A GIANT DISCOVERY After Following the Old Pioneers Trail!

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

Join me on this overnight expedition of my return to the old goldfields, where the bushfires have exposed workings that haven’t seen sunlight in almost 140 years.
Armed with a few sample bags from these abandoned diggings, I follow the trail left behind by the old-timers - panning, testing, and trying to understand what they saw in this forgotten corner of the wilderness. I’m here to document what they left behind: the wash, the old faces, the scattered hints of their hard-won lives.
And as I pan each sample and track their trail deeper into the bush, the spirit of the old-timers seems to pull me toward something I never expected.

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