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"may put others in danger. These should be fenced or barricade off anyway." has been change to ..... "and areas that may put others in danger should be fenced or barricade off anyway." meaning only dangerous areas that may injury prospectors, public, pastoral lease managers and staff as well as their stock but not Camels.?

Simon most of my gold rings ( and Carols ) were found at the beach. One beach in Queensland I got over 50 rings from it while on holidays. My brother in-law (now deceased) got 300+ before I went up to QLD for a holiday. He got onto the spot after some one showed him hundreds of rings they had got when a cyclone had removed most of the sand. Most of the gold rings there were 18 or 22 caret and very old and at low tide and below (Easter is one of times of extreme tides). My take of gold rings were 99% from beaches, and those that I was asked to find that the owners lost. As being a gold prospector I rarely use any discrimination and the table of ID in this post shows that a lot of junk sit in this range.

I did not start when I was seven. The only detector back then was Army mine detectors and I was not big enough to use one if I even had a chance.? So I feel sorry that you got addicted so early. ☺️

I have never liked discrimination on when gold prospecting, however on a very rare occasion when ground balancing in extreme soil conditions with my OLD Garrets ADS deepseeker I found that setting the ground balance as close as I could, I use the TR discrimination knob to set the ground balance with it. This allowed me to pick up some small nuggets that others had missed about the ½ gram mark and smaller. Now a day I think this is the effect the Hi - Low signal that iron uses.

Local miners and exploration I had to give you a HaHa as your use of adjectives and description is well beyond my abilities. You brought back many smiling memories that I have experienced on the gold fields. So keep up posting yours for me and other to enjoy. Thank you.

The problems with claims is they should not restrict hand tools and detectors from inactive mechanical claims except those that will continue with work in the near future, and may put others in danger. These should be fenced or barricade off anyway.

This post is what I really like to see on gold forums. I have been out of action lately but what a great post to come back to. Claim jumpers Link ..... Claim jumpers page 3

Claim jumpers are a big problem for all. I only had one claim, luckily my partner was a local Policeman. We kept very quiet about the claim as it was only 250 meters from the end of a town lane. Before putting in for the claim, we both gridded all it over the chosen area first. It was a hand tools only claim. We had to comply with some stupid regulations, for instant if we had any motor or vehicle on the claim they required 200 Lt of water on site for fire protection ( I guess with our keenness there might have been many sparks flying off our picks etc. ). The problems of claim jumper were reduced when my mate caught a couple of guys detecting the claim. He asked them if they had permission from the owners of the claim. They said they did, that is where he said, I am one of the claim owners and you have been trespassing on my claim and an additional crime is that you lied to an officer of the police. He said let that be a lesson and tell your mate to keep clear, and let them go with a warning. Prior to our claim some illegal grading had be done over the surface area down to the shallow lead, but they left some virgin ground on the other side of it than the shallow working on the other side of the claim. This patch/claim yielded 26 ounce on the first day to me, 19 oz. before lunch and 7½ Oz after I got Carol and one of my mates after lunch to work the spot. My work mate got a 23 gm bit as well as he walked across the small area that I told him was my exclusive spot the rest was open ground. I said he could keep it as he was not gridding the area and Midas was on his side. Let get back to the topic I would not make a claim on any ground if detectors and hand tools are only to be allowed, machinery if required might might be a different story.

The forth one in the first photo looks like my lid opener ?. What a great display.

Not mine Simon. Mine is two GP 3000 ( 3000 +3000 = 6000 ) analog that are still working. The photo was posted on Facebook.

The king is dead............ Don't put it under the 4WD to keep it dry when raining...........

Aust. coins were made of sterling silver except pennies and ½ pennies (copper)and were based on silver value/weight till 1946 and when silver went up they keep the same size but made them out of 50% silver. On Feb 1966 they changed over to copper/nickel and still keep the same size. They also released a 50 cent 80% silver piece and were taken out of circulation in no time because the silver price went up soon after release. Diameter: 31.51 mm At decimal change over the copper coins were reduced in size to a fraction of the weight/size. The original, round, 50-cent coin was made of 80% silver and 20% copper; but as the value of a free-floating silver price became higher, the coin's bullion value became more valuable than its face value; so that version was withdrawn from circulation and replaced with the dodecagonal cupro-nickel version. Diameter 31.65 (across flats[1]) mm It is by diameter the largest Australian coin currently issued and second largest after the Crown of 1937–38. It is also the heaviest Australian coin in common circulation. Many commemorative designs have been issued, the large size allowing for detailed content

Found 1998 at about $300 US an ounce now 23+ years later about $1900 US an ounce. That is about 6+ times increase in pure gold value. Asking price of $4000 an ounce raw gold 90% purity. But it is the second largest gold nugget ever found in the Western Hemisphere, and the largest ever in Alaska. For that money I would buy an Australian nugget of much greater weight. ?

I like the skull ring. When I was a kid I was after a gold phantom ring like all the boys at the time.

I could weigh my dog on them, not my gold YET.?

Been there done that mate, but it was a 3.2 kilogram specimen. Luckily if memory good I got 16+ ounces when crushed and panned.

In the latest Miners Den News letter. It might not be suitable for most countries ( partially NZ Simon ?) as it only goes down to 0.1 grams it could be used with the 6000 if you get a heap of little bits ?. My only fault is it's upper limit is just over 96 troy ounces which in Australia means it can't not weigh any found above 100 ounces. ?

The third photo really shows it features. WOW.

Great find. Any date older than your own is a good win. As you get older the date of a good find gets harder.?

Please please Steve don't shut them down I am trying to legitimize them with my new technology break thru. related to electron magnetic field that occurs 79 times a second when they align in a particular pattern. I know my price is high so the offer is not for sale but hire/rent of $7000 a week but it will need less time than ML GPX6000 to find both small and larger particles of gold. I have a built in chip that will only allow rental time before it shutdown requiring renewable rent to reset it. You may get an idea how it works by looking at the difference in the two diagrams of the electron below caught at different positions. Together, intelligent coding assistance and ergonomic design. The new G_J Model of Gold and Junk detector. Please do not rent or hire, with out checking it's write up on Detector Prospector about it's tuning and effectiveness by S.H. .......... ?

Well that means you got a silver penny ..................?

I noticed a ...3...or...8... or...B... above the first one in 1911 on the edge of the neck. I have not seen that before !!

I was a Garrett's Man but the wife who is always right disagreed and said Whites is better. Now Garrett's has taken over, ha ha ha Carol.

It is nearly a year ago, but what a great specimen and find.

Look what I found in the garage. My old boss died of cancer as are result of Asbestos exposes in power stations and left me his Eagle years ago. What a break through this was. He was able to pull out some great targets in our coin patches that was full of junk. However the gold fields that we dug every signal he had no success. This was the first detector that could beat most operator with technological. Worth a look (...Link....) Lets hope Garrets use the tech. and improve it. ).