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Gold Prospecting
Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Gold quantities upstream in the Shoalhaven river
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<blockquote data-quote="vcubitt" data-source="post: 499634" data-attributes="member: 12494"><p>I've panned and sluiced for quite a few years along the upper reaches of the Shoalhaven at the usual spots like Jembaicumbene, Jinglemoney and Warri with the usual fine gold. I also tried further upstream on the Shoalhaven and Jerrabattgulla Creek with no colour at all.</p><p></p><p>I once found a report on Trove of "course gold" found on Oronmear Creek, which was the old name for Jerrabattgulla Creek but can't seem to find it now! There are reports (Check NSW Digs) of gold in several quartz reefs along the Shoalhaven and Jerrabattgulla Valleys including on my property, the gold bearing reef of which only barely breaks the surface and the gold is so finely disseminated or locked up chemically so as to make any hard rock mining unprofitable. There has been very little eluvial deposition yet (none actually extending for more than ten metres downslope) from "my reef", let alone alluvial into any stream, and i expect the same for most of the area could be true. Come back in 50 million years for that...</p><p></p><p>I think erosion of the upper parts of the Shoalhaven area has not been deep enough yet to erode gold out of the rock as it has in other areas around Braidwood and in most deposits the gold is too sparsely disseminated to be mined. Once again, we may have to wait for nature to do its work in the extreme upper valleys of the Shoalhaven and wash all that new gold out of the rock and into the river.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vcubitt, post: 499634, member: 12494"] I've panned and sluiced for quite a few years along the upper reaches of the Shoalhaven at the usual spots like Jembaicumbene, Jinglemoney and Warri with the usual fine gold. I also tried further upstream on the Shoalhaven and Jerrabattgulla Creek with no colour at all. I once found a report on Trove of "course gold" found on Oronmear Creek, which was the old name for Jerrabattgulla Creek but can't seem to find it now! There are reports (Check NSW Digs) of gold in several quartz reefs along the Shoalhaven and Jerrabattgulla Valleys including on my property, the gold bearing reef of which only barely breaks the surface and the gold is so finely disseminated or locked up chemically so as to make any hard rock mining unprofitable. There has been very little eluvial deposition yet (none actually extending for more than ten metres downslope) from "my reef", let alone alluvial into any stream, and i expect the same for most of the area could be true. Come back in 50 million years for that... I think erosion of the upper parts of the Shoalhaven area has not been deep enough yet to erode gold out of the rock as it has in other areas around Braidwood and in most deposits the gold is too sparsely disseminated to be mined. Once again, we may have to wait for nature to do its work in the extreme upper valleys of the Shoalhaven and wash all that new gold out of the rock and into the river. [/QUOTE]
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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Gold quantities upstream in the Shoalhaven river
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