Search results

Prospecting Australia

Help Support Prospecting Australia:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
  1. davsgold

    Melting gold into buttons - Butane burners

    not getting it hot enough, it should be near as liquid as water, and I think the flux (borax) or other impurities has capped it off as well
  2. davsgold

    German Greenhorns dreaming of australian gold... (Northern Territory)

    exactly and if you don't like the taste run it through an inline filter as you fill your containers 🤔
  3. davsgold

    Melting gold into buttons - Butane burners

    this is how I do it and what I use, Hebel block furnace and Map Gas and blow torch This video shows it in action,
  4. davsgold

    Rare 'Yowah nut' opal to be displayed in national museum

    that is awesome, and on the Out Back Opal Hunters awhile ago they had some magnificent yowah nuts and stuff from out back QLD there finds are on this table about 1.2m worth https://www.jewellermagazine.com/Article/9557/Siblings-unearth-1-2-million-opal-find-in-Queensland-outback and the...
  5. davsgold

    German Greenhorns dreaming of australian gold... (Northern Territory)

    G'day Christoph, welcome to gold detecting in Australia, I have meet a few of your countrymen (from Germany) great people and have detected with them on a few occasions, in Western Australia. If your watching movies about Australia then my advice is Don't watch "Wolf Creek " just before you...
  6. davsgold

    Today I MADE

    I've made a couple more knives since the last one I posted in the topic above in here, Another large Bowie "Letter Opener" and the last one is much smaller with a Deer Antler handle. The Bowie Letter opener And the latest one with the deer antler handle cheers dave
  7. davsgold

    Should there be a requirement for a prospecting ticket?

    your out of control mate, you would think by now that when no one agrees with your idea it a BAD idea, have a nice day 🤔
  8. davsgold

    Should there be a requirement for a prospecting ticket?

    100% correct mate, that's what I've been saying also
  9. davsgold

    Should there be a requirement for a prospecting ticket?

    you have lost the plot entirely
  10. davsgold

    Should there be a requirement for a prospecting ticket?

    you assume a lot mate, you would need to have said PLB inspected by an approved person to make sure the said campers/prospectors were indeed having a PLB in their vehicle, and when these same people get to their camp site and go out exploring/prospecting is there someone their to make sure they...
  11. davsgold

    Should there be a requirement for a prospecting ticket?

    don't just pick out prospectors mate, there are plenty of others that use the outback, and well maybe they are more sensible and have a PLB with them, who knows, and don't start talking about fines and **** there are way to may of these now, everything is turning into a nanny state/kindergarten...
  12. davsgold

    Should there be a requirement for a prospecting ticket?

    NO, just buy and use/have ready a PLB (personal locator Beacon) and have that with you, these are available to anyone that goes camping boating prospecting etc It's not rocket science to use a PLB and you don't need training to use one, if you can read, the instructions are on it. You can't...
  13. davsgold

    Pegging A lease in W.A

    yes Moneybox, my example was the easiest and most simple that I could come up with, I would need a day and a ten page post to explain the difficult ones to peg. I have worked out coordinates and plotted them in Tengraph a few times, and submitted it online, still need to go to the office in...
  14. davsgold

    Pegging A lease in W.A

    that depends if you just want to repeg one that has expired, gone dead, in which case just use the same coordinates that the old one had, which you can get from Tengraph choose which one you want to repeg and go to Tenement register and get the same coordinates just for an example this is a...
  15. davsgold

    Gold Price Discussion

    well gold has really kicked into high gear now $3252/oz or about $105.50/gram this is the gold price chart in Aussie dollars this morning 5th March 2024
  16. davsgold

    Aftermarket Coils for the GPX 6000 - Nugget Finder

    yep I use the 11" mono standard coil on the 6000 and well yes it does detect deep, and shallow and works very well, this is a hole I/we dug the other day in VIC, the piece of cast iron wheel was sitting end on not laying flat and at the surface was a nice low/high tone the ones you like to hear...
  17. davsgold

    Weird ROCK - help needed

    https://geology.com/meteorites/meteorite-identification.shtml
  18. davsgold

    Weird ROCK - help needed

    it's a detector I would not trust then, as a dolly pot and pan do not LIE these pictures show you what gold in a pan looks like after crushing and panning
  19. davsgold

    Weird ROCK - help needed

    dolly it up, or some of it anyway and pan it off, gold is about 19 times heavier than water and over 10 times heavier than the rock that is dollied so gold will be the heaviest thing in your pan and should leave a trail in the bottom edge as the lighter rock/sand gets washed away. Obviously...
  20. davsgold

    Trilobite App

    If your talking about Trilobite that we use, it is Satellite, so what shows on the map your using is yours and only if you share it with them can they have access to it.
Top