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John, A quick trip back to OZ, and a perv on a mob of Sheilas, will relieve some of that English ails or is that ales.

No wonder we have gold downunder, you fellows use your pans upside down, all falls our way. Lovely scenery whatever way you look at it.

Sheila can GB the 7000 40% or better than any other user. No worries with her, and she`s real mean with a pick. Paul, good to hear from you, trust all went AOK. Am only on fresh air having a bit of fun with OZ English. Explain a wee bit, Fosters is a OZ beer of International repute, probably disrepute , Sheila is a OZ young good looking woman. A barbie is a outside cooking appliance. It is sort of a National "pastime" for OZ blokes to stand around the "barbie" drinking "fosters" and talk about "shielas".

Nice one, young fellow.

Probably shouldn`t talk about Shiela like this as she`s also fine and upstanding. But she is the ultimate female, gorgeous, 18, never ages and has complete access to a pipeline to the brewery (her Dads Mr. Foster), everymans dream women, sort of. You may have to have a bit of a yack with SS about this. Be gentle with him SS.

If anyone writes such a script I`ll be amongst the first rush to buy it. The fellow who developed Oziexplorer has looked at it and shook his head. A GPS with screen on a gold detector will be standard once users realise the usefulness of this.

Ok, Ok falsely accused. With a bunch of Sheilas and a pipeline to Fosters, you`d be nuts to come downunder. Listen if I bring a barbie, a few prawns and me own glass can I join you? But it was a bit touch and go, first photo of Goldeneye did show it downunder.

Interesting, Mcklunkers in denial. Maybe SS with the golden eye can get to the bottom of this.

Not about gold but same difference, of interest perhaps? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-19/mystery-surrounds-mcdonalds-coming-soon-sign-simpson-desert/6631678

Send you over some ferrets to sort out the gophers, but the buggers are a bit busy downunder.

Myself I like to see them natural. A short soak in CLR perhaps but certainly not HF. I recall back a bit I donated a solid clean alluvial nugget of 8grams for a local charity event raffle. Organisers took it to a jeweller and had it buffed, just killed it in my book but not so in the eyes of the ticket buyers, they got many times its value, and the winner was over the moon. They just no longer look natural to me. Guess if your selling and the buyer pays more for it buffed or acid cleaned why not? Then when it comes down to dollars, into the smelter, melt down and off to the mint, done, easy, no chasing buyers, no hustle. But it does seem gold finders have a different view on this than the general public, perhaps that is part of the lure that gets us chasing the stuff. Interesting thread.

Suggestion for patch, try Bogenes settings. Adjust sensitivity to full bore and turn down threshold to what you can handle, say 10 or bit less. Got some amazing results on a couple of such patches here, many deep subgrammers. Unconventional but productive but maybe not for that ground.

You Beauty, Congrats. Nothing more fulfilling than a virgin patch. With faith that they are there you may never look back.

Same in my part of OZ different vegetation is an indicator, eg. we have a soft coppery coloured low grass(1ft tall), often associated with gold, our native pines grow where mineralisation is fairly shallow. The colour of termite nests(ant hills) can give away a change in country by varying colours, easily viewed from hills because of their size 6-8ft tall or so.

Whilst todays GPS and mapping are certainly a great tool. I have found those old historical sketch maps from the late 1800s, have faults marked that are not on new maps.(vice-versa also) So I scan them, import and georeference into mapping software. Why todays geo maps don`t show those obvious faults is beyond me, the old 1800s geos would have walked the country and they are obvious when prospecting now. All modern and old maps are a powerful resource, seems nothing can be discounted in our quest.

Nuggets on the way via Cobb & Co.

Got you, and many thanks for explaining. I very rarely run across a detector operator in my area. It was given up as non productive by most years back.(the easy gold was got) Except for the Goldhounds, whilst I have never run across them in the field, they are, I presume, doing the same as I, except on a bigger scale, I presume this from their vids. NQ is a massive prospective area, but it takes a lot of hard slog, persistence and I just envy their youth. Certainly I don`t begrudge their finds, they have used the GPS as a important tool as you and I do, and they embrace new detecting tech with enthusiasm. I guess to sum it up OZ has not had the population effects the US has, and snow, well that is foreign to me. Hopefully Steves insights into the use of the GPS on the GPZ will influence others to explore out further. With an up to date GPS & todays standards on the GPZ, rather than the 20 year old features it has, so much more could be realised.

I`ll have to take a photo next time I`m in that area, the ground just makes you drool, but that was it and I`m fairly sure it had not been visited by a detector before me, probably none since even. Wolfram, Molybdenite and Bismuth country.

Do you folks get away from known workings? Looking at the distribution map of gold in the US, Steve posted a few days back, you seem to have a lot of country that appears to have a chance, like ours the gold coloured areas are only generalised. I have not been to the US so my question may be a dumb question. But I do know most of my good finds over the years have been miles from mines or workings, in what I call fringe country, many days even weeks go without a find, even with very few ferrous signals. This is why I rely so much on GPS tracking and mapping. But I`m talking of areas that have seen few people, perhaps with your population that is just not possible. I think unless you visit OZ gold producing areas with a guide, chances are slim until you get to know the area. I know it was a shock, when I ventured to Victoria, NSW, NT and WA, totally different approach for each State. Would love to see a thread that elaborates a little on this from US folks that have chased the yellow in OZ.

From a few years back, got this piece in an area littered with ironstone-quartz on surface. But despite extensive search nothing more, came in a little over 8 ozs, about 2 inches deep could have got with a Tandy Special.

Boy that looks deep and solid, you beauty, lovely piece. How about the story? Been tracking you its not from OZ or is it?

Gotta agree make sure they don`t take any of that heart of gold.

7 double O 5 gold, you beauty.

Klunker, the cat`d give my nervous Kelpie a hiding, that`s if it could catch her. Goes faster than a greyhound. Yeah Strick, know what you mean, we spoil ours rotten. Tis a dogs life.

Get that heart up to scratch to match the 7005. All the best from downunder Paul.