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Deciphering Doug Stone maps and trying to correlate that with GeoVIC
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<blockquote data-quote="MJB" data-source="post: 117748" data-attributes="member: 1222"><p>Most of the times the reason a shaft was at toward the top of the hill was because they Loamed up the gullies which lead them to the place the gold was coming from.</p><p></p><p>Imagine a buried riveer bed on the hill feeding gold down the slope and into the gully over a very long time.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes on shallow diggings, once they got down to the pay dirt they did not realize straight away and as a result there might be some unwashed pay dirt sitting on top of the Mullock heaps. There might be nothing there but these are always a good place to start looking.</p><p></p><p>As for the depth of bedrock....good question. Take an auger and drive it down. If its further than what you are prepared to dig forget about it. The old timers had to do it the hard way. Spend 3 months sinking a shaft only to find its a duffer when they hit the bottom <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MJB, post: 117748, member: 1222"] Most of the times the reason a shaft was at toward the top of the hill was because they Loamed up the gullies which lead them to the place the gold was coming from. Imagine a buried riveer bed on the hill feeding gold down the slope and into the gully over a very long time. Sometimes on shallow diggings, once they got down to the pay dirt they did not realize straight away and as a result there might be some unwashed pay dirt sitting on top of the Mullock heaps. There might be nothing there but these are always a good place to start looking. As for the depth of bedrock....good question. Take an auger and drive it down. If its further than what you are prepared to dig forget about it. The old timers had to do it the hard way. Spend 3 months sinking a shaft only to find its a duffer when they hit the bottom :mad: [/QUOTE]
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Deciphering Doug Stone maps and trying to correlate that with GeoVIC
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