Mike54

G'day Ash, thanks for sharing all the great photos, yes we have had to pull right off the road many times on our trips over in WA for the same reason. They're definitely to big to argue with that is for sure. Thanks again for sharing you great photos. Cheers. Mike.

G'day All, thanks for sharing all those great photos, I often wonder what it would have been like to go back in time and see how tough the old timers had it back then. It sure is amazing to see all their old gear laying about in the bush. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Lunk, some very nice nuggies you found and great story and photos as well. A big congrats to your mom as well and thanks for sharing your great finds. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Dave, and welcome aboard. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Dave, as I said that was the first time I had actually used the GPS on the GPZ, I find it a bit time consuming setting it up and just use the small GPS/backtracker, 3 clicks on the buttons and off you go. I will probably only use the on board GPS as a gridding tool when I'm on a new patch. Hope this makes sense. Cheers. Mike.

G'day guys, I used mine for the first time in WA last year, as I was working a patch that I had just discovered and I was using it as Steve said as a gridding device as I don't use a chain. I was marking each find and then trying to fill in the gaps as I slowly gridded the area. I mainly use a small GPS/Backtracker in case I get disoriented to find my way back to camp/vehicle. I did find the built in GPS handy for the above gridding ect. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Dave, yes those types of sounds are the ones I listen for all the time. Those and the wobbly ones are my favourite sounds with the 7000. Nice little nuggy and yes it's a great day out when you come home with a rattle in your jar. cheers. Mike.

Great story and very nice nuggies/pics. Glad to see you had a happy ending and thanks for sharing. Hopefully the minivan made it home in one piece. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Dave, yep I have done it once, it was back in the SD2000 days and I thought it was going to be junk. As it was under a big tussock bush and I was pretty sure that someone had thrown something there. So I walked off and kept detecting and about 15 mins later Jen called me over to where that tussock bush was and said I had to dig it out. I told her I reckon it was just junk, but she persisted that I dig it out. Anyway I dug it out and it turned out to be a 3oz Quartz specie about 14" deep under that tussock bush. The signal was screaming even when the coil was a foot above the tussock bush and this bush was already standing 2 foot above ground level. cheers. Mike.

Some very nice Gold pics there Guys. Thanks for sharing and keep them coming. Great to see some of your great Gold from over there in the USA. Cheers. Mike.

Thanks Trent, for the updates, we were thinking about the grass due to the rain you guys have been getting over there. cheers. Mike.

Thanks Enio, the wire piece LH top GPX4500. About 6 years ago. The RH Top was Found with GPZ first year over there using it. That one reminds me of a grasshopper leg. The 2 bottom ones were found with GPX5000 about 3-4 years ago. Cheers. Mike.

Thanks Ash, yep counting down the weeks now and we should be heading over for another stint as well. cheers. Mike.

G'day All, here are some of my favourite little nuggies. Examples of Wire Gold and Crystallne Gold found in WA over the last few years. The 2 bottom pieces were found in the same area and are very close in size/shape we decided to hang onto them to make them into a pair of earrings. Well one these days that is. thanks all for having a look at these nice little nuggies. cheers. Mike.

Very nice nuggies and great pics. Congrats to you and your brother. Hope there's many more waiting for your return visit. Thanks for sharing. Cheers. Mike.

Nice little nuggies there Enio. Those buttons do tend to get the adrenaline going. Cheers. Mike.

G'day All, yes this happened to us when we first went over to WA. As we found the ground over there was totally different to what we know here in Vic. We were completely baffled as how to read it, but after some time with the coil on the ground and some help from some nice people we met, we finally settled down and started to find gold. Also we find the faster you try to cover the ground the more you will/could miss gold. This is why I always say to newbies to go LOW and SLOW. cheers. Mike.

G'day All, went looking through our pics from our 2016 WA trip and found these. This Nuggy was my biggest for the trip, which I managed to dig up in the first 2 weeks over there. This was at a depth of 24", the Nuggy weighed an even 18 grams. Top pic is the hole it came out of and the bottom pic is the 18 gram Nuggy sitting on the type of ground it came from. cheers. Mike.

G'day JP and a happy birthday for yesterday in Aussie and for today here in the USA. Cheers. Mike.

Your so right about that Ash, don't miss any of that crap. Yes it's all about the Gold and great friends here. Good luck to you & your wife on your trip to WA. Cheers. Mike.

My answer is yes, as I have said "Gold Prospecting is in my Blood" so no matter how low the price drops I'll be still out there. If I do need to sell any of our hard earned gold so be it. As others have said the friends that you make while you're out there are golden, also the peaceful sarounds I would miss as well. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Ash, great Nuggy finds and good to see you here. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Chris for the great pics. Found another pic of Jen's & my gold finds from our 2015 WA trip, so I thought I would share this here with you all. We were using GPX4500, SDC2300 & GPZ7000 to find these nice nuggies. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Steve & Chris, yes we call them Deep Leads over here in Aussie, they are ancient water courses/rivers that have changed over millions of years, sometimes they're on sides of big hills and on large flat areas. Usually you know by the big mullock heaps that the Old Timers have left behind with no obvious diggings. Cheers. Mike.

G'day Steve & Carol, Good to see you over here too, I joined a few days ago as well. Funny you say your username means color blind to green, as my dad was also color blind to green. Yes I used to follow your posts over on the other forum as well and I have always found your posts very informative and great to read. I to hope to contribute where I can. Cheers. Mike.