Alluvial or reef?

Gday one and all.
A question for the members.If you had a choice to go detecting,would you head to an alluvial gold field on the river flats or detect around some of the old reef mines up in the hills?
Which do you think would poduce the most targets?
Cheers.
Bol

Well, according to the little man called gravity,most targets gold including man made leftover junk,will over time congregate to what I call,the bottom of the jar,in on alluvial flats surrounding rivers,creeks and gullies.As for the elluviul gold shed from gold bearing reefs higher up on the hill top flats or sides,given enough time,they to will shed their gold and leftover man made junk,once again to the bottom of the jar (alluvial flats).
As for an answer to your question,If one had a choice to go detecting on an alluvial gold field or the adjacent reef mines higher up on the hills,the answer is,to inspect or do both.For if the gully,creek or river bellow was found to be rich in gold bearing wash,I can assure you,it shed from a near by hill,or hill side surrounding.

Cheers Kon.

...I would be doing the slopes between the reef and the alluvial field, as the area at the lowest point would probable be outside the depth of detectors because of the amount of soil that has weathered down over the past million years and collected. I would be looking for those suckers that hopefully been caught in the bedrock on their way down to the lowest point. I would also be paying particular attention to the drop-off areas on the slopes.

When I go to any spot I like detecting all the bedrock or any very shallow ground or creekbeds where bedrock outcrops, be it up the hill or at the bottom of slopes. I would do the bottom of any small gullies second. I also agree with the other posts on this thread. In regard to the number of targets, many creeks and alluvial diggings are full of non gold targets...but that's a good sign. Tributer

Thanks for the replies guys
Much appreciated

Bol