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Yes I was surprised by his reluctance to meet more forum members. There were so many opportunities as he travelled throughout the country. I think he spent time in every state, spent quite a while in Wedderburn when he lost a massive amount of money on an debit card scam and had all his account...

You don't have to worry about following the geology maps or copying kml files. If you are looking for legal ground to prospect on then you need the current tenements and that should be updated near the time when you need it. The tracking remains on your screen so no problems there.

I'm going to have an early night. Tomorrow morning at 6:30am I pick up Gary the Pom from the bus depot in Perth. He's been here for a year travelling throughout the country and turned up home last Friday. We left him there because we had a prior appointment in Perth. His vehicle is parked in my...

Rainbowgold, On the top right of the Trilobite screen you have Manage Downloads. The program is useless without this data but about the best you can get once you've downloaded maps, tenements and gold locations. However you will have to pay a small annual subscription.

Looks like they found them alive and well Mackka.

We stood out at the end of the street while Sandra tried to get photos of the big sparks in the sky then we walked off around town as we usually do in the evening and came home dry. We've had reports of people flooded in and others bogged but here we can run the dryblower.

Right now I'm in recovery mode. I started the day in a bad mood, walked over to the mine to do a bit of dryblowing and found a front tyre on Tonka nearly flat. They leak around the bead when the "O" ring gets old. The tyre still had some air so I drove slowly and checked it a couple of times...

Made from a small LPG bottle and a homemade burner with a 0.6mm LPG jet that is actually a 0.6 mig welder tip. I was pouring gold back into the cavity in quartz rocks for the Cue Heritage Centre gold display.

I think you may have ruined that kid's life, you can see by the look in her eye, she's got the fever 😂

I hope the museum paid him well. That's a fabulous item to display and very rare. We left Brisbane for the opal fields in 1975 in my brother's FJ55 LandCruiser. When we arrived at Yowah it was 104°F in the shade and there was none of that. Merv lowered the electric window in the back of the...

Yes that's the point. Don't just regulate prospectors when anybody out there is at risk. Education would surely be more effective.

The new DRAFT regulations that are being tested through the Warden's court every week call for photos to be taken at the time of pegging. We will have to show measurements of posts and trenches or rocks. There are plenty of a-holes out there who will challenge another just because they...

I think we're singling out prospectors. There have been other fatalities out there. Sometimes they are pastoralists, sometimes miners and some are tourists. It's just a case of anybody travelling into the baron outback is at risk of perishing for any number of reasons. Some get bogged, some get...

I have a current objection before the Warden's court claiming that my stones don't touch. I have a slight gap between stones.

That's just 5oz of the good stuff or perhaps 10oz for a full Private Pilot's License 😂 How many people do you know who've got 10oz stashed away for the kids? There won't be much left for mine....

Craig, you may we right but I'm told this is incorrect. I've been told that my peg can only be inserted at ground level and the trench must lead from the peg. The problem is we're dealing with lawyers and they don't recognise right from wrong, they just want chaos because that pays more.

Now you guys are upsetting me... I could develop an inferiority complex whatever that means :rolleyes: I have a little Polaris microlight powered by a Rotax 503 but I want one of these,

I’m studying this book. I’m tired of an 8 hr drive to Perth and then another 8hrs home again.

No suspicious circumstances but not surprising in this area during the summer. There's absolutely no surface water, very little chance of finding food and navigation is extremely difficult. You simply can't tell people how difficult it is to find your way in this terrain because most people...

Mmmm... that sounds easy. Of course it can be but too often it's not. I'm off to Mount Magnet now to sort out a minor problem. We don't have a JP in town because he's in hospital so last week we drove to Mount Magnet to sort it out at the Mines Department. That didn't work out because both girls...