More Australians Getting Out!

[mn90403]

Watch out gold!  Here they come.

 

Mint condition: the price of gold has hit a record high – and Australians are flocking to cash in | Victoria | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/09/price-of-gold-has-hit-record-high-australians-are-cashing-in

[TheDeepseeker]

They're lovely nuggets and I really am happy for them. I just wish the media would show to the people racing out to buy metal detectors the size of the excavating equipment these guys use before they started swinging. The same blokes are still excavating across the road from my property- about 11 or 12' down..... It's a mining operation and doesn't have much to do with recreational metal detecting. 

 

 

[mn90403]

I've seen some dig, spread and detect operations in California.

That is the way to go rather than try to get a detector that will see real deep.

[Aureous]

Not so long ago, I coulda gone detecting for weeks without ever seeing another person doing the same. Now its 'everywhere ya look' there someone already there. Sometimes ya spend more time talking to the newbies than actually detecting! I need an invisibility cloak....

[Reg Wilson]

Mumble grumble Grrrr! Bloody tourists.

[geof_junk]

Besides Wedderburn 1979/80 which was the "Metal Detecting Gold Rush" with the  high noise of all the detector speaker (no earphone used). Most of my detecting is done with very few contacts with other detecting people. However when there are a lot of new-comers, most of them spend more time looking for were someone is detecting, than detecting and invade your space.........Mumble grumble Grrrr! Bloody tourists..........

[Bishop]

We were out last Sunday and i was surprised at only seeing 2 other vehicles and they were not mining/detecting.
However the rattle snakes have been really bad this year. have seen one for 6 of 7 trips.

[Norvic]

5 hours ago, Reg Wilson said:

Mumble grumble Grrrr! Bloody tourists.

Aye keep them down there south of the border 😉

[Dirty Detector]

Interesting note at the bottom of the article re the Guardian not accepting money from fossil fuel companies.
Ironic given their stand on climate change doesn’t extend to not publishing “click bait” puff pieces promoting extraction of resources from the ground when it suits their own ends.