Inside a chiness 150 year old alluvial and strange find

[tinpan]

Hi all, Went to a place called White hills and the area is covered with old chiness gold mines.Most are only about 60 feet deep as the chiness were mining alluvial gold in the clay below ancient river bed that is above sea level now. 200 meters and the hills are the remains of the anicent river bed.Lot of regrowth of native plants , so one has to be careful. Lots of hidden holes.

well i did the unthinkable and i recommend others don,t go into old mines for safety reasons.I spotted a shaft that had only a slight decline and went in for a bit of a look.Well i found a late 1800's cameo, just lying there.i know that these old shaft fill up with water when the it rains so i think the cameo must have been washed down into the shaft during a storm some 50years after the mine were disused.

Didn,t get much time as a thunderstorm was not to far away.heres a few pics of find and old mine shafts and area of White hills

tinpan

 

[DD-777]

That's a great find Tinpan - looks to be hand carved. Interesting place too.....

 

[tinpan]

more site pics

 

[kdismuke1]

I WOULD STAY ABOVE GROUND.

 

[Detectingfreak]

very nice find!!! I wonder what it is!? Hope you find out!

 

[phantomfinder]

SWEET PHOTO'S , WTG ... And be careful out there....

 

[Harry_Morant]

Nice one Tinpan - you still looking for relics or did that Gold Bug bite you

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Tin,

looking in them holes.

Bug is getting you working on you

Stay safe.

Neat photos; thanks for posting.

have a good un.....
SHERMANVILLE

 

[kuger]

I really enjoy your posts,I hunt the gold rush camps of California.Out here we call those type of holes "coyote holes",they were and are the most dangerous type of mining.Many a mans-bones lye under those old Tertiary gravels!!!!

 

[Harry_Morant]

I think I may be on to something with why the cameo was in the hole - let face it, thats one hell of a mustache she has

 

[tinpan]

I really enjoy your posts,I hunt the gold rush camps of California.Out here we call those type of holes "coyote holes",they were and are the most dangerous type of mining.Many a mans-bones lye under those old Tertiary gravels!!!!

You really put a nail in the coffin,as a few know on TN i have been searching for a legend for 4 years. In 1885 a local gold trooper Constable Thomas Ryan when to the local chiness camp to investigate gold stealing and was never seen again. Find the missing gold or his trooper hat badge which there are only 2 ever found i find treasure.

tinpan

 

[Giant056]

Excellent find Tinpan it's not every day you run across a nice cameo, this one I found is my first in almost 20 years of hunting, I found it about 5 feet from an old cistern this year but a long way from gold country.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Great looking cameo and pictures! HH, Mike

 

[crazyjarhead]

Don't let your curiosity get you in trouble. Be carefull out there in the "Outback" I bet there is a lot of things to be found but I would have to let them go for the sake of my life.

 

[seger98]

That looks like a awesome place to metal detect, muct be alot of old coins around those holes! Nice pictures!


Chris

 

[Mike_of_Tenn]

That is really nice Tinpan! WTG!!!

Mike

 

[tymcmurray]

Nice cameo. Great piece for the collection!

 

[tinpan]

thanks for the replies and sharing your cameo finds.i found only 2 cameos in the past 4 years.

tinpan

 

[kuger]

That looks like a awesome place to metal detect, muct be alot of old coins around those holes! Nice pictures!


Chris

Unless it is different over there,the blokes that occupied the goldfields didnt have alot of coins to lose........they dont show up very often.

 

[tinpan]

That looks like a awesome place to metal detect, muct be alot of old coins around those holes! Nice pictures!


Chris

Unless it is different over there,the blokes that occupied the goldfields didnt have alot of coins to lose........they dont show up very often.

so right you are Kuger Everything was brought and sold on the end of a set of gold scales.Few coppers to be found but the ground condition bad on copper coins.

tinpan