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Metal Detecting for Gold
Difference Between Shallow Workings And Shallow Leads.
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 637937" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Lots of posts here of good information.</p><p>Shedded gold is found at all depths from the surface to hundreds of feet so ascribing a numerical value to words like shallow or deep can be arbitrary. From reading some historical accounts there seem a leaning to describe as shallow diggings the area where a rush first occurred and had then been abandoned in wait of larger companies to come in later with the resources to go deeper or wash away areas with hydraulics etc. So in this sense shallow may be used to describe the limits of what an individual or small group could dig quickly and easily during the first rush.</p><p>I have personally witnessed a hard working (and successful) modern prospector hand dig a 10 foot plus hole in two days and I feel sure our hardened early diggers would have been capable of at least that and more in suitable ground.</p><p></p><p>Like many I would recommend some reading on the subject and one of the best reads I could recommend would be Robert Brough-Smythe’s must have 1869 "Gold and Mineral Districts of Victoria". It is a great book with many illustrations, maps, diagrams, cross sections and measurements of both alluvial and reef workings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 637937, member: 4728"] Lots of posts here of good information. Shedded gold is found at all depths from the surface to hundreds of feet so ascribing a numerical value to words like shallow or deep can be arbitrary. From reading some historical accounts there seem a leaning to describe as shallow diggings the area where a rush first occurred and had then been abandoned in wait of larger companies to come in later with the resources to go deeper or wash away areas with hydraulics etc. So in this sense shallow may be used to describe the limits of what an individual or small group could dig quickly and easily during the first rush. I have personally witnessed a hard working (and successful) modern prospector hand dig a 10 foot plus hole in two days and I feel sure our hardened early diggers would have been capable of at least that and more in suitable ground. Like many I would recommend some reading on the subject and one of the best reads I could recommend would be Robert Brough-Smythe’s must have 1869 "Gold and Mineral Districts of Victoria". It is a great book with many illustrations, maps, diagrams, cross sections and measurements of both alluvial and reef workings. [/QUOTE]
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