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Hi Everyone,
Just wondering if someone can clarify an apparent prospecting term for me please. I've read a number of different articles now about Syd Pearson and The Lady Catherine nugget that he found. Nearly all of the articles just repeat verbatim what each of the other articles have published about it, except for the PMAV Summer 2016 newsletter, where in the story it states "On this particular day, Syd was detecting in a side wall with his Minelab detector on his claim in the Golden Triangle".
I've been searching the term without success, and so I'm wondering if someone can please put me out of my misery and explain to me in geological terms what a "Side Wall" is/ looks like?
While you're helping and you're already here, as mentioned it also says he was detecting on his "claim". I thought such claim rights went out the window years ago didn't they? If not, then how big can a "claim" be, how long does it last, and how do you assert your right over it? I was under the impression that so long as you were on Crown land and had a miners right in Victoria that nobody owned anything other than the mineral/s they found?
Thanks in advance for helping a Newbie,
Deepseeker
Just wondering if someone can clarify an apparent prospecting term for me please. I've read a number of different articles now about Syd Pearson and The Lady Catherine nugget that he found. Nearly all of the articles just repeat verbatim what each of the other articles have published about it, except for the PMAV Summer 2016 newsletter, where in the story it states "On this particular day, Syd was detecting in a side wall with his Minelab detector on his claim in the Golden Triangle".
I've been searching the term without success, and so I'm wondering if someone can please put me out of my misery and explain to me in geological terms what a "Side Wall" is/ looks like?
While you're helping and you're already here, as mentioned it also says he was detecting on his "claim". I thought such claim rights went out the window years ago didn't they? If not, then how big can a "claim" be, how long does it last, and how do you assert your right over it? I was under the impression that so long as you were on Crown land and had a miners right in Victoria that nobody owned anything other than the mineral/s they found?
Thanks in advance for helping a Newbie,
Deepseeker