Australian Gold Prospecting

This is in Pinyalling which is NW of Paynes Find in WA. Found a patch that we got 1.5 ounces off and it was lucky if it was 8m long x 5m wide. We found some stray bits upstream and downstream of the patch but little else other than what was in this little spot. The first 9 grams came in the first 2 hours after we arrived.

 

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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. (more…)