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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 295360" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Nuggets tend to be small in Gippsland with the occassional exceptions - some big ones came out around Enoch's Point - Matlock, Foster and Chiltern area and some other places (including a few where you mention). Up to 60 oz or more historically, but big ones were rare. There are reasons - a different type of gold deposit occurs there in which gold is commonly finer and locked up with sulphide minerals, not free lumps in quartz like central and western Victoria. Yes, there was a German website in the seventies with lots of photos of "specimens" detected in quartz from the area you mention.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1481520512_nuggets.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1481520720_mineralogy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1481520742_domains.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>West-Central Victoria is the best nugget country</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 295360, member: 4386"] Nuggets tend to be small in Gippsland with the occassional exceptions - some big ones came out around Enoch's Point - Matlock, Foster and Chiltern area and some other places (including a few where you mention). Up to 60 oz or more historically, but big ones were rare. There are reasons - a different type of gold deposit occurs there in which gold is commonly finer and locked up with sulphide minerals, not free lumps in quartz like central and western Victoria. Yes, there was a German website in the seventies with lots of photos of "specimens" detected in quartz from the area you mention. [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1481520512_nuggets.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1481520720_mineralogy.jpg[/img] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/4386/1481520742_domains.jpg[/img] West-Central Victoria is the best nugget country [/QUOTE]
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