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Back in the day, Aboriginals used Silcrete for their tools ;) It makes a huge difference to how they work, we have found it near Berwick\Wonthaggi before, some around the Geelong area, and a metric shite ton of the stuff up around Mildura :D I have some floating around here some...

If some one wanted to organise a day out, I would volunteer my 4wd to go to out of the way places.....I am a total noob though when it comes to fossicking though ;) Weekends are hard at the minute with the wife working and having two kids, but with enough notice I am sure I could get a day ;)

Seems I will be spending a couple of days down in Portland for work this week. Any tips for a newb, or just wonder along the beach?

A lot of that area is 2wd accessible. Get a map of the area, and have a look and see what parts you want to go too, most should be on the circuit roads, or not too far from them any way :) I have a 4wd and go there a bit, some tracks are pretty knarly, but most are easily driven

I am a bit late to the party, but I will never go back to a manual 4wd :D I have owned nearly 10 4wds over the years and always manuals until this one, the ONLY place a manual 'might' be better is in long down hill descents, but then that's what I have brakes for. You are taught not to use...

Tungsten is far to brittle to use on a crowbar either, we use tungsten faced bits at work, drop it and it just shatters, our diamond bits are the same, although they are in a matrix, they still don't like being dropped. I would have thought the harder the bar the more likely it will shatter...

I would at least put some decent tyres on, and a front bar and winch :D I love 4wding and have done a LOT up the GT, before finding out about prospecting any way :lol: , amazing how quickly you get stuck after a quick sprinkle of water up there, or any where for that matter. Does look good...

I grew up in Nth Ringwood, spent the best part of 30 years there, and the last bit in Kilsyth, so would be considered a local lol , never even heard of gold there.....we all knew about Warrandyte and the like :o Funny where the hunt for gold send you :cool:

I would just drink the what ever I could get my hands on IF I had too, to worry about arsenic and the like, you have to be alive first :D Generally speaking short of a dead animal in the dam, that water is probably better than most metro water tanks most have these days ;) Those straws do...

You could try the State library, they would have the info on a out of the way gold mine as any one else.

I just bought the Garrett deluxe kit, as well as some turbo pans the other day, so I guess I will see which ones suit us better.

Thanks for the geovic map info people, you would think after all the years drilling I would have known about this :lol: Looks like I have a bit of reading to do now......

Thanks for the welcome :D Yeah the 7 year old has more fever than I do, been showing her YouTube videos, and her response is "lets not waste time going to the river, lets just go get the big gold" bahahahhahaha, trying to convince a 7 year old it aint as easy as it looks is hard :lol:

G'day all Just starting to get a bit of fossicking in my blood, after going to work in Coober Pedy for a couple of weeks hahahhahahah Stumbled in here and think I might pull up a chair and start reading up about Victorian spots, to take the kids for a look. :D