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Metal Detecting for Gold
Detecting Inside Old Mines?
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 472101" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>I had said that I did not suggest detecting in the mine. Rails were not usually left anyway, but pulled up for use at another mine - they cost. However there was usually a rail from the shaft or tunnel entrance to the ore bin (as distinct from rail that went to waste dumps) and it would often be elevated to dump into the bin from above. Ore would tumble off the trucks over the years and off the sides (it might only be raised a half a metre or so for much of its route). Detecting along the rails themselves would obviously be useless - and of course no one should pull them up (little purpose anyway).</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1550547867_ore_bin.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>If you can work out the former location of the ore bin/crusher you can detect around it and on the route there from the mine. Old iron will always be a nuisance at mine sites.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 472101, member: 4386"] I had said that I did not suggest detecting in the mine. Rails were not usually left anyway, but pulled up for use at another mine - they cost. However there was usually a rail from the shaft or tunnel entrance to the ore bin (as distinct from rail that went to waste dumps) and it would often be elevated to dump into the bin from above. Ore would tumble off the trucks over the years and off the sides (it might only be raised a half a metre or so for much of its route). Detecting along the rails themselves would obviously be useless - and of course no one should pull them up (little purpose anyway). [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1550547867_ore_bin.jpg[/img] If you can work out the former location of the ore bin/crusher you can detect around it and on the route there from the mine. Old iron will always be a nuisance at mine sites. [/QUOTE]
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