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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 428064" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Probably relates to the old Geological Survey Victoria geologists writing a lot about the diamonds that occur in the same wash as the gold being derived from glacials (which is probably correct) - they wrote a Bulletin on Wooragee - and the miners then assumed the same source for the gold. However you can follow the alluvial gold upstream to the quartz veins that shed the gold (literally right up to them), and the alluvial gold is sometimes attached to bismuth minerals (something not common in Victoria), and so is the gold in the quartz veins upstream (bismuthinite). So it is pretty good evidence. I held an EL over the area and explored it years ago.... Diamonds and gold never occur in the same source rock.</p><p></p><p>Diamonds are common in glacials and are transported great distances that way (although it is true that this can also occur with gold - eg South Island NZ). Beechworth produced hundreds of carats, and was the only significant diamond producer in Victoria. A similar origin is likely for isolated diamonds elsewhere in Victoria (eg Kongbool north of Hamilton).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 428064, member: 4386"] Probably relates to the old Geological Survey Victoria geologists writing a lot about the diamonds that occur in the same wash as the gold being derived from glacials (which is probably correct) - they wrote a Bulletin on Wooragee - and the miners then assumed the same source for the gold. However you can follow the alluvial gold upstream to the quartz veins that shed the gold (literally right up to them), and the alluvial gold is sometimes attached to bismuth minerals (something not common in Victoria), and so is the gold in the quartz veins upstream (bismuthinite). So it is pretty good evidence. I held an EL over the area and explored it years ago.... Diamonds and gold never occur in the same source rock. Diamonds are common in glacials and are transported great distances that way (although it is true that this can also occur with gold - eg South Island NZ). Beechworth produced hundreds of carats, and was the only significant diamond producer in Victoria. A similar origin is likely for isolated diamonds elsewhere in Victoria (eg Kongbool north of Hamilton). [/QUOTE]
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