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Copy of updated info. RECENT UPDATE. 22-1-2024 Luke Phillips Australia JAN 22, 2024 — I would first like to say a massive thank you to everyone out there that is supporting this most important cause so far! We have passed well over 1000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Now for an update... Today I spoke with my local MP to sit for a meeting next week to discuss all matters regarding the allegations and prosecution set against me. And our rights towards metal detecting and unearthing/saving the history we find. And if everything is correct and organised in time, this could even go in front of parliament around April 2024 when our next sitting takes place. Channel Nine News Australia has also taken an interview from me and is in the process of helping us share this information and campaign for future through relevant media outlets. Funny enough to, the same wonderful journalist who contacted me last year to promote the amazing metal detecting work I and others across Australia were doing. And now this year the same wonderful journalist is contacting me back to speak about being prosecuted for it. Times couldn't get any stranger! I have also been collecting statements and references from landowners and people I have had the pleasure of meeting throughout my time detecting. I would also like to ask everyone out there who is, has or will be affected by this ban to enjoy metal detecting for future, to please reach out and email how it is impacting you! My email is @Lukephillips169@gmail.com or you can direct msg me via Facebook if you prefer. There is also a dispute with the timeline of when Heritage Victoria first contacted me regarding this situation. Heritage Victoria stated in their most recent email to me (18-1-2024) that there first contact was only in November 2022. However I have documents to prove otherwise! As i was first actually contacted all the way back in November 2020. Is this a slip of the key when typing a so perfectly worded harrasing email to me...or is it a lie to make them look better that they were following up quicker on such a bad "criminal" activity like detecting?....You decide. Thank you again for your time supporting this cause that's so close to my heart, plus so many others! There will be plenty more updates to follow as I know more. We have some of the biggest names out there supporting this cause now and your name added to the list is just as important to have this resolved.

Some times it is not only the lawmakers but the stupid enforcement by some 'Public Servants'. I was once at a beach where the shell fish were a popular food source for free, to the influx of new Australians back then. The area was cleaned out and they made the beach a shell fish reserve to save what was left. All the shell fish were rocked based. The beach was open to the public but they were not allowed to get shell fish. Way back in the early 1980 my boys were digging in the sand quiet deep to make a sand castle, while I was detecting close to them. This official public servant (idiot)said I could not detect here. I asked why . His answer was this is a shell fish reserve. Does that mean my boys can't dig here making their castle. No that's OK was his reply. When I said my holes were not any where as deep, as the boys. The answer was you can't dig here. Many years have past and I have seen many detectorist doing that beach (not I ) and the are not told by the later official beach inspectors. I guess the idiot did not last long.

The way it was (photos) and the gold won In a DEEP LEAD. THE WORLD’S RICHEST DEEP ALLUVIAL GOLDFIELD https://www.buriedriversofgold.org/ Note a lot of info in their tabs and links

As well as above there is a lot of standard coils that people have been forced to buy that are not used so the coil price for it will be low.

NOTE: Coil & Powerbank are not included. The choice can be made by the buyer so his existing coils and powerpack or just buy the the size that fits his requirement. That alone wins my vote.

If someone went to court from digging up a coin dated before 1949 it would be hard to prove that the detectorist did not lose it, way back when he was younger. Most laws are needed because there is a lot people with substantial low IQ, and I am sure some get were they can pass such laws.

Comsonic Metrotec 220. Primarily used by utilities to find buried pipes to 2.5 feet in depth.....Made in 1970s, costing around $750 back then.

Good to see how such a excellent specimen. 🤣

What vintage was it.

Nice finds.

I wonder how many overseas detectorist are now cancelling their trip to Aus. 😀

I bet most of post here are by those over 60 🫣 I have made most of those stupid mistakes but the funnies was digging at a tree root. My prospecting mate was filling in a hole at tree root. I said that hole was fairly deep do you mind if see what it sound like, thing like him it was a tree root. It was a soft broad signal. I said I would have a go at it. I pulled out a two ounce nugget and said that is your, no way and gave to his wife to keep.........Well that sets up the mood for the spot. I got a signal 20 yards away at the base of a tree similar to his nugget. Of cause I went deep but it got softer so I went on the other side of the tree and got the same volume signal after I had dug a deep hole the signal got softer as the coil went in the hole, BUT as I pulled the coil out in disgust the signal got louder as I raised it above ground level. Why, well the tree had grown over a house shoe and was over 2 feet high and was completely invisible and covered with bark. All my hopes up for a bloody horse shoe. 🤣

Simon I found that the moist ground because of salt signal tended to partly neutralize the negative ground that was very hot when the ground was extremely dry in Victoria. Anyway whether I a'm right or wrong I still did better in moist ground than in bone dry ground.

Although ML makes the best gold detecting machine, I don't like being forced to buy a coil or coil size that I don't want. Because when I buy a new detector I get two, one for the wife and one for myself if I'm in the good book. That means I have two high priced coils that neither of us use. Because I have had great service from Rohan I spend my money with him in preference but the coils that I have made from Coiltex have given me no complaints also.

A good write up Simon....The only place to find more about QED is at https://www.qedmetaldetectors.com.au/ but note this site is QED Metal Detector manufactured by Interfacion Pty Ltd "official site" and most poster are owners of QED so they may be bias.

For a while the Aus. 5 cent was the most common test sample used for MineLab detectors. The advantage of using a known coins is that they are consistent in size and metal contents. They can be used for comparing coils, detectors, and depth with others. The 50 cent bit is closer to the size of nuggets I like🤑 4 ounce or greater.

Yes. Made a PI detector in the mid 1980's and made the coil out some left over Main Frame Computer Teflon coated silver connection wire. The whole unit worked very well on test (Known targets) nuggets getting great depth, but was hopeless when searching for targets due to its clicking audio being its down fall.

Back before I retired in 2003 while at work I decided to make a good database for Historical Mines in Google Earth. I spent a lot of time mining West Aust. Queensland, NSW, Tasmania, Sth Aust. and had already did Victoria (my home state) and used them with great success in W.A. In 2010 I post them on the current Forum "https://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t2273-historical-gold-mines-in-google-earth" after my favourite forum closed down. The GPS value are still available at golddetecting.forumotion ........ One thing that I found that there were a few people selling my free information for $100 a state and advertising them. There has been nearly 20,000 views on this last forum.

😉 Traditional ways to kill a vampire. Stake through the heart. (This actually goes back to keeping people in their graves. Somehow it made it to vampires.) Immerse in sunlight. Chop off the head ideally with an axe. (put a lemon or coin in the mouth and boil the head in vinegar. Immerse in running water. Shoot with a silver bullet (not just any silver bullet, it has to be a silver bullet that a crucifix was melted down to create, and not just any crucifix. it has to have been blessed by the pope - apparently vampires are Catholic) (ordinary silver bullets are good for werewolves.) Throw vampire into a hawthorn bush. So long as said vampire is pricked enough this will supposedly kill it. (Hawthorn is supposed to be holy because the crown of thorns worn by Christ was supposedly made from Hawthorn.)

Do you retrieve the silver bullet after shotting a vampire. 😀 We have similar size gold coins coins here in Australia. The one-tenth ounce coin, $5 face value, is 0.650 inch (16.50 mm) in diameter, contains 0.1000 gold troy ounce and weighs 0.1091 troy ounce (3.393 g).

Just look for the shallow ground in the area.

A ¼ of an ounce plus for the day. Keep that rate up and you will been in the top income range. 🤑

Got a few there also but they were not quite the same size as the one on the Monument. 🤩