Taradale ??

Hi All

I usually prospect north of Dunolly but wanted to find an area a bit closer to Melbourne for some day trips. Taradale looked interesting from the research I did but it seems looking at the maps I have most if not all of the old diggings and Leads are on private property. There is a State forest to the west but with very few old surface diggings (almost none). There has been a mention of Taradale previously in the forum but only a couple of random comments and looking at my maps they might have been referring to surrounding areas. Has anyone had a go out that way and if you have where? I don't want an X on the map but if someone can steer me in the right general direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Found some diggings on the east side of the Calder last year sometime, had a quick go in the area for a few bits of junk, haven't been back since then though. I can't remember the exact spot but if you head up the Metcalfe-Teradale Rd just after you go under the Calder Fwy there is a turn off on the right (Carnell Rd), head up that track to a fork in the road, left at the fork. It's somewhere in there, it's not a big area (only a couple of main tracks) so shouldn't be to hard to locate the diggings.

I hope this helps

Thanks for the info Universal1
Located the track mentioned on the map. I'll do a day trip pretty soon and check it out.

Quote from old book

A party of three divided $15,000 as the proceeds of working
a claim at Back Creek, Taradale, to a depth of 12 feet,
their yield including a nugget of 648 oz. and a number of
small nuggets weighing 80 oz.

thanks for the info geof_junk.
When you say old Book what are we talking about, something which happened 100 years ago or more recent?

Hi TheGoldenChild might have to jion you around the area of Taradale for a day trip! I'm constantly around the area of Daylesford searching. http://www.whereis.com/vic/taradale#session=MjA=

http://www.tageo.com/index-e-as-v-07-d-m2266060.htm -37.150 144.367 (Taradale)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taradale,_Victoria

" Taradale 103 km (64 mi) NW of Melbourne, Taradale is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Calder Highway between Melbourne and Bendigo
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A number of gold mining activities were carried out in and around the township itself including washing for alluvial gold in Back Creek and the sinking of shafts."

will be out that way in a fortnight if the weather is good, you are welcomed to join me if you like.

Blackwood is closer

Good for gold nuggets and Panning

I bet the gold is sitting on the surface after all that rain we had

Detrackozi wrote:Blackwood is closure

Good for gold nuggets and Panning

I bet the gold is sitting on the surface after all that rain we had

Hi

You mean closer ? not closure! otherwise if Blackwood is closure we can't detect there LOL!!!! I hope you have made a typo here otherwise I'm going to cry.

Just the other day i purchased a booklet on Trentham-Blackwood Gold prospecting Guide from a Mapworks shop in 184 Keilor Rd, Essendon VIC 3040 and already read it 4 times LOL.

Maybe make it a day out for forum members, certainly with all the rain we have had, I'm sure there would be some interesting finds on the surface.

Cheers

Sorry 24Kt

I never check just type and post.

She is a nice lady in the map shop.