Lots of alluvial gold at Oallen Crossing on the Shoalhaven River mainly for sluices or panning,Plenty of room for bush camping no facilities though.

 

drovers dog

From: goldmine  (Original Message)

Sent: 20/12/2001 2:05 PM

Has anyone detected in the Braidwood regions, from Mongarlowe / half moon flat in the north, through Majors Creek and Araluen in the south? I have been researching this region for a while now and have the following places of interest if any has detected here before.  This may help new prospectors bypassing this region: * Shoalhaven River (almost the entire length of the river is gold bearing) * Half Moon Flat (Nth of Monarlowe) * Jembaicumbene River * Back Creek * Deep Creek * Majors Creek (Almost entire length, including Long Flat, Sheep Station Ck, Deep Ck, Bells Ck) * Araluen Creek (including Apple Tree Flat) * Merricumbene (including Fergusons Gully) * Broad & Sweepers Gully * Nettleton Creek * Jamtulean * Warrabucca * Monagarlowe River * Oallen Crossing * Nerriga (Endrick River, Peggy's Hill, Terrance's Hill, Ninge Nimble Creek, Spring Gully) * Sailors Gully / Jerricknorra Creek * Corang River * Bombay (incl Colombo Flat, Warri, Pipeclay Diggings, Back Springs, Limekiln Ck, Reedy Ck) Regards Dennis

Hello people, I've just joined the club but I know you wont mind if my info leads to some of that elusive yellow stuff.

In the summer2003 I spent five weeks with a sluice downriver (just past the S bends) of Wallaby Rocks on the Turon River. There are some large bars across the river which catch the gold. The bad news is that the overburden goes from 2 feet to as much as 5 feet. I dug a very large hole in the riverbed and averaged 3 to 5 grams a day. You might remember that we were in drought then and by 1 o'clock in the arvo it was like standing on a barbeque plate and I had to adjourn to the Sofals Hotel. A few things you need to look out for- bull ants, tiger leeches and black snakes. Also if using a sluice with a pump you are not allowed to set the sluice up in the river and someone in the area rings the Dept of Mines whenever they see someone doing this. This would be a great place for a dredge but of course they are illegal. I had some tourists come up and say that the hole I had dug was an "eyesore" on the landscape. If they had bothered to come back after it rained they would have seen that the river had repaired itself.

I've found the whole of the Turon river from The Upper Turon down to the Macquarie river to be gold bearing but have not found any one area out of which you could make "wages".

For those who like detecting I have seen some nice gold come out of Big Oakey Creek but be warned it has been thrashed. The best time to go is just after some heavy rain. There is still good gold there but as usual mixed with a lot of rocks and dirt. Happy hunting.

grunta0