Fryerstown Prospecting Video

Can you imagine gold being so plentiful - this extract from a Fryerstown historical document

http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/44624/Castlemaine1.pdf
The riches of the locality were simply amazing, for as much as three
hundredweight of gold was taken out of one hollow in the rocky bottom of a
claim not seven feet deep. Many a man found ten to twenty pounds' weight
of gold loose upon the surface of his claim, and gathered or swept up
hundreds of pounds' worth before he commenced any excavation.
So freely could gold be found on the surface and about the grass roots, that
until men arrived in such numbers that one could no longer pick and choose
the spot to excavate, the digger would not sink anywhere until he had found
so much gold about the surface in any locality as to justify him in expecting
to find it in great abundance beneath.

Sure can imagine gold being so plentiful, for them there were the days of such gold found in abundance.
I were one of the lucky ones to have stumbled over such a small glory hole, measuring no more than about (8" round on the surface X about 8"inches deep) up on a flat, a few meters away from a rich gully workings, which produced just over 7 ounces of gold, consisting mostly of fine bits of colour, with the odd gram/half gram bits thrown in, all trapped in a pocket of clay, but a few years back.
Lucky were the few back in the late 70's/early 80's, who were game to take up & persist with the search for nuggety gold by use of a metal detector, having had some knowledge as to where & how nuggety gold could be found & extracted with, landing on some significant in size nuggets or patches of gold finds, all within reach of a metal detector, missed by the early diggers of that time.
Today, one would struggle to comprehend a one hundred weight glory hole, not alone a 300 weight. , But In saying such, leads me to believe that such a tale of such gold finds were found, by the hand full few lucky diggers of old, back in the days of when gold, were such in abundance.

Kon