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Hi, Maybe there are enthusiasts of history. I'm checking on how the original gold-fields appeared in 1851. There's a mythical image of nuggets scattered over the bushland and being scooped up. However, people had walked over Ballarat and Bendigo regions for 14 years and at Buninyong village the...

I'm enquiring about early experiences with alluvial prospecting. I'm not in Vic but Google maps shows the steep banks of the Campaspe as described by the first explorers. So it looks unsuitable for panning. But was it possible to detect gold colours along the river? The miners came north from...