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Jun 16, 2015 19:30:47 GMT 10
Post by cwturner on Jun 16, 2015 19:30:47 GMT 10
Hi all I have just joined this forum. Other forums I follow deal with travelling and electronics. I will read much more than I post. I'm retired, and have a camper trailer well equipped for extended bush camping. The latest foray was 2 weeks to the Wenlock River for 5 grams of alluvial gold. In my working life I spent 2 years alluvial mining for tin in the mid 60's, then 8 years growing sugar cane. While growing cane I learned to weld, and then spent the rest of my working life as a welder, mostly rebuilding dragline rigging for the coal mines west of Mackay. With retirement looming I built a mobile home on a 8 ton Hino truck with the intention of doing the big lap and working on the way. The GFC intervened and I stalled at Cooktown in an ideal park. To still travel I converted my slide on ute toolboxes to a camper with 1 kw of solar. This was difficult to keep under the GVM of the Great Wall 4x4 so it was transferred to a trailer made from another ute, hence the camper trailer. Other trips recently were 2 months to Clermont in central Qld and 2 weeks to Flat Creek near Georgetown. Detected extensively for no gold. Plenty of trash but did not walk over any gold. The same happened on the Wenlock, the gold won was washed out of potholes on the bare bedrock in the middle of a worked area. Have tentative plans of returning to the Wenlock for another go with the detector.
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Jun 16, 2015 19:56:16 GMT 10
Post by Andy on Jun 16, 2015 19:56:16 GMT 10
G'day cw & welcome to the forum. What a great story & interesting life you've led. I hope you post more stories of what you are doing as time goes by. Cheers.
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Jun 17, 2015 7:32:16 GMT 10
Post by jeffu on Jun 17, 2015 7:32:16 GMT 10
Wow. Thanks for sharing your times with us CW. Wish mine half as interesting.
Oh by the way, welcome to the AGP.
Keep up the fossicking and detecting and the best of golden luck.
Jeff
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Jun 17, 2015 21:39:36 GMT 10
Post by Flying Scott on Jun 17, 2015 21:39:36 GMT 10
OH, if only I was 50 years younger. Flying Scott
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Jun 21, 2015 14:40:32 GMT 10
Post by Ric on Jun 21, 2015 14:40:32 GMT 10
G'day CW and welcome.
Thanks for the interesting introduction. I hope you enjoy many years enjoying your retirement in the outdoors.
How did you go with the Tin Mining. I've always been interested in giving it a go....only as a hobby of course.
Cheers Ric
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Jun 21, 2015 19:24:50 GMT 10
Post by cwturner on Jun 21, 2015 19:24:50 GMT 10
I spent 2 wet seasons at 2 sites at China Camp for a return of about a tonne of stream tin. In all that I recovered 1 flake of gold. Couldn't miss it when cleaning the tin. I deliberately did not chase gold at the time,even with Gold Hill only kilometres away. Gold hill has since yielded useful gold to dredging when the hippies invaded in the 70's. All quiet now with the new regulations making it all too hard. Bought my detector before I checked the new regulations. Had I checked first I would have just made up a kit and used that, as the ground available to legitimately fossick is so limited.
Chasing tin these days is strictly a panning affair as it has no response to the detectors. Still enough around in old districts but no longer viable as a small output mine as no buyers presently operate in Australia.
cheers cwturner
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