old mine is now mapped and recorded :)
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Hi Steve, Have some time off during the week so we could go out on one of those days. The photos below are from the open cut at Berringa. The shaft has been filled with rubbish preventing easy access. There must have been a drive a the bottom because I believe this open cut was dug from below working upwards.
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The spectacular natural geological formation traversed by the creeks, once known as Patersons Crescent and later as the Devils Kitchen, is a relict fossil landscape whose now-diminished mullock heaps, gorse-covered disturbed ground, altered water-courses, eroded gullies and springtime bulbs blooming in roadside paddocks provide ample cultural landscape evidence of an abandoned township and mines.
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great pictures there mate...did you do any sampling whilst down there?
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That is one very well crafted mine...they must have had plenty of time on their hands 
Nice Pics.....see the change in color in the footwall?
Yes, a lot of labor obviously went into that which only means one thing.
They got large amounts of payable gold out of it.
The geo structure is quite solid due to the lack of timber bracing used also......definitely not Castlemaine, hehe!
Yes, a lot of labor obviously went into that which only means one thing.
They got large amounts of payable gold out of it.
The geo structure is quite solid due to the lack of timber bracing used also......definitely not Castlemaine, hehe!
If i havent said so already dean i always appreciate the time you take to share these adventures with us. Thanks mate
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Amazing guys. I envy those of you with this kind of history in your back yard
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