Recent content by Wombats1

The location was formed through oxidisation created by the oxygenation of a shallow sea by stromatalites, the predominantly ironstone ranges are believed to have been formed by this proccess, an accretion proccess? Absolutely it could be something else, I will chuck up some photos when I get...

Aahhh well that is the crux of the matter the area is also strewn with stromatalites thousands of them fill the creek (long dead) I have been prospecting for gold since I was 15 old years now 56 also been employed in goldrooms and poured my share of 25 kg bars. Not slag, just how you get...

I am basically a gold prospector, in my travels I have come across a place that has coke can sized iron protrusions (above ground) with a glassy opaque centre. It sounds like glass breaking and tinkling as it rolled around. It is a huge dome shaped mound with these "coke cans" everywhere...

My belief comes from my employment at a stripping plant (1985) the, lab was onsite, the chemist was playing with sludge from the bottom of the electrowinning cell, it was stated that hydrogen peroxide would dissolve gold and was amoung a few that did. Heat he said would speed the process up...

Very interesting guys, I could be wrong so i will pose the question, does Peroxide dissolve Gold? I believe it does so retention time is going to be important otherwise some of your gold is going to end up in solution, i have no ideas how to precipitate this solution either (not a chemist). as...

we used to use a cement called from memory "Fondu" it was black, it was used to repair what we called fire boxes in clay roofing tile Kilns, the fire box would bear the brunt of the gas burner. it was hot enough in those that the glaze was like glass it would penetrate the white fire bricks and...

really good information creeks rivers fluid dynamics etc all new thanks

sorry dean the other is Donnybrook gazetted field turn of the century alluvial and possibility for placer (elluvial) or tertiary concentration i believe :)

hi dean, i`m not going soon :( Toodyay just for two the one in Toodyay is on private property but was a nice alluvial patch close to Perth. dominant theory is that the Darling scarp is all deep gold but Toodyay says otherwise. good luck.

gotta love the west!

Hi Ive been playing in the Western Australian fields on and off since 1979 started with the 6000D and 5000D woke up and saw the light and moved to the other well known brand of the time. We have been stuck on dry blowers over here for as long as i can remember, ask anyone it is either metal...