Koeh

Love my walco picks,first thing I do is sand back the handle and oil with outdoor furniture oil,stops the handle from splintering when dropped and just dents instead,look after the handle it will look after you

On 12/7/2020 at 6:14 PM, geof_junk said:

Karelian back in 1979-8o there were no gold maps available in Victoria except those that you had to research your self in Melbourne (100 miles/160 Km away) and no Google Earth either we had to get Aerial Photos to see the area (to pick out the surface patches). GPS systems came available to the public about 1983/4  I got my first GPS in 1990 it was slow poor reception in the bush but they got better and about 2000 they got rid of the 100 yard degrading of the signal. By 2003 I had time to download every state of Aust. and was able to filter their records for historical Gold Mines. I kept these to myself till 2010 and made them available to members on a gold forum for free. Some opportunist copied them and tried to sell them $50 a state on other forums but other member directed them to my free post. I set the data up, so it could be used with google earth and most map programs and GPS. Using Google Earth you can get views like yours above of all Historical Gold Mines in each state that the Mine department made available.

If you are interest in these historical location try this link.

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I have had this for many many years,awesome collection of data,a job well done mate

On 7/26/2020 at 8:25 PM, Northeast said:

Can someone explain why a 4 ounce nugget that is worth approx a little over $6,000 British pounds is getting called an $80,000 pound nugget?  Even for the British tabloids this seems like a overkill.   🤷‍♂️

The reason it’s worth so much is because gold nuggets are very rare there and to find one of that size is extremely rare,hence why the asking price/valuation is over inflated

I enjoy detecting and being outdoors and finding gold is a bonus,have never done it to make money or to get rich,so my finds will go to my kids as a little present for when they get older, that’s why I keep it.

On 2/23/2020 at 4:05 AM, jasong said:

The gold prices are nice, but rhodium is dwarfing all the metal gains, it's almost quintupled in the last year. PGM prospecting is looking pretty dang appealing again now. 

I tried to buy 10oz of rhodium when it crashed a couple of months ago,but you could not buy it for spot price,from what I was told it’s a buy sell setup,so spot price means nothing basically

Hey Reg

you may know, what is the limit of gold you can sell in a financial year as a hobbyist  
(Here in Australia )from memory,it was 80grand Is that right, before the tax man wants to know anything

The gold belt in Australia runs from Queensland though the centre of the Northern Territory then onto Western Australia,obviously there is other places where loads of gold has been found in Australia but where I mentioned runs nearly continuously