Fill Your Bloody Holes in

[madtuna]

Yep and now you have 200 people roaming the bush looking for a damn rock! Imagine the holes tomorrow :/

 

[Dog Ranger]

If it looks, tastes and smells like oop: then guess what?

 

[madtuna]

Its something I cooked

 

[ctxkid]

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/vhO90N4s9fE[/video]

 

[Smoky bandit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hN6HHIfkwg&feature=em-uploademail

High bankers do Sooooo much more damage and no one has a winge..Dam MG I wish I could find a nugget that big and you just threw it away :lol: :lol: :Y:

High bankers do SFA damage if used properly & digs are refilled.
It's the idiots that once again can't or won't do the right thing that are doing the damage, regardless of chosen method/s!

Well i have Never seen anyone backfill when using a highbanker.

 

[Goldtarget]

Ye Olde backfill argument loop. Pretty sure someone was gonna have ruffled feathers, thats always where this discussion leads.

1. Fill yours. If you are legally prospecting it is your obligation.
2. Encourage others to do the same.
3. Voice opinions about it in a non specific manner. Better imo to question things in the real world and leave it at that.

No matter how much we bring it up it never solves anything. My guess is 99% of prospectors do the right thing. And its super hard to hold those not backfilling accountable. Logically posting here causes more detrimental evidence against us that is in all probability not directly caused by our members.

I hope by putting it this way that noone thinks I want to ignore the issue, but by bringing it up and documenting it over and over all it does is reflect poorly on those who are not responsible for it.

I understand its well intentioned but at the same time its plastered there for all to see. Hopefully ive made a point without alienating well intentioned people.

Declare a backfilling day if you want some positive influence. Thats what i try and aim for 3 or 4 times a year for a few hours just restoring some abused bushland, its time better spent than trying to tell custodians there is the problem please fix it, or finding and shaming perpetrators. I find it far more fruitful just to get on with it, leaves me satisfied instead of frustrated.

Cheers

 

[ctxkid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hN6HHIfkwg&feature=em-uploademail

it is no mystery as to why your spots get invaded as for placing the pill bottle ....................................

 

[clodmac]

Went for a bit of a wander up to the test patch out in the park to try some settings on the F1 with the sadie coil the other day , counted 21 open holes that weren't there last time , looks like whoever did it got a few bits the holes were all about the right depth in the ground types . I got 4 bits for point 18 all up so the settings worked on the sadie . Mission accomplished . Cheers Clod

 

[xracer550]

don't you guy's have to fill in your holes ? or is that to tell every one you where here first .

 

[old hand]

This has been a problem for many many years some people just do not back fill their holes ,I have even seen open holes on private property .Its easer to back fill the blood hole than dig it regards john

 

[WalnLiz]

It's the same old story that is continually told. Some people have no respect for the damage they do to our hobby and self importance is the motto they live by. It's these same idiots that complain when gates get locked and tracks to gold fields get closed. It's a real pity that we have those amongst us and they are probably beyond educating, as I doubt they are members of Forums who preach the right way to treat our environment and our hobby. Just takes the one bad apple in the basket hey.

 

[Westozadventures]

I see more and more open holes every year

 

[clodmac]

don't you guy's have to fill in your holes ? or is that to tell every one you where here first .

G'day xracer this is not aimed at you it's an observation , When I went up to the patch in the park and found the holes the first thing I looked at was the ground type ( clay ) and the depth 1-4 inches , this tells me that in that area which is about 20x10 metres max that whoever left the holes found a few bits of gold with a very sensitive machine . I am also pretty sure that the gold they did get was pretty small because of the depth of the holes .
The guys who were first on this patch would of been there in the 80s with garret vlfs and whatever else they fancied in the day , the patch has probably seen every machine since then up to what may of been a 6000 with a new after market coil more recently .
Most people who do find gold fill in the holes as well as they can , not only because its required as a condition on a miners right or because it's the right thing to do , you fill them in properly so you don't signpost the spot you found gold to everyone else .
Around our local area in the places I go there is mainly alluvial gold , one telltale sign I look for is filled in holes with clay from underneath the wash laying on the surface around the hole , 95% of the time the nuggets are sitting on or just in the clay . As soon as you see that you know to slow down and give the area a good amount of attention .
All the holes I saw were less than 2 weeks old and given the shit weather we had in Ararat around that time were probably all dug within a day or 2 when it wasn't pissing rain .
I was getting sunburnt up at Tib at the time .
After I finished playing around with the F1 and sadie that day I pulled up to talk to a guy camped beside the road about 4-500 metres further up . He was an independent consultant preparing a report for Parks and Dwelp about the native vegetation and looking for significant and environmentally valuable populations of native plants up and down both sides of the road , including the area containing the patch , the point of that is Parks and Dwelp have a management interest right now in that area .

If anyone can't be bothered to fill in their 4 inch holes don't sook if the areas get shut down to prospecting

Cheers Clod