Mop

My son has just headed to Newfoundland for 10 months student exchange, first thing I checked was for local gold deposits ?

We still find loads of gold here in Aus around old timer diggings, these old timers were very thorough at getting the gold, but they did miss quite a bit. I am sure the Romans left plenty for you to find with a Monster and if you are finding new flood gold there is still a source shedding gold somewhere upstream. Good luck!

Thanks Steve and Hawkeye, I had no idea about pics from a phone having a geotag, naive I know. Thanks again Steve for an outstanding forum where info like this is shared. Mop

Thanks guys for the feedback. Sounds like my kids will be digging a lot of holes I cant get them out nugget hunting but mention the beach and they are all in! Cheers

Just wondering on peoples thoughts on how the GM would go on the beach, I am looking at buying one to use for hunting nuggets and cleaning up patches, but I go to the coast several times a year so it would be nice to still have a swing while on holidays. I have seen some commentary about them being okay at finding gold chains etc and I know I will dig a lot of junk, just after thoughts. Thanks in advance.

Reg, I personally will never tire of the tales you have shared, fantastic reads. Keep them coming and consider it a prelude to a book

What can I say, thanks JR for sharing this with us all & thanks to Reg for giving his okay. I got into detecting through a love of history and after moving to the GT read about what the old timers had to do to make a living, my curiosity led me to "have a go" & yep I am hooked. This album just adds so much to the history of the goldfields, and yes I think Reg could write one hell of a book. You both would be fantastic to have a beer with, oh the story's! Thanks again.

Seems that way, but I live in hope that a nice one will come my way eventually

JR, thanks for sharing all these. As a newbie to the Golden Triangle and detecting I am loving the history in these pictures. Created an account just to comment! wouldn't it be nice to revisit the area 30 years ago, wow. Thanks again JR.