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good idea! - I was contemplating soaking it molasses for 3 to 6 months. Being a Land Rover enthusiast I'm quite familiar with the latter restoration method, BUT while you are waiting for a result you're getting older and at 69 I'm running low on time.... :)

that occurred to me too..... a log-hauling tractor or dozer

18 inches thereabouts

The little coastal town where I live has recently celebrated its 150th birthday and interest in the town's origins and history is still high despite there being nothing at all remaining from those early days to view or display. But recently during an excavation a large sprocket wheel was...

Thanks for the correction - one shouldn't assume without knowing the facts. casper

I have 2 creeks that I frequent and one, in particular, was so rich that according to surviving reports, the ol' timers only bothered to collect the "tolerably large pieces" which i reckon would be what we nowadays call "pickers" - as for the remainder, it was simply tipped back into stream for...

I was there 13 years ago and had my 'tector with me but didn't take it out of the truck. Where i was i was looking at signs saying "cyanide do not enter" however that didn't scare me off it just told me that that the gold was that fine that they were using "chemical leaching" to extract the...

Hi L00py - Living in South Gippsland has you well placed to find gold, you have auriferous waterways to the North and East of you. Your research will point you to those gold bearing creeks, just don't waste your time panning surface gravels, dig deep and find the bottom, that's where the gold...

Welcome Chris, seeing as you're a new chum maybe not only look at detectors, broaden your scope and consider buying a pan, sieve, and shovel as well, and hit the creeks. My bet is that the first gold that you find will be with your gold pan. I have both a detector and a pan and river sluice and...

Land Rover parts are not hard to source in Australia. Urgent LR parts travel just as swiftly as any urgent Toyota parts do to the far flung towns of Australia. Mechanic shops will generally not turn down your business and it is not uncommon that they will have a Land Rover fan on staff. Casper...

"Black Boys" regardless ? - I guess it depends on where you're referencing from, I'm an ol'fella living in Gippsland and in my memory they've always been Grass Trees. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=grantville+grasstrees#imgrc=74YdCXntbbjn2M&imgdii=pCQOfkREDl3hQM

Yes, and it's pleasing to see that they've dropped the confusing "List of Exempted Rivers and Streams" and have rewitten it in plain English as "Rivers and Streams where you can't Fossick"

Exactly !! you've got it in a nutshell.......I have commented a few times on this perennial subject. GoldRats example is yet another amendment to the original Act which was made in a time when the pursuit of gold was king. This 1958 amendment announces to holders of Miner's Rights that they have...

Well I got it sussed out...... My DEM download is the 1 second Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model Version 1.0 package which comprises three surface models: the Digital Elevation Model (DEM), the Smoothed Digital Elevation Model (DEM-S) and the Hydrologically Enforced...

.... the area is roughly the size of an AFL ground (it's an 1870's Saw Mill site). I'm unsure if the huge pixel blocks are due to the original geoscience file resolution (doubtful IMHO) or the way QGIS is rendering and displaying the image (IMO most likely). I have watched a handful of YouTube...

.... an improvement of sorts

I've hit a snag ..... can't progress past this point...

I've got my DEM files - just gotta work out how to "merge" them and open them in QGIS....... or is it open them in QGIS and then "merge" them, I think it's the latter...

It's a rainy Saturday in Gippsland so I've downloaded QGIS, it was a huge download at 2.9Gb :oops: .........just gotta work out how it all works now.

I saved the following from a post on this forum way back in 2016. ".....the old timers needed a standard to measure how rich a 'lead' was or what a new goldfield's potential might be, so they started to use the amount of gold recovered from the amount of wash dirt dug. for example:- A bucket of...