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Hi Sean, I'm a Taree local and have researched some of the mines around your place. I would be interested in having a look, I have all the gear plus a detector and am happy to show you how it all works. Cheers, Lauren.

Wow, thank you, that is awesome info! There's no creek, it's just in a paddock, but when it rains a lot (flood rain) the natural flow of water is towards the mine site but then diverts off to one side. The dam is shown on an old map so your suggestion makes sense, that it supplied other mines...

Hi Blisters, thanks for your reply. I thought I replied a while ago but cant find it, I mustnt have pressed the right button...anyway I replied that there is a dam nearby but the race seems to go past it. What would the area at the sluice head look like? If I followed the race to the end that...

Hi guys, I have access to a site on private property where there was a deeplead mine over 100 years ago. Apparently the shaft was 80m deep! It has collapsed in and is just a depression about 1.5m deep. There are a few other holes that were probably shafts as well. I have some old maps too. There...

I did try the 2300 but it went beserk, so many targets I couldnt dig them all and they were all nails and junk, I thought Id save it for an area where there was less junk, ie. Somewhere more remote. I tried it in the bush in a likley area but just got bullets and wire....

Hi all, I have often viewed this forum so thought it was about time I joined! A bit about myself.... I have been interested in fossicking since I was a kid, guess my dad started it looking for old bottles in the 70s....then he got me an orange Tandy metal detector and I dug up the whole backyard...