tinpan
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Hi All , The weather grows mild in late Autumn and the gold season will started as soon as the first rains comes. Picking sites for this winter hunt and have found a couple of new areas in the back gullies of the forest . last week-end i went to a football ground which has not been used since the the decline of the hard rock gold mines of this area. Primary source gold in the form of saddle quartz reefs which repeat a depth . Line of the Lightning Reef about 15 miles long with mines to the depth of 3500 feet. Great returns on tonnage of rock crushed between 1855 - 1917. Declined and the mining activity resumed back down the reef line. The larger gold mines which one know as the New Moon Gold Co. had a shift of 225 men underground and a surface crew of 40. They even had their own "Football Team " in the local league and other traders like coach-builders did too.
The hunted started a the old football ground below the "New Moon Gold Mine" and then i tried my luck around another old mine called "The Black Forest".
Got my first really old football club badge , Not one from the forgotten teams but a team which still exists today. 1926 South Bendigo Football Club. Mix of british and Australian pennies and ha/pennies dating from between 1865- 1941. The other old find was an Acme Thunderer Whistle Patent No 213487/24 . I believe is an older thunderer as it has a true" pea" and not cork ball.
Local football is Australian rules which started in the 1850's and had is roots from Irish Football.
The other find was a 1.4 gram piece of reef gold around the mine battery.
tinpan
The hunted started a the old football ground below the "New Moon Gold Mine" and then i tried my luck around another old mine called "The Black Forest".
Got my first really old football club badge , Not one from the forgotten teams but a team which still exists today. 1926 South Bendigo Football Club. Mix of british and Australian pennies and ha/pennies dating from between 1865- 1941. The other old find was an Acme Thunderer Whistle Patent No 213487/24 . I believe is an older thunderer as it has a true" pea" and not cork ball.
Local football is Australian rules which started in the 1850's and had is roots from Irish Football.
The other find was a 1.4 gram piece of reef gold around the mine battery.
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