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Hi guys, Having some geological training, I would say that fault lines and reef lines are similar: part of the same 'spectrum' if you will. Both require a a plane of weakness in the host rock. The plane of weakness also has experienced significant movement. A reef may form where there has...

hi Digginholes, as per previous post, I was there about a fortnight ago, went to Tuena Ck below the Mt Costigan rd crossing: pools of water with sluggish flow between: it would be marginal for a sluice in my opinion, but having said that, we had good rain whilst there (good for the land, not so...

Hi all, I'm going to spend 2 days in early November prospecting around Tuena with the kids; just wondering what public access is like to Tuena Creek in general and if there are landowner concerns especially off the Mt Costigan road. I'm coming from Tassie and also debating whether to pack the...

0.05 for me, but definite signal

Hi all, I have just waded through much of the VEAC Central West Investigation Draft Proposal (just the title is long-winded). :zzz: From what I can gather, proposed land uses are weighted on how many threatened species/relict plant communities are to be found and the perceived pressures likely...

Hi mate, just found your post and it's fascinating... ...any latest pics or feedback as to how it has performed? Any modifications since? currently doing TAFE welding course (as mature age noob!) so bit excited at potential to make stuff! great thread :D cheers Drystone

fantastic photos Dean!! the workings (at Walhalla?) look to be in great nick: pretty solid ground and not too wet? great to see the old wooden tram tracks and heavy timbers. In one photo you can see where they have followed the dipping QV in the hanging wall for a short distance: I'm guessing...

Hi there, a similar story for me today, dollied up some promising looking quartz vein breccia off a mullock heap, 1 nanospeck of gold, but a heap of silvery (+/- tarnished brown, orange) sulphide. Looks like arsenopyrite mostly, had mild garlic odour too. cheers drystone Drystone

Hi all, for what it's worth, the Prospectors and Miners Association of Tasmania (PMAT) will be lodging a formal submission to the VEAC expressing solidarity with Victorian based detector operators and for retaining the existing system of multiple land use. National Parks exclude the majority...

Hi Rios, great photos mate! It certainly looks like you're onto the reef there: interesting geometry and red colouration ("alteration"). Is it haematite or clays? Did you hit the vein in your drive early or about where you expected? What is known about the gold distribution in the reef (ie from...

Hi Jethro, great looking stone you have there! thanks for the detailed pictures too: pretty coarse gold and sulphides. I spent today looking for specimens with the SDC but with no joy. keep up the good work: you and the pooch will get fit if nothing else! cheers Drystone

Ok, Tassie picker courtesy of the SDC

thanks guys, just working on the uploading picture thingy :8

Hi guys, enjoy the forum and happy to report after many pieces of lead shot, finally some of the precious yellow! the SDC has been officially "blooded" with some Tassie gold. Only a "picker" at 0.22g, but it sang sweetly :) more to follow now... yay! Drystone

hey Hillbillygold, I like your design, compact and cheap to build. It is, as you pointed out; a final crevice cleaning tool, nothing more. Ignore the doubters mate; keep such ideas coming, the world needs more like you cheers Drystone

Amazing what a bit of bling can do to a piece of plain quartz:that is one pretty stone! nice find mate Drystone