Monday, May 21, 2018

They Found ‘thousands and thousands’ Of Nuggets

The guy who started the Pilbara gold rush found 'thousands and thousands' of nuggets - Stockhead:

Campbell says he and wife Zoe stumbled across Purdy’s Reward and Comet Well while chasing wild cattle.
“We were flying over the area doing a headcount for an upcoming muster and we’d seen where someone had been camping pretty well out in the middle of nowhere.
“I said ‘it looks to me as if they’d been prospecting or they’re hiding from the police’ because it was a bit suss where they were.
“I got some hired help and went out there and started looking. I think it was at Purdy’s where the guy was camped. We did our own exploration work and found that it soon stretched over about 8km.”
Thousands and thousands of nuggets
Mr Campbell said he and his crew found “thousands and thousands” of gold nuggets.
“If you turned on a metal detector you weren’t walking anywhere because there was too much gold,” he said.
“So when I found it I spent a lot of time on a four-wheel motorbike and walking and I just started to map it basically – the length and the width.
“We found nuggets up to 10 ounces size-wise, but we found thousands and thousands of 2-gram and 1.5-gram nuggets.
Is the Pilbara gold rush real? “100 per cent,” Mr Campbell says.
“Absolutely undeniably Comet Well will be something big and I’ll tell you why — and this is from a non-geologist’s point of view.
“If I can walk 8km and dig a hole in the ground and find gold, there’s 8km of gold. If I can dig 4m down and find gold, there’s 4m of gold. That’s the way I do it, my mathematics is pretty simple.”
Back to cattle
“My wife and I put a lot of our money into cattle and property. We’re looking to buy a cattle station,” Mr Campbell said.
“I’ve never had gold fever. I just don’t see the romance in gold. I see money in cattle and agriculture.”
Mr Campbell is no longer prospecting and is running the engineering department for the Town of Port Hedland to spend more time with his wife and six boys.
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