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Gold localities & information
Icy Creek, Victoria and surrounds
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 667349" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>I was thinking that the land may have been cleared but if not of course that would create some detection problems. </p><p>A priority would be to locate the old diggings along Specimen Creek. It is not unusual that the old diggers either deliberately or inadvertently diverted the course of the creek as they wouldn't want heavy rain to flood out their holes and workings.</p><p>Over years the old diggers heaps would have slumped and the holes fill in with soil and litter, making them difficult to make out today. </p><p>Those workings will be your best guide so give it a bit of a closer look and you may still see some vestiges of the diggers holes and heaps. </p><p>Be just a bit careful as one day looking around the area between Drouin and Neerim, I found a diggers hole by touch when my foot went through a raft of litter lying on top of a hole. I went in up to my waist fortunately with no ill effects, but I had no idea there was a diggers hole where I stood.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 667349, member: 4728"] I was thinking that the land may have been cleared but if not of course that would create some detection problems. A priority would be to locate the old diggings along Specimen Creek. It is not unusual that the old diggers either deliberately or inadvertently diverted the course of the creek as they wouldn't want heavy rain to flood out their holes and workings. Over years the old diggers heaps would have slumped and the holes fill in with soil and litter, making them difficult to make out today. Those workings will be your best guide so give it a bit of a closer look and you may still see some vestiges of the diggers holes and heaps. Be just a bit careful as one day looking around the area between Drouin and Neerim, I found a diggers hole by touch when my foot went through a raft of litter lying on top of a hole. I went in up to my waist fortunately with no ill effects, but I had no idea there was a diggers hole where I stood. [/QUOTE]
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