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Metal Detecting for Gold
Hunting for "REEF" Gold....an approach for beginners.
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 652547" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>I am familiar with Wattle gully and I think any of its drives under Wesley Hill is also a myth (but other mines might, there is a parallel line west of it). And I doubt if a huge amount was stolen. When I first graduated we had a gold squad (for the past 35 years or more) and penalties were huge. I was on another mine and it had a typical change house - come in one door, hang your street clothes and walk naked through the showers and step over a wall, put on underground clothes (washed by the mine). Reverse at the end of the shift. Some was stolen of course but there is only so much you can stuff up your bum, especially if it is still in quartz. But there were still home-made smelters in the hills, but I suspect they were more for gold stolen elsewhere off the mining leases, not from the mine workings themselves. With those penalties the small amount you could get out was just not worth it. Small mines had poorer security. Most mine managers had a "mineral collection" that would often disappear from the office when they moved on...but still small (600,000 or so ounces is a lot compared with what can be stolen).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 652547, member: 4386"] I am familiar with Wattle gully and I think any of its drives under Wesley Hill is also a myth (but other mines might, there is a parallel line west of it). And I doubt if a huge amount was stolen. When I first graduated we had a gold squad (for the past 35 years or more) and penalties were huge. I was on another mine and it had a typical change house - come in one door, hang your street clothes and walk naked through the showers and step over a wall, put on underground clothes (washed by the mine). Reverse at the end of the shift. Some was stolen of course but there is only so much you can stuff up your bum, especially if it is still in quartz. But there were still home-made smelters in the hills, but I suspect they were more for gold stolen elsewhere off the mining leases, not from the mine workings themselves. With those penalties the small amount you could get out was just not worth it. Small mines had poorer security. Most mine managers had a "mineral collection" that would often disappear from the office when they moved on...but still small (600,000 or so ounces is a lot compared with what can be stolen). [/QUOTE]
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Hunting for "REEF" Gold....an approach for beginners.
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