Prospecting the Murchison: Metal Detecting Techniques, Tips and Localities: Part 1 Alluvial Gold Localities Around Cue, Meekatharra and Wiluna by Paul von Zorich

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right corners, now protected with book tape. Marks on half-title page. The right tail corner of the preliminary pages has been folded back. Curl to the front cover.

Prospecting the Murchison is a handy guide written specifically for travellers and new prospectors, helping them gain the skills and knowledge required for successful gold prospecting.

The information is presented in four parts, starting from the basics and gradually progressing to more advanced topics, before introducing several alluvial localities, where readers can put their skills to the ultimate test.

In the first chapter, the author outlines essential background information on metal detecting and prospecting, covering key areas such as detector selection, coil types, basic and advanced detecting techniques, where to prospect, legal requirements, Miners' Rights, Section 40E Permits, using Tengraph, and more. Everything a visitor should know to get them sufficiently prepared for a prospecting trip into the outback of Western Australia.

The second part of the book provides a brief history of the goldfields, detailing the unimaginable hardship the old-timers endured in their quest for gold. Before the turn of the nineteenth century, much of the state was still relatively uncharted, and yet against all odds, explorers and prospectors made remarkable discoveries, which eventually transformed a sparsely populated British colony into one of the richest countries in the world today.

In the third part of the book, the author reveals some of the best alluvial localities found on the Murchison and East Murchison goldfields, with easy-to-follow mud maps showing the way. In total, there are twenty-five localities within the Day Dawn, Cue and Meekatharra districts of the Murchison Goldfield, as well as the Wiluna District of the East Murchison Goldfield.

The final chapter of the book shows readers how to accurately determine the gold content in nuggets and specimens using simple specific gravity measurements. (Trove)