South of Tennant it's finer than lose lovely jewellery grade bits.
NBD they are the prize for detector people. For necklaces, earrings, brooches double gold price is often easy to get.
At Austral there is lots of heavy black sand with fines. The bloke who owned the operation was getting his concentrate smelted north of town.
The processor pulled the pin. Years later, rediscovered site. (with map orig GPS coordinates) Guy had walked away. Gold on the shaker tables; leach piles, even a backhoe. Son looked at Lister generator, handstarted it in a minute. Termites had eaten the lab, all the chemicals still on ground in bottles. Probably still there - no roads now.
Got a couple heavy buckets of gold and sand. Also probably still there at back of Standley St.
