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Post by aussiedigga on Mar 12, 2017 17:41:35 GMT 10
Today I went out to reedy creek and had a bit of a look around and in the old mines , 1st mine was a sheer drop and must have had water in it because the guy across from the creek has some polly pipe going into it , prob pumping it out for his veggie garden. (Tank water area).
2nd mine shaft I came across went sideways into the hill , upon inspection of the entrance , there was some cracking of the rock( some of the rock cracks about 1inch) but looked quite solid , I went in about 5 metres and had a look at the quartz veins running through the walls of the mine , quite extensive mineralisation , went in a little further and the smell was terrible , to me it smelled like a musky fox had been living down there , there was a corner up further that turned to the left on a 45 deg angle , I didn't go any further then this point as I didn't have any equipment with me , was only intending to do some panning but will return later in the week with my gear and video camera
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Post by aussiedigga on Mar 12, 2017 18:00:16 GMT 10
(This is the reedy creek near tyaak not the beachworth area! Which I think is reids creek). After I left this area I proceeded maybe 3 or 4 klm up stream to where I know the old mine battery was located, found a fair bit of broken up blue and white dinner plates what look quite old , then found a 3rd mine but she was cactus , the whole thing had collapsed upon itself , could just see maybe a 1 foot gap of what it once was. My brother Inlaw owns and operates a cat traxcivator , and was doing vollanteer work after the black Saturday bush fires years ago , pushing all fallen down trees into piles and clearing property's when he came across the langridge mine ( the langridge was a monster mine big enough vertical drop to fit a bulldozer) anyways this mine was over 200 ft with dives etc, anyways half one his tracks was over hanging the mine shaft as the machine started to slide , he luckily got out of a bad situation and spun the trax around, but could have ended badly.
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Post by shivan on Mar 13, 2017 21:52:35 GMT 10
It can be very interesting exploring some of the old mines and i have been in and down my fair share, but please be careful. The most dangerous part about mines are the things you cant see.
Could the musky smell have been bats? A lot of them in the mines up this way.
Sounds like your brother in law had a close call, did you see the video of the dirt bike rider who fell down a shaft in NSW? He was a very lucky chap too.
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Post by aussiedigga on Mar 14, 2017 22:02:52 GMT 10
Hey shivan ,Yea I didn't go in very far and was carefull , I will go have a look in a jiffy at this guy on a bike, yes you are right could be bats , there is a lot down lakes entrance way. (Remember the smell) today I went out the back of my brother inlaws farm where there is old mines , the gold seems to be located in like a sandstone with quartz veins through it , the mine is now full to the top with rubbish and kangaroo carcus from the last 60 years, was around 65ft deep with dives etc,so Rodney and I are going to take the auger on the tractor up there and test drill a few spots in the reef the mine was dug , if comes back half decent the traxcivator and excavator will be going up there and pull a bit of the hill apart , but the strange thing about this mine is that there is no Mollock heap at all , top of the mine is clear , that really has us baffled
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Post by shivan on Mar 15, 2017 16:03:38 GMT 10
If there is no mullock pile there could be a few reasons. There may not have been a way to treat the ore onsite so it may have been taken elsewhere. It could have been used as fill, or may have even been reworked in later years.
Nothing wrong with your brother in law digging a damm or working the land, but just be careful about rules and regulation on a public forum.
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Post by rustyau on Mar 17, 2017 7:55:08 GMT 10
I had a permit to operate a old mine in NSW.
Just a few tips.
I was always repairing my front gate after idiot 4WD'ers got down the track and couldn't reverse back so they would pull/winch the gate until they could drive over it.
On one occasion this allowed some greenies to enter the main shaft and they found the bats that lived 250m inside the mine (nowhere near where I was working). About 2 months later I got a letter from State Forests stating that someone had reported the bats in the mine and they were putting an exclusion zone around the mine because it was as maternity cave for bats from Victoria. They can do this on private land as well...
I used to always have water,food and spare batteries in an old army bum bag on me at all times when I was working in or exploring in old mines. I never experienced a full cave in but I did have a chunk of granite the size of a Mini fall out of the roof and onto the cart tracks.
Good luck. I hope you find a motza.
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Post by aussiedigga on Mar 19, 2017 12:51:25 GMT 10
Sorry I should have stated that it was all legit , the lease has been in the family for 4 generations I think now , it's quite a interesting bit of land , the hill out the back had been mined back in the day what seems like iron stone? With some sort of fault line running through it at the top hence all the massive boulders piled up on top of one another , some of the quartz boulders are bigger then my nissan patrol (this area was sold off from my in laws to the government for butterfly habituation !!! (Similar to the bats!!! then as you get out into the undulating country it turns sand/silt stone with oxidisation , and around inch wide quartz veins running though it quite aggressively , the main shaft was sunk quite deep , nobody I know ever went right to the bottom or explored all of the tunnels , shame on the bats mate , did you get much color before you were shut down ?
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Post by rustyau on Mar 20, 2017 5:58:03 GMT 10
Butterfly's? now that's a new one ...lol. Averaged about 60g/t. Hard work though. The seam was only 200 -250mm wide in granite.
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Post by shivan on Mar 20, 2017 16:18:56 GMT 10
G'day rustyau would love to hear a bit more about you mine if you could be bothered.
It seems you may be a local (i just saw your gold hog mat for sale), if you ever feel like a beer or coffee and chat about rocks and gold, iam out West Nowra.
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Post by rustyau on Mar 31, 2017 8:49:48 GMT 10
Hi Shivan,
Always happy to talk about the yellow stuff. Been addicted for 25 years. How do I get in contact without plastering my details all over the forum?
Thanks
Russ
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Post by shivan on Mar 31, 2017 11:14:20 GMT 10
I will send you a private message via the forum.
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