G'day, trying to find somewhere to prospect around the SE Queensland takes a lot of research and door knocking. The obvious areas such as Gympie have been flogged and kilkivan has good gold but no one will let anyone on there land. I have taken people to the 7 mile at Nanango but the biggest problem is access, 4WD only unless you want to carry the gear in and then there's the apparent lack of gold.
The gold here ranges from fine to rice grain size (rare). There had been small 1\4 ounce nuggets found but the areas that these were found in are on private land of course. People expect to find enough gold to cover the cost of the trip which ain't going to happen unless you put in the hard yards. I have found that it takes a minimum of two days to get any sort of result. The first day is spent finding and testing likely spots then opening them up which means moving all the rock which ranges from small to bloody huge. The bedrock can be can be deep and the deeper spots are where the gold is and now with the drought it's a good time to hit it because of the lack of water which is another problem.
The government needs to open up another area in the SE corner. It's to far for me to travel out to warwick (8hr run) just for a weekend, I need at least a week and that ain't going to happen for a while.
I'll stick with the 7 mile for now as it is a great, quite place to camp and any gold found is a bonus. I'll still take people there even if they say there's no gold there when they leave.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Mick
The last bloke I went down there with was bumble bee, haven't heard from him since, hmmm,
Maybe his wife spotted the golf ball size dent in the fuel tank of the shopping trolley.
