tinpan
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"Tried ole grubby's method at Victoria Hill Gold fields"
Hi all, yesterday i went to place called Victoria Hill.Some 3 million oz's of gold was mined on and around the hill.deep quartz reef mines on the top of the hill and open-cut,puddling machines , 400 foot tom-tom sluices and other alluvial diggings on the creeks and gullies below the hill.Most of the ore from the quartz mines was graded, when crushed by ball-mill or quartz stamper batteries.the fine crushed sand was then treated with arsionic or mercury to exstract the gold.Deepest mine here is the Victoria Quartz at 5004 feet and the 180 mine produced 180,000 oz's of gold in the 3 months.Since the mining days much of the tailing dumps have been washed down into the water ways and this fine sand and very contamiated slurry sits in bottom of the creek.Tried old grubbies method but had little result.I think any allvial gold missed by the early miners would be buried under tons of tailings and would be far out of the reach of any type of MD.If you found it gold would be just luck.
on the creek flat i did find some mining relics from the early days [first gold rush] 1861 merchant token cornish pipe and old english black bottle but no gold.I have been coming to this site for many years.Awsome relic spot.
heres aheeps of pics of mining equipment, gold mines and the area on the creek flat i found a miners camp.finds too
tinpan please wait a few minutes as will take sometime to post all the pics.
Hi all, yesterday i went to place called Victoria Hill.Some 3 million oz's of gold was mined on and around the hill.deep quartz reef mines on the top of the hill and open-cut,puddling machines , 400 foot tom-tom sluices and other alluvial diggings on the creeks and gullies below the hill.Most of the ore from the quartz mines was graded, when crushed by ball-mill or quartz stamper batteries.the fine crushed sand was then treated with arsionic or mercury to exstract the gold.Deepest mine here is the Victoria Quartz at 5004 feet and the 180 mine produced 180,000 oz's of gold in the 3 months.Since the mining days much of the tailing dumps have been washed down into the water ways and this fine sand and very contamiated slurry sits in bottom of the creek.Tried old grubbies method but had little result.I think any allvial gold missed by the early miners would be buried under tons of tailings and would be far out of the reach of any type of MD.If you found it gold would be just luck.
on the creek flat i did find some mining relics from the early days [first gold rush] 1861 merchant token cornish pipe and old english black bottle but no gold.I have been coming to this site for many years.Awsome relic spot.
heres aheeps of pics of mining equipment, gold mines and the area on the creek flat i found a miners camp.finds tootinpan please wait a few minutes as will take sometime to post all the pics.
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