Other Gold in Australia

[Stuart]

Gee, all this from my first simple post.

 

[hydro2]

I have concluded that Nano-particle gold is found in all areas where Gold is in nature. Have fun in this new adventure fellow Gold enthusiasts

 

[hydro2]

Gee, all this from my first simple post.

Oh! la la

 

[Moneybox]

A great video on hands-on Victorian gold mining.



I have similar hard rock mines here but I'm a little old to work them.

 

[WestTexasGold]

It's interesting to see the different experiences and perspectives on gold prospecting in Australia. It seems like there are various factors to consider, from flora and fauna to geological features. Have any of you found unique indicators or methods that have been particularly successful in your prospecting? Thanks for sharing your insights!

 

[Mick Tee]

Anybody here have any experience running a small mining operation?

The current (and projected) gold price has me thinking of throwing in my real job and working on my lease
A mate has been scratching around there for the last couple of years and he thinks he has found where the good stuff is, but we'll need to get all our old crappy gear going.

 

[Mick Tee]

It's interesting to see the different experiences and perspectives on gold prospecting in Australia. It seems like there are various factors to consider, from flora and fauna to geological features. Have any of you found unique indicators or methods that have been particularly successful in your prospecting? Thanks for sharing your insights!

While it is quite possible that some flora prefers certain minerals, I suspect it would only really be effective when looking for undisturbed areas that didn't have enough gold for the old-timers to get excited about.

Personally, I scratch around in an area that was so transformed 150 (and again 40) years ago that there is very little original geography left, and any of the usual geographical indicators just reveal whatever gold has collected in the last century and a half.

Having said that, modern indicators work extremely well.
After the wet season, there are always new detector holes along the ridges of certain steep hills on our lease. As annoying as these claim jumpers are, they do show us which hills we need to attack when we eventually get an excavator up there.

 

[Gary coutts]

Anybody here have any experience running a small mining operation?

The current (and projected) gold price has me thinking of throwing in my real job and working on my lease
A mate has been scratching around there for the last couple of years and he thinks he has found where the good stuff is, but we'll need to get all our old crappy gear going.

Mick
What state you in
Gary

 

[Mick Tee]

My lease is up in the Palmer.

 

[Moneybox]

Anybody here have any experience running a small mining operation?

The current (and projected) gold price has me thinking of throwing in my real job and working on my lease
A mate has been scratching around there for the last couple of years and he thinks he has found where the good stuff is, but we'll need to get all our old crappy gear going.

Mining for a living.... first check out the vehicles your fellow miners are driving.... what are their living conditions like? Owning a gold mine is more likely to indicate that you are broke than rolling in money.

 

[Mrmacapple]

What is Nano Gold if I can ask please. That all makes good sense, I'll make note of that and follow it when I go over to WA.

Gold you can’t see. Mostly untouched in Australia for lack of water and the use of cyanide is frowned upon by small miners.

 

[Mick Tee]

Mining for a living.... first check out the vehicles your fellow miners are driving.... what are their living conditions like? Owning a gold mine is more likely to indicate that you are broke than rolling in money.

I hear you.
The majority of the miners up there are just loners who want to get away from the rat race and really just mine as little as they need to keep their lease, but the ones who are semi-serious have learned to not draw attention by living beyond their apparent means but do have nice toys.

 

[hydro2]

Gold you can’t see. Mostly untouched in Australia for lack of water and the use of cyanide is frowned upon by small miners.

There is an Echo-friendly Leach that can be reused over again. Easily used by scale miners. It is a Glycine leach. You can do the process in a bottle roll
system, small scale. Go on be a devil and take a fly at it, The manufacturers are in Perth Australia.

 

[hydro2]

There is an Echo-friendly Leach that can be reused over again. Easily used by scale miners. It is a Glycine leach. You can do the process in a bottle roll
system, small scale. Go on be a devil and take a fly at it, The manufacturers are in Perth Australia.

Curtin University in Perth Australia developed the Glycine/ Hydrogen peroxide Gold Leach

 

[Moneybox]

Interesting, I've never heard of Glycine/ Hydrogen peroxide Gold Leach.

 

[Frank Hammer]

I beg to differ about flora not being an indicator and use it to my advantage as do many who use google earth at one of their tools when prospecting.
Flora can show you old water courses, where ground is deeper. Creek systems etc… Some plants only grow in certain mineral rich areas which also can hold gold.
Things like a line of dessert currajongs can betray an ancient water course or a fault or crack in the bedrock.

Can you give a google maps reference to a spot you'ld consider as a possibility?
I'm not dumb enough to ask you for a link to your favourite spot,
Rather a link to a spot you'ld consider looking at,
And what influenced your thinking, based on looking at Google earth?

 

[Madtuna]

Can you give a google maps reference to a spot you'ld consider as a possibility?
I'm not dumb enough to ask you for a link to your favourite spot,
Rather a link to a spot you'ld consider looking at,
And what influenced your thinking, based on looking at Google earth?

Hi Frank, as much as I’d like to I can’t afford to do that. Gold is my sole source of income so any spot I’d consider looking at I will be looking at.

I use Google earth in conjunction with Trilobite.
In Trilobite I look at the geology, look for the fault lines and study the magnetics etc. Then in Google Earth I look at the same bit of ground and you can see previous diggings if there are any, hills, blows etc…also any creek lines are usually betrayed by the vegetation.

Once on the ground different types of vegetation can tell a story of what’s underneath, ie: deep or shallow root system? Some plants are specific to the the type of ground that also holds gold.

 

[Alan]

@Madtuna, your way of using the maps and Google Earth to see where previous diggings are sounded interesting once a person learns how to do it.

 

[Madtuna]

@Madtuna, your way of using the maps and Google Earth to see where previous diggings are sounded interesting once a person learns how to do it.

This is just some random spot somewhere on the Bandya road. You can clearly see the creek line and old pushings. Someone clearly got some decent gold there to go to that much trouble

 

[Alan]

I do see the tracks in that photo. Keep up the good work.