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<blockquote data-quote="rotor" data-source="post: 187657" data-attributes="member: 5232"><p>We had a historical area here within town limits (next street over) that had diggings, remains of a shaft, etc etc along a creek bed - Cornwall's Gully .... that disappeared very quickly to housing. The last good sized nugget that we know of that came from this area was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold-Gold_Providence-Nugget.jpg" target="_blank"> Providence Nugget</a> 1100g in 2005 ..... nice. I had always thought that this was designated a historical area and thought that it would be preserved as part of the towns history - but sadly no.</p><p></p><p>I've been doing a bit of ongoing research on our area/district and came across a gully that I hadn't heard mentioned to date, nothing written that I can find. To me it had a funny name - Pancake Gully and I had just thought that the old timer mighta loved pancakes - who knows lol! I hadn't realised that this is the type of the shape of the nugget? - quote "This kind of surface area to mass ratio in a gold specimen we refer to as "pancake" in style because it gives you so much of the mass on the display face." So maybe there was a lot of flat nuggets found in that gully.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I don't really know how the old timers (who were probably a lot younger than many of us on the forum) mined - I know I've found a lot of workings around here (i've driven past some daily for years that are hidden just off the side of the road that you would never guess were there) that I'd love to have explained to me.</p><p></p><p>Anyway back into it ......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rotor, post: 187657, member: 5232"] We had a historical area here within town limits (next street over) that had diggings, remains of a shaft, etc etc along a creek bed - Cornwall's Gully .... that disappeared very quickly to housing. The last good sized nugget that we know of that came from this area was the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold-Gold_Providence-Nugget.jpg] Providence Nugget[/url] 1100g in 2005 ..... nice. I had always thought that this was designated a historical area and thought that it would be preserved as part of the towns history - but sadly no. I've been doing a bit of ongoing research on our area/district and came across a gully that I hadn't heard mentioned to date, nothing written that I can find. To me it had a funny name - Pancake Gully and I had just thought that the old timer mighta loved pancakes - who knows lol! I hadn't realised that this is the type of the shape of the nugget? - quote "This kind of surface area to mass ratio in a gold specimen we refer to as "pancake" in style because it gives you so much of the mass on the display face." So maybe there was a lot of flat nuggets found in that gully. Anyway, I don't really know how the old timers (who were probably a lot younger than many of us on the forum) mined - I know I've found a lot of workings around here (i've driven past some daily for years that are hidden just off the side of the road that you would never guess were there) that I'd love to have explained to me. Anyway back into it ...... [/QUOTE]
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