awash with gold

The little jibe by watso the other day about any alluvial gold mining opearations prompted me to start a bit of research.

And, though I have only panned through a few possibilities I have had a few flashes of "colour" as it were.

Now admittedly at the moment these are not actual operations. But the first shovel or two has turned up some interesting material.

For example :

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Summary: Alluvial gold potential in buried palaeochannels in the Wyalong district, Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales Kenneth C. ... Some of these newly discovered palaeochannels may be prospective for alluvial gold sourced by erosion of the vein deposits.
http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA12307.pdf - 740k - [ pdf ] - Cached - 18 Dec 2008


Hmmmm 2008 ....fairly recent

(2)Geoscience Australia: Kenneth G. McQueen Abstract from Record 2003_14 - Magmas to Mineralisation : The Ishihara Symposium, July 2003
Summary: Introduction. More than 40 tonnes of gold have been produced from alluvial placer deposits in the Braidwood-Araluen area of southeastern New South Wales ( Middleton, 1970). Most of this gold appears ... Implications for exploration and the source of alluvial gold. ...
http://www.ga.gov.au/about/corporate/ga_authors/Ishihara/McQueen_IshiharaSym.jsp - 22k - [ jsp ] - Cached - No Date


Hmmmm must keep shovelling