Try your luck at striking gold!
Try your luck at striking gold! Before you head off, make sure you have purchased your fossicking licence online.
FOSSICKING LICENCE APPLICATION
Thanes Creek fossicking area located approximately 40km west of Warwick, is known to contain alluvial gold, first discovered at Thane in 1868.
The rocks in the Thanes Creek area have been mapped as the Texas beds, which are of Devonian to Carboniferous age. They include sandstone, mudstone, conglomerate, slate, chert, jasper, andesite, and limestone. The primary gold-bearing quartz reefs occur mainly in slate. Alluvial gold in the gullies and creeks accumulated from the weathering of the rocks containing these reefs.
Colours of gold can be obtained from the alluvial sediments within the stream channel and from gravel layers in the low bank or possibly from crevices in rock bars. During dry times, water may be scarce but pools do remain in better seasons.
Panning is the simplest recovery method.
