7.30am
11.6 degrees, clear sky and gusty wind.
Ray
heard from the geologist so we drove up the haul road to the main
administration area of Northern Star operations. There is a huge processing
plant nearby where they process the ore they are pulling out of the open pits.
Met
Abe, Senior Exploration Geologist. He was very helpful and said their operation
is mainly on a long belt of greenstone but they have just started an open pit
in granite ground hence they have just taken up a heap of granite country where
we have permission to detect on. He is keen to hear what we discover. The head
geologist suggested we try Area 7 which is the old Jundee Mine open pit as some
other people have picked up nuggets along the haul road.
We
drove down to the open pit – even has a waterfall!
Drove
back up the track and found a spot to park up.
Went
wandering with our detectors while Ray and Carol drove up the road to try some
other spots. Unfortunately we found nothing – hardly any rubbish either. The
ground looks good but maybe it is deeper than we can find with the detectors.
Drinks
around the fire with a lovely clear night. Erica rang from Muttaburra where
they have found some lovely different agate – more rocks for Terry to haul home
in the van. She will tumble them when they get home. They had fun doing the
Guinness World Record at Barcaldine though Terry said there was a punch up over
someone’s LED lights being stolen. I put Steve on the phone so he could chat
with his parents too.
Dinner
then movie with the van closed up as the cold is creeping in now.
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