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Lacky has got it right. A lot of new prospector have not heard a gold signal and the advice I gave would help in this case. I saw the mine and also the trench looks like a crosscut to find the reef. If that the case that slope may be worth a detect.

I have been scanning 35 mm Slides and came across a guy now resting closer to the gold. He was a real gentle man. He put a stop to my dredging when he let my wife wear his smaller 16 oz necklace. If I remember right that is a 30 plus oz in his hand. The third photo is my collection of coarse gold I dredged that year.

The pick tells me that the old timers worked the area. Was it surface/trench or reef. That should tell you how to work the spot yourself. Have a read of Egixe4 post a page or two back it sounds like Yackandanah is a close site worth having a look. If you know a place where a nugget was detected, put a 5 cent, 22 bullet and a air rifle pellet in the ground at lest 4" / 100mm deep. The size of your finds make me think your expectation might be a bit high. Hope this help in your pursuit

Phrunt there is a place for fast swinging the coil. That is when you are out looking for a spot in unproven land, or walking to or from a spot. It is amazing how quick (pun intended) I slow down when an easy nugget yells out to me.? but good coil control as far as height goes.

There was an old bull and a young bull up on top of a hill and a herd of cow in the paddock below. The young one said lets run down and knock a few of them up. The old wise bull said let walk down and do the lot in. Phrunt it seems like you are the young bull.

You might use it to see if your large target signal is steel/Iron. That is if you get a good response you wont have to wear out your pick.

AussieDigs by the looks of that area (photos) you are in I would be trying some of that flatter ground on the top of those hills if there is any indication of old timers working. The nuggets have not been given the down hill assistant of running away and should be closer to the coil than gullies.

I think the gold part was maybe staged for the film, but I will pass on saying it was. ?‍? I have been digitising some of my old 35 mm slides when I get the time I will post some photos of my hike (trek) to a gold mine in Papua New Guinea during the early 1970s .

The first film done in 1958 was more than great and as a "bush walker", kayaker and Gold Prospector I enjoyed the whole hour and a half watching it. ???

Madtuna I avoided over 10 Gwardar on a 3 Km section of the "bubblegum track"( https://www.bibbulmuntrack.org.au/) in West Australia. An old mate of mine used to run Nambi Station but lost contact with Paul about 7 years ago which Station do you run.

In the Summer the plain old brown snake is the worst in Gippsland as they are more likely to be aggressive than a tiger snake.Some of the most poisonous are in WA but in the outback but the ground cover is less and they are shy and get out of the way. In the late 1970s I had 2 occasions of a Black Snake and 1 occasion of a Tiger Snake in the water with me while Dredging for gold. The closest to being bitten was when I was bush walking and a Tiger hit my Scarpa Boot since then I all keep a good eye on the sunny side of the track. How far would I go for GOLD is more limited to Distance or Time not Wild life or Terrain.

I think we all know what happen when you have too many tulips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Phoenix I saw a rusty bit of junk that someone threw away near a trench that was put in to stop soil erosion. As I was using the wife Whites 6000d I thought I would test it to see if her motion discrimination would cut out this "2 inch rusty nut". It gave a good signal so I picked it up to show the Wife how the Garret Deepseeker was better than the Whites discriminator large iron out. As soon as I got in in my hand I knew it was gold. It turn out to be 2 ounces when clean up. No gold showed up till it was cleaned and the gold was porous in character. I showed at least a dozen prospector and they all said it was junk till I dropped it in their hand. Someone was unlucky but I was over the moon.

Fred I got a good signal under cap rock after getting down about three feet it open up to goanna hole. All I got for my effort was a dingo trap. I don't know if the trap caught the goanna or whether he dragged the traps catch back in his den. Next time I will look for any burrows, the entrance was 3 meter away.

I know that the 1850's was the best time for gold for the small time prospector. I would like to go back to 2050 instead, then I would know that I made it past 110 years of age.

What I did was get the data down load form each state and sort out the information for the locations and gold yields, dates etc with a GIS program and Excel. Now they have good map software, when I did mine this was not the case, with the use of a GIS program I could use any map I wished to including right down to shire, google earth and district maps. That was a excellent demo you posted mn90403 ?

Joe I spent a lot of time getting all of the historical data for gold over 20 years ago. To do it you will need a GIS program. My work is available on this link.... http://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t2273-historical-gold-mines-in-google-earth Just click on the file you wont and click on the blue download link under the horse and select direct download. GIS programs ...... A geographic information system (GIS) is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data. Rooted in the science of geography, GIS integrates many types of data. It analyzes spatial location and organizes layers of information into visualizations using maps and 3D scenes. I used ... Global Mapper...It will let you do all you want but it is expensive, however there is a lot of different programs about.

"That the old detectors couldn't find bbs and that is why there are so many still there?" ..........NO........... The old Whites and Garrets DS & A2B and Detec could all pick up Shotgun pellets. Maybe some people went to fast (after the worth while nuggets) or were not skilled enough. And lot of pellets have been shot in the last 40 odd years.

All the advice given is missing one thing. That is after you have done them and find a target, don't dig it up till you have changed the setting and see if there is any improvement (good) or a reduction. If it is worst go the other way with the setting, If you are in an area that you use a lot, setting up a test spot with a range of target sizes and depth. If you find a better set-up don't tell JP because he will tell everyone else.

The biggest improvement in detecting is the operator skills not the tools.

The old Garret Deepseeker I had found many coins in wet/salty ground at the beach. On one holiday in QLD I got over 50 gold rings from shore to waist high in the water. The method that I used was ground balancing in TR using the discriminating knob. That got rid of all the moaning except from the competition.

Ran out of likes Reg I will give you one tomorrow. I have been catching up on two weeks of post.

Got the link working.

The Herald/Sun Sep 1995 If you can't read the scan Right Click the second image and Open in new window Reg this is the Scan that you wan't to see.

It helps to keep the Gelignite dry too Lanny and not let it weep.