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Well I'll be screwed. :)

Merry Xmas to all.

A mate of mine way back in 2008 had a GPS and a Radio. He got a good signal and started to dig up a nugget of about 12 gm that was down 10" or so. Because the ground was very hard he put his radio an GPS down in the shade while he dug the nugget. Once he got the nugget he got his radio and let...

Back in the late 1960s an old lady that owned a farm that us mates used to hang out at, did not swear but when things went wrong she would say the names of all the politicians she disliked angrily instead.

Also the 12 th day before Xmas

79 does not sound as good as 69 ;) ........... but cheer-up 80 is not far away and a lot don't make it.

Is over AUD $200,000 per person/child worth it, compared with Australia HEC fees.

If you use google earth you could try my post at......https://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t2273-historical-gold-mines-in-google-earth..... LINK

In Vic 4¢ Safeway plus 5¢ RACV gives 9¢ off at Ampol plus another 4¢ when $5 spent in shop.

In my early days of driving I paid $17 for a 44 Gal drum (ie 200 Lt) at a time which was subtracted from the pump when I needed a fill up so long as I was in credit. GONE are those DAYS

I remember watching the Melbourne Olympics, leaning on a fence looking at a black and white TV through the owners window (which he made available) with a dozen others from the same street.

Some tektites with my 4 ounce nugget to show size.

I wonder what happens to all of this West Australian Salt. That we saw.

That would of made a lot of hats. Felt hats can be made from either fur felt (medium or high price) or wool felt (low price). Fur felt hats are chiefly made of rabbit fur. Some hare fur is used to make better hats

I have nearly got past the used by date, but as they say low and slow with the detector is the way to go as the 4 minute mile is out of the question now.🥺

I gave up in the early 1980s when a packet of 50 went over $3.50 a pack, which I normally smokes in a 12 hour shift at work.

I would forget that you found it and do a "patch hunting mode" of an area of 50 metres or so in all direction (on flattish ground) from it. To me you have found a easy nugget on the fringe of an area so a rough detect looking for more gold might get you a good spot.

The whole point of patch finding is to cover a lot of ground in a limited time to find a shallow easy detected nugget..........Then use a deep setting.

minimum of 3% below actual gold content .............. That is the common usual refining fee take.

The wife got a small amount of blackberries for $5.00 When I worked the price per Kilo it was $40.00 and I can remember getting buckets full at a time near the rivers at no cost.