Discussion: Now we know what you were doing at Tarnagulla

I saw quite a few intent people out there. Some expressed interest in my map, probably to find out where the gold mining detail wasn't. Found a few relatively fresh holes of some size. Not mappable though.

I was thinking you may have to re-do some of your fieldwork!

I think those nuggets were found quite some time ago. TV programs have a gestation period. I probably saw where they came from, without realising the significance of what I was seeing. Thing is, I can't quite remember now where it was, though the image is still reasonably fresh in my memory. You could visit every isolated broken ground site on the map.

Arent there some big gold mines in the area?

Indeed there are, depending on what sort of mines you are talking about. There is the Poverty Reef decline, relatively modern and now abandoned. Orienteers aren't going to see this though. Its all fenced off with a serious fence. But out there in the old mining areas there are a couple of adjacent hills that could be described as honeycombed by shafts. Here is the largest. Multiple entries and scaringly deep. The photo doesn't do the place justice. Its like a cathedral of rock. It is surrounded by a flimsy fence. Not going to be on any orienteering course. You have to click the photo to get the full view.