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I will have to check my collection one day.🤑 ....Link....

School bus stop in country towns was good for me when I chased coins.

March is over, so the harvest is ready to start. .......Start of April Harvest......

It works OK on my DOS 3.1 ........... Just kidding 🤣

No it's tomorrow. 😁

Yes..............It was to big to bite........but they did after the melting.

I gave my original 1991 Whites Eagle spectrum to my second oldest grandson 25 years old a week ago. Memory is some thing that needs prompting at my old age, required to get by or great/dreadful/survival memories that are easily remembered. He has gone out and brought the accessories coin shovel, pin-pointer and detector harness as soon as he could with no input from me, but his choice was not too bad. As I was given the detector by the wife of my boss who I showed my methods of chasing gold in the 1980 to 1999 (he was the Charge Engineer at a 1500 Megawatt Power station where I worked) when he died 20 years ago. At that time gold in West Aust. was more important that learning his detector. So far my grandson has been air-rating his dad lawn 🤣 that is completely full of junk that it is hard to find a square foot of area of no junk. So far he has got a few coins (including a USA 1 cent and I got a Canada 5¢ coin) and a lot of their broken small cars and othertoys. How ever he played with the setting before he went to a beach and found he could get only a inch or two on coins. When I tried to adjust the setting I manage to pick up the Canada coin at 6" which was a great improvement on his setting. He has seen most of my coin and gold finds he thinks this OLD granddad is an expert and knows how to set it up better than him. This resulted in me doing some research on vintage detectors to find what I was dealing with. Anyhow I found this article that might interest/revoke memory of you guys. Are Old Metal Detectors as Good as the New Ones? .......Souce LINK.......

It was 5 grams, that is a lot more than some people get. Now if was only 5 grains, a pan might be a better solutions. 😀

That is about the same size as my single largest gold specimen find, but I only got 16+ oz gold. I suspect his detector was better (Is the right Gerry) . No it not, there is more contaminates of GOLD in his, lucky bugger. If I add the extra weight of gold ( it showed a lot more when broken up) it looks about right for the volume. How could you sell mine for it true value without smashing it up and melting it.

The offset of the circle looks like scissors to me.

I will have two thanks.

Only tried Bealiba about 1981 all I got was a small speck from a white clay heap around a deep hole. The Bealiba area was originally known as Cochranes, after John and James Cochrane, who took up a pastoral run in the area in 1853. The diggings, started in the mid 1850s, were originally known as Cochrane’s Diggings.

We are metric in Aus so we weigh in KILOs especially for GOLD 🤪

If the wife won't pay for the trip you should by OK as meals are provided in this add. 🤣 .....LINK.... https://www.akaugold.com/pricing

A YouTube Link of find. ......YouTube LINK..... The two bits fit together perfectly I wonder if he hit it with his pick.

"It weighs 4.6 kilograms and that includes 2.6 kilograms of gold." It must of been riddled with gold. My 3½ Kilos bit only had 16+ oz and it was 3.5 kilos and he got nearly 84 oz 😢 It remines me of the early days when big nuggets were released to the media near public holidays (School, Easter and Xmas or New detector release.) those were the days.

From Victoria Channel 9 News. "oh wow, the wife's going to be happy with that." ......Link.....

Bonanzas gold finds in Victoria from the 1850s. The following is from ProspectingAustraliaForum ...........Link........

Not all long range devices are fakes. My G&J device works all the time but I don't sell them but do hire them for less than $1,000 a month. 🤑 Go to my LINK .............. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hoodwink ....Click HERE....

Steve Quote from the link above sums it up from my experience too. ............. "I do know one thing. If you are using normal size coils, going to smaller coils almost always gets more gold. Going to bigger coils? Not so much. No matter how you slice it big nuggets are very rare." ........... But it could be a nugget of a lifetime.

The 1 gm that the 25 or 24" coil could locate would of been found by the 14" coil if it went over it.

If you are located in Australia have a look at OziExplorer Web site. It does everything anyone needs. https://oziexplorer4.com/au/ I have used it for 20+ years initially shareware it was so good got a reg version soon after. Used for bushwalking and prospecting (keep all my nuggets locations and maps with it.) By the way it is able to do any country.

"Quote'' GC your not wrong about Garmin manuals, I started out in GPSs with the Magellans back in late 80s, early 90s. They were more user (read mug😉) orientated manuals and operation. But the Garmin Rino like Strick has found are magic for knowing where your mates are, anyway was the Rino that swung me over to Garmin. Those words are the same as mine. I got their first 2 channel multiplex Magellan's (very limited back then till they went to 8 channels version) and upgraded till they ceased manufacture of their platinum model. When the Garmin Rhino first came out, I got 4 in a two for one deal for Carol and Me with one spare and one for my oldest son. Their features covered all my prospecting, bushwalking and kayaking needs and as you say it bonus of seeing were your partner is located and not having to carry an additional two-way radio. I even got a RV GPS for my 4WD and Van since then.

I prefer to chew on a nugget. 😋

Thanks for the update. Keep us in the loop with how she likes the hobby and her finds.