There's Those Who Have Mastered, Then Come The Apprentices

[Ashley100456]

My Apprentership Tally for the 2017 Season in Western Australia, 715 pieces of gold, Biggest nugget was 10.87grams, smallest was 0.09grams. Biggest patch was 62 nuggies in an area not much bigger than my 14ft caravan.  All found with the mighty Zed.

 

Gold is sectioned in the photo as explained :

 

Top section and the small pile at the 9 o’clock position was from my trip early in the season

( roughly 3 months ) for 458 pieces.

 

Small pile at the 8 o’clock position and remainder of the gold on the right lower section was from the latter trip of just over a month golding for 257 pieces.

 

9 o’clock & 8 o’clock piles was the 62 patch found on my last day of the early trip and clean up on the first day of the latter trip ( best patch bit was a 6 grammer with a total patch weight of 37.56 grams )

 

Total weight comes in at 11ounces ( possibly a tad more when I crush the speccies )

 

Cheers

Ashley

[Lunk]

Awesome haul, WTG!

[DolanDave]

Great Finds....  Thanks for sharing

[jrbeatty]

Good work Ash! Lots of digging involved there.

[rockett]

Nice finds indeed, could i ask if you ran the same settings all the time and if so what where they?

I lived in Boulder in the late 80s but unfurtunatly i wasn't into hunting the yellow back then.

Im heading back over next year for a visit i hope i can get a little bit of colour.

Thanks for the pics.

[vanursepaul]

On ya mate!!!!!!!

[bluthermal]

good on ya mate..

[Ashley100456]

Thank you Lunk, Dolan Dave, vanursepaul, bluthermal. 

Rockett : Used & tried a lot of settings as it was my first opportunity to try out the new Minelab update for the Zed,  Factory settings work well but always try & see if you can get the Zed to run in Normal on the ground you are on.

Jrbeatty : Yes was lot's of digging but i was lucky enough to find most of the gold in patches with only a small amount of rubbish targets, One patch of 31 small nuggies had 11 shotty pellets pretty much smack in the middle of the patch and no other rubbish anywhere. The 62 patch was only gold targets, did end up finding a boot tack about 20m away from the patch

Cheers

Ashley 

[beatup]

congrats on a good season

[Steve Herschbach]

Stunning photo of well earned gold - thanks for posting!