tinpan
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Once apon a lost part of a motherload of the forgotten "America Mine"
On the forgotten reef known as the Paddy Gold Reef sits at on end is an old mine shaft.Once known as the America Mine , the main chimney of the mine had stars and strips tiles round the top.Owned by the New Chum Mining Company.First shaft was sunk 1862 just a few years after the goldrush on the local, Long Gully Creek. 49ers from the California Rush came to this location in 1851 and panned the gullies and creeks in this area.Most of their claims would brought off them by larger mining concerns.When nearly 70 years of deep hard rock mining took place.The America mine worked from 1862 till 1919 and produced about 100, 000 oz,s of gold.How much gold taken in the gold rush is not known as some groups like the chiness never told how much they found.The area was worked both deep and shallow lead mines at the same time.
The New Chum Gold reef extented some 12 miles North to South and the America Mine sits right on the Northern End.The amount of area i have covered so far would not more than a few hundred yards.Access is only on public land and large sections now is private.
In this project i have used a total method digging out holes, bottle probe and i have a new md with a custom coil. The coil is made for terrain i,m hunting and was quite pricy.I have found quite a few quartz reef samples in the hard granite tailing heaps and quite a few pieces washed out in the 2 inches of rain in resent weeks.Helped by the resent large bushfires we have had here.Much undergrowth and rubbish got cleared.
Sorry about the size of pics but will be quite a show of bottles relics and gold.
tinpan
On the forgotten reef known as the Paddy Gold Reef sits at on end is an old mine shaft.Once known as the America Mine , the main chimney of the mine had stars and strips tiles round the top.Owned by the New Chum Mining Company.First shaft was sunk 1862 just a few years after the goldrush on the local, Long Gully Creek. 49ers from the California Rush came to this location in 1851 and panned the gullies and creeks in this area.Most of their claims would brought off them by larger mining concerns.When nearly 70 years of deep hard rock mining took place.The America mine worked from 1862 till 1919 and produced about 100, 000 oz,s of gold.How much gold taken in the gold rush is not known as some groups like the chiness never told how much they found.The area was worked both deep and shallow lead mines at the same time.
The New Chum Gold reef extented some 12 miles North to South and the America Mine sits right on the Northern End.The amount of area i have covered so far would not more than a few hundred yards.Access is only on public land and large sections now is private.
In this project i have used a total method digging out holes, bottle probe and i have a new md with a custom coil. The coil is made for terrain i,m hunting and was quite pricy.I have found quite a few quartz reef samples in the hard granite tailing heaps and quite a few pieces washed out in the 2 inches of rain in resent weeks.Helped by the resent large bushfires we have had here.Much undergrowth and rubbish got cleared.
Sorry about the size of pics but will be quite a show of bottles relics and gold.
tinpan
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