Australian Gold Nuggets – Gold Nugget Detecting
We found an area in the Pilbara that has never seen a metal detector before! We just arrived in a new spot and expected having to prospect for several days before getting to a good spot but we found it after only two kilometers of walking on the first day. Screaming targets in a remote gully revealed plenty of chunky gold nuggets (and also a few bullet casings).
Australian Gold Nuggets
Australia gold nugget
Days like these are sooo good and make detecting a lot of fun but unfortunately these areas are hard to find nowadays. We enjoy prospecting and detecting and hope for more spots like this. In the meantime we keep walking those hills and creeks and we keep digging those targets.
The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir. Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling.
In Australia this concentration of gold took place in the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago in the eastern states, and thousands of millions of years ago in Western Australia. As well as gold, the fluids can carry other dissolved minerals, such as quartz. This is why gold is often found with quartz.
Australia is ranked third in the world among gold producing nations. Mining about 300 tons annually, with massive known reserves the future of gold in this vast country is assured. … Recent surveys in Victoria revealed that there is about AUD$500,000,000,000 worth of gold still to be recovered.
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