Well Besides the obvious thing of actually getting here, what needs to be done for a relaxed
and well set up trip to Western Australia besides your accomodartion ???
1st a WA miners right is needed to prospect for ANY minerals in Wa and it costs $25.00 for life,
it can be got in WA at any branch of the WA mines Dept or got in advance by phone or email
to the Wa mines Dept - http://www.dmp.wa.go...ts/Info2(4).pdf
So the next thing to do is start to plan all the nitty gritty things like areas to prospect on,
legal rights to prospect on leases etc, and this may be of help to you in starting off on the great
adventure of prospecting for gold in Western Bloody oz
How do i find an area to prospect on ?
Its best to go through a sort of selection process by 1st choosing a Goldfield and for this post we'll just
make that The Murchison Goldfield.
Next thing is to define the gold bearing areas for the goldfield as the Murchison is very large, and
that can either be done by login onto the WA Tengraph site or by simply using G&G for the area
to outline the mining centers.
So lets choose the "Cue District" of the Murchison goldfield ay.
Then the next thing to do is to do the same as anywhere you prospect and thats to look at the out lying
areas rather than close to the main town in this case Cue, so lets say you go east of Cue onto the
"Tuckabianna area" and then its time to really zone in on the gold runs within that area.
So its now time to get on Tengraph - http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/3980.aspx or you can use
Geoview - http://mapserver.doi...itle=GeoVIEW.WA
to see the main mining area and also obtain company drilling and work reports.
In this way we narrow down an area until we get the blood boiling.
Next i personally go onto TROVE - http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
and start lookin for any old reports of alluvial rushes or small rich isolated finds within that area,
use keywords searches like "Alluvial rush at" & "new rush at" etc, this gives a good idea as to the run
of the gold etc.
If your not up to speed on reading a Geo Map the best thing to do is make sure you have the map and
accompanying notes for the map and the maps can be downloaded from the tab on the top of every page,
or the map & notes to cover every WA Geo Map can be downloaded from here -
http://geodocs.doir....&cabinetId=1101
This then gives you all the details on the minerals found within the chosen map, and gives you an understanding
of the geological make up of the area and which parts are no good for gold.
So at this stage we have zoned in on a specific area we want to prospect on, the next thing is to check
Tengraph for current lease status if any, if Pending over your area go for it no permission needed from the
lease holder until it goes live, if already live written permission is needed to prospect.
Lets assume now that so far so good and permission has been granted or a 20A has been taken out
for an EL covering your area, its now time to get excited and start packing the truck.
One other thing only needs to be done at this stage and thats a quick call to the stn owner who's
land the lease is on to advise of your coming and rough area you will be at, this is for curtesy and also
to make sure if Doggers may be shooting they stay away from you..
Sounds like a lot of pissin around but its well worth it to have a massive area of country open
to you with the chances of getting good heavy gold very possible....
Please feel free to PM me for any more in depth details on laws, areas and techniques.
Pete
