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Metal Detecting for Gold
Can anyone tell me what this is please
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<blockquote data-quote="mbasko" data-source="post: 443639" data-attributes="member: 4485"><p>Definitely cemented gravels/conglomerate IMO.</p><p>The Hard Hills area north of Ararat is known for these.</p><p>"Hard Hill contained a lead of Tertiary or older high level gravels which were cemented together into a hard conglomerate."</p><p>I would be looking for evidence of eroded areas containing these cemented gravels/conglomerates. I think the old timers may have removed most of it from the diggings to be crushed/sluiced to get the gold. Certainly worth running your detector over any lumps of it you see.</p><p>To me it looks like quartz & a mixture of other old river gravels. Again IMO the black colour would be an oxide crust from the degradation of iron rich rock in the area I.e. basalt not so much the colour/type of rock you need to look for but a good indicator if your finding gold where the oxide is present.</p><p>Hopefully one of the Geo's can confirm or debunk my theory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mbasko, post: 443639, member: 4485"] Definitely cemented gravels/conglomerate IMO. The Hard Hills area north of Ararat is known for these. "Hard Hill contained a lead of Tertiary or older high level gravels which were cemented together into a hard conglomerate." I would be looking for evidence of eroded areas containing these cemented gravels/conglomerates. I think the old timers may have removed most of it from the diggings to be crushed/sluiced to get the gold. Certainly worth running your detector over any lumps of it you see. To me it looks like quartz & a mixture of other old river gravels. Again IMO the black colour would be an oxide crust from the degradation of iron rich rock in the area I.e. basalt not so much the colour/type of rock you need to look for but a good indicator if your finding gold where the oxide is present. Hopefully one of the Geo's can confirm or debunk my theory. [/QUOTE]
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Metal Detecting for Gold
Can anyone tell me what this is please
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