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Hard Rock Gold Prospecting
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<blockquote data-quote="Goldtarget" data-source="post: 389674" data-attributes="member: 2152"><p>Mate far be it for me to rain on your parade but I'll state what I have read about Tooleen mine and you can decide from there.</p><p></p><p>As far as I can gather (I just reread some info I had tucked away) the gold occurrence at this particular mine was found in quartz veins in basalt host rock. It was a late worked mine (1900s) and found its end of life only recently after it was modeled into an open cut. </p><p></p><p>So from this I can deduce two discerning factors in your search. Firstly gold occurrence in the area is very localized. Secondly the <strong>type</strong> of rocks you are looking for are quartz hosted in basalt. </p><p></p><p>For the time and effort I would consider spending time in more productive areas within a short distance, you have a decent range spanning from Bendigo/Costerfeild , moving anti clockwise around the south, Eppalock, Heathcote, the top edge of Magambie workings up To whroo/Rushworth area, all of which have had significant gold occurrence.</p><p></p><p>I've spent time in all those areas with (small) success, there's definitely gold all around you, but finding it at your doorstep I think you would need to be extremely diligent or very lucky due to the very localized nature of gold at Tooleen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goldtarget, post: 389674, member: 2152"] Mate far be it for me to rain on your parade but I'll state what I have read about Tooleen mine and you can decide from there. As far as I can gather (I just reread some info I had tucked away) the gold occurrence at this particular mine was found in quartz veins in basalt host rock. It was a late worked mine (1900s) and found its end of life only recently after it was modeled into an open cut. So from this I can deduce two discerning factors in your search. Firstly gold occurrence in the area is very localized. Secondly the [b]type[/b] of rocks you are looking for are quartz hosted in basalt. For the time and effort I would consider spending time in more productive areas within a short distance, you have a decent range spanning from Bendigo/Costerfeild , moving anti clockwise around the south, Eppalock, Heathcote, the top edge of Magambie workings up To whroo/Rushworth area, all of which have had significant gold occurrence. I've spent time in all those areas with (small) success, there's definitely gold all around you, but finding it at your doorstep I think you would need to be extremely diligent or very lucky due to the very localized nature of gold at Tooleen. [/QUOTE]
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