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Prospectors continued fossicking around the old workings and during 1964–65 the recovery of two tons of handpicked specimen stone yielding 2,787 ounces of gold was reported. In 1986 claim holders used excavators to rework the Top Camp diggings and some coarse nugget gold was recovered before the field was abandoned.
Thanes Creek is a former gold mining area, and the site of a government approved gold fossicking area. ... 100 years of State School Education in Queensland, ...
According to a table on Ravenswood's gold production, [68] total production to 1917 inclusive was 865,054oz of gold (154,094oz to the end of 1877 and 254,213oz from 1878 to 1899 and 456,747oz from 1900 to 1917, making it the fifth largest gold producer in Queensland, after Charters Towers, Mount Morgan, Gympie and the Palmer goldfield ...
Ministry of Economic Development, NZ Petroleum & Minerals: "Gold fossicking (recreational gold panning)", retrieved 9 January 2009; PayDirt.co.nz: Map of public gold fossicking areas in New Zealand, retrieved 23 April 2009 [dead link ] Switzerland. Swiss Goldprospector's Association: Recreational Goldprospecting in Switzerland, retrieved 7 ...
Gold diggings on Towers Hill, circa 1878. Towers Hill was the site of the first discovery of gold in December 1871 which led to the development of the Charters Towers Goldfield. George E. Clarke, Hugh Mosman, John Fraser and an Aboriginal called Jupiter comprised the prospecting party. They camped near the quartz strewn outcrops of the North ...
In Queensland, fossickers must obtain a licence, but no licence is required in New South Wales. In South Australia, fossicking is defined as "the gathering of minerals as (a) a recreation; and (b) without any intention to sell the minerals or to utilise them for a commercial purpose", and these activities are considered as not being affected by ...
The mine produced a total of 31,960 long tons (32,470 t) of quartz yielding 91,917 ounces (2,605,800 g) of gold bullion valued at £238,984, the largest of any of the Golden Gate mines. Gold production quickly dwindled at the mine after 1905, down to 292 ounces (8,300 g) in 1908. [1] [4]
Tomahawk Creek Fossicking Area, about 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Rubyvale, north-west of Emerald, is the most remote part of the Central Queensland Gemfields.It is about 2,340 hectares (5,800 acres) in area, excised from a Grazing Homestead Perpetual Lease.