Does anyone believe in the Lasseter myth/story?

[Magilla]

I have read somewhere that statistics say that one in four people suffer from some form of mental illness. Just because Lasseter believed he had found a reef doesn't mean that he actually did.

It would be a great story if it was proved correct but I am quite sure that Dick Smith wasn't the first person to go looking from a chopper.

 

[Mackka]

Surely with Google Earth and the like, people must have looked at every square inch of wherever in search of the reef. Just sayin.
Mackka

 

[Jaros]

ArghhHHH, the heat and the "yella infection" does strange things to people. Especially people from European countries who have no idea as to how powerful it is and the mind boggling effects it can have on you. Mirages, delirium thirst--can you imagine how your brain would be??? :8

 

[Ryan27]

If the reef is under sand then it probably won't be discovered for some time.

 

[Goldpick]

If there were such a reef exposed on the surface, it would have most likely been found by now considering how many explorers have been out that way. I think it's more of a case of a desperate man in a dire situation trying to save face.

Contrary to popular belief, vast areas out that way have been scoured to the nth degree by use of satellite images, geopysics, aerial photographs, physical checks and rock chip samples via helicopter on outcrops, quartz reefs, quartz blows etc. But that is not to say that everything has been found that is close to surface, or obscured by recent surface cover, but such a large vein would be easy to locate if it existed.

Whilst working in the Tanami, we did find a lone quartz reef bearing gold out the middle of nowhere, but despite having good grades and coarse gold, it was shallow in depth and not worth excavating, at least not for a large mining company, and probably too far to the north anyway. To someone like Lasseter, a reef like this would have been a find of his dreams, and exaggerated to create interest. But if he had found such a reef, why no samples considering it was " bulging with gold"?

There could be the possibility that many of these types of reefs are overlooked by miners, or added to the "value adding" folder due to miners wanting large tonnage deposits vs isolated occurrences with inconsistant grades and no real depth or strike length.. If it were such a large reef, it was more likely to be one of those barren epithermal veins that stretch across the countryside throughout the region.

 

[slipped disc]

Too right GP. if todays science and technology can't find t, it ain't there. Packer, Hancock, Twiggy and all the high rollers haven't found it. even Dicky Smith ! Tonnes of gold in S.A. -just kept verrryy quiet. :| besides a huge find would kill the manipulated market. the BIG '' Australian !

 

[Hunting the yellow]

hum reminds me of a reef im looking for at the moment another reef besides the one ive allready found down a hole. this other reef was sheding 13oz nuggets in the past and sevel holes wore dug on the hillside trying to find this ritch reef this searching/rush only lasted 3 years the ritch sheding reef was never found by the early gold diggers and till this day still hasent but recently i my self found a 8gramer and 12gramer there an a mate of mine found a 5gramer 4gramer and 2gramer and 7gramer and a 10gramer so i know the reef im trying to find is close by i just have to do some loaming and more sampleing and hopefully one day run into the mother load now who said a good gold reef can"t exist it could be like this but just never re found where it was

 

[slipped disc]

man, whatever yo is are saying, you should be a rich fella by now. north, to alasaka, the rush is on.

 

[cracka]

Ive always wondered why there is no aboriginal legend about this place as i would think over forty thousand years they have roamed the area the reef would of been uncovered at some time and would be a special place to them if it looked anything like it was described by Lasseter (a gorge of gold). I heard that Lasseter also did some exploring down Kosciusko way. Now if you explored two different areas nearly 3000 kms apart and found a reef like that at one place, where are you going to tell people you found it? (In the opposite direction?). Just a thought.

Cracka

 

[Balmain Bob]

Cracka.
I will think that you will find that the aboriginal people of the area had no use for gold and that they had know knowledge of its value. The people that would have live in that area were nomadic in their lifestyle. Only staying for a short while in each spot until the water or food sources ran out then moving on.
More important to the local people would have been the location of the water holes and the edible foods and animals than the heavy yellow rocks.

Regarding the lost reef. I did read a few years ago that Lassiters compass was slightly off magnetic north and therefore any the readings that he took were incorrect. That is why anyone trying to use his data will not find the reef.

But with the computer technology of today it should be easy for someone to create a program to correct Lassiters data

My belief is that Lassiter may have been a bit of a con man.

But how knows??

Its always good to fantasize about what you would do if you found it. Isnt it?

 

[slipped disc]

while out detecting yesterday in a park, I met a bloke asking me about detecting. he has been a pro shooter nearly all his life and wants to get into gold detecting. he said he knows some good areas out from Tarcowie in the north. he also said he has a photo of himself in the cave where Lassiter died. bbrrrrrrr, chilling.

 

[kawman]

And let us not forget this story as well... http://strlhistorymatters.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/legend-of-billy-blue.html

 

[Jaros]

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[kawman]

OK.. I think.????

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[goldtruck59]

OK.. I think.????

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yes a bit mmmm????Kawman, I don't get it either

 

[AngerManagement]

My old man travelled from Central NSW to Darwin and SA and to Broom. In the days when it was all done by Horse and droving cattle...

He often picked up some bits here and there and when chasing lost scrubbers, said he found the odd place that had some colour and one or two that samples were assayed in Darwin and they recon that could make a quid or two....

But he also said that they were hard to find in the first place; and even when he tried to go back, he could never get to the same place...

After a few years and fires and new scrub, it can change and your memory gets confused... In a lot of that country, landmarks are not always that easy to define.

To day with Google earth / Sat Phone and GPS... If ya found it, don't tell any one and slip quietly into retirement...

As to the Lasseter myth/story?

It is often found that the Truth is stranger than Fiction....

So for me, the story/myth is still valid...

 

[slipped disc]

And let us not forget this story as well... http://strlhistorymatters.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/legend-of-billy-blue.html

That's the story that came to my mind too. I knew he was called something ''blue'' , I also thought mbe Billy, but didn't check it up.
the natives exposed to the European ways would know the value of gold, but thankfully they weren't consumed with the white man's greed.

 

[backcreek]

Here's The Bush Tucker mans take on the Lasseter story.

[video=480,360]http://youtu.be/I2nWlbIgm58[/video]

 

[ProspectorPete]

Good take on the theory and makes a lot of sense too, hopefully one day we'll get to know the truth.

 

[Jon]

Lasseters, the "Big Foot of gold". Or "how to make an epic failure look like success".