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    West Australia
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    The formation and distribution of gold in laterite horizons
  • Gear In Use:
    GPZ7000
    GPX6000
    SDC2300
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  1. I would send the mate back 😉 ha ha
  2. Yep thats me too. I dropped the larger pick a few years ago and now detect with the small pick hanging thru a tool belt pouch belted around the waist. If I need the larger pick, will just walk back and get it. I havent had to do that yet ha ha. The tool pouch is awesome as it has a slot for the pick to slide into, a spot for the scoop and 2 pouches for GPS, gold jar etc.
  3. No worries. Everyone starts somewhere and I am thankful for all the help and advice I got when i started out 🙂 Often with old leases that I find interesting, I then flick into Geoview to see if there are any reports attached to it. Sometimes that gives you a bit of an idea of what work has been done. If it was a mining or exploration company their reports often have better maps than I could otherwise get, so I tend to save them. Their drill or surface sample results also often offer clues....often not large enough results for them to bother about, but worth a look as a prospector.
  4. There are so many factors to consider though....did the people who did the work use their own machines or hire? if hired its expensive and they could have rushed to get the bigger gold but likely left lots of bits behind. Was it worked with new detectors or old? Older detectors could easily have left a few ounces of small bits behind. Did they actually work the right area? They may have found a patch but due to hire constraints or time constraints, only scraped the area where they found a patch, but missed the other gold away from the patch. Aureous is 100% correct, no one gets it all. I have found decent nuggets and speccies next to people's old dig holes. Many people have found nuggets in other peoples chained patches. Sometimes you swing from one direction and you wont hear the gold, but coming from another angle, you do detect it.
  5. No worries. Old workings....could be shafts or could be shallow pits. They are evidence that the old timers were onto something...panning along and digging pits or shallow workings trying to dig onto the source. Remember that these guys were loaming not detecting and usually didnt waste their time digging random pits. They mean that they found something in the pan and were spending time trying to locate the best place to drop a shaft. Multiple pits like this are a great sign for gold detecting as it often indicates that there is (or was) as source around there. Dead SPL's are on tenegraph. They will end with an "S", so something like PXX/xxxx-s. Thats an SPL. Any dead lease in a random spot. Could be a prospecting license or an old mining license. If you are looking at tenegraph and theres a dead P or M somewhere random on an active E or on vacant ground, its worth a drive out to have a look. Remember need a 40E to detect on a live E. It could be an indicator that something of interest was found many years ago as someone went to the trouble of pegging and applying for it. Like in this attached example: see the old GML in the middle of nowhere? Have to ask yourself why is it there? Did someone find something? Are there old workings there that havent been surveyed?? Its always worth a look.... Contact zones are basically where different rock types have come together, for example granite and greenstones. Its important as its related to tectonic movement that forced the rocks together and possibly allowed gold bearing fluids to be forced into the zone. Where there are contact zones, there will also likely be faults, fractures and fissures. Gold in WA is where it is because of geological reasons. If the geo isnt there, the gold usually wont be either. Even when we consider secondary gold in laterite, its where it is because of the underlying well covered bedrock geology. Some of the contact zones are quite obvious at a surface level, but others are covered by many hundreds of metres of overburden. Its why geo maps and mag imaging are an important tool.
  6. Just from my own experience, Dead tenements dont really mean much to me at all...simply as the majority of the gold areas will have dead tenements dating back to the old 1890 GML's..... Old workings in a line, super exciting..... Dead SPL's, great! Dead leases in random unexpected places, kinda interesting and worth looking at. Tony is 100% correct in saying to detect the edges of the contact zones though. The majority of WA gold is close to fractures/faults and contact zones.
  7. Never had an issue with the Torus paired to the 6000. Works very well. More rugged housing would be good but apart from that, I have no complaints at all.
  8. took me 6 months of detecting once a weekend before I finally scored a small 0.2g! My problem for the first 6 months was that I was using a PI mine detector with silent threshold....literally only dug loud signals. Finally scored a bit the first time out with the 2300....sucked and licked that bit about 40 times while staring at it to make sure it was actually gold 🙂 Looking back, I think I walked over gold with the mine detector......I just didnt know at the time that I should have investigated the small squeaks and farts....
  9. Not to mention telescopic rods and sliding arm rests 🙂
  10. This one? https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/523a963a2162ef1d6c430f42
  11. Yep my biggest fear and the reason I dont ever use headphones. Was detecting in a quite remote area on my own one day and heard a bark...then another bark, then a growl....Needless to say I hurried back to the car. The 7000 would have turned into an expensive club that day if it was needed. If i am going to be attacked by dogs, I would rather stand a chance of hearing them first. I even start heading back to the car if I see a reasonable fresh dog poo!! I am not really a fan of killing animals, however with the sheep and cattle losses here to wild dog packs, I understand it.
  12. Even big finds in well worked areas. Amazes me that you can still find the odd sunbaker in areas that have been "well" detected. Just goes to show you that no one gets its all. Should have zigged, but you zagged and missed a sunbaker by that much....
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