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Metal Detecting for Gold
What To Look For On The Goldfields (New To Prospecting)
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<blockquote data-quote="Hunting the yellow" data-source="post: 86939" data-attributes="member: 68"><p>hi loamer great info but i have a question 1 if your finding gold on old diggings on a rige line over an square area of about 400meters wide by about 100merers long that only went to bed rock and theres loads of quartz and iron stone quartz and slate and shale and its about 2kms away from a major outcrop of grante and the bedrock is only 1 to 2ft thick in some places and your finding gold about half way up this rige line then all of a sudden the possitive gold loaming samples stops only half way up this hill and then you decide to dig a trench to the bed rock and about 10 or so meters long as a l shape on the hill how come the souce it isant in the trench ? that ive doug ive found heaps of quartz reefs crossing my trench but none wore gold bareing i think the source is a ironstone reef but im yet to find it there is a nice anticline fold up the top of the hill about 250m way from where im finding rough gold nuggets below with shear zones and quartz minerised cracks in the fold but ive again sampled this fold but only the hump or top of the fold and have found yet again not gold but i havent sampled the limbs of the fold yet but allso i dont think rough gold would be rough if it traveled 250meters down a hill </p><p></p><p>really need help on his one lol ive spent at least 4 to 6 weeks trying to find it and can't seem to find the reef ill send you pics by message on facebook when i get out there next if that helps</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunting the yellow, post: 86939, member: 68"] hi loamer great info but i have a question 1 if your finding gold on old diggings on a rige line over an square area of about 400meters wide by about 100merers long that only went to bed rock and theres loads of quartz and iron stone quartz and slate and shale and its about 2kms away from a major outcrop of grante and the bedrock is only 1 to 2ft thick in some places and your finding gold about half way up this rige line then all of a sudden the possitive gold loaming samples stops only half way up this hill and then you decide to dig a trench to the bed rock and about 10 or so meters long as a l shape on the hill how come the souce it isant in the trench ? that ive doug ive found heaps of quartz reefs crossing my trench but none wore gold bareing i think the source is a ironstone reef but im yet to find it there is a nice anticline fold up the top of the hill about 250m way from where im finding rough gold nuggets below with shear zones and quartz minerised cracks in the fold but ive again sampled this fold but only the hump or top of the fold and have found yet again not gold but i havent sampled the limbs of the fold yet but allso i dont think rough gold would be rough if it traveled 250meters down a hill really need help on his one lol ive spent at least 4 to 6 weeks trying to find it and can't seem to find the reef ill send you pics by message on facebook when i get out there next if that helps [/QUOTE]
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What To Look For On The Goldfields (New To Prospecting)
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