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Gold Prospecting
Gold localities & information
Icy Creek, Victoria and surrounds
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 672775" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Keep up the work. The area is known to hold nuggety gold, with recorded nuggets of up to 20 ounces found. </p><p>Much of the area is covered with older volcanics trapping old stream deposits hundreds of feet above current deeply entrenched stream levels. The gold in current streams today is a mix of both primary (reef) and secondary (old river deposits) so getting close to the original source and the coarser gold could be quite difficult. </p><p>Maybe put away the sluice for a bit and do some systematic or random panning. That would allow you to cover many times as many spots for their potential before you put back the sluice.</p><p>It is not a well documented gold field but geologic maps could identify the volcanic areas to stay away from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 672775, member: 4728"] Keep up the work. The area is known to hold nuggety gold, with recorded nuggets of up to 20 ounces found. Much of the area is covered with older volcanics trapping old stream deposits hundreds of feet above current deeply entrenched stream levels. The gold in current streams today is a mix of both primary (reef) and secondary (old river deposits) so getting close to the original source and the coarser gold could be quite difficult. Maybe put away the sluice for a bit and do some systematic or random panning. That would allow you to cover many times as many spots for their potential before you put back the sluice. It is not a well documented gold field but geologic maps could identify the volcanic areas to stay away from. [/QUOTE]
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Gold Prospecting
Gold localities & information
Icy Creek, Victoria and surrounds
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