Howdy folks! Please keep in mind that this video is from back in the day. Just trying to keep a little content flowing seen as I never profited from any of the older videos with the Copyright issues. Cheers!
Always happy to be taught something useful, I'm glad you uloading again. I love a good trommel, so dust it off for a run. Thanks for the adventure ❤it 😊
personally use a dedicated GPS app for documenting my times outdoors. I export the data from there and then add it to my working layer in QGIS. that‘s also what I use for the LIDAR scans of my area of interest. availability of such data isn’t a given. there are old „gold mills“ used 2000 years ago here that can be found in remote locations here.
I have been lucky enough to talk to a Hill End local who worked a mine in a gully. He was 14 then and 81 now. He told me that in a drive off the main shaft they were on gold. Peeled it off the wall like wallpaper. I believe him because the belt running from hill end to hargraves is all slate and mudstone, so the side walls would be such as the slate is tilted to 90 deg generally. Very dangerous ground to work i reckon. Look how new your buckets are mate ! Look forward to more vids 👌 I lost a reef that was not shedding, so the old boys missed it. The slate was tilted at 50 deg and i reckon it was either Galena or the heavy yellow as I couldnt lower my GPX for 5 mtrs. No topsoil only end grain slate.
I had a similar experience just recently with a reef we found in a creek bed with the SDC. Certain areas of it screamed like gold, others were dead quiet. I took 30kg of the loud stuff home and crushed it, the heaviest mineral content I've ever seen. It's still coming out of the ball mill now 🤣. Very little gold in it, must have been galena. Bugger!
I have been really quiet about it. I work alone on private property but looking to get some helpful advice. I am committed to finding this and pretty confident that it was missed most gold was detected in trenches down to clay layer. With 2 maybe 3 possibiltes of deposit (1) directly around the spiecimans hole which produced alot of small rough nuggets and specimans in a 1.5m x 1.5m area going deeper in this spot to bedrock. (2) directly upslope produced alot of small thin rough pieces and a cluster of nuggets in a 300mm 300mm area down 400mm not detectable from surface but hit them in a trench following the shallow lead up hill one small clean speciman found also this is the further most extremity up hill where I have found gold in trenches dug big hole extended of this spot down deep and no gold found so have found the upper most extremity. Which happens to be 3 meters across the slope from the costean!!!😊 I have dug down to bed rock there is conglomerate base as it is old sea floor environment but there is a what looks to be altered sandstone in the area with the quartz. No evidence of floaters anywhere but plenty in the shale layer down a bit. Have sampled some quartz without signals not much fine but plenty of chunks flakes in detected specimans over 30g of gold in in 10 maybe 20kg in collected specimans all detectable have some quartz samples collected from the strata out of trenches but not much in them. Not woth chasing.in the trenches have not noticed any visible quartz seams or anything but some deeper ground and clay seams which I'm going to investigate more now. I have crushed all specimans apart from one but have kept all crushed material for further processing as it was so rich. Sorry for the novel I hope it makes sense. Feel free to contact me Dale Giddings!!👍👍
Bigger the novel, better the details. I'm essentially frothing at the mouth over here while reading about your progress in that spot. Once you said ancient ocean bed, I realised I'm a bit out of my element on this topic. I have near on zero experience in that department. It's a lot easier in the sort of country I'm in to trace gold. Having solid rock below the surface makes this sort of thing much easier. Ocean beds would make it much more tricky for me to read the ground. I'm not sure how much further the hill goes up above where you've already explored, but don't rule out the gold and perhaps the ground beneath being shifted in big sheets of ancient ocean sediment. If its Cambrian/Ordovician era, it's well out of my skillset. Either way, don't rule out the good ground you're working, being dragged there from somewhere else. The area of alteration you found would be my starting point, can always trust the alteration to make some sense of what's happening there.
Yeah agreed. It's hard to relay the information in detail. But it has required alot of close attention and time going slow seems to help alot and no rushing not 100% sure about sea floor but conglomerate is the base bedrock. The old timers chased some flat reefs and some shafts, adits and elluivial in some gullys but the gold seems to associated with quartz and some kind of red clay or rotted out iron within the quartz all gold in host rock seemed to have a reddish clay with it. And almost none to minimal float evident anywhere. Some Barron looking float around some of the old flat workings but seemed to be covered before mining took place all pre 1870. This deposit does seem to be down bit but eroded gold pretty shallow down slope 500mm deep but 150 metres down slope hard pack gravels but not much in the clay layer as yet!! Needs more attention. But my theory is to open up the ground onto the hard clay layer. (As all the material above this layer has been dug out pads made and detected 3 times now) so trying to find a virgin layer I have isolated to a 4x2m area and I'm starting a loaming programme on the clay layer the best results are I'm going down from that point but I'm not afraid to take the whole lot out and hunt this minerisation. My gut is saying the might be some kind of mineralisation fracture and im not going to find a so called quartz vein insitu it might be a mineralisation zone with quartz within its seems to of eroded alot of little chunks of rough gold around where the species were found highly eroded quartz was not uncommon to find 5 to 6 nugs around a piece of quartz 300mm to 400mm down not detectable I have some really good pictures I have taken if you would like some reference. At this spot the bedrock outcrops at the surface about 5 metres up the hill it's more of a spur but not far to the top and the gradient of the slope would have to be less than 20 degrees not to steep.
Awsome information. Im 17:33 chasing a souce have isolated it to a small area have cleaned up all the elluvial over 9 months digging to 500mm hard clay base and have a defined shed pattern aka spread and a shalow lead contained within the spread lots of nuggets and specimans all gold seems associated with a small vent of a main reef working single old times costean and pit but shallow lead seems about 2 metres to the left of costean no gold found in old timers test holes but alot very close by i think they missed it. All gold is rough and seems to be associated with quartz have specimans with host rock attached and im chasing the source any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have permission to locate the souce from land owners.
Sounds like you're on a bloody winner there Giddo! I can't fault your methods so far mate, you're doing a fantastic job by the sound of it! You must be very close to the reef there now. If the old timers don't have any "on strike" digging there, then we know they didn't locate it themselves yet. Cross-sectional costeans are great evidence to support that. Obviously the reef there is tricky to find, so it's likely just a small pocket of rich stuff and not a large continual source. But that's ok, I bet the pocket is still going to be a bonanza and a half. Keep digging! Take your dolly pot if you have one. If you don't have one, I'd recommend getting your hands on a "Cobbers crusher" to sample any out of the ordinary clay seams or quartz you find along the way. If you haven't already seen his videos, I'd recommend watching "Prospecting 101 for Aussie Gold Nuggets". He's in WA, but the info he shares on tracking down the reef with his detector is relevant across the board. Good luck mate! I've got my fingers crossed for you on this one. 🤑
It's definitely worth chasing has produced some good chunky pieces. Has been text book in some cases larger ellluival gold further away and small gold closer to the source but small clusters of eluvial as I get closer to the costean area and specimans in quartz in a very small area have found the far most extremity of the spread and the wings opened up. Yeah that definitely sounds like it is a strong possibilty I'm thinking a small pocket. I have been sampling the clay layer as I have dug all the material down to this layer and is all mixed no good for sampling. It's going to be a slow process. Thanks I have been watching all 101's content and reading Sam Cash's book I suppose it just a matter of opening up the ground in question and sampling dollying for a few days!! I opened the ground onto decomposed bedrock about 800mm down by hand I just hope I don't miss anything everything that comes out gets detected with the 6000 so hopefully I don't give up or miss anything. Thanks again.
I can't imagine you'll miss much with the trusty 6000. They're a beast on that small stuff. I reckon you're onto something really really good there mate. Just hang onto any rough quartz you find and mark any quartz reef lines and clay seam lines you find as you go. Even if the quartz looks barron. The best layer of it may have eroded off thousands of years ago, leaving a crappy section of boring ore. But there could still be gold in the ore below that point. Rarely is gold uniformly spread within the reef. It's patchy and pocket like. I mentioned the clay seam also because the reef may be a long way below the surface but the gold has been pushed up and out through a clay seam. That and sometimes clay seams can be extremely old quartz reefs that have decomposed. Feel free to post any quartz samples over to me in East Vic if you're struggling to work them out. A second opinion can shed a lot of light sometimes. Always happy to lend a hand 👍🏿👍🏿
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Howdy folks! Please keep in mind that this video is from back in the day. Just trying to keep a little content flowing seen as I never profited from any of the older videos with the Copyright issues.
Cheers!
This works for me, ive been chomping at the bit waiting to see more uploads from you lol
Always happy to be taught something useful, I'm glad you uloading again. I love a good trommel, so dust it off for a run. Thanks for the adventure ❤it 😊
Beautiful country side.
Sure is Shiney! Beautiful country up here in the Beechworth area.
personally use a dedicated GPS app for documenting my times outdoors. I export the data from there and then add it to my working layer in QGIS.
that‘s also what I use for the LIDAR scans of my area of interest. availability of such data isn’t a given. there are old „gold mills“ used 2000 years ago here that can be found in remote locations here.
I have been lucky enough to talk to a Hill End local who worked a mine in a gully. He was 14 then and 81 now.
He told me that in a drive off the main shaft they were on gold. Peeled it off the wall like wallpaper.
I believe him because the belt running from hill end to hargraves is all slate and mudstone, so the side walls would be such as the slate is tilted to 90 deg generally. Very dangerous ground to work i reckon.
Look how new your buckets are mate !
Look forward to more vids 👌
I lost a reef that was not shedding, so the old boys missed it.
The slate was tilted at 50 deg and i reckon it was either Galena or the heavy yellow as I couldnt lower my GPX for 5 mtrs. No topsoil only end grain slate.
I had a similar experience just recently with a reef we found in a creek bed with the SDC. Certain areas of it screamed like gold, others were dead quiet. I took 30kg of the loud stuff home and crushed it, the heaviest mineral content I've ever seen. It's still coming out of the ball mill now 🤣. Very little gold in it, must have been galena. Bugger!
I have been really quiet about it. I work alone on private property but looking to get some helpful advice. I am committed to finding this and pretty confident that it was missed most gold was detected in trenches down to clay layer. With 2 maybe 3 possibiltes of deposit (1) directly around the spiecimans hole which produced alot of small rough nuggets and specimans in a 1.5m x 1.5m area going deeper in this spot to bedrock. (2) directly upslope produced alot of small thin rough pieces and a cluster of nuggets in a 300mm 300mm area down 400mm not detectable from surface but hit them in a trench following the shallow lead up hill one small clean speciman found also this is the further most extremity up hill where I have found gold in trenches dug big hole extended of this spot down deep and no gold found so have found the upper most extremity. Which happens to be 3 meters across the slope from the costean!!!😊 I have dug down to bed rock there is conglomerate base as it is old sea floor environment but there is a what looks to be altered sandstone in the area with the quartz. No evidence of floaters anywhere but plenty in the shale layer down a bit. Have sampled some quartz without signals not much fine but plenty of chunks flakes in detected specimans over 30g of gold in in 10 maybe 20kg in collected specimans all detectable have some quartz samples collected from the strata out of trenches but not much in them. Not woth chasing.in the trenches have not noticed any visible quartz seams or anything but some deeper ground and clay seams which I'm going to investigate more now. I have crushed all specimans apart from one but have kept all crushed material for further processing as it was so rich. Sorry for the novel I hope it makes sense. Feel free to contact me Dale Giddings!!👍👍
Bigger the novel, better the details. I'm essentially frothing at the mouth over here while reading about your progress in that spot. Once you said ancient ocean bed, I realised I'm a bit out of my element on this topic. I have near on zero experience in that department. It's a lot easier in the sort of country I'm in to trace gold. Having solid rock below the surface makes this sort of thing much easier. Ocean beds would make it much more tricky for me to read the ground.
I'm not sure how much further the hill goes up above where you've already explored, but don't rule out the gold and perhaps the ground beneath being shifted in big sheets of ancient ocean sediment. If its Cambrian/Ordovician era, it's well out of my skillset. Either way, don't rule out the good ground you're working, being dragged there from somewhere else. The area of alteration you found would be my starting point, can always trust the alteration to make some sense of what's happening there.
Yeah agreed. It's hard to relay the information in detail. But it has required alot of close attention and time going slow seems to help alot and no rushing not 100% sure about sea floor but conglomerate is the base bedrock. The old timers chased some flat reefs and some shafts, adits and elluivial in some gullys but the gold seems to associated with quartz and some kind of red clay or rotted out iron within the quartz all gold in host rock seemed to have a reddish clay with it. And almost none to minimal float evident anywhere. Some Barron looking float around some of the old flat workings but seemed to be covered before mining took place all pre 1870. This deposit does seem to be down bit but eroded gold pretty shallow down slope 500mm deep but 150 metres down slope hard pack gravels but not much in the clay layer as yet!! Needs more attention. But my theory is to open up the ground onto the hard clay layer. (As all the material above this layer has been dug out pads made and detected 3 times now) so trying to find a virgin layer I have isolated to a 4x2m area and I'm starting a loaming programme on the clay layer the best results are I'm going down from that point but I'm not afraid to take the whole lot out and hunt this minerisation. My gut is saying the might be some kind of mineralisation fracture and im not going to find a so called quartz vein insitu it might be a mineralisation zone with quartz within its seems to of eroded alot of little chunks of rough gold around where the species were found highly eroded quartz was not uncommon to find 5 to 6 nugs around a piece of quartz 300mm to 400mm down not detectable I have some really good pictures I have taken if you would like some reference. At this spot the bedrock outcrops at the surface about 5 metres up the hill it's more of a spur but not far to the top and the gradient of the slope would have to be less than 20 degrees not to steep.
Awsome information. Im 17:33 chasing a souce have isolated it to a small area have cleaned up all the elluvial over 9 months digging to 500mm hard clay base and have a defined shed pattern aka spread and a shalow lead contained within the spread lots of nuggets and specimans all gold seems associated with a small vent of a main reef working single old times costean and pit but shallow lead seems about 2 metres to the left of costean no gold found in old timers test holes but alot very close by i think they missed it. All gold is rough and seems to be associated with quartz have specimans with host rock attached and im chasing the source any advice would be greatly appreciated. I have permission to locate the souce from land owners.
Sounds like you're on a bloody winner there Giddo! I can't fault your methods so far mate, you're doing a fantastic job by the sound of it!
You must be very close to the reef there now. If the old timers don't have any "on strike" digging there, then we know they didn't locate it themselves yet. Cross-sectional costeans are great evidence to support that. Obviously the reef there is tricky to find, so it's likely just a small pocket of rich stuff and not a large continual source. But that's ok, I bet the pocket is still going to be a bonanza and a half. Keep digging! Take your dolly pot if you have one. If you don't have one, I'd recommend getting your hands on a "Cobbers crusher" to sample any out of the ordinary clay seams or quartz you find along the way.
If you haven't already seen his videos, I'd recommend watching "Prospecting 101 for Aussie Gold Nuggets".
He's in WA, but the info he shares on tracking down the reef with his detector is relevant across the board.
Good luck mate! I've got my fingers crossed for you on this one. 🤑
It's definitely worth chasing has produced some good chunky pieces. Has been text book in some cases larger ellluival gold further away and small gold closer to the source but small clusters of eluvial as I get closer to the costean area and specimans in quartz in a very small area have found the far most extremity of the spread and the wings opened up. Yeah that definitely sounds like it is a strong possibilty I'm thinking a small pocket. I have been sampling the clay layer as I have dug all the material down to this layer and is all mixed no good for sampling. It's going to be a slow process. Thanks I have been watching all 101's content and reading Sam Cash's book I suppose it just a matter of opening up the ground in question and sampling dollying for a few days!! I opened the ground onto decomposed bedrock about 800mm down by hand I just hope I don't miss anything everything that comes out gets detected with the 6000 so hopefully I don't give up or miss anything. Thanks again.
I can't imagine you'll miss much with the trusty 6000. They're a beast on that small stuff. I reckon you're onto something really really good there mate. Just hang onto any rough quartz you find and mark any quartz reef lines and clay seam lines you find as you go. Even if the quartz looks barron. The best layer of it may have eroded off thousands of years ago, leaving a crappy section of boring ore. But there could still be gold in the ore below that point. Rarely is gold uniformly spread within the reef. It's patchy and pocket like. I mentioned the clay seam also because the reef may be a long way below the surface but the gold has been pushed up and out through a clay seam. That and sometimes clay seams can be extremely old quartz reefs that have decomposed.
Feel free to post any quartz samples over to me in East Vic if you're struggling to work them out. A second opinion can shed a lot of light sometimes. Always happy to lend a hand 👍🏿👍🏿