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With all the hype about Artificial Intelligence, maybe we in the prospecting community should be taking some notice of it. Thought I'd try out the CoPilot AI function on my MS Edge browser and ask it where I could find a big gold nugget in Victoria. It just said the "Golden Triangle which...

Today I got a little depressed. Just had my 79th birthday Tried hard to think of something special about that number as 79 is a pretty depressingly large and boring number. The only thing I could think about the number 79 was that it is a prime number. The last time I had a prime number...

Found this from OzGeology whose videos on gold and general geology I enjoy watching. Was up at Nerrina prospecting just recently and am appalled to find out that the area is out of bounds and we may have been prospecting illegally. How can these changes be crept into regulations so easily. I...

Just read that Costco in the US was forced to recall 80,000lbs of butter. The reason? - The label did not mention that butter is made from milk. The stupid are coming for us...

Just following up from a discussion on another thread. I have been getting used to using my 6000. Up to recently I had been running it in difficult soil and Manual 1. Even with those settings in certain places and times the noise level was much higher and more uncomfortable to deal with than I...

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...

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...

I now have a heap of coils with a range for my 5000 and now a number for my new 6000. Finding it a hassle storing and carrying these especially when on a prospecting trip. End up leaving behind some in the caravan under beds and those that are in the car usually with lower shafts attached seem...

Hooray. Already costs had blown out by 230% from $2.6B to $6.0B in barely 18 months since they were announced with still three years to go. A lot of the expense was to be on low cost, low quality accommodation for athletes, which would not normally pass council planning approval processes. The...

Just thought I would pose a question as to what members think Minelab might be cooking up for their next gold machine. 5000 released 2010 2300 released 2013 7000 released 2014 Gold Monster released 2018 6000 released 2021 Seems we might be approaching the time window for a new one. Would love to...

Eagerly waiting to resume goldfield travel in our underused caravan. Noticed that the existing AGM battery is on its last legs. Considering just swapping it out for a Lithium battery without changing anything else. Would doing that cause any harm to the lithium battery? I'd be quite happy to...

Image taken by my brother in law who lives in Melbourne

During our wanderings, us prospectors are more fortunate than most, to have the ability to encounter many things in nature that amaze and cause wonderment. I thought it might be worthwhile to start a thread on that so that we can share some of those things amongst ourselves. They may be trees...

Thought I would put this up as a thread as have found many good videos about geology on You Tube. I called the thread video geology to distinguish the thread from any videos specifically to do with prospecting or other matters, as I am sure that other members could do a separate thread for...

If there is anything subject on which there is never any shortage of in the world today, it is stupidity. So I thought that would be a great chat subject. I'll start off with this ripper. A guy in NSW with a big 4WD and boat, tries to fill his boat with fuel by sticking the fuel pump hose into...

Sold my 7000 a few years back. but moving house recently located a few odds and ends that should have gone with the sale. A J strut for the harness, battery power cable, data cable, Velcro hood for the display (DD I think). No use to me any more so offering them to anyone who genuinely needs...

Bit of a long shot, but asking around if anyone has a spare or unused Pro Sonic transmit module and 2300 adaptor cable for it, that they may want sell. Recently moved house and have lost or inadvertently thrown mine out or taken it to the op shop. Chances of finding it are diminishing daily...

Solid Luck said in the show and tell thread “ I estimate I have dropped about a gram of gold around the house never to be seen again lol, two specis disappeared from the mantle, must be the gold ghosts” I can relate to that. A very long time ago my kids got to my little jar of sparkly sand and...

Just thought I’d start up a thread for things we like to have, just because we do, no other reason than that. Selling our house at Daisy Hill, and going through everything to see what will go and what we (that is I) want to keep has made me try to justify to my wife why I want to keep certain...

Just thought I'd start a thread about Australia losing control of its important resources and businesses to foreign ownership. Today's news is that one of our biggest Energy companies Origin energy has received an offer to sell out to a Canadian company. The directors of Origin are recommending...