Ethan in Adelaide

4 minutes ago, kingswood said:

most of the time I use surface geo, then use mag imaging to define faults and structures.

hi Kingswood,

What surface do u mainly look for May I ask? I have seen people saying AB, CZL, AU. I have only realised to read suface geo last week. lol 

Also as for fault and fractures, I thought you can see them from bedrock geo map anyway? So why would you use mag? 


lately I have been looking at Laverton and in some E tenements there are a few dead SPL and live SPL. Would you reckon around the SPLs there are still good chance to have a look? I assume the good gold won’t come up alone? 

some YouTubers said the more intense the drill holes are the more prospective, what do you think if this ? 

Kind regards,

ethan

On 3/1/2024 at 8:19 AM, kingswood said:

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.

 

 

 

when we check contact zones do we use surface geo or bedrock map more? thanks

1 hour ago, Aureous said:

新生界只是第三系冲积层，或者很可能是砾岩矿床，这些通常是交通便利的矿物来源，通常通过钻探来确定可开采价值并获取矿物样本以确定所述矿物的区域来源。在这种情况下，通常是金和/或镍。所以，有一些前景，但没有什么可以“立即收拾行李出发”之类的东西 😉   我在凯里湖以东的威尔加看到了它。我们 DP 的许多人都会认出这个名字，并知道整个地区在过去几十年里发现了数千块金矿。有了正确的探测器设置，凯里湖本身就总是值得尝试，并且过去已经生产了 1000 盎司的黄金。

Yes spot on Aureous. This is right side of Carey lake where I got permission to prospect E 39/1957, 1812 and 1958.

I have just learned to check Geo surface map most says CZL is good alone with AB etc.  I just found except for E 39/1957 the other two appears not have any CZL nor AB. Well should I invest time to go? or...?

@得到AU？

15 hours ago, GotAU? said:

Then probably a drill site as Aureous says, or maybe weathering bedrock outcrops?  It would help also if you can get a geologic map of the area.  If you suspect a drill site, it wouldn’t hurt to take some samples and pan them out.

@AureousI have just checked the detailed geo map. yes, they are bedrock outcrops and map said Czc🙄..any prospective?

See where red pins are 😁

On 4/25/2024 at 7:26 AM, Aureous said:

Most likely a rehabbed drill site. All of the drill cuttings have been pushed aside with a dozer and the bags collected and dumped. Lots of these in the district. The discolorization is due to the drill cuttings being green such as diorite, serpentine or green shale. Often, Nickel deposits are in a green zone there I've noticed.

Hi I have checked the historical google earth map from 1984, appeared it has been there since then. @GotAU?

Hi team,

just found this on Geoview map near Laverton. I have had a look and there is no mines or old works logged nor old GML OR P OR PA etc.  

is this something natural or? 
 

kind regards,

ethan

On 4/21/2024 at 7:02 AM, dig4gold said:

Why do you call it a wire? It is a cord. As Nenad has said, you need to lock the bungee cord into the grove. You pull down on the cord to achieve the right height of your detector off the ground & then while holding the weight on the cord horizontally pull the cord away from your body & up & it will lock into that wedge shaped groove & you are good to go.

D4G

yes I did it right now. Thanks. 

I called it wire bc of english not first language. lol

On 8/12/2023 at 10:05 AM, araratgold said:

Got to agree with D4G. That whole area between Leonora and Laverton is one of the most heavily detected areas in WA, including myself, and has been for more than 20 years. My bullshit meter has gone full scale on a 2 ounce surface piece still being there after all that !

Rick

Hi Rick why between Leonora and Laverton is the most detected area in WA?

Thanks,
Ethan

Hi guys I’m trying out the bungee today as hip stuck just arrived. I am having issues as the bungee wire can’t be clamped the wire very well. every time I put weight on the wire will start moving. The clamp appears very loose. Am I doing it wrong or? 
 

Thanks 

Ethan 

On 4/6/2024 at 2:31 PM, araratgold said:

I use a 17 inch round spiral for patch hunting in WA.

No heavier than the standard coil, but 40% more area in the coil, which equates to a lot more ground covered, and more sensitive than the standard.

Follow up on patches with the 17CC or 22CC ( I now solely use a 22CC ). Even the big 22CC is super sensitive, got an 0.14g crumb at 3 inches with it last week. 😁 

Last time in WA I was getting crumbs that would not even register on my scales that read to 0.01 grams, with the 17CC.

Rick

Hi Rick,

If I d only buy 1 coil, as I have my dad use GPX 6000, then maybe 22 coil is good?

BTW how you feel 22cc weight? Too heavy and clumsy to use?

I did hear someone saying 22cc is not recommend as it misses many small nuggets.  what you think?

Many thanks,
Ethan

Hi team,

Just wonder what are your suggestions or personal perference if you go WA to prospect with what X coils? I have a GPZ and GPZ 6000. I am interested in the 22" tbh but afraid it can be too heavy? 

Thank you,
Ethan

On 2020/5/26 at AM6点50分, DolanDave said:

我的 GPZ 7000 有 Steelphase SP01。我喜欢它...它确实可以安静探测器发出的声音，并且只允许目标通过，微弱的目标可以毫无问题地通过并放大...

戴夫

how did it let the target voice out not the ground noise?

2 hours ago, GR Guy said:

Even better solution for flexibility would be something like a Troopy - totally flexible and everything inside. I would recommend whatever setup having a fly screen tent / awning so you can put a barrier between the flies.

mine is ford ranger ute

13 hours ago, geof_junk said:

Consider your tolerance of the cold nights and being look in after a rain event. I used a 4 wheel caravan  and found assess to near location was not a problem.  

maybe not too strong to deal with cold nights. lol.

15 hours ago, kingswood said:

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.

Yes some Youtubes have mentioned drilling etc. If I can go this year I would think to go there have a look. Currently however around peak hills many pending areas also worth having a look

Hi ,

I saw youtubes some prospectors using caravans, some do tents. I wonder what are the pros and cons for each? I imagine it would be difficult to go with off road caravans as many places are not easy to get in, then why they use caravans? What do you use? Any thoughts or experience?🤗  I hate flies there btw. 😐

2 hours ago, kingswood said:

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.

Bro thank you and @Aureous. I am learning by asking question and listening from patient generous teachers like you guys. I have not thought about anything like dead tenemenet and contact zones before. Now it is another research course going on. Not even GML. After you mentioned I had a look oh good. lol

On 2/28/2024 at 8:32 AM, Aureous said:

@Ethan in Adelaide , the point being, if a 'dead tenement' has mines or not, there will be a paper trail outlining the work done previous. Smaller tenements will pinpoint the likelihood of alluvial gold being present ....like someone found a patch and decided to peg it to work with machinery.

I have seen small patch in pending for P. very small. I wonder if it still has gold for now as the people who applied for it should have done the surface very well otherwise others would do it.

you mentioned paper trail. you mean tenement reports online? any links?

Thanks

On 2/28/2024 at 7:02 PM, kingswood said:

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.....

, 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.

Hi Kingswood,

Just a few questions hope you don't mind answering them:

Old workings in a line, super exciting.....(you mean mines in a line like a strike？）

Dead SPL's (I only saw P or PA in tengraph when use dead tenement section, never seen any SPL?)

Dead leases in random unexpected places（what kind of leases are they?)

detect the edges of the contact zones (what is contact zones?)

Thanks,

Ethan

1 hour ago, Aureous said:

@Ethan in Adelaide , the point being, if a 'dead tenement' has mines or not, there will be a paper trail outlining the work done previous. Smaller tenements will pinpoint the likelihood of alluvial gold being present ....like someone found a patch and decided to peg it to work with machinery.

I think for those kind of tenements they are normally worked out aren't they? liek P tenements

1 minute ago, Clay Diggins said:

我对房屋租赁系统不太熟悉。这些矿权地是否拥有所有矿产的权利，还是仅拥有黄金的权利？

在美国，大多数采矿权都不是黄金矿区。关闭采矿权更多的是回顾其他人对非金矿藏的梦想和希望。在没有其他证实的情况下，假设这些已结案的索赔代表了潜在的金矿化，可能会导致徒劳无功。和楼盘一样吗？

maybe to all metals

On 2/26/2024 at 7:45 AM, Aureous said:

Every ' dead tenement'  has almost always already gotten a re-application over it before it even expires. But, those tenements will take months to determine who gets it (often more than one mining/exploration company or individual will have applied for it) and in the mean time, it is now 'pending ground' and open to anyone to prospect on it without permission. There will also be documentation at the Mines Dept, outlining the work that the previous owner did. This gives the budding prospector lots of info to point them in the right direction as to where on the tenement the gold actually is. The gold that a mining company is chasing aint necessarily the same gold we're after. 

Hi Aureous, this is what he replied:

'G'day, point is that most dead tenements don't have mines on them. Both geoview and tengraph will show you the mines(most of them) and thats good when we are looking to 'connect the dots' but looking for privately held dead tenements will tell you where the alluvial gold has been. Please let me know if I have or haven't answered your question....I get myself confused sometimes!!'

Hi peeps,

I am just watching goldtalk Leonora from Youtubes. In one video he mentioned (from 0:25) that using tengraph is more important than geoview ect as you can see dead tenements. But I didn't get why it is so important to see dead tenements as we can already see where old mines are ect from tengraph and geoviews anyway.

Anyone knows?

Thanks,
Ethan

On 2023/4/26 at PM12点18分, PhaseTech said:

我收到非常不稳定的信号

On 2023/4/26 at PM12点18分, PhaseTech said:

如果地面中的盐含量最少，17x13" 线圈将比 12" 线圈更成功地正常运行。但在困难的情况下，我发现一般/困难仍然可以提供出色的深度并保留很多灵敏度。如果我收到非常不稳定的信号，我会切换到 HY 进行检查。 

 

changing from difficult to high yield would need a GB again, do you use ferrite ring and quick track together to go through again or just pump the coil? Thanks.

5 minutes ago, Prickly Prospector said:

All good, they should have a similar department and regulations..

https://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Minerals/Native-Title-5481.aspx

Thank you. I have sent an email too and waiting for reply from the department.