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<blockquote data-quote="wbvs58" data-source="post: 1703548" data-attributes="member: 16453"><p>Yes Shell, it was mostly alluvial tin but up the back along the watershed there are a couple of shafts where they were looking for the lode of tin, one hole was dug in 1873 through rock at the rate of 1 foot per week and goes down 65 ft, no lateral shafts as they didn't find big veins of it. Another shaft further along has a fair bit of underground workings, I have been down it into a big cavern but not explored it further as it goes down another shaft that has lateral tunnels off it. No shoring as mostly through rock. The holes are not fenced but I have not lost any cattle down them as they are in rocky high areas with no feed and are of no interest to the cows. There was some wolfram (tungsten) mined as well after WW2. A mining exploration company drilled about 12 holes about 13 years ago but could not sell the mining rights to any mining company, the minerals were there but a geologist told me extracting and seperating them would be too expensive at those current prices.</p><p></p><p>Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wbvs58, post: 1703548, member: 16453"] Yes Shell, it was mostly alluvial tin but up the back along the watershed there are a couple of shafts where they were looking for the lode of tin, one hole was dug in 1873 through rock at the rate of 1 foot per week and goes down 65 ft, no lateral shafts as they didn't find big veins of it. Another shaft further along has a fair bit of underground workings, I have been down it into a big cavern but not explored it further as it goes down another shaft that has lateral tunnels off it. No shoring as mostly through rock. The holes are not fenced but I have not lost any cattle down them as they are in rocky high areas with no feed and are of no interest to the cows. There was some wolfram (tungsten) mined as well after WW2. A mining exploration company drilled about 12 holes about 13 years ago but could not sell the mining rights to any mining company, the minerals were there but a geologist told me extracting and seperating them would be too expensive at those current prices. Ken [/QUOTE]
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