7am
15 degrees, clear sky but still windy. Steve spotted a kangaroo nibbling the
leaves on the bush through the kitchen window so I got the camera out.
Packed
up and headed back out to the main highway. Continued down trying to find the
entrance to the Ruby Well Find Mine. Jeff had stopped in here on his way home
and stayed for a couple of weeks detecting on the pushed ground that Ross, the
lease holder, had done with his bulldozer. Ended up back on the Peak Hill Road
so rang Jeff for directions. Had to drive back up the highway and found the
gate in. Drove to the main camp area passed Ruby Well.
The
original mine is behind the buildings. Ross’s wife, Lara, greeted us. She said
they were pulling out soon and heading down to their other lease at Quinns. They
have been here since Nov 2015 and have worked all the old areas over.
Ross
and his son were working down the track so we headed down to say hello. They
have pushed the piles of dirt back flat and were going over them again with the
detectors. Chatted for a bit and he invited us to stay and detect on a 20 to
him /80 to us percentage so we headed down the track to find a camp spot. We
are not that far from the highway (on the other side of the hill) and we can
hear the trucks going by.
We
got out the detectors (and fly nets) and headed off to find some gold. I walked
and walked but found nothing but rubbish. I was on some scrapes on my way back
to the van when I thought “it’s amazing that the 2300 hasn’t found one bit”
when I got a signal and it was a nice little nuglet. I continued along the
scrape and got a little pin head one then some rubbish so headed back to the
van. Grand total of 0.28 grams today as Steve didn’t get any gold.
No
drinks by the fire as the flies are still bad up until the sun sets, then the
wind is still blowing so had drinks inside. Rang Jeff to chat about where he
had detected etc.
Closed
the windows as the wind is quite cold.
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