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Gerry on one trip to Queensland Aus. for a few weeks I found over fifty heavy gold rings most were 18 ct. Since my brother in-law had got 300+ rings before I got there I had to detect up to my waist in the saltwater. used my Garretts DeepSeeker as the 7" coil heavier and less buoyant than the larger 8" Whites coil and prevent the wife from using her Whites 6000 Coinmaster. I just remember that it was over a Easter Holiday period so had the advantage of the king tides as easter is based on the moon "Easter is traditionally celebrated on the first Sunday after the Paschal full moon, which is the first full moon on or after 21 March (an approximation of the March equinox)"

The belt needs to be adjust to max but at least I got something to rest the detector on if I pull that one out of retirement😉

Simon, It was the first Goldmaster an Australian model (Not coinmaster eg 5000,6000) I think Jimmy “Sierra” had a cutdown version of it. Here is a photo of it that was taken 33+ years ago and the wife has a Whites 6000 Coinmater. I just noticed that we were both smoking back then but gave it up 30 years ago. The ear phones were top class that I put in a home made frame and the moving coil ear phones in a plastic holder.

While trying to keen up my record before I upgrade my computer, found this old receipt of refined gold (Panned Gold) that I cashed in to get a new Whites VLF detector. There was a bit short of 3 oz I am happy that I did not cash in any nuggets back then. The purity was as close as you can get to 92% when cleaned 91 grams but AUD $16.12 a gram was good but now it is AUD $82.36 but the price of a top detector has risen high than the gold price. PJ Williams Precious Metals.pdf

There must be heaps of falling stars. When you are out in the desert with no light pollution you can see a few every night. Ran out of likes mn90403

On one of my early West Australian trips we were camped out in the Desert sitting around the camp Fire and the sky lit up as a meteor (or maybe fallen space junk) went by. It sure made an interesting night for all of us.

Paul that is our secret weapon, you were supposed to keep that Quiet 🤐

Compass the first and only kayak I built was during 1972 I completed it just before I went to Papua New Guinea for nearly 7 years. I hope you do better than me as my departure from Australia prevented me from launching it. A workmate bought it and used in a local club as a training kayak and claimed it was fantastic. I now paddle a 5+ meter (17 ft) Carbon Kevlar Kayak. Please post a photo when you launch your canoe.

Lets hope it is available to put under the xmas tree, in years past it was the Easter Bunny that dropped the presents (or was that the nuggets😀)

" I was there about 3 hours, and only worked about a 5x20 foot area against the shore, but the targets were layered and plentiful!" It is very tempting to move on but that's a good haul. One of the old schools that I detected many years ago put me is the same boat as you. The school and village closed in the late 1950s. Back then us kids had free milk in small bottles with the then modern aluminium tops instead of the old wax cardboard tops. Due to atomic bomb testing in that era we had iodine tablets and took them with the milk. Of course we screwed up the tops and flicked them at each other. Back to junk targets you will know how much effort had to be done to extract the coins from that school.

Simon although most parts are made on site the materials to make them may beheld up at their source. Rohan was very sincere and accominating way back in 2006 when I had a problem with a 16" coil and have not had any reason to think he has changed since then. I believe the 12" will be the best size for prospecting and will be used almost as the goto coil, except for some of those tiny bits less than 0.01 gm bits.

You have displayed those silver finds spectacularly, I am really impressed with your layout.

One thing to remember that using the same Detector,Coil and Earphones to double the depth there has to be 64 times more power travelling through the Coil. My view is that the coils have to be more stable and sensitive, the feedback signal has to be amplified with a more stable and more powerful electronics. There is two main types of finding gold Fossicking (looking for tiny missed nuggets) on flogged ground, and prospecting for new ground for easy detectable nuggets and then grid,grid grid so you only leave the really hard ones for the fossickers to get. The future (well for gold anyway) is a detector that can get tiny nuggets deep and another that can cover a large area quickly and get shallow gold first with out wearing you out by carrying a heavy beast of a machine. I made my first pulse induction detector before 1985 that was before Eric Fisher detector hit the ground in Victoria Aus. it had great depth capabilities and could go deeper than our Garrets and Whites VLF detectors. This was well before Minelab made the SD2000 The big problem was although I could change the frequency and the delay time. It was useless for prospecting as the audible was like a “Geiger Counter” with a clicking rate change. This was impossible to use and cover ground fast enough to be practical in the goldfields but I did find by replacing the components with the latest technology parts I was able to improve its depth a bit.

This was done in the early 1980s and I know of quite a few prospector that did this and their prospecting partners dug up the ignored signal got a 32,36,50+ ounces that were only an inch or two deep. They were lucky they were sharing finds. My first nugget over an ounce was a 4oz sitting 2 feet from the edge of a sealed bitumen road and I though it was a coke can. I was having a look at a flogged surface patch and decided to have a look on the other side of the road see what was there. At the time my prospecting mate was a local policeman and was working to lunch time and both of us were planning to have a look for a new area. I took the 4oz into the Cop Shop and we used a scrubbing brush to clean it up a bit. Only got a 12 gm piece on the other side of the road.

They were saying there is no gold left after the first couple of years. I remember 1983 that all the gold was gone, but it was my first really good find. The thing is treasure hunter after a quick fortune will come and go in a short time, but the Detectorist that love the fact that you can't see it but the detector can, will enjoy the hunt and with luck or excessive time on the hunt will be rewarded.

Simon Simon Simon you must add a disclaimer when you put that on the WEB. My wife kept both eyes on me when two Jewish backpacker did a soap rubdown nude at an open air shower when we were Bushwalking one day. (yes the wife was there.) Back to detecting at one beach every time we were there a young local boy about 12 years would always turnup with in minutes of starting detecting. He would dig every target for me. I guess the fault was mine as I let him have all the modern coins with the exception of the golden $1 and $2 coins. By the way I think I got more value than doing it all myself (Did not waste time on junk and digging.) As for TV gold Shows I have given a wide berth after seeing one.

It must be a great device.....You have to find 16+ oz of gold to pay for it. If it is so good who was the idiot that gave it a single review I am sure human nature would keep it performates to them self. 🤢

Wow a quarter of an ounce.🤑

When my brother inlaw and I was getting ounces of old 18ct rings upto our waist in the beach, he found these teeths made from gold sovereigns. They were not a matching pair.

Quote "Wonder why they never put a discrim knob on a pp so we could eliminate bits of iron?" What about sticking a magnet on the end of the probe, I would only use a probe where I had to use a hammer & chisel or Jackhammer. One less bit of baggage I have to carry.😀

As bushwalking ( Australian for Trekking) is one of my hobbies I liked the vision of the climb up to your hut.

Land rights in Australia worth a read before you take a mining claim on privately owned land. By the way find out what rights and minerals a claim owner has. Dear yyyyyyyyyyy, I own my own property in Australia. I was wondering how much space directly above and below my land legally belongs to me? For example, do I own the land all the way down to the centre of the Earth, or does it become government/public property after a few feet? Likewise, does the airspace above my house technically belong to me? If so, how far up? Thank you, xxxxxxxxx. Dear xxxxxxxxxx, Usual caveat: we’re not lawyers and the exact rules differ between states and territories. With that out of the way, here is an overview of property laws in Australia as we understand them. In the 13th century, property law subscribed to the Latin principle ‘cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad infernos‘, which translates to: “whoever’s is the soil, it is theirs all the way to Heaven and all the way to the depths below.” This meant that property holders owned not just their plot of land, but 100% of the air and the earth in-between. Surprisingly, the above maxim remains in practice as a traditional starting point for property law in the western world. Indeed, the legal definition of “land” continues to include earth and airspace in addition to the ground’s actual surface. This affords the landowner certain protections. For example, it is against the law to mine minerals from beneath a property without the permission of the owner; even if their land’s surface wasn’t disturbed. Likewise, a neighbour cannot build a property extension or erect a wire that overhangs another person’s land, regardless of how high up in the air it is. (A classic example of “airspace” rights — and one that has caused many a neighbourhood dispute — relates to tree branches encroaching onto another person’s property. In most cases, the affected land owner is entitled to cut these branches down.) Under Australian common law, the surface owner’s rights extend downwards sufficiently to permit the extraction of minerals, which includes anything capable of being mined. As explained in the legal guidebook Australian Land Law in Context: In the absence of any express or implied limitation of rights, an owner of land, at common law is entitled to the subsoil, ‘cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad infernos’, and to the minerals therein. The laws that govern airspace are a bit trickier. Naturally, you can’t restrict commercial aircraft from flying over your house as the sky is considered to be a public highway. Furthermore, the court can force you to remove structures that are considered an encroachment into airspace. Private aircraft, including drones, are considered to be trespassing when traversing the land near to the surface. With that said, there does remain some legal uncertainty when it comes to aircraft flying over land. From the Australian Land Law in Context guidebook: As long as an aircraft traverses a property at a reasonable height, having regard to all the facts and circumstances, there will be no liability for trespass. On the other hand, as a legislative trade off, there is strict liability should the aircraft cause damage to personal property such as would occur if the aircraft crashed into the land or into a structure erected on the land. In other words, while your land rights don’t necessarily extend down to the Earth’s core or up to the cosmos, they aren’t non-existent either. Hope this helps! Cheers yyyyyyyyyyyy

My experience is the heavy objects only sink an inch or two,but the wet sand moves sometimes erosion maybe several feet deep releasing buried treasure (rings and coins) Those not found maybe covered up by sand when the sand is move and fills the area back up.

What I did to a spoked coil was place a skid on the bottom then used an expanding foam to fill the area between the spocks and scaped of the excess to made the top level it worked but was not pretty but kept the weight down. A bit of self adhesive book covering stop build up of dust in the foam as no wear occurs on the top of the coil.

Best to keep quiet till the trip is over. However if you have not finished with the patch wait till you have, as someone might of seen your vehicle at that spot or somewhere else. human nature will mean they will hit were you have been sighted. 😬