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Gold Prospecting
Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Chapel Hill alluvium (SA)
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<blockquote data-quote="Thumper" data-source="post: 263307" data-attributes="member: 7862"><p>Hey nuggetino, thanks for the reply. At Chapel Hill, do you detect in the valley-floor gravels, or across the hillsides with better success? Im still trying to figure that place out. As far as I understand, at Chapel Hill the gold is originally in the deeper Tertiary ferruginous conglomerate, the hillsides are likely to be (barren) alluvium overlying this, and the valley floor I suspect is pretty-well filled with modern tailings from the mining that went on. Therefore my guess is gold is largely in the valley floor gravels = tailings, and consists of that which the old-timers missed. Unless you can find the edge of the Tertiary gravels, where the creek valley has incised completely thru the Tertiary gravels into the underlying Precambrian sandstones and shales. What's your take on the area (Chapel Hill specifically)?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thumper, post: 263307, member: 7862"] Hey nuggetino, thanks for the reply. At Chapel Hill, do you detect in the valley-floor gravels, or across the hillsides with better success? Im still trying to figure that place out. As far as I understand, at Chapel Hill the gold is originally in the deeper Tertiary ferruginous conglomerate, the hillsides are likely to be (barren) alluvium overlying this, and the valley floor I suspect is pretty-well filled with modern tailings from the mining that went on. Therefore my guess is gold is largely in the valley floor gravels = tailings, and consists of that which the old-timers missed. Unless you can find the edge of the Tertiary gravels, where the creek valley has incised completely thru the Tertiary gravels into the underlying Precambrian sandstones and shales. What's your take on the area (Chapel Hill specifically)? [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Chapel Hill alluvium (SA)
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