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  1. Eric it is a dream adventure/trip and take it as such. If you forget the gains that maybe found it is worth it, a cheap ship cruise is about is about $2000 to $5000 a week for 2 people with no return from luck or skill except on the pokies and cards.

    Just one thing I had all the historical mines locations and extensive GPS use and Knowledge before I went to  West Aust in 2003 when I retired. A lot of local Pro. gold prospectors were asking me for gps location of certain mines which I help them locate. I found many unknown spots but someone else had been in the area. There was a few lucky ones that got most of the gold and fortunately a few unlucky ones that missed the gold that made my efforts more than paid off..   

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  2. 9 hours ago, kingswood said:

    Yep thats me too. I dropped the larger pick a few years ago and now detect with the small pick hanging thru a tool belt pouch belted around the waist. If I need the larger pick, will just walk back and get it. I havent had to do that yet ha ha.

    The tool pouch is awesome as it has a slot for the pick to slide into, a spot for the scoop and 2 pouches for GPS, gold jar etc.

    If the hole is too big for the little pick, it is worth while going a mile or two to get the big pick. ☺️

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  3. I only made one claim in Victoria for detecting. Vic rules were easy back then. I would not make another claim anywhere for detecting alone, as every one else knows where it is as JP said and to work the claim by hand had to have 200 Lt of water for fire protection if I had my vehicle parked on it.

    At one time we had a Miner Right a lot of that has gone.

    https://www.eurekapedia.org/Miner's_Right 

    https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/13628/download-report

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  4. 13 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

    I know a lot of what I call "real miners." Alaska still has plenty of small placer mining operations, many of them family operations. Or serious gold dredgers. Almost to a person they consider metal detecting for a gold a complete waste of time. They have a family to feed and bills to pay and no time for toys. In the world of gold mining metal detectors are toys. Useful toys at times perhaps, but still toys. Me on my favorite mining tool....

    mc-2005-june-steve-d9.jpg

    Like all us gold prospector, we fill in our holes but your would be a little bit bigger.😀

  5. I have no idea what my records is for number of coins found  in a day / week as my main interest was gold nuggets. However the value of the coins is secondary as they are stored away only to be looked at or being left for the Grandkids. I got a copy of Aus. coin albums for the silver coins I found and spent some time trying to fill all the holes a feat that would take more than a life time.

    The first link is showing the ones that were excess. The second is the link to an old post here that contains the albums.

    Excess Silver Coins.

    Old DetectorProspector post on silver coins

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  6. On 2/20/2024 at 3:45 AM, Skate said:

    some of these can companies are making their pull tabs gold in color which should be a crime. I dig, see the gold edge and of course I'm thinking we got a bingo only to find out it's from a rockstar can pull tab. There is a special place in hell for these people. 

    You can always say you found a heap of GOLD tabs 🤩

  7. Be aware.

    When watching a partial or annular solar eclipse directly with your eyes, you must look through safe solar viewing glasses (“eclipse glasses”) or a safe handheld solar viewer at all times. Eclipse glasses are NOT regular sunglasses; regular sunglasses, no matter how dark, are not safe for viewing the Sun.

    Instead, there are special solar viewers or filters needed to protect your eyes while looking at a solar eclipse. Look for glasses that are certified ISO 12312-2 and verify the glasses are not expired or damaged.

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  8. When I bought a detector price was not factor in choice, however when I upgraded the existing one would be given away as it value  was always too low to considering selling it.

    At the moment our current detector have not moved in to digital/processor type yet but the old analog have found plenty of gold and coins. As they say location and knowing how to use what you got is the best way to go. 

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  9. 1980 in Wedderburn at the Australian Detector Rush most people were using discrimination. Not the best back then, however I put a 5 cent bit on the ground not one detector could pick it up at their settings. Two full time prospecting brothers and another were in a spot were one of the brothers go a large signal and said junk. The other one went and dug up the target which was a 36 oz bit. Note the Aus. 5 cent piece was a good test target latter on for PI detectors to gauge their effectiveness on gold.  

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