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New gold field; Where to look
Topic Started: Wednesday 2-12-2009, 16:16 (218 Views)
greg
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Good day All'
I have just been granted permission to detect on a property that has never let anyone on for the last 50 yrs. going by the gold & gohsts Qld. there is an old mine & huge alluvial diggings on a rise sorrounded by hills, but there was no quartze on this ridge only iron stone & slate I detected the two gullies on eigther side of diggings & found 4 bullets & heaps of tin. there is heaps too much rubbish to detect the mullock heaps & around the diggings so where else do I look as I am yet to find my first bit? there is mineralised quartze, ironstone & green copper in quartze about 1 km.from diggings but I couldn't get any signals there. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi Greg, when do you want me to come and give you a hand :D ;)

If it is in the G&G books then you would think there would be some there somewhere. Does the G&G mention if it was nuggety gold or fine gold? If it was fine gold the old timers were chasing then you may not do much good, and need to use a dry washer.

If the area had course nuggety gold then keep looking as there will most probably be some more their somewhere, if it is as you say, and no detectors have been over it before............keep looking

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Hi Greg,
Send me the co-ords and I'll suss it out for you....( ;) B) :D

What you will need to do is confirm whether the diggings were actually for gold. Throughout the Australian goldfields there are countless shafts dug, the prospector of that era hoping he could find pay dirt. Many of these shafts were duffers.
Once you have established that gold (hopefully) was found in the area, the next step is determine whether there was any alluvial finds. A good indicator is old dryblowing heaps. Having said that I'm not sure whether dryblowers were actually used in Queensland????
There should be evidence of in or around the creeks if sluicing had taken place.
If all the indicators point to gold finds, concentrate swinging your detector in close proximity to the workings.
Unfortunately rubbish targets are a part of our hobby, you just have to persevere and with patience you will be rewarded..

Good luck

Peter
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"Having said that I'm not sure whether dryblowers were actually used in Queensland???? "

Nightjar, yes they were, and dry shakers as well.

Greg, if you all ready know what dryblower and dry shaker heaps look like thats good. If not there are mounds of similar size stones in heaps, dryblower heaps have 2 size stones bigger and small. Dryshaker heaps are mainly all the same size stones.

cheers dave
Edited by davsgold, Wednesday 2-12-2009, 19:04.
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Hi Dave,
You have got me interested?
What is the difference between a "Dryblower" and a "DryShaker?"
I understand the principles of a dryblower having a top screen and a lower riffle box so there are two heaps of size rocks and fines.
Can you explain the shaker only having a combination of size and fines in the one pile?

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Peter
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Hi Nightjar

I have seen old dryblowers and they are like you say, and you can get modern ones that do the same thing.

As for "shakers", I have not seen one and have only had it explained to me. A shaker is a screen or a flat sheet of metal that had holes drilled or punched in it, mounted on legs that allow in to move back and forth, the screen is set at an angle.

All the big stuff that won't go through the holes goes over into the waste heap, the fines that go through the holes are panned off.

I would think that these were mostly used where they didn't expect to get gold bigger than the holes in the screen :wub:

Found this explanition, and a link.

"Also used in the many dry gold fields of the west was 'the shaker'. The dry blower is believed to have been an improvement on the shaker, but it still remained in use for some time in the dry conditions. A box similar to the dry blower, the Shaker was built with flexible steel supports which allowed for the dirt to placed in the box and shaken to free the gold.

The shaker was a large mounted box consisting of a number of screens, with a hopper above. Dirt placed in the hopper was shaken out over the screens and classified. A set of riffles was placed below which caught and trapped the gold.
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http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/story.php?storyid=126

Here is a bit more. and another link.

SHAKER'S As mentioned earlier, shaker's were also used in dry area's. It is believed though not proved that the shaker was used prior to the dry blower. The bellows being an improvement on the shaker.


"Not unlike a dry blower, the shaker consists of a number of screens, with a hopper above them. Dirt placed in the hopper was shaken out over the screens and classified. A set of riffles below the screens caught and trapped the gold. One interesting feature of the shaker was the fact that the framework was made of flexible steel supports, back and forth"

http://www.treasurenet.com/forum/prospecting/archives/19980606/messages/9606273476.shtml
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Morning Davsgold,
Many thanks for the very interesting input, no doubt there will be members who will want to give it (dryblowing) a try.
Greg, maybe this would be a way you can determine whether there is any fine gold on your new gold field?

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Peter
Edited by Nightjar, Thursday 3-12-2009, 06:38.
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Good day All.
It would be good if I could take someone out with me but the cocky says no one else so I have to try & find some on my own. gold & ghosts says that there was a rich mine & a very rich alluvial field, it states they found ounces of gold to the ton.
cheers greg
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