Big Finds In Creswick?

[grubstake]

You might have it there Damit, I will confirm it though, I was a bit out but 12 OZS isnt bad for 2 lumps

Not to burst anyone's bubble, but those two pieces aren't 12 ounces of gold, mate. I reckon the nugget in the hand would go 3-3 ounces tops, with the other piece clearly a specimen with more quartz than gold. Even the scales only read 7.899 (presumably troy ounces).

 

[dam it]

You might have it there Damit, I will confirm it though, I was a bit out but 12 OZS isnt bad for 2 lumps

Not to burst anyone's bubble, but those two pieces aren't 12 ounces of gold, mate. I reckon the nugget in the hand would go 3-3 ounces tops, with the other piece clearly a specimen with more quartz than gold. Even the scales only read 7.899 (presumably troy ounces).

oop: I thought they read 37.899 Grams .
Maybe I need to go to Specsavers :lol:

 

[Perth Tim]

Ok ok, I'll take it ok? It's clear these nuggets are far too under weight to the rest of you so give them to me to replant and grow in my backyard

 

[A-team]

Well, much smaller than expected but EVERYONE must agree, finding that "anywhere" near Slaty creek is pretty EPIC... Talk about a "well visited area". Got to say, I love my Zed and would never turn back, but still have to give the 5000 credit as one of the most versatile detectors in existence.

They are some nice solid nuggets, they must have been like all of us....ahhh, trash - but I'll still dig it! The 5000 must have been screaming? The Creswick forest dictates that it is impossible to cover every square inch of ground, as we see, it still is giving up the good stuff. There are also many a nugget not publicly revealed that are also still getting found in this area......historically a very rich area and considered an extension/continuation of the old major gold fields to the south.

 

[user 4386]

Well, much smaller than expected but EVERYONE must agree, finding that "anywhere" near Slaty creek is pretty EPIC... Talk about a "well visited area". Got to say, I love my Zed and would never turn back, but still have to give the 5000 credit as one of the most versatile detectors in existence.

They are some nice solid nuggets, they must have been like all of us....ahhh, trash - but I'll still dig it! The 5000 must have been screaming? The Creswick forest dictates that it is impossible to cover every square inch of ground, as we see, it still is giving up the good stuff. There are also many a nugget not publicly revealed that are also still getting found in this area......historically a very rich area and considered an extension/continuation of the old major gold fields to the south.

From memory it produced 52 tonnes of gold, so not to be underestimated...

 

[dirtdiggin]

Gees that Nugget certainly shrunk in size from both over 100 oz to maybe 3 oz theres nothing like them old Chinese whispers how a story can change!.
Still sell that and the new 6000 isnt far from reach!,.

 

[Dignit]

The largest nuggets found historically near Creswick were 900 oz and 300 oz

I thought most of Creswick was deep lead gold not surface shedding gold?

 

[Leroy]

Nuggets totalled just over 12ozs for both, still a good find.

 

[user 4386]

The largest nuggets found historically near Creswick were 900 oz and 300 oz

I thought most of Creswick was deep lead gold not surface shedding gold?

Deep leads were most important, but more than a million ounces came from shallow alluvial (e.g. Black Lead ?800,000 oz.), which included some high level gravels at surface. PRODUCTION from quartz veins negligible, but not because they were not there, because the vein systems were narrow (but abundant). But all that alluvial, deep and shallow came from quartz veins around and a bit south of Creswick, and nuggets were up to 900 oz. Here are the best figures that I have come up with, I have included the rest of the world's major alluvial field for comparison (this includes info from various authors and shows how uncertain shallow alluvial figures are, because most shallow alluvial is mined at the start of a gold rush and is often poorly documented at the time. Victoria is slightly better because the grand total is fairly well known, because their was no significant prior population and the gold was shipped out to the Bank of England and was recorded when shipped. However shallow alluvial production figures from individual Victorian fields is nevertheless a bit rubbery, and mainly taken from figures for the armed gold escorts that took the gold from the goldfields to Melbourne, to protect it from bushrangers (it was best to sell it on the goldfields rather than to carry it yourself). Also the price paid per ounce varied with each field because of varying silver content.

 

[Deepseeker]

Gees that Nugget certainly shrunk in size from both over 100 oz to maybe 3 oz theres nothing like them old Chinese whispers how a story can change!.
Still sell that and the new 6000 isnt far from reach!,.

Why go a 6000? A Gpx found it! erfect:

I wouldn't put too much weight in it being found near Slatey Creek either. I'd happily show my gold if that was mine, but "found in the GT" would be about as much as I'd give away. I remember when Kevin Hillier found the Hand of Faith. For years it was "Found near Wedderburn", a smart move while Mr Hillier and his wife spent the next few years detecting Kingower

 

[grubstake]

Nuggets totalled just over 12ozs for both, still a good find.

This is the best I can do with enhancing the reading on those scales:

If that reads 378.99 grams, that would correspond with 12.186 troy ounces. But the piece in the rear will need a specific gravity test to determine its actual gold content, as it has more visible quartz than gold.

 

[Syndyne]

Hi all,

Dam it has it correct by the looks. It's 37.899gm.

That's an easy tell just by the lump in his hand, possibly around 15 or 16gm something like that. I have a round-ish shaped 30gm speccie here that looks about twice the size of the one pictured when it's sitting in my hand.

I'd certainly love to feel the weight of a few of those big 100+ ounce lumps one day though!

We had the Pride Of Australia nugget on our dining table when I was a kid (the original finder was trying to negotiate a sale for opal), but I was way too young to even feel the weight of it sadly. It was just over 7.5kg.

Cheers,
Shauno.

 

[dam it]

Still bloody NICE erfect:
Just over a TEAL in weight .

 

[OzzieAu]

We had the Pride Of Australia nugget on our dining table when I was a kid (the original finder was trying to negotiate a sale for opal), but I was way too young to even feel the weight of it sadly. It was just over 7.5kg.

No wonder you ended up a detectorist layful:

 

[Leroy]

Well after all the post regarding the two big,heavy?? Nuggets I thought the only way to confirm the correct weight etc of the said nuggets was to talk to the finder himself.i have just put the phone down and I will apologise for giving you all the run around after just listening to one person who just admitted to me he got it all wrong
Dam it you were right. The weight of those two were 37.9 gms The total of his finds for the day was 103 gms. They were found just out of Creswick at a depth of around 12 inches with the 5000 fitted with a 12 Evo NF
I will get a photo of the 103 gm total if anyone is interested.
Im glad that is all sorted.

 

[fwdoz]

Hope he didnt clean out a new spot at Creswick I have been sniffing around! ?

 

[Syndyne]

103gm is still a very nice day swinging by anyones standards! Good on him. Very nice looking solid nuggets to boot. :Y:

Regards,
Shauno.

 

[Leroy]

Further to my last re Big gold at Creswick this is the 103 gms found on the day and includes the 2 nuggets (38gms) already shown. A couple of specemins were amongst them but its still a nice haul for the day

 

[RM Outback]

No doubt about it Leroy, everyone of us would love a day like that erfect: I don't care what it weighs finding multiple pieces in one day is good fun :beer:

 

[Leroy]

Dead right RM, doesnt happen to me very often, best Ive done was 7 small ones and that was where you went for a quick swing on your way home from Maryborough one day.