Aaron Armstrong takes us down the Brock's creek gold mine. Brock's creek is a further 56 kilometres south of Adelaide river. It is a mineral rich area with many workings and small ghost towns from the turn of the century. Here we are in full regalia after our induction.














Enterance to the mine is via this tunnel which is at the base of a previous open cut pit. We drove down the spiral shaft in a Toyota land cruiser. If I remember correctly, we decended 300 metres below this point and travelled 3 kilometres of spiralling shaft to get there..


















Aaron and Susan inspect a gold ore sample off the floor. Although you could see "colour" in the sample it takes a fair bit of extraction to get payable dirt. It was fairly hot and certainly humid as large pumps kept the water at bay. Remember this is the wet season and seepage from above provides plenty of water below.











This a mobile unit fixing mesh to the ceiling to stop rockfalls. These units are multifunctional and can change operations to do other work as well. There were surprisingly few people at work inside the mine.