching for me.

 

[jaksdad]

My Cousin works the farm opposite the old cricket pitch. LOL
He is currently researching for me.

I still have family up in the area, must get myself a pan and go have a gander.