geof_junk

Good luck in that area......?...... I got quite a few nugget near the airport in the bush as well as in the Alma district back in the VLF days.

I can see the calluses forming. The only way  to treat them is to stop using your pick and leave some gold for the rest of us.

That is big lost to all of use, and I think many more here in Australia will agree with me. All the best  wishes to his family.

This might help you with Beechworth and Victoria Gold Mines. The link below will take you to my old post in another forum.                                                                                      http://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t2273-historical-gold-mines-in-google-earth

In the Table in the first post under GoogleEarth Compressed Files   Select  "HistoricalGoldMinesVic.kmz"  When the page turns up Click on the Blue Download button and select Direct download  you should find the file in your download folder. Click on the file.                     GOOGLE EARTH if installed will zoom in on Victoria. In the SEARCH field type in "Beechworth VIC, Australia" zoom in and pan around your area.  

I have included a direct link below which can be dragged to your desktop.

HistoricalGoldMinesVic.kmz

The Sadie is a great coil, I won one when R.J. first released them in competition naming the coil. I did not call it Sadie, but got a runner up coil. I did not use it very much as the Wife claim it and it was hard to get much of a go with it  

Midnight Gold is a term meaning claim jumping here in Australia, the haul you got is great mate.

It a real pity that Garretts have not kept up with their products. The old Deepseeker and then the A2B were the reason for the electronic gold rush in Australia back in the late 1970's . I started with Garrett then Whites and later with Minelab I will not update to a new Detector until someone comes up with a decent advancement .    

The only consistent noise a tiny nugget makes,is the rattle in the keep jar.  

It sounds like you might have a bit of Kiwi blood in you Reg.

" The areas that i would be concentrating on is Beechworth and the Buckland Valley etc, " 

Most of this area is either Mountains or  Rivers (Dredge Rivers). Dredged Tailing  would most likely be the target area but my look at the spot, showed most areas either covered with blackberries or private farms.

I have two ML3000 great machines but some of the latest higher frequency VLF have some good feed back in East Victorian for creek sniping  for specks and specimens. By the way the Golden Triangle is still the best bet and the ML GP's or better is the way to go.

They all say the first is the hardest nugget to get, but it's the second that is the hardest as the first is mostly just luck. So you have been bitten and it is easy from now on.?‍?

On 3/15/2019 at 5:46 AM, AkNugget said:

Not exactly gold,     but needless to say the Gold Monster went crazy!  No problem picking it up at 18" deep.  28 lbs.

Neal

It looks like a "MONSTER" tooth too me ?

I went to the Poseidon area in 1980 but saw it was private land, and thought it was too much trouble to get permission, as there was a lot of virgin ground in the bush elsewhere in those days.?  

This is the smallest my mate got that I know he detected, but whether he got any other nuggets is unknown as he left the area.?

It is the first of March, Ten day till you can spill the beans on all the gold you have found be it jewelry or Nuggets hope it not fly sh!t.  

One problem with HV power lines is ozone. Ozone interference can be reduced by detecting up-wind of the line and selecting a low humidity day.

Hydrofluoric acid (HF) is a strange acid. It does not give you any 'warning pain' when you get it on your skin, but is deadly once it gets in. Back in 1981 I can remember Work using many 1000's of gallons of HF to remove the milling scale on a large Boiler. It arrived in steel road tankers not what most people expected. HF really likes Silica so don't store it in glass.

Not HF but a link to the most strongest acid .......The Strongest Acid

The biggest problem with the flies is that they gang together and lift your eyelids and start drinking the moisture from your eyes. They also see how many of their mates can join them in your mouth. If you want revenge you can use a electric zapper racket and feed them to the ants, if you can tolerate all the smoke from their fried bodies and wings.    

On 12/5/2018 at 4:22 PM, vanursepaul said:

As they say (Greenies) hope you will fill your holes in. ?

Fred some use the chain to find their way back to their car not to find gold.?

https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/two-nuggets-are-better-than-one-prospector-s-dual-delight-in-wa-outback-20181121-p50hi3.html

........Link........

Low and slow is great if you are trying to get gold that was left behind by other detectorist. If you are trying to live off your finds, then you need (say 1 ounce a week or may be 1 gram a day) then you have to cover enough ground to get that amount. If the ground is good you are best to slow down if poor then you have to go faster to cover enough ground to get your yield. In poor virgin ground you are not getting what other people have missed be cause they have not done it. The main thing to do is use the lightest chain (or marker) that will give you a workable grid line that will disappear quickly so as not to attract any one else to your pay packet.It pays to over lap evenly  and keep at a constant low working height with your appropriate coil. Some of my good patches, I gridded were over 800 meters long and wider than 100 meters when the gold yield dropped off I then hit the best spots LOW & SLOW in the opposite direction. It all depends on your decision how to work the ground. What is best, leave a few crumbs behind or leave most of your patch behind?      You have to be as cunning as a  ?

Fred you should use a Oz $2 coin in your photo it will make them look bigger as you know it is a lot smaller than a $1 coin and you can use more zoom. ?

Jan 23, 2015 - The temperature has hit a scorching 49 degrees in the small Western Australian outback town of Marble Bar- just 0.2 of a degree below the highest temperature recorded in the town. If you are tough enough (Like us Oz) this map might help.