When started digging hole got some dark loam band intrusion with tree root that had 25 micro bits per pan, and another sample of some white clay material had a picker. Nothing after that I believe this top soil is from when it was bulldozed and moved around. The rest of digging has been thru...
SteveG I dont have a lot to update, Ive done some more digging and exposed more of quartz vein which is looking at least a foot across, looks to be coming up from east side striking up to south west at a 40 degree dip. Have dug down below the higher part of vein in shaft floor and havent struck...
Thanks for the very informative description of the old digger makes sense to me. So I chose this spot to sink shaft just below another old shaft I believe as the area was bulldozed for grazing in the 1930 to 40s, I can see depressions in ground that look to be the old diggings and on the...