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One thing I like to point out is in my cases I'm concentrating on what would be regarded as smaller shafts and reefs compared to the big major reef complexes worked for years by major companies. These large reef systems have had a lot of expert advice and resources put into them and on most...

Welcome to the Forum Harry. PA should certainly help you with the research necessary to give you greater success.

Welcome to the Forum Leadshot and may that retirement nugget have your name on it.

Welcome to the Forum Woodster.

Welcome to the Forum Meggsy. Great to see you hunt gold and gems as that doubles the fun you can have in the hobby. For information you you have come to the right place. A great way to get out onto the fields is joining a club of which there is many. They tend to have outings every month and I'm...

Sorry for being a bit late on a reply Aaron as I've been down the coast out of service for a week. The pic that Goldie showed is exactly what a "quartz blow" looks like and they are common on both gold and non gold fields. Most quartz blows are devoid of gold if the surrounding terrain is not...

Getting involved with threads is always welcome BD and a great way to get a grasp of topics that interest you.

I for one am glad water was not that plentiful in much of the GT back in the day. I have visited the Kiandra Field on many occasions as it is not far from me. To see the mess made of New Chum Hill by hydraulic sluicing is shocking to say the least. The hill still hasn't recovered to this very...

Great minds must think alike Goldie ☺️...we posted almost exactly at the same time with almost the same content.:oops: Doesn't hurt to have a doubled up perspective hey.

The ground in "certain" areas is definitely not reflective of what it was over a150 years ago, but most surfacing was to a depth of only a few metres. It was generally chasing shallow alluvial leads where shafting was deemed too dangerous when tunnelling at such shallow depths."20 metres" would...

Welcome to the Forum Baz and Alley. You have come to the right place to expand your knowledge in prospecting and as the Forum has members in each state advice for your WA trip next year will only be questions away. Getting involved within the threads will give you the best answers to your...

Well kept secret Mackka ....we usually get 3 or 4 every morning during the summer months...but if someone asks you say " mud crabs,..what are they" 🤔

Great fishing spot Mackka for sure. I have a 55 foot game fishing catamaran moored down there and use it as my main accommodation when down the coast. Nothing better than catching Jewies off the back of the boat at night, and checking the pots for mud crabs in the morning. :)

Old farts for sure Goldie...70 years is at the wrong end of the age bracket for swinging detectors in challenging terrain. I'm not limiting my experience to Ballarat alone and I'm not going from "What I have seen come out" but from what I have "personally" detected. I have plenty of "personal"...

Helping a mate put his brand new 50 foot house boat into the Clyde river tomorrow and then splicing mooring ropes.....That's not the whinge though. The whinge is there is no internet reception there and I can't access PA forum for a whole week. :( Hope the crane doesn't drop the boat.🤔

There is not a field in VIC including the high country where I spent over 20 years dredging that I haven't spent countless hours detecting on over the past 55 years. I have come across hundreds of quartz blows exactly the same as the pic you have posted and rarely found an outcrop with...

Exactly right Simmo and I would imagine many species would have been amongst that lot. Same goes for Tibo and they are the visible gold stringers we are looking for. Most of these areas have kilometres of fractured quartz in the region but finding the ones which had detectable gold are the...

Might be on the cards Rick. ;) ...getting to the pointy end of my fossicking career now and many of my friends are pestering me for my research notes and folders. Have thousands of GPS coordinates from around The Australian Gold and Gem Fields,... personally compiled mud maps, dozens of research...

Been waiting for just this kind of reply Goldie...I'm giving advice from personal experience and directing it towards newcomers who are starting out and are not into complex geological terms to confuse them with "what else can be found" within quarts "blow outs". I have hundreds of gold species...

Garden hose is to large in diameter Diginit...they also sell clear plastic tubing in the plumbing section and you need a piece with an internal diameter no larger than 5mm. ;)