tinpan
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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
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
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