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<blockquote data-quote="lewy" data-source="post: 384932" data-attributes="member: 142"><p>from <a href="https://fossicking.nt.gov.au/visitors-page...There" target="_blank">https://fossicking.nt.gov.au/visitors-page...There</a> are several places near Darwin where you can pan alluvial gold. The Blackmore River "Tumbling Waters" carries a little gold which comes from the Peel Creek. The source of the gold in the Peel creek is upstream from Spencer Road. It is a small tributary that enters into Peel creek from the west, a bit to the south of the Hoods Duck Ponds." I panned 14 nice specks of gold in my first dishful from this creek. The source is a quartz reef near the end of a ridge a couple of hundred metres upstream. Most of the creeks that drain the western edge of the nearby Archaen Granite that hosted the Rum Jungle Uranium also carry gold. The Rum Jungle granite is a similar age to the Mt Bundey granite. Both of these granites are radioactive and they make my Scintolometer squeal. Perhaps I should check the radiation level of the Mt Bundey tiles on the floor of the main hall of Parliament House?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lewy, post: 384932, member: 142"] from [url]https://fossicking.nt.gov.au/visitors-page...There[/url] are several places near Darwin where you can pan alluvial gold. The Blackmore River "Tumbling Waters" carries a little gold which comes from the Peel Creek. The source of the gold in the Peel creek is upstream from Spencer Road. It is a small tributary that enters into Peel creek from the west, a bit to the south of the Hoods Duck Ponds." I panned 14 nice specks of gold in my first dishful from this creek. The source is a quartz reef near the end of a ridge a couple of hundred metres upstream. Most of the creeks that drain the western edge of the nearby Archaen Granite that hosted the Rum Jungle Uranium also carry gold. The Rum Jungle granite is a similar age to the Mt Bundey granite. Both of these granites are radioactive and they make my Scintolometer squeal. Perhaps I should check the radiation level of the Mt Bundey tiles on the floor of the main hall of Parliament House? [/QUOTE]
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