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  1. Trent King
    Very interesting, we were all complaining about the EMI yesterday, didn’t know about this thing.
  2. Trent King
    I call caravan parks over here ‘claim jumper villages’. In Victoria they are usually good for a base camp, it’s too bloody cold this time of year in the bush over there. Last time I was there the owners were very friendly to all the tourists, mention your looking for gold and they give you maps of all the local state forests and areas you are allowed to detect. They have a friendly group of about half a dozen couples who are there every year and you can sit around the fire an yarn about the days takings, someone might even take you under their wing.
  3. Trent King
    I’m a bit suss on your nugget in a day comment mate, how come you haven’t been picking them up if it’s so easy?
  4. Trent King
    Pro tip #36. Stop moving around so much, you have near been to more areas in Victoria then I have. Pick an area and stick at it till you get gold. I noticed you only spent 1 day at Wedderburn, the caravan park there is cheap to stay at and literally right on the gold. I sent a newbie there a couple years back and he got his first nugget a 2.5oz piece 300m from the back fence. If your getting rubbish it’s not flogged, have some faith in your research and stick to it, good luck mate.
  5. Trent King
    Your not wrong about that, took two blokes to even lift the box your ‘tent’ came in, going to need a tandem trailer just to get it all out to site. I got an area ready to test the 17”, your going to need a lot of gold to cover generator and jackhammer hire, 3ft of iron cap will sort the men out from the boys.
  6. Trent King
    Very nice piece Andyy. I often go out early in the morning over here, it’s amazing how much quieter the ground is. I think it’s a mixture of two things, less EMI and the ground seems to degauze (not sure that’s a real word) overnight and reenergise gradually during the day from the sun. I have a mate who loves detecting straight after lightning storms, he reckons that also seems to degauze the ground and make really hot ground quieter.
  7. Trent King
    Couldn’t have said it better Busho, my thoughts exactly.
  8. Trent King
    Arsenic is the main indicator we use when scoping new areas over here. The XRF gun isn’t really accurate on gold when sampling, so we generally go of the arsenic levels when deciding which samples to get assayed. Saves a fortune in assay costs by only assaying the ones likely to have gold. Nearly all areas have been soil sampled over the last 50 years, putting these together and mapping the elevated levels is a great tool for finding patches.
  9. Trent King
    Don’t worry Condor we will look after you, I have already set up a bar tab for you, you currently owe 3 cartons. Paul almost done a similar trick to his zed , first 5 minutes of meeting him he pulled his zed out and stuck it on the roof of the car with 1 rotten old strap holding it ?. Swapped an ounce of gold for your prospecting vehicle today, when I transferred the registration they asked if we were taking it interstate, I just laughed ‘she wouldn’t make it that far’ so I got a discount and added another carton to your bill ??
  10. Trent King
    So did a rough job panning the fines and got another 130g, rest in to the poverty pot ?? Total gold recovered 330g.
  11. Trent King
    I take size 12 in 4x4 pluggers Paul. The ugly nugget patch is still producing got this 1.5kg chunk this morning. True to form it is a ugly sucker so I smashed it up. Action shots 200g of chunks in the black pan, still processing the rest, should easily crack the 10oz mark I reckon. ?
  12. Trent King
    I have the same kit so can answer Fred, It is Dewalt, with the 9ah battery the vacuum runs for about 25min continuous, but obviously you would be just switching it on an off so should last a lot longer. I use it for rock samples with a 32mm drill bit and can easily do 20 holes before swapping batteries. The battery technology is amazing nowdays, I have nearly every tool dewalt make. I did 12 cuts of solid 2” bar and was still going strong with their 54v grinder !
  13. Trent King
    Yeh good ole gpx5000 with 16” nf, plus Cat 427 ? I was fairly surprised 120g, not much gold was visible until smashed. I originally guessed about 80g of gold by going of the sound and depth, so was pretty happy with the result. Not wrong there Vic, it’s hard to get good help.
  14. Trent King
    The ugly nugget patch is still producing, snagged this beauty this morning. I have dollied 100g of chunks but havent finished it off yet, I needed a beer ?
  15. Trent King
    There are plenty of better options that do the same thing (maps plus for example) no point in paying an annual fee for this in my opinion, also it is about 3000km away from where he is prospecting. ??
  16. Trent King
    I don’t keep records of individual nuggets any more since the SDC2300 just got too many, but remember getting a 0.07g about 5 years ago with the Minelab 18” round on the 5000.
  17. Trent King
    A nice looking one finally from the ugly nugget patch. I dont think I have the heart to smash this one, might flog it off as is.
  18. Trent King
    I just smashed all the ugly buggers up in the dolly pot, 32g of chunks plus a pan full of fines. I got a fairly good idea where the source is, drilling on a mates lease nearby first week of March, might poke a couple holes in to check it out ?
  19. Trent King
    Good luck Mitchel, I’m sure the Victorian boys will look after you. My favourite spot in Victoria is panning in Reedy Ck near Beechworth, gems and gold ??. ( I did a YouTube vid there a few years ago, should be able to find it with google)
  20. Trent King
    Finally finished drilling and got to go out bush chasing nuggets again this week, I am going to rename this area the ‘ugly nugget’ patch. Paul and JP would have fond memories of this spot from last year ?? I will try to leave a few for yous ??
  21. Trent King
    I’ve done loads of prospecting in Tassie, not as much gold but you can get Osmiridium there, worth even more then gold! I won’t be rushing down to sluice in the snow again though, sitting in the backhoe over here is much more pleasant . New generator turned up for the dry blower yesterday, 25kva Lister ??
  22. Trent King
    Why does it have to be waterproof? Hasn’t rained here in 6 months ?
  23. Trent King
    Thank you for the detailed reply Chris. It’s always interesting to hear about how other people are going about things. A 375m diamond hole with hassles that missed the target would generally kill a project here, and make it hard to get more holes drilled by investors. They don’t mention any assay results? The majority of targets we drill have a significant halo so even when you miss you know your close, is that different there? We are spoilt over here with loads of shallow areas to make exploration easier, when funding the drilling ourselves we purposely target shallower ground. I actually dropped a 2000ha tenement a year or two back that had drill results of 38gpt Au at 120m deep purely because it was too costly to drill through the 80m of sediment to reach the fresh rock and prove the deposit. Good luck with it and I hope it all turns out for you.
  24. Trent King
    Yes it was a ground based in loop TEM survey. We had already mapped the surface gossans with our XRF, so had a fair idea. Unfortunately as you know everything in this game cost a lot, but the rewards are usually worth it if your ground work is good. Surveys over here are usually not too bad , but the drilling is a killer. We drilled 120 holes to 70m on another project last year, now that’s expensive!
  25. Trent King
    Thanks for the reply Chris. We have also spent a lot of time exploring for VMS deposits in the last year. Waiting on our best conductor to be modelled at the moment so we can stick a hole in and flog it off. Obviously Paul did listen occasionally during his lessons ??
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