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Steiglitz is the most Southerly of Victoria's West Central goldfields. Closer to Geelong than Ballarat, it sits on the southernmost exposure of the Ordovician slates that host the rich Golden Triangle gold deposits. To the West these slates are covered by recent volcanic lavas, to the South by...

Hi Steve. Suggest you research a map of prospecting areas around Bendigo and surrounds. There are other important goldfields North (Whipstick), East (Heathcote), South (Maldon and Castlemaine, and West (Inglewood and Wedderburn) also in the greater Bendigo area. Bendigo is a good central point...

The wife of a friend called around to see us a week or so back. I asked her about how her husband Michael was going. It was just after his team Collingwood got thrashed by my team Hawthorn. She said that he had been very quiet over the previous few days and appeared to be suffering from...

Not knocking detector training courses but I am a great believer in teaching oneself because things learned that way are generally better remembered. All you need is are few small test bits (lead will do) and your detector. Your detector will most likely have default settings chosen by the...

Bloody Cold. Not quite today but a day or so ago in Victoria. (Mt Hotham) PS Thats not me. No way!

Could it be a blue/green zircon? The tetragonal crystal shape would fit for a zircon’s natural crystalline habit. Sapphires are generally regarded as hexagonal in crystal habit. Of course shapes found in nature can be varied by chance factors or pseudo-morphism (where objects are formed by...

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The older gen were very practical and I have seen in old building rubble examples where they used gravel instead of proper builders sand or aggregate for cement or concrete in floors, walls and rendering applications. Noticing on the back there are areas that look grayish so just wondering the...

Mackka, was referring mainly to health insurance costs there which is almost a necessity for those who don’t qualify for the pensioner concession. (Ed) Can make huge differences on things like hearing aids. Yes it is amazing how much junk processed food is sold in supermarkets, but people still...

Are supermarket prices the only thing that have exploded in recent years. What about land prices, building materials, medical costs for those not on pensions, hospitality, takeaway food, electricity and gas? Enquiries are usually set up by governments under pressure to deflect attention away...

Also consider your future in prospecting. Is this going to be a one off adventure? Or are you considering starting out prospecting as a long term interest of which this is only the first foray. If the former consider buying second hand and the resale value. If so you will want a machine in high...

Do you know how to do a specific gravity test. That will eliminate many pure metals although not necessarily some alloys.

Yes, There seems to be three types of plug in adaptors that will work with the one cable. USB C, micro B and Apple. There are however different magnetic coupling systems, flat, central pin, oval shaped from which to choose. Mine is the round flat type. Matching adaptors and cables are usually...

Thought I’d start up a thread for gadgets and accessories that people may have found helpful. Noted that the Minelab wireless headphones supplied with the 6000 didn’t come with a charging cable. Had to hunt around for a USB cable with a micro B plug to do the job. Found that especially when in...

Was out just a few days ago with both the Coiltek Gold Hawk 9” round and a NF Exceed 12” x 7”. In two days dug 154 targets using the two coils, with 17 bits of gold and most of the rest being shotgun pellets. There were few deeper targets encountered to gauge depth performance, but there were a...

Thanks for the good wishes. Reckon a few days inside learning to drive my new toy wirelessly from inside the warm house and hoping for some clear night skies won’t do any harm.

Also can run a DD coil in mono setting. It turns the DD coil into a small elliptical type mono coil by using one side of the two overlapping wire coils inside a DD. This used to work very well for me with an Extreme that I used to have. When using my DD coil in mono mode, I had the option to...

Today I am recovering from serious over-estimation of the physical capabilities of my aging body. Gina has a much more balanced life than me, and not able to accompany me as often as I would like on gold prospecting trips to the GT, I decided a tent would be a good idea for me to do quick and...

Hi Clayton. Melton area is a lava (Basalt) plain overlaying older sandstones and slates laid down approximately 400 million years of age. These underlying rocks are of the same age as those that contain the majority of Victoria's auriferous reefs but not invariably. In short like vast areas of...

There has also been some suggestion that the Union Jack was also flown at the stockade below the Eureka flag. Contemporary reports do not indicate that it was being flown at the time of the storming of the stockade but may well have been done at other times as the young Queen Victoria was a...