A 49ers gold hoard at the Christmas Gold Reef 1851-1867

[tinpan]

Hi all,This my big project for the year.Hundreds of hours work and i have managed to keep quite for good reason.Since March i been working up and down a gully near to a place called Christmas Reef.The md used was a P1 unit SD 2200 with a trakline custom coil.Most of the finds were found at a depth of 15 inches plus.
Yes had to dig up every thing but i think it was a great hunt i have ever had.


History Gold was found in late Dec 1851 by Margret Kennidy, local wife of a sheep herder in the Bendigo Creek.Within 3 months more than 70,000 miner had taken up claims in 26 square miles.More than 13 million ozs of gold was found in the first year.Miners from 28 countries came.

My interest was in area where the american 49ers camped and had claims.Places with names like California Gully,Yankee creak and numerous other names.Some 17000 49ers.the picture speak for themselves.

This might just be one hell of a picture show.Enjoy and hope you all have as much luck as i have had this year.Good luck for next year

tinpan

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[jeff of pa]

Nice Gold & Relics Tinpan

Great post !

Jeff

[tinpan]

more site and relic pics tomorrow Its late i have work at 5am tomorrow good nite

[Bavaria Mike]

Holy crap Dude, that is awesome!!! Beautiful nuggets and great relics! A big congrats to you and a nice Christmas present. I can almost make out my name on that one nugget, LOL. HH, Mike

[Harry_Morant]

As they say in the classics - Crikey!

For someone who doesn't detect for gold you've done very very well Congrats

[ModernMiner]

Holy smokes Tin!!!
Beautiful gold nuggets and fantastic relics.
Congrats on your BANNER finds.
-MM-

[halfdime]

And now it's your gold hoard! What a fabulous collection!

[slak jak]

tinpan, very happy for you , understand why you kept
quiet about it . a great effort . best wishes,
slak jak.

[PBK]

Well done, friend Tin!

[romeo-1]

That is amazing! Personally I would be more interested in the relics and would use the gold to upgrade my equipment. Nice finds!

[Dred Pirat Dodd]

That's the real deal man. Workin a spot and keepin it quiet. Paid off too. Very awesome finds. Hunt on.

[seger98]

Congratulations on making the banner, they are truely worthy finds to make it there.

How much gold were you able to recover?

Nice relics!

[Mr.Jody]

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[ohannos]

[Kiros32]

Incredible finds man, and smart move on keeping it quiet. A Banner spot well-deserved!!!

[jgas]

I have not seen that much gold since Auric Goldfinger's days! Wow, nice digs...... jgas

[The Seeker]

Guns and Gold.........I think you had one heck of a time detecting! WTG

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

tinpan,

wow.

Nice job.

Thanks for posting.

have a good un.......................
SHERMANVILLE

[kg6yll]

Tinpan,

That is a great assortment of finds. I really like the buttons, but especially like the wreath portion of that tongue and wreath buckle. Thank you for posting. Keep up the hard work.

KG6YLL