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Hard Rock Gold Prospecting
Found old gold mine - can anyone help?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tathradj" data-source="post: 527891" data-attributes="member: 2436"><p>Are there any old structures made out of stone or bricks</p><p>that look like old ovens or similar. ?</p><p></p><p>They used to roast the ore to make the quartz or similar </p><p>fracture a lot easier to extract the gold out of it.</p><p></p><p>It was also a method used to drive the arsnic sulphids as above off </p><p>before crushing. Wollumla Gold fields plus a few other area's did this</p><p>for a while back in the really early day's as an attempt to seperate</p><p>the ore.</p><p></p><p>Bloody dangerous undertaking that they did not realise back then the</p><p>implications or ignored the danger.</p><p></p><p>I got excited once around an old mine as I was finding similar</p><p>lying around.</p><p></p><p>Untill I found an old black smithy's furnace. LOL</p><p></p><p>Maybe use DIGS or Minview to find out which mine it was and then </p><p>study it's records.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tathradj, post: 527891, member: 2436"] Are there any old structures made out of stone or bricks that look like old ovens or similar. ? They used to roast the ore to make the quartz or similar fracture a lot easier to extract the gold out of it. It was also a method used to drive the arsnic sulphids as above off before crushing. Wollumla Gold fields plus a few other area's did this for a while back in the really early day's as an attempt to seperate the ore. Bloody dangerous undertaking that they did not realise back then the implications or ignored the danger. I got excited once around an old mine as I was finding similar lying around. Untill I found an old black smithy's furnace. LOL Maybe use DIGS or Minview to find out which mine it was and then study it's records. [/QUOTE]
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Found old gold mine - can anyone help?
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