If Only You Could Go Back In Time

[jrbeatty]

Mmm!  A bit off with his location for the Poseidon nugget discovery site. It was actually in a short, narrow, shallow tertiary lead very close to the Woolshed reef, as were most of the other big pieces. The Woolshed Reef is in a patch of forest (owned until recently by the Harris family) a kilometer or more south of where he is filming. You can occasionally see it when he pans his camera. 

He is pointing towards the spoil heap of the "Poseidon" claim, a deep lead shaft located in deep ground. the entire Poseidon lead was eventually worked at depth right underneath the Loddon River.

[jrbeatty]

Not wishing to hijack Geoff's excellent thread unduly but just to clarify some misconceptions from the video posted earlier, here's some notes and portion of a map from that excellent prospector, goldfields historian and really interesting conversationalist John Tully:

(Credit: John Tully)

The short, shallow northwestward trending lead next to the Woolshed reef is the discovery location for most (but not all) of the big pieces.

This is a branch of the main NE trending Poseidon lead and is sometimes erroneously called the Woolshed lead on many modern maps, whereas the actual Woolshed lead drains the eastern side of the reef and was worked in the 1860's.

The notes on the Poseidon lead is from a small booklet published in 1988 entitled "Dunolly and Tarnagulla Goldfields" by John Tully and now, sadly, out of print.

Incidentally, the video also shows a piece of roadside conglomerate. This, and much of the roadbase for the original road came from the nearby tailing dumps of the "Poseidon", "Poseidon United" and other claims along the lead. Naturally, it was rich in detectable gold. This led to that stretch of road being nicknamed "The Yellow Brick Road" in the 1980's by local prospectors - - - :)