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That is why most of us have a good looking wife to cancel out our defects 😆

Another problem for buyers is that councils are declaring some land as flood prone and this prevents building on them as well as insurance prices for them.

That is bad news mate. Hope you get well soon. You might have to swing slower, but it may help you find deeper treasures. Best of luck.

Go where people have gone and limit your time where detectorist have gone unless you find easy target there till you get very experienced.

A brother in-law of mine had a 10 acres small farm. His water was supplied with a mile long 1½ inch plastic pipe that was joined with brass connections. The easement went through another farmers property that kept stealing his water ( a large cost was charged from the waterboard was involved). In the end my brother in-law went to a large water tank supplied from his roofs. To prevent the thief from using his pipework I located all of the brass connectors which were 18" deep and he removed them all as bad blood was involved.

The World largest nugget is the "Welcome Stranger" Found only 3 cm (1.2 in) below the surface, near the base of a tree on a slope leading to what was then known as Bulldog Gully, the nugget had a gross weight of 109.59 kilograms (3,523.5 ozt) (241 lb 10 oz). Its trimmed weight was 78 kilograms (2,520 ozt) (210 lbs), and its net weight was 72.02 kilograms (2,315.5 ozt) (192 lbs 11.5 oz).[3] If a nugget was found near this size anywhere, I'm sure it would be media sensation.

If it was a new release, I would think it is genuine ML add. 🤑

That last fortnight I was walking the pavement keeping fit at 77years Because there no gold here where I live.

We all known that you can be tricked by the sound. I add the width of the signal and it cut off height analyst when testing what I think is a deep ounce plus nugget to all the other methods commonly used. But the pick is the only true way to tell.

While hunting gold near a Tungsten mine i found this specimen. (It is one of my favorite bits)

Note each bar has it's own number.

Here is a PDF file I made back in 1998 from West Aust old mining records hope it helps. HistoricalGoldMinesWestAus.pdf

I had a similar experience to RON PRATER but in a different order. When I went to Wedderburn Vic. Aus. back in 1979/80 I decided to look for virgin ground. Spent 10 weeks 10 hours a day and found only junk. However a couple years later I had my best day in Maryborough area when I found 26+ ounces in a patch. Back to Ron's nearly 17 troy ounces in a 3 pound specimen. I found 3½ Kilo specimen in West Australia when dollied produce 17+ ounces but as you can see it did not show anywhere near as much gold as Ron's. So I feel justified smashing it up.🙂 The one I am referring to is the larger top left handed one.

That is less than a gram of gold in Aus. My choice of apparel still is a pair of Electrician Overalls (no metal) but I will have to get the logo somehow. 😍

Douglass became the first black American to be nominated for Vice President of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket

"Little Giant" famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln

I think he found it on the first of April. 😀

Back in my VLF gold prospecting days I found moist ground was easier to ground balance than bone dry ground in very hot ground.

Just for Easter.

That's the way things are these days so take note.😠

Roo in the early days of gold forums, when you said you had a good day, their mates would jokingly say "no photo no gold". This action resulted in the photos that people post back then and now. Look at the ones in this post alone, how it stirs up our hopes of getting more.

This time it is my hand.

It might be cool enough for you Simon but the gold will be to big. 🥲

Carol hands, so that where it is went to.