Areas around Kilkivan

G"day Lucky sorry to hear about your problems mate. I too am interested in the Kilkivan area and I have once travelled through the area and also done a fair bit of research but I was advised by some of the storekeepers that I might get shot at especially along Rossmore RD.
Apparently there are certain nefarious people who produce illicit crops and they dont take kindly to strangers poking about in their bush.

The other problem I had explained to me was that there were some greenies about who dont appreciate fossickers hanging around. Now I have no experience in the location as you yourself have so after what you said Im thinking those folk who advised me might be over reacting.
I had also heard on the grapevine that gullies like German, Italian etc had a lot of wash in them too deep for detectors but would the upper reaches of them possibly yield smaller nuggets that might have caught up in the higher ground.

I would have tried calling you at the shop but you did say you were going back home to W.A. in july. However I would like to have a chat to you over the phone in W.A. or email you if that would suit you. I am a keen fossicker with experience and if any area has at least a little potential I will give it a good try. I am retired and I have lots of time and I like to open up areas and not afraid of hard work.

madmaverick wrote:hi there Lucky,,, very curious to know more and join your endeavours to explore this area, keep us posted and lets see what we can organise

happy Hunting
S
teve and Lea

Hi Steve & Lea I was wondering how you got on with Lucky from Woolooga. I put in a reply to him but hes gone back to W.A. now its a bit like fishing as they say you should have been here last week. He certainly seemed to have a lot to offer.

Last time I was that way I was just having a quick look see but people warned me away from some of the areas Lucky was recommending.
I am retired now and would be interested in seeing how far one could push their barrow there. I have some info on the area but the problem might be getting permission off landowners however it should be a good area if you can get onto ground there.


George

I live at Imbil. I found a couple of bits of flakey/manganese stained gold near Italian Gully in Kilkivan with a Tesoro coin detector. I do have a Minelab and I have wanted to spend a lot of time there and get to find some good spots but time has been against me and the grass has been long with the good seasons last two years.
I have also panned gold including a couple half gram nuggets in creeks near the old township.
As for John Parsons I understand his enthusiasm for gold but many years ago he told me to forget everything i know about the origins of gold nuggets and throw it out the window because the new science proved that nano bacteria are responsible for them. Suffice to say I expect much of the origins of gold to still remain a mystery when I am long gone. John also felt sure nobody could not find gold in SE QLD with a detector and yet I have found several ounces of nuggets within reasonable travel distance from Kilkivan and I know plenty of other people who have found a few ounces also.

Im going to be staying up at Kilkivan over Easter going with the metal detecting club I joined so I will let you all know how I get on.

gcause wrote:Im going to be staying up at Kilkivan over Easter going with the metal detecting club I joined so I will let you all know how I get on.

will be keen to hear your reports on how you go, good luck,,,,,, as for our postmaster, never got to meet him, nor did we get and responce from him,, sure sounded like he had some invaluable information,,, this whole are has all sorts of possibilites, all be it mostly on private properties, many of the locals are not prospector freindly so we have been told, however as yet we have not had the chance to ascertain this for ourselves at this time, we hope to explore this more as time goes on

happy hunting all
Steve and Lea

Steve and Lea,

Will let you know how I go.

Would be good to catch up sometime, hopefully on a goldfield somewhere

Regards,

Grant

gcause wrote:Steve and Lea,

Will let you know how I go.

Would be good to catch up sometime, hopefully on a goldfield somewhere

Regards,

Grant

ya got that right, guess we will just have to choose a spot and meet and search lol,, have a big trip (big for us) to Tibooburra in may, so happy to try and sort something out after june if you want,, let us know

happy hunting
Steve and Lea

I have heard you can find nuggets up to 8 grams at the gun club but also plenty of lead
and please join up so you can legally go there without catching a stray bullet.They found plenty of gold in the creek you cross entering town.The gun club is up the creek.

Lucky seems to have it in for poor old John Parsons who is making his living out of his Caravan Park and gold plant.I think the main reason he tells people there is no gold to detect around kilkivan is that he doesnt want to encourege newbys to run all over the paddocks without permission digging holes which are rarely filled in and upsetting the locals which in turn will make it uncomfortable for him.So Lucky spare a thought for the locals and stick to your post office,

Hi All,

i'm new to Qld living north side of Brisbane, would be interested to find a detecting buddy out Kilkivan way if someone is interested

Has Lucky karked it?!

Yes, I know, I'm about four years behind the time, aren't I?!

I've been studying and searching the district for a fair time now and am very impressed with the useless crapola that Lucky and a couple of others have posted here.

There's a direction to a mine out on the Old Netherby Rd, which is actually the Old Gympie Rd north of Gundiah. There is no mine there!

I think a lot of people should go and eat their custard because anything thicker than that they would not be able to chew!

What a load of crap!!!

Guest wrote:Hello everyone who is searching for gold around gympie, kilkivan area get out your maps and search for a little town called Gundiah just a little north of this town is a small gold mine that was worked in the 1930s its not listed in Gold & Ghosts and its not on geological maps and I dont have the co-ordinates but it is there it was a golden reef of gold exposed above the surface. Now to find it you get on old Netherby road going north past Gundiah and its located on a 600 acre property the owners are friendly. When travelling north on this road the railway crosses the road, you have gone to far its about 1 km back the other way the gold mine is close to the rail tracks about 100 metres, now gold could have shed from the quartz reef over time and travelling into the nearby gully and surrouding area so it would be an area to run the detector over hope this helps with your search and future exploration.

What a load of mis-informative crap!!!
Yes I know I'm four years behind the post but at least I do my homework and get directions right.

There is no Old Netherby Road. If your directions are within a Bull's roar, it's the Old Gympie Rd.

Prospectors.

The Old Netherby Road? That could have been a local colloquialism I know of lots of bush roads and places that are called by other names by the locals. Especially an older generation and stories passed on by word of mouth, from old to young, change with age!

But I am sure that the road and train tracks have been realigned over the years and I don't know of any old 'small holdings' up that way.

Benefit of the doubt, at least it is another quest/adventure for those chasing AU!

Thylacine.

The location is actually on the Old Gympie Rd. The mine is called The Orb. However, while the road was mis-named his directions as to the location were accurate.

SunriseBoy wrote:Yes, I know, I'm about four years behind the time, aren't I?!

I've been studying and searching the district for a fair time now and am very impressed with the useless crapola that Lucky and a couple of others have posted here.

There's a direction to a mine out on the Old Netherby Rd, which is actually the Old Gympie Rd north of Gundiah.  There is no mine there!

I think a lot of people should go and eat their custard because anything thicker than that they would not be able to chew!

What a load of crap!!!

SunriseBoy wrote:The location is actually on the Old Gympie Rd. The mine is called The Orb. However, while the road was mis-named his directions as to the location were accurate.

maybe not a load of crap after all ?

cheers dave

It only took a couple of people a couple of hours and some serious google earth work to nail it!

No worries at all!

It's this same kind of lack of attention to detail that sees most people's lives end up looking like a pile of crap.

Think about it.

To Sunrise Boy,
I would like to know if you have actually visited Kilkivan & its region, or are you commenting from the comfort of your Cairns home thinking you have the area in question all worked out? from your so-called research by google from your PC. I am quite disturbed with your remarks & throwing the word " Crap" around so easily!
" Peoples lives end up looking like crap" are you for real what does this mean? & what are you trying to say, & especially knocking peoples comments who have been one of the locals & lived in the region for some years . I am surprised the moderators have not made some comment to your ridiculous thread. No I don't live in Kilkivan & also don't know the persons you are referring to. This Great Forum doesn't need Jokers like yourself

I go detecting over at Kilkivan three times a week as I'm only a few ks down the road towards Gympie. It's appreciated I've only been doing this a few years now so can't be considered skillful or any kind of an expert as yet. Have worked Forsayth, Western Creek, Dell's Hole and Clermont on the GPAs there. Did quite a few trips to Bendigo out around Axedale and Longlea and Ballarat districts; also around Rushworth a number of times. Most productive was outside of B'rat.

While you may not think detail is important, I do. My spin on something like this, is, if you can't give correct info, please don't give it. As I said, it took one very skilled and one not so skilled nearly four hours to figure out the location.

And as to being a 'joker' as you so quaintly put it, I'm definitely not 'one-of-the-boys' to fall into this catagory.
Hermit, loner, eccentric, iconoclast, weirdo, wacko, strange...absolutely. That means I'm not like the normal 'little-aussie-battler'. Praise God!

And, thankfully, you and I don't have to associate. That's a win/win, isn't it!?

Hi Again SunriseBoy,
Can I firstly say that you got me going because of your " Location" being Cairns , that's what threw me off. I s'pose members can put down whatever they like as their destination. You are as good as a local so I can take your comments more realistically, I've almost got egg on my face, won't be taken peoples " Location" as any guide from here on! It must be a good area for you to visit " at least 3 times a week but I'll never find that out from you as you have described yourself, so I don't expect you to divulge anything. We might be more similar than you think, I'm also a loner & very independent, & certainly don't follow other people around like a pack of sheep, anyhow whats a bit of " Crap" between Adults, so no hard feelings & good luck with your future prospecting

I forget about a lot of the admin stuff apropos the Location: Cairns. When I was up there was when I joined here as I was searching for a particular detail on Forsayth.

Kilkivan has also come to an end for me. After working a lot of areas there; I am one of the hunters that believe there is virtually no alluvial Au of any worth. In fact my last three outing consisted of .22 slugs a .38 slug and three pieces of silver around 12 grams a piece. Plus the usual suspects of wire and other bits of ferrous trash in old workings.

Happy hunting.

G'day SunriseBoy

Just because one person writes a description of an area that is correct to themselves and another person reads that info and interprets it a bit differently to the writer does not mean or make that person, as you said writing a lot of "crap" and or their "lives end up looking like a pile of crap"

It seems to me that after you have been going to this area that you figured out from the description however difficult, it was the area that was "full of crap" not the writer of the info.

You must be very new at this gold detecting game because most people will talk in riddles about an area, and usually for a reason known to themselves, get used to it and the info you read and how to interpret it. Most info discussed on forums will not have an X marks the spot and a little research is usually involved to figure out what is being said.

So SunriseBoy, I think you should rethink the way you describe another member.

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Being just on 70, I marvel how people have always got the answers to everyone else's problems except their own.

SunriseBoy wrote:Being just on 70, I marvel how people have always got the answers to everyone else's problems except their own.

I trust your talking about yourself????

ADMIN

Don't patronize me.

It just occurred to me that we are in Oz; the land of the great slaggers. And it's to be expected that here it's the man that's played; not the ball. If you had a modicum of integrity, you'd discern I never cast any value judgment in my initial post. I complained about inaccurate info.

I'm loath to insinuate a bad character on anyone. My focus was on the poor directions. Something you are quite happy to ignore in preference to a bit of 'good old aussie sledging and slagging'.

Hi sunriseboy ( Robin )
Whether the info 100% correct or not,  as not everyone likes to give out the exact locations
If only you were a member here when the poster first put the info up.
you may of been able to help out.

What a load of mis-informative crap!!!

It's this same kind of lack of attention to detail that sees most people's lives end up looking like a pile of crap.

SunriseBoy, I really think you had better relax with this sort of attitude. Anyone here that volunteers info on this forum, does it off their own back and for the most time, without any form of reimbursement and whether it be wrong, slightly inaccurate or correct, it's pretty much always appreciated and it certainly doesn't warrant such a show of lack of respect and the outburst that you have portrayed. It's really quite simple, if you don't appreciate the info found on this forum and you think it's "crap", go elsewhere - keep displaying this sort of bad attitude and you will for sure, need to find a new forum address to voice your opinion.

Yes, my 'attitude', as you so quaintly put it, really ought to be adjusted for the various touchy 'aussie' PC crew. But I'm sure we are both assured this ain't gonna happen.
Again, you have entirely failed to land the gist of my first post. But I get that; it's like being in a pub on a Sat. night...