The Reg Wilson Gold Album

[mn90403]

JR,

Thanks for the post.

That is an ugly ounce.  I don't think I'd be embarrassed by it tho.  It is a half-way reasonable post.  haha

I noticed your 5000.  I still have mine but have not used it in a while.  Could you repeat what you prefer for settings?

Mitchel

[jrbeatty]

Mitchel: 

 Fine gold (in most ground) with gain flat out and little stabiliser. Threshold not off but "Burbling"

Lots of strange noises with this setting but it's amazing how you can train your mind to filter out the irrelevant ones. I've found much gold on well flogged areas using them, such as that ugly specimen. Others claim that you will miss faint signals in the noise, but my experience is that there aren't any faint signals using these extreme settings. They boom in! 

On the subject of noisy detectors, years ago, Jim Stewart and I detected with some Aboriginals from Laverton, WA who kindly showed us some of their patches they'd hammered with their SD2000's. We were amazed to find that they didn't much care about settings like threshold and ground balance, but we failed to find anything further with our then state of the art SD2200's and custom made coils

 

 

 

[vanursepaul]

Well here I am at work waiting for more sustenance.....  More pictures or more stories....lol

I can't get over the picture on green grass!!!!

 

[mn90403]

10 hours ago, vanursepaul said:

Well here I am at work waiting for more sustenance.....  More pictures or more stories....lol

I can't get over the picture on green grass!!!!

 

Paul is the only guy I know who gets paid to watch this thread!

Oh, wait a minute ... we all should be making something while reading online.  Only a few people like Reg and JR (maybe JW and Norvic) find enough gold to take a break to read this.  

[jrbeatty]

On 10/23/2017 at 5:44 AM, mn90403 said:

Paul is the only guy I know who gets paid to watch this thread!

Oh, wait a minute ... we all should be making something while reading online.  Only a few people like Reg and JR (maybe JW and Norvic) find enough gold to take a break to read this.  

Sadly, I'm not finding anything golden while the shearing is on, Mitchel, but wool prices are booming ATM, so it's worth doing.

Can't wait to get a detector in my hands and walk Victorian ground once more. 

Steady on Paul! I'm doing my best trying to find something interesting to post with Reg away - 

Ok, here's something - 

"Also near Stirling Rush, Also 13 ozs (not to be confused with the other 13 oz Wedderburn bit posted earlier) just north of Horries specimen patch, Wedderburn"

John Hider Smith was the publican of the Wychitella Pub in the 80's. This is a small town north of Wedderburn, at the northern limit of the rich western Victorian gold province. Horrie was a prospector who used to get annoyingly drunk and disorderly.  One night, to teach him a lesson, somebody snatched his hat (permanently welded on his head because he didn't want people to know he was going bald, but everybody knew anyway) For a while it was tossed about the bar with Horrie becoming increasingly agitated, until eventually it ended up with John, who promptly stuffed it into a box of takeaway beer handed to a stranger. Horrie never returned, much to the relief of many.

During the nineties, Ian Jacques was publican of the Logan pub south of Wedderburn, and it became the location for the annual "prospectors breakup" Much big gold displayed and many a brain cell gone AWOL, but some fantastic nights.

Some familiar vehicles outside:

The beer was excellent:

And gold to be found not too far from the pub:

 

[vanursepaul]

Ahhh...That helps a wee bit....

 

Itseemsd like that bunch of ruffians from the Ballarat area are picking up a few nice pieces daily..

Must not be too hot over there...

 

[jrbeatty]

8 oz Specimen gold from Monkey gully, Scarsdale:

"A bit over 50 ozs from near Blacksmiths gully Talbot. Biggest piece 23.5 ozs"

This is largely oxide coated, fairly typical of deep lead gold.

In the early days, often discarded by mistake, unless the weight was felt on the shovel. Colour varies depending on the coating.

Manganese leaves a typically black coating, whereas ferrous oxides leave a tan colour. Most finders dip it in acid to remove the coating, but in some ways that's a pity because it destroys part of the post formative history.

Detail of above. 23.5 oz nugget plus three pieces for 14 ozs:

 

 

 

 

[vanursepaul]

Yeah mate... I like that patina !!!!

It is 330 am here in the usa and i am up looking a carsales au --looking for a decent prospecting fourby.... that I could use all around OZ ..[inexpensively]---- -!! (you got any mates selling?)

Keep on the the gold mate!!! ----It is all good that's for sure.  Keeps me from going into my "OZ addiction withdrawal"

Thanks again for this thread!

[jrbeatty]

On 10/25/2017 at 7:49 PM, vanursepaul said:

Yeah mate... I like that patina !!!!

It is 330 am here in the usa and i am up looking a carsales au --looking for a decent prospecting fourby.... that I could use all around OZ ..[inexpensively]---- -!! (you got any mates selling?)

Keep on the the gold mate!!! ----It is all good that's for sure.  Keeps me from going into my "OZ addiction withdrawal"

Thanks again for this thread!

3.30 am? Paul, you have it bad! I guess that makes me a dealer of sorts, feeding your habit   

Sadly we're nearing the end of the album. There are still dozens of pictures but many are just repeats of gold already posted in a different layout or orientation. Being gold, it still looks good though. For example:

94 oz Dunolly 1989:

Poseidon:

Condons paddock Wehla:

Now here's some new ones.

Moliagul:

Nuggety lead Maldon. the bigger piece 2 1/2 oz:

Pinchgut area Havelock. 3 oz and 2 oz:

Sometime bad things happen. With the exception of the two pieces on top (already shown elsewhere) all the rest shown here was stolen from Reg's house last year by an ice addict. Naturally, not recovered :

Detail of stolen flat piece above. Reg detected this sub ounce piece on one of our wildcat hunts south of Walmer. Got us excited but proved to be a loner. Yet another blasted one colour patch!

And some more unknowns:

We'll conclude next time - might just have to get Paul some methadone -  - or get him over here swinging!

 

 

[vanursepaul]

Never gets old!