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On 10/9/2017 at 11:20 PM, Giddiup said:

An inspiring thread guys. Theres mention of the odd junk target but how much junk did you pick up then or was it all big ass nuggets!!!:) Everyones still finding plenty of trash, i am curious to know if you found your fair share or if the machines only picked up the bigger targets…Folk say if you find a plenty of trash then at least you know the area hasn't been flogged….i'm not so sure now:)

Giddiup: Always junk around, but the trick is to avoid digging "old" deep ground and only detect "new" ie, unworked ground. You might still hit gold in old ground, but you're certainly going to dig a lot of deep junk.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

John digs rubbish just off Nuggety gully road, Talbot. Didn't realize he was on old ground   Very Happy

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Rough gold from Sparks Gully Moliagul:

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Spectacular 20 oz  nugget from Moliagul (held by Ian in an earlier image) purchased by "Rattlesnake" John:

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Reg writes: "The Beagle boys with Zig the wonder dog (so called as it was a wonder no one had shot him!) at the 'Welcome Stranger" monument, Moliagul. The coil shown here was my Lance Hewitt special. Just brilliant!"

The Monument marks the spot where, in 1869, the worlds largest nugget (specimen) was discovered by Cornishmen John Deason and Richard Oates. It had a calculated refined weight of 3,123 oz (214.1 lbs)

 Immediately below the Monument in Bakers gully, John detected a 6 oz colour. The late Jim Stewart was with him at the time, and had another photograph with them posing with it at the monument. I found a pretty 6 grammer there many years ago:

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A contemporary image showing the discoverers and their families, taken some time after the discovery 0f the welcome stranger using a lump of quartz. Sadly, no actual images of the nugget were taken before it was cut up and melted into sovereigns.

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Image: Wikimedia

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What an album!

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Thanks Mitchel.

Reg writes:  "About 40 ozs from Tarnagulla and Poseidon. The red bit is from Harris's property. I missed the monster patch by a stones throw"

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The 'Monster Patch" he refers to was later discovered by moonlighters and has now developed into a large scale alluvial operation called the "Big Hope"

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This is an alluvial "lead" that the old timers missed, and is producing some very large nuggets. In Victoria, deep leads are buried valleys of Tertiary age.

It started as an extremely rich surface patch (missed by Reg) below the dry dam on the right and is projected to run to the left of the green dam, and will eventually cross the Poseidon road at the top. It will then join the older worked leads to the north.

"The one that got away" eh! Reg?  I'd hate to know how much gold we have all just missed! :ohmy:

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Great album JR, keep 'em coming. 

Someone once said "an inch may as well be a mile" in the detecting game. Might have even been someone on here ?

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Too true, turn back the clock 40 years, set me back there with a Z (only me bugger you lot), all those myths about the old fellas or up in my area the Chinese getting it all. Twas just a myth as is that we`ve got it all now.

Crikey all this eye candy is stimulating, all those "colours"............ keep it coming JR.

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I could write a book on the gold I've missed. Far more than I ever found .

A mate and I detected not far from the old school house at Kingower. 2 years later the 'hand of faith' nugget was discovered about a hundred meters or less from our spot. [we only found small gold there]

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Reg,

I've seen that nugget several times.  I think the first time was about 1998 if I remember correctly when I was there for a Comdex show.  The World Series of Poker had been held across the street.  It's still there.

Here's a link to it and some others from your neck of the woods.

http://www.discoverychannel.com.au/images/worlds-biggest-gold-nuggets/ 

Mitchel

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Detail of the Poseidon 14 oz specimen presented to Roy Harris:

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Another shot of the Poseidon gold:

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Reg : "Ian crowbars out a 14 ouncer at 'Little Red Streak', Patchy Flat, after John pinpoints it using my old prototype GT 16000"

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"A small virgin patch from west of little Red Streak gully, Dunolly, detected by Ray Daniel and myself"

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"19 oz lump from Rheola. So shallow I could have kicked it out with my boot"  Shocked

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"Ray Daniel operating my detecting 'sled' at Baringup West"

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"Cleaning up some old heaps on the Kangaroo diggings, south of Berringa, using my little Massey Ferguson drott. A handy machine"

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That Little Red Streak, Patchy Flat picture is so reminiscent of the Vic GT goldfields.  The thin forest, the type trees, quartz everywhere, trees bringing up the quartz at the base. 

I'm assuming old mate that runs sheep in the paddock next to the forest got a knock on his door?? :biggrin:

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