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You only need to keep (note KEEP) 198 Ounces of gold to get $1 million in Aust. 138 Ounces of gold to get $1 million in USA Does that mean it is easier for you Yanks 😀

Welcome back I just looked your profile yesterday. You have been quiet for around a year I was wondering whether you was still in the game. Best of luck when you hit Aust. again.

My most reliable detector. ☺️ So I guess it found the most specks 😉

Reg you might remember my mate Ernie and his father ( they were Irish ) who died in the Maryborough caravan. Ernie was working with a pro gold hunter called Peter. Ernie found a solid 86 or 96 Oz nugget with a "Detect Detector" he kept the location to himself and wife and even his father was not told. Ernie died about 5 years and recently his wife told me that he found it in one of the spots I told him about. Ernie introduced me to you back when you was working an area near Alma with a farmer building a dam on his property. You might not remember as you was drinking your famous home brew at the time. Ernie father was one of the turning point in getting me really interested in gold. He showed me a large coffee bottle full of gold that he had panned. This was about 1964. My largest single find was about 130 Oz but unfortunely it was contaminated with 113 Oz of bloody Quartz so I recovered 17 Oz 😁. By the way most of the original detectorist have all passed away or close to it.

Fourtyminer. Ken was a good guy to get on with, but got taken down by a con artist. I modified mine myself. Most of the gold I found was away from what others were concentrating on. A lot of easy detected gold if you knew what you was doing. Back in those days my deepest was 19" deep the Bounty Hunter got no signal and the wife's Whites 6000 got a slight sound but she said it was heard because she new it was there. Other wise she would of missed it but she did not let any gold escape her. As you know Victoria has a lot of very hot ground.

Joe Beechnut That is exceptional. Way back in the early 1980's my brother in law got 300+ rings he hit the area very hard that his Garrets ADS Deepseeker totally corroded up on all the knobs. When I got there 6 months later I managed to get more than 50 gold rings they were a mixture of 18 and 22 carat gold and only a couple of 9 Ct. This was early 1980's when hardly any body used top grade detectors on the beaches as they were all used chasing nuggets in Aus. We were very lucky as this was the result of hurricane erosion and the experience we had gain chasing nugget in Victoria.

You might of done 100 hours but who knows what hour is the magic one some people it is N° 1 in your case I think it is N° 101. So get out there and don't waste it 🤑

There have been a lot of gold photos in the topic. So far if I was the judge for the beauty contest Glen in Co would get my Vote for this one.

From 2003 when I retired I got 2 Minelab GP-3000s and detected W.A. I found +/- 3½ Kilos with it. From 1979 to 2003 I used a Garret ADS Deepseeker and the Aus. version of the Whites Goldmaster that was available in USA later as the limited series Jim Sierra. The Garrets found the most because I hit a patch with it ( 26½ Oz in a day). I found the Garrets was the most deepest and hardest to learn and use, but could use it anywhere on the gold fields. The Whites was the easiest to learn and use and was a replacement for the Garrets as it was great for cion hunting. I got less gold than the GP-3000. 1½ Kilos of Vic. gold but Vic. is a different layout for gold than W.A. since a much greater spread of gold and remote which suited my style. Vic. gold was found about 1850 and W.A 1892 and the population was greater in Vic so the old timers had a lot of completion. I found more patch in W.A. and the largest bit was 3½ Kilo Specimen that yielded about 17 Oz when dollied and 100s of sub grammars. A heap of small one from W.A. from one of 11 trips there Some larger ones from W.A. Another W.A trip Some of the larger ones. The two nuggets above the watch (6 Oz total) were from Vic the rest from W.A.

Willy Dee.........I was SKUNKED for more than 80 12hour days. At the time gold was supposed to be laying everywhere (1979) and I had 4 Oz of panned gold and a heaps of large pennies and silver coins from doing parks etc. Just remember it is effort and location that plays in results.

When there is a lot of choice the best is the one that suit you and all the other have some features that may be better but overall the one that suits you wins hand down.

What I had to go threw to get my first Ounce plus Nugget. I found a patch by myself the next day I took my mate out with me. At the start of access their was a couple 6" holes that I went all round them and got no signals till I got 100 meters in. When I took my mate in he walks straight in the middle of the first hole and hit a 2 Oz bit about 2 hours later 150 meters in my wife found found her first Ounce plus nugget. I was teased for nearly a year before I got mine and had bragging right as it was four times bigger than hers. As they say luck plays a part in finding them. In my case my mate was doing nightshift at the Police Station. I told him I would pick him up after I did an hour or so on little patch that I found within the town area. I found that I could not get any more of the small nuggets, so I decided to try on the other side of the road. When I walked over the clay gutter besides the sealed road I got a beer can signal. At about 3" deep out came my 4 Oz first 1 Oz plus nugget. I went to the Cop shop (police station) and my mate cleaned it up with the cell scrubbing brush. My first nugget took more than 10 weeks solid 12 hours a day with no gold. To rub salt in the wound Carol got her first nugget a 3.6 gram bit well before my first and her nugget was a lot bigger. To be fair my method of getting gold was searching for virgin spots which I did very well doing it for a long time as a hobby. This photo shows the 4 Oz bit at the top next to a hard to see gold ring. The other ones were found in Vic with a 1979 made VLF Garrets Deepseeker ADS or Whites Aus. Goldmaster detector.

Just guess the price to day of these nuggets. TO THE EDITOR The largest piece of gold, free of quartz, in the world, was taken from the Byer & Holtermann gold mining claim, Hill End, New South Wales, Australia, on May 10, 1872, its weight being 640 pounds, height four feet nine inches, width three feet two inches, average thickness four inches, and was worth $148,800. It was found imbedded in a thick wall of blue slate, at a depth of 250 feet from the surface. The owners of the mine were living on charity when they found it. The Welcome Stranger nugget was found on Mount Moliagul, February 9, 1869; it weighed 190 pounds and was valued at $45,000. It was raffled for $46,000. • The Welcome nugget was found at Bakery Hill, June 9. 1859 It weighed 184 pounds 9 ounces 16 dwt and was worth $44,356. Initial Sale: Sold the Witkowski Brothers for approximately £10,050. weighed 98 pounds was sold for $23,357, The Union Jack nugget was found February 28, 1857 it weighed 28 pounds 5 ounces, and was sold for $5620. No name nugget was found at Eureka, Dutton’s Flat, February 7, 1874, at a depth of thirty feet from the surface; it weighed 52 pounds 1 ounce, and was The Leg of Mutton nugget found at Ballarat, January 31, 1353, at a depth of 63 feet; it weighed 134 pounds 1l ounces, and was sold at the bank for $92,390. This nugget wag shaped like a leg of mutton, hence its name, No name nugget was found at Bakery Hill, Ballarat, March 6, 1835, near the surface; it weighed 47 pounds 7 ounces, and was sold for $11,420. No name. nugget was found in Canadian gulley, Ballarat, January 22, 1853, near the surface it weighed 84 pounds 3 ounces 15 pennyweights, and vas sold for $20,235. The "Koh-I-Noor" nugget was found at Ballarat, July 27, 1360, at a depth of 160 feet it weighed 69 pounds, and was sold for $16,680. The Sir Dominic Daly nugget was found February 27, 1862; it weighed 26 pounds, and was sold for $6240. No name nugget was found at Ballarat, February 28, 1853; it weighed 30 pounds 11 ounces 2 pennyweights, and was sold for $7395, No name nugget was found August 1, 1879 it weighed 12 pounds, and was worth $2280. No name nugget was found at Ballarat, February 3, 1853; it weighed 30 pounds, and was sold for $7360. No name nugget was found in Canadian gulley, January 20, 1853; it weighed 93 pounds 1 ounce 11 pennyweights, and was sold for 350. No name nugget was found at Bakery Hill, March 6, 1855; it weighed 40 pounds, and was worth $9600. The Nil Desperandum nugget was found November 29, 1839 it weighed 45 pounds, and was sold for $10,800 Tbe Oats & Delson nugget was found at Dunolly gold field in 1880 at the roots of a tree, it weighed 189 pounds and was sold for $50,000. In addition to the above are the Huron nugget, worth $20,000, and the Empress nugget, worth $27,661. A great number of smaller nuggets, too numerous to mention, have been found. Many large nuggets or lumps of gold have been found in California during the era of placer mining, but Australia must claim the largest. The California lumps are as follows: A piece of gold and quartz was found in Calaveras county on Carson Hill, on the mother-lode; it was valued at $42,000. The Downieville lump of quartz and gold, of Sierra county, as stated by Louis Blanding, gave a value of nearly $90,000; but it was not a nugget. The mass of gold and quartz found in the Bonanza. mine, Sonora, Tuolumne county, gave a value of over $40,000.

About 3 years a 4 Oz and the first sunbakers over an ounce (5½ Oz) about25 years.

The source of the spreadsheet was Bill O'Connor back about 2010 a link about him. https://www.gold-prospecting-wa.com/about-us.html#billoconnor