Trees and Gold

[spottedgum]

The area is about to get logged. Would you go before or after the trees get cut. Do you think they would cut them or push them. Burn the roots or not? So many questions!

 

[Redfin]

Hey Loamer, my FIL, a 30 yr plus prospector refers to them as money trees, and he swears by them

 

[loamer]

Thats the ones. If he is ever in Vic, they pretty well run all over the place on the goldfields. Do you reckon for the life of me I can remember the name. roos love them for shade. I'm a bit the same with the box iron bark. nice indicator the ground is probably ok. the skinnier and uglier the better.

 

[Roscoe]

I have never seen conifers like that grow in open woodland. Mind you i haven't been prospecting in the south yet.

 

[spottedgum]

That tree is an Exocarpus or Native Cherry tree. It is one of Australia's few native conifers along with Casuarina, Huon Pine, Kauri, King Billy Pine, native Cypress and not many others.

 

[loamer]

thanks Spotted - that's the one -native cherry tree. the story goes where they are, gold is. this is a wee bit of a long stretch given that they are in the goldfields so I guess the % probability is that sooner or later they will have gold near them. never been lucky near them, the gold must have already gone!

 

[spottedgum]

There was a system where a notch was put in the tree once they had found the trees stash.

Goldd, I meant to thank for the panning offer. When I am around those ways I will take you up.

Loamer (and any others) maybe you can help. Is there any good reads that you would recommend?

Eager to learn

 

[Roscoe]

Golden ghosts is a good read. It list a lot of the old workings, maps and the gold type, quantity methods that came out of those old workings. Hard book to get though. I have the Qld version. I read it all the time.

 

[loamer]

There was a system where a notch was put in the tree once they had found the trees stash.

Goldd, I meant to thank for the panning offer. When I am around those ways I will take you up.

Loamer (and any others) maybe you can help. Is there any good reads that you would recommend?

Eager to learn

Spotted - I don't know what state you are in for reference material. For general reading I always recommend Sam Cash's 'Loaming for Gold' and Ion Idriess' "Prospecting for Gold" cash is in reprint, Idriess is not and you may have to borrow from a library. There is a lot of older material on the National Library Trove site - some good points there, plus you can research whatever area you are in. Victoria does not have a 'Gold and Ghosts' series that seem to be a big must get in other states as there is no need - the place has been written about over and over and over - Flett, Mackay etc. As for trees/vegetation? I always look at the trees and shrubs on the goldfields and take note of what is there as it indicates the soil ph, depth, water etc. To be a good prospector you have to study geology, botany, weather patterns and history, electronics, gold history, map reading, vehicle recovery and repair, panning, swearing - the list goes on and on.

 

[Ag Man]

That tree is an Exocarpus or Native Cherry tree. It is one of Australia's few native conifers along with Casuarina, Huon Pine, Kauri, King Billy Pine, native Cypress and not many others.

I was going to say Cherry tree. We see them around here a fair bit. Deer like to rub up against them so you usually see rub marks - sometimes so much as they ring bark it...