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How's everyone going? Just wondered if anyone has had any luck locating an exposed reef lately !?
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Hard Rock Placer Prospecting
Reef gold
Moderator: Philski
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hi Wally
The only one with visible gold ive found was in some stockwork in the lea river. Its gone now. it had fine wire gold and in all honesty wasn't worth extraction even with today's prices. Torque mining mined it last year, at a loss. unfortunately..
The only one with visible gold ive found was in some stockwork in the lea river. Its gone now. it had fine wire gold and in all honesty wasn't worth extraction even with today's prices. Torque mining mined it last year, at a loss. unfortunately..
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Philski - Posts: 475
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Interesting, in the river itself philski or up higher ? It's nice there!
Cheers wally.
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HI Wally in the river itself. upstream from the middle road crossing about 500 meters on the left going up from the big boulder, about 50 - 100 meters downstream from the Stormont deposit itself. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-41.490 ... a=!3m1!1e3
i quite literally panned up to it and it stopped. went back a bit and hit the vein. The gold is very pretty wire gold with perfect cubes of gold on each end (1mm cubes). about 1cm long or so. so only small
The only other hard rock mineralization in the Lea clearly visible is a few km upstream towards lake lea and before the tea tree creek junction. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-41.502 ... a=!3m1!1e3
its starting to get out of the gold zone and into the copper.
locations are approx but pretty close. Just past stormont the basalt has some amazing traps in the river itself, a few feet down and a good foot across.
There is an extensive alluvial flat on the opposite side. i have had trees coming down around me on the opposite bank and have not been back for a while. put the wind up me a bit. Steve who has the quaker barns put the boom gate up and i used to just go bush but now a few new houses and peoples property are in the road.
The other way in is straight up the mouth of the river it is amazingly beautiful in there for sure. there is also a decent slate deposit just on the left of the river mouth and in a bit. never detected it, but would like to one day.
i quite literally panned up to it and it stopped. went back a bit and hit the vein. The gold is very pretty wire gold with perfect cubes of gold on each end (1mm cubes). about 1cm long or so. so only small
The only other hard rock mineralization in the Lea clearly visible is a few km upstream towards lake lea and before the tea tree creek junction. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-41.502 ... a=!3m1!1e3
its starting to get out of the gold zone and into the copper.
locations are approx but pretty close. Just past stormont the basalt has some amazing traps in the river itself, a few feet down and a good foot across.
There is an extensive alluvial flat on the opposite side. i have had trees coming down around me on the opposite bank and have not been back for a while. put the wind up me a bit. Steve who has the quaker barns put the boom gate up and i used to just go bush but now a few new houses and peoples property are in the road.
The other way in is straight up the mouth of the river it is amazingly beautiful in there for sure. there is also a decent slate deposit just on the left of the river mouth and in a bit. never detected it, but would like to one day.
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Philski - Posts: 475
- Joined: Tue Sep 25, 2012 3:21 pm
- Location: Sheffield Tasmania
The old timers did an amazingly good job of locating any exposed reefs in accessible areas. Not much discovered since.
Check out my website about prospecting in Tasmania:
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mfdes - Posts: 150
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Hi all, i cant log into the Tasmanian prospecting site myself at the moment. But, have finally managed to restored the website to the last known good post a couple of Weeks ago. Its a major problem experienced by a lot of people that upgraded there sites using phpbb and im working on a fix as fast as i can. i only get a day a week and sometimes 2 that i am able to try and fix this. They get the internet in Queenstown of course but mine is shocking and drops out mid upload so its simply not possible from there. I dont know if i will have time this week from home to get it all working correctly and am so sorry its taken so long. i have to read so much code and mumbo jumbo and learn so much about mysql and implementing some of the new fixes does not always work at all. I do appologise once again. I guess at least its getting back to normal Just a few database issues i think. (SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL) WTF..... argggh/// Have a great day and wish me luck. Phillip
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