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madtuna last won the day on February 19 2020

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    W.A. gold fields Australia
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    growing old disgracefully
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    GPZ 7000 GPX 5000 SDC 2300 and a pan

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  1. Yep, as a seller, if you get an inquiry and if they’ve just registered, the dead give away is when they ask “what’s your email”
  2. Yep…imagine my horror when my land cruiser got a flat so I went to fit the spare from my Corolla and it wouldn’t fit! Never buying a Toyota again! I just know they changed the size and stud pattern just to pi$$ me off.😃
  3. Thanks for the pics. Cut my teeth at Hill End and the surrounding areas. My great great grandfather was the first doctor in Hill End back in the gold rush during the time of the Holterman nugget in a previous post. I always wonder if he got a chance to ogle it. There is a hill in Hill End named Fischer’s Hill after him.
  4. Yep Dave, I bought it second hand. It was 6 weeks old when I got it. The plastic is fine and most of that will scrub off. But yep, poking it under a lot of bushes plus pushing dirt and rocks across the top will scratch a coil in quick time. My nugget finders, minelab, x-coils all look the same in short order. I don’t care what it looks like, I just care that is works and works it does! The reason for the sale was it was a bucket list trip…done and dusted and the guy had a ball!
  5. Photoshop before photoshop was invented. From what I understand it was cut up to get it out of the mine or something similar so the photo was actually dodged up
  6. Recently acquired a 6000 and have to say so far I am very impressed! The non existent weight makes it a pleasure to swing for hours on end without the need for a harness and bungy. Throw on the 17” mono and it’s an excellent step it out raw prospecting tool. Being accustomed to large coils, using the little 11” mono took some getting used to, but I can’t deny its ability to sniff out the tiny bits from old patches which l’ve hammered with everything including chaining with an SDC. Being in an area where although bigger bits are often found, 90% of your gold is still sub gram and I have dozens of old patches to revisit and I am positive I will be rewarded as I was on the last spot with 30+ pieces. While it‘s no 7000 and certainly wont replace mine, it’s an excellent companion to the 7000 and plugs another hole where gold is missed. The only down side I can see so far is I have to remind myself to pick up and swing my 7000 occasionally also.
  7. Was a pleasure to meet you both. Sorry the gold wasn’t a bit more forthcoming. Big mining tying up a lot of the productive spots now including new pits on a couple of my good patches grrrr!
  8. Was good to meet you both this morning. Good luck out there and hopefully I’ll catch you out there!
  9. I found a whole section from someone’s gob a bunch of years ago. You can see the very fine join where the two pieces lock together like a jigsaw puzzle. This was from an old 1850’s gold field though not sure if they date to back then. The workmanship is brilliant. On the underside you can still see parts of the teeth they locked over to hold them in place.
  10. 2nd last picture, is that the granites on Webo station Dave?
  11. We had a team from that show working on our station (left a complete mess btw) a producer wanted me to come screaming in, in my Perentie with my rifle and act like an irate pastoralist.
  12. By all means give me a hoy if you do get down this way….you’ve been invited back a couple of times to the same place so you can’t be too much of a unit😀
  13. If you flip it over it has made in Arizona printed on the bottom.
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