Cape Clear info

[Marauder]

Has anyone ever been out to Cape Clear, in Vic, with the detector?

Brother in law has a mate with a property up there with a little creek running through, and he said we can go out and have a swing.

Thanks

James

 

[Ronk]

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Hi I live at cape clear I dont believe there was any surface gold in Cape Clear so only logical place to look is mullock heaps imo

cheers Ron

but have a look you never know

 

[user 4386]

Not right in town but a lot in areas surrounding it - eg the Pitfield (not Pitfield Plains) diggings SW of it and west of the river, north of the highway. It is a bit of a mixture - the big dumps are on the "deep lead" from Scarsdale to Pitfield Plains and there is no shallow gold there (only the dumps, of mines that produced nuggets as large as 300 oz), but a bit of gold was associated with the old shallow sands of the Tertiary marine shoreline (eg around Illabarook). There are easier areas though.......

 

[Marauder]

Ok, We'll have a look and see. Thanks for the Info.

We're mainly going to be in the Linton area, Cos thats where we will be camping. Any good spots round there?

 

[SteelPat]

Loads of diggings around Linton. My best from there is a 15.5 grammer

 

[user 4386]

Yes, loads - I agree (and Smythesdale, Scarsdale etc)

 

[Marauder]

Hey SteelPat, did you find that big one around some diggings or just in the open? How deep was it?

I've had a go at some of the mullock heaps round some old mine shafts but nothing. couple of old bullets.

 

[SteelPat]

Hey SteelPat, did you find that big one around some diggings or just in the open? How deep was it?

I've had a go at some of the mullock heaps round some old mine shafts but nothing. couple of old bullets.

It was on the side of a hill near diggings - and to be honest it was in the first few cms. A real screamer and any machine would have found it, although there was a bit of rubbish around so maybe people just dismissed it as junk.

 

[user 4386]

Problem is to have the right type of shaft. Need to know if it was hard-rock gold, shallow alluvial or deep lead gold. Dumps on the first case are much less productive for nuggets than the second, and in the third (or deep cases of the first) anything likely to contain gold was trammed away from the shaft (so its dump is not where to look). Also some shafts went through old sands in the area you are talking about, and these tend to be barren and dominate the dumps. In other cases different rocks were passed through at different levels on the way down, so you need to know which part of the dump to look. You guys may know that but some beginners would not. However there are plenty of shallow alluuvial dumps in that area.....