I'll try and decipher it for you Russ.........Goes like...

I'll try and decipher it for you Russ.........

Goes like this............

If you recall your Australian history, you will know that back in the 1800's there was a huge gold rush. Prospectors flocked from everywhere to join the stampede. Now you will know the Chinese also came, and before they decided to cook us some decent tucker, they took their wok's to the goldfields, placed them in a stream and collected some loose stream sediment, swirled it around in their woks, leaving small nuggets of gold in the bottom. They were good at this, as they had been stir-frying rice for centuaries, and as a small nugget of gold was about the same size as a grain of rice, they soon excelled. This, then was how the gold pan was invented.

Same sort of thing with coal. After finishing off a carton of KB, and a bottle of Bundy, a couple of drunken sailors set sail from Sydney to the Gong. Stopping half-way for a leak, they looked up at the almighty Illawarra Escarpment and soon noticed a coal seem in the cliff face.........In fact, take a drive over the new Sea Cliff bridge at Stanwell (yes, the one in all the car adds), and if you look down you will see the very same seam for yourself. Realising their find, they hastily made their way to the Gong, calling in at the first pub and started telling everyone about it.

Soon their were dozens of boats all sailing along to as far as Batemans Bay, where the coal seam finally ends. Seeing as they had sailed this far, many continued on to Hobart, scouring the shore-line for coal. It soon became a race, and that's how the Sydney to Hobart yacht race began.

So, you see it was all SURFACE stuff they were finding. Just kick a rock with your boots, grab a gold pan, a pick and shovel and voila.....A mine was born.

Of course it wouldn't last as all the easy stuff was picked over, so they soon learned to dig deeper. Along came the drill and on it went, until, once again it all run out.

They needed something else.

X-ray vision was the adopted solution.

So a group formed up, and armed with nothing more than an old rusty rabbit trap, they soon set sail for Metropilis, found a dis-used phone booth, set the trap and lay in wait. After no more than an hour's wait, along came a weak,mild mannered reporter and started to change into his underpants, when the trap went off. Snared, and soon bound by rope they took him back to Australia and got him to Kalgoolie, where they asked him to use his X-ray vision to spot minerals under the ground. It worked like a charm.............except that, well, it wasn't gold he found, but Kryptonite................................. Well, we all know what happens now, talk about killing the golden goose, Superman losses his powers. End of story.

So , they need another way, sonic, yep, and then Seismic. That's the one where you hear the BOOOOM!. Boy, did they have some fun with that, blew up half the dunnies in the outback.......................often with occupants in tow. A little ripper.

So ,now we come to the present day. We need a sort of pretend X-ray machine to look deeper. So they now use higher frequencies....the stuff you can't see. Well, you can see them if they are converted into a visible picture............like your idiot box at home does. Just connect any TV to a coat-hanger, and it will convert the invisible frequencies into something you can see.........(but drather not).

It's rough and ready way to describe what they are doing now, and basically is what the article is saying. Until another Superman comes along, they will need a make-shift X-ray machine to find the deposits.


Hope this helps.


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