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Thanks guys think i'll just head out this weekend and have a look. We havent had much rain so should be sweet Hopefully find some nice gullies up Hill End way to do a bit of panning Cheers

Hi Just wondering if anyone did the Long Point to Hill End Macquarie river crossing over the Long weekend and if so what was the crossing like? Thinking of taking the young fella up to Hill End to do some prospecting this weekend Cheers Paul

Agree with everything that has been mentioned already. Winzes (shafts inside adits to connect to lower levels) are extremely dangerous particularly if debris has partly obscured the shaft...be careful next time you step over logs or rubbish inside a tunnel. Another caution is highly cleaved or...

Mate thats looks like a typical weathering rind of a basalt and its fine groundmass certainly suggests it too! Basalts are generally weakly to strongly magnetic due to ferromag mineral content

And a reverse or thrust fault at that!

I loved it hbo bring out some great series

Whilst you arent going to learn anything gold related the deadwood tv series is a fantastic look into the early days of a town that sprung up during a gold rush Plenty of guys panning and prospecting drinking fighting faunicating etc etc Worth a watch

1 (least) then 3 then 4 then 2 (most) Has to be the matrix of conglomerate

All good mate i thought it was a misunderstanding thats all .

Yeah its not native tin though mate it doesn't look anything like that it's a piece of scrap metal Plus you quoted the original post before the second pic was put up lol Cheers

Hey i was referring to the second picture Cheers

Has to be the eureka stockade hero peter lalor?.

When you say piece of tin do you mean as in a sheet of metal? If so its probably been used in an electrolytic recovery process for copper or its been sitting in mine waters hence the CuCaO3 minerals Cheers

Yes it does look like gold...but a bit more perspective would be ideal

You can always use other pathfinder elements such as bismuth cobalt silver etc have a look back through your assays and see if higher arsenic correlates with other elements that are elevated ...over here in nsw in the central west exploring for shear hosted structurally controlled systems high...

We have about 3 seperate days of snow in orange..still very thick on mt canobolas even today probably the best falls ive seen here since 1985 when i was 5!!

Thanks i will check these out...do you guys use either of the ones you mentioned?

Hi everyone just after a little river sluice that works well catching reasonably fine to grainy gold arouns ophir sofala areas etc really looking at grabbing one locally around the central west (im in orange) My four yr old son has also taken a liking to panning so its just another way to get...

I was lucky enough to touch the reef directly below where the holterman nugget came from at hill end in the amalgamated mine!! But in all seriousness be careful people but dont let it discourage you from having a look just let people know where you are cheers

Nice find how long ago was the area worked?