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    Pegging A lease in W.A

    Always take photos of you markout and file away incase of an objection :)
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    Pegging A lease in W.A

    Ps it's impossible to insert a peg at ground level as it must enter below ground level to stay in place :)
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    Pegging A lease in W.A

    Here's a tip!!!! I would argue in court that above peg is good ... however.... best way to avoid all this grey area ******** Is to use rocks for your trenches as allowed by mining regs you may even pile the rocks around the base of peg to support and insure FIRM fixing of you pegs as per rego...
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    Pegging A lease in W.A

    FYI the peg in the photo is not compliant with the mining act the trenches are not correct and can be objected to as per Forrest n Forrest case precedent 2019 high court decision the peg must be in the trench I have used this law myself in a case
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    wileys gold hunts.

    Fyi , For the record ... as it turned all the shotgun pellets nuggets came off a quartz reef uphill 500 m away...from which I then got a LOT of specimens like the one on the left in this photo
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    wileys gold hunts.

    I just finished working a 5 Oz patch that I named shotgun patch. Lol I got several hundred pellets and even more ball bearing type nugs. I'll be keeping this spot in my head for a spl what a great potential dryblowing patch it was!!!! Dig everything or go home !!:)
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    Night detecting

    My tip would be don't do it... Don't get me wrong it's averaging 44 ° here in leonora so I understand the battle . But there's more things that can go wrong than right and someone's health or when life ain't worth a bit of gold. My real tip is if your serious I get up at 4am and do my work very...
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    Selling gold - how, why, where

    It don't work like that!!! Remember 100 a gram spot is based on 99.99 pure bullion , that ain't what u have. U have impure gold nuggets by time you refine you will lose at least 10 to 12 percent.... so many people dint take this into account... you'll be lucky to get more than 80 to 85 per...
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    2023 sunbaker collection!!

    The best sunbakers from this season :)
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    Well that was a nice little patch this week :)

    :cool:
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    Ok Hows THAT for a sunbaker

    Are you talking north of Leonora...??? White well area??
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    Ok Hows THAT for a sunbaker

    Nice nugg!!! Very pretty I see your 5ounce specie and raise you to 900gram specie with 12ounces of gold 😆
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    Ok Hows THAT for a sunbaker

    Ounce sunbaker ,what a stunning piece of gold verry happy camper:;
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    And the multi ounce nuggets keep coming dadaaaa:)

    Found another 77 gm specie 500mm deep today near the last one .... SG test says 55 grams gold inside happy camper :)
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    Today's best Lollie off the patch down deep!

    Thanks . To be fair we are fulltime prospectors and live out bush 9 months per year :) patience, research,persistence pay off
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