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Metal Detecting for Gold
Detecting Panton Hill 2019
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<blockquote data-quote="Booney" data-source="post: 492384" data-attributes="member: 13800"><p>The shaft at the back of St. Andrews would be the Black Cameron mine in Smiths gully which was worked privately till only a few years ago think its all shut down now . The gold found in kinglake central was found by my late neighbor John Easdown back in the 1930-50s John and his dad found color in the creek and dug the Big Ben mine but it was shut down in 1957 ish after the mine manager failed to join the adit to the shaft the gold was in the blue metal in the quarts but only flour gold very fine . The poppit head was still there until 2009 Black Saturday its all gone now and the shafts been filled in . I had the pleasure of panning with John in the creek were they found the gold ,it was only fine flour gold but he told me some storys , he was 96 and still mining quarts crystals when he passed that was a great memory . Cheers Booney</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Booney, post: 492384, member: 13800"] The shaft at the back of St. Andrews would be the Black Cameron mine in Smiths gully which was worked privately till only a few years ago think its all shut down now . The gold found in kinglake central was found by my late neighbor John Easdown back in the 1930-50s John and his dad found color in the creek and dug the Big Ben mine but it was shut down in 1957 ish after the mine manager failed to join the adit to the shaft the gold was in the blue metal in the quarts but only flour gold very fine . The poppit head was still there until 2009 Black Saturday its all gone now and the shafts been filled in . I had the pleasure of panning with John in the creek were they found the gold ,it was only fine flour gold but he told me some storys , he was 96 and still mining quarts crystals when he passed that was a great memory . Cheers Booney [/QUOTE]
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