Well I'd heard rumours & was once even approached by a bloke from Victoria that was camping there & said he was told by "the mining company" that he couldn't detect there.
Never thought much of it myself. Seen the Hill End Gold utes drive past me in various places at Tambaroora, on the common & other crown land & never a whimper out of them. Not today - was on some crown land there detecting away as usual when the Hill End Gold ute went past. No biggie, kept going. Next minute he's back. Hmmm... this might be interesting I thought.
He comes over & says "Are you doing any good"
"Nah not here" I said.
He then says "you can't be here".
I says "I thought it was all crown land".
"It is" he says "but we've got it under Exploration Licence so you can't be here"
"Fair enough" I said. "We'll get going then".
He says "Sorry for the bad news but we've got the whole area from the Turon River right through to past Hargraves under Exploration Licence & you can't fossick anywhere except the designated area just in past the chimney at Tambaroora".
He goes to leave then turns back "ya won't get nuthin' up here anyway. We already tried & we didn't get much. The old timers didn't leave it for nothing".
"Oh right" I say with a feeling of the Irish anger building. I let it pass & keep my cool but geez I wanted to give him a piece of my mind. What better area to allow fossicking - crown land, old area, they're not interested & there is possibly
some detectable gold up there.
So it seems the rumours are true. Looks like Hill End Gold are flexing their EL rights out there & trying to restrict fossicking to the creek near the chimney entrance at Tambaroora which is crap anyway. The fossicking area goes a fair way in & also down to the left towards Hill End. Maybe someone can post a screen shot off ArcGIS? (I'm on my mobile). The rest of it is mostly Hill End Common or other crown land apart from the fenced house blocks & actual mining leases.
NSW fossicking laws are shite. No company should be able to stop you fossicking or doing any other lawful activity on any crown lands just on the back of an EL.
BRING BACK A NSW MINERS RIGHT LIKE VICTORIA'S THAT ALLOWS US TO FOSSICK/PROSPECT ON EL's WITHOUT PERMISSION!! I can understand mining & even assessment leases are & should be no go zones but EL's tie up vast tracts of land that these companies will never even be bothered with only to p155 the little blokes off.
OK end of my rant. Had to get that off my chest :lol:
We went to the chimney area we were hence directed to & I was able to get these:
Bit over a gram so not all bad but geez they sh1t me.
Never thought much of it myself. Seen the Hill End Gold utes drive past me in various places at Tambaroora, on the common & other crown land & never a whimper out of them. Not today - was on some crown land there detecting away as usual when the Hill End Gold ute went past. No biggie, kept going. Next minute he's back. Hmmm... this might be interesting I thought.
He comes over & says "Are you doing any good"
"Nah not here" I said.
He then says "you can't be here".
I says "I thought it was all crown land".
"It is" he says "but we've got it under Exploration Licence so you can't be here"
"Fair enough" I said. "We'll get going then".
He says "Sorry for the bad news but we've got the whole area from the Turon River right through to past Hargraves under Exploration Licence & you can't fossick anywhere except the designated area just in past the chimney at Tambaroora".
He goes to leave then turns back "ya won't get nuthin' up here anyway. We already tried & we didn't get much. The old timers didn't leave it for nothing".
"Oh right" I say with a feeling of the Irish anger building. I let it pass & keep my cool but geez I wanted to give him a piece of my mind. What better area to allow fossicking - crown land, old area, they're not interested & there is possibly
some detectable gold up there. So it seems the rumours are true. Looks like Hill End Gold are flexing their EL rights out there & trying to restrict fossicking to the creek near the chimney entrance at Tambaroora which is crap anyway. The fossicking area goes a fair way in & also down to the left towards Hill End. Maybe someone can post a screen shot off ArcGIS? (I'm on my mobile). The rest of it is mostly Hill End Common or other crown land apart from the fenced house blocks & actual mining leases.
NSW fossicking laws are shite. No company should be able to stop you fossicking or doing any other lawful activity on any crown lands just on the back of an EL.
BRING BACK A NSW MINERS RIGHT LIKE VICTORIA'S THAT ALLOWS US TO FOSSICK/PROSPECT ON EL's WITHOUT PERMISSION!! I can understand mining & even assessment leases are & should be no go zones but EL's tie up vast tracts of land that these companies will never even be bothered with only to p155 the little blokes off.
OK end of my rant. Had to get that off my chest :lol:
We went to the chimney area we were hence directed to & I was able to get these:
Bit over a gram so not all bad but geez they sh1t me.
