The Oaks (NSW) - Serpentine (WA)

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33 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

What an offer! Now all I have to do is shake my dose of CV19 & find a suitable weather window.😈

If you have the time and you're interested you might manage to find a little gold nugget or two to take home.

[facthunter]

Need a land vehicle for that to pay the trip off... Nev

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6 hours ago, facthunter said:

Need a land vehicle for that to pay the trip off... Nev

Pretty hard to do that in Cue in a short period of time. All the big gold was taken many years ago but we can still find tiny pieces with the metal detector. Most people are just happy to go home with a bit of colour because it's not easy to find anywhere.

 

 

These are from our trip away in May, enough to pay for the trip but it's found on our lease a long way from here. We have plenty of gold in Cue but it's deep, beyond my reach.

[onetrack]

I've seen a conveyor belt on a gold mine jammed and stopped in its tracks, and when the jamming was investigated, it was found a 42 ounce nugget had jammed the belt!

 

I've also seen a prospector roll up to the Kalgoorlie Battery with a wheelbarrow load of specimen quartz, that had chunks of visible gold in every piece of rock one picked up.

The load of stone was too rich to put through the Battery stamps, so the Battery crushed it in the Berdan (bur-dan) Pan in the Battery. The wheelbarrow load yielded around 250 ounces of gold!

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On 16/08/2025 at 10:33 AM, skippydiesel said:

Would the strip be in the corner of Lorraine Road?

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Lorraine Rd only goes as far as the farmhouse. Further north has been closed for 20+ years, as well as Onslow Rd going east. Google maps is terrible for showing roads that have been closed as well as showing farmers private laneways as roads.

[onetrack]

You can fix Google Maps by right clicking on a road and select "report a data problem". You then get a number of choices set by Google to alter the map information. You can advise them a section of road is closed.