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Mine are Weighmax brand and measure down to 0.1 of a gram and up to 150 grams.

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Hey aussiefarmer. Do they make 4 decimal place scales? I dont need anything in the range that you are using. Would love to find some gold as large as that.........
 
Bjay said:
never thought ide say this, but happy work pi$$ed me off the other day. Took a couple of days off to find my happy place. :D :D :D 15.8 grams of happiness.https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/5449/1582265607_f131d285-c437-4c2c-80d2-f4da2a1de6f5.jpg
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Yessss... Nice :)
 
HI there, interesting, great post.. note i have founfd the same button from m & L London. small world.

Mondo198 said:
Down memory lane,
Forty years ago this nugget on the right made me scream out and dance with a bloke I used to play golf with (no dancing !) and that nugget along with the other one had already been dug from the bedrock wash over a hundred years before by a digger that didn't have enough water to wash all his paydirt,but he probably got many more in that little hole in Dunolly,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583299557_first_gold.jpg
Both were from the surface of mullock heaps, Boy were we happy!
Just a few weeks later just above Dunolly at Kingower,a man called Kevin was kneeling beside a hole he had just dug crying tears of happiness and relief looking at the top of a nugget that was still half buried and one that would change his life,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...llier-interview-hand-of-faith-gold-nugget.jpg
I never got to meet Kevin but in the last year or so after reading his story I couldn't think of a more deserving bloke,
Not long after our little finds I was back in Melbourne at a barbecue a couple of streets from my place at a mates place and he introduced me to a relative of his (a gem dealer) who might be interested in my detecting hobby, His name was Cyril Kovacs, a nice guy,
As time passed I learned what job Cyril had taken on !
Sadly Kevin and Cyril have passed but they will remain famous,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583300820_hand_of_faith.jpg
I eventually put the nuggets on neckchains but the "boss" hardly wore them,So I got the local jeweller to put them in a ring,but you need your arm in a sling to wear them 18.5 gm ;)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301175_img_3767.jpg

Have you ever heard the saying "In the right place at the right time" ?
Well I got it half right around 1970,I was in the right place at the wrong time, and I was working for a mining company called Geotechnics based in Perth,we were being payed to go all over Western Australia pegging claims during the Poseidon nickel boom rush, they said that there were 3 or 4 paper millionaires in Leonora at the time, I was walking over gold everywhere and didn't know what a metal detector was,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301732_mt_house.jpg
The red cross on the map is where we had the camp and the helicopter at Mt House cattle Station,The motorbike we used to tie to the side of the chopper
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301963_kimberlies.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301992_widgemooltha.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583302078_dsc04922.jpg

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583304044_chopper.jpg
Forty years later the gold urge hasn't abated but from all the photos of gold I see there's still a bit out there,
One more interesting incident that happened in the kimberlies was flying near Regent Sound along way from the nearest road I noticed a fire and told Ron the pilot,it was only the size of a campfire and when we landed Ron went across to kick it out and something caught my eye and I noticed a bloke dart his head back behind a big rock,we went across to him and he didn't speak english,he was wearing a very torn suit, and he looked very frightened
and weak, we took him back in the chopper to Mt House, it turned out he had arrived in a ship in Perth and got a car then headed north, the people at the station had given him directions ,but he just kept going towards the coast of the Kimberlies,the road must have run out for him so just walked on, another few days and that fella would have had it ! I often wonder what ever happened to him,the hamburger I cooked for him dissapeared without touching his throat !
Australias a big place guys,
Oh, One more pic,
Got some coins,but the one top left was being minted the year Peter Lalor started an argument with the government,1854 a very important year,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583303342_img_3759.jpg

Cheers guys
mondo198
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Went to a spot near Beechworth today actually chasing some coins or gold sovereigns with the Equinox (a mate recently found a half sovereign at this location and got another Chinese coin today.
Very unexpectedly picked up this little .24 gram piece. Park mode and banged a VID of 9, nice and loud.
Unexpected but not unwanted :D
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Hi All

More tiny SDC gold from the GT.

Hooked the SPO1 to the SDC for the first time and it certainly improves the sharpness of the signals.

Found the nugget at the top .2 down at 15 cm in ground I had already detected twice before and one at .03 on the same ground.

Total weight was .94 grm and 60 shotty pellets.

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Regards Anthony. :)
 
AUaddict said:
Hi All

More tiny SDC gold from the GT.

Hooked the SPO1 to the SDC for the first time and it certainly improves the sharpness of the signals.

Found the nugget at the top .2 down at 15 cm in ground I had already detected twice before and one at .03 on the same ground.

Total weight was .94 grm and 60 shotty pellets.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/9237/1584351017_img_1643-min.jpg

Regards Anthony. :)
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Good on you Anthony, the SPO1 certainly makes a difference. :Y:

Cheers

Doug
 
AUaddict said:
Hi All

More tiny SDC gold from the GT.

Hooked the SPO1 to the SDC for the first time and it certainly improves the sharpness of the signals.

Found the nugget at the top .2 down at 15 cm in ground I had already detected twice before and one at .03 on the same ground.

Total weight was .94 grm and 60 shotty pellets.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/9237/1584351017_img_1643-min.jpg

Regards Anthony. :)
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Go the little blue vacuum cleaner

Cheers Nanjim
Jim
 
Colsar said:
HI there, interesting, great post.. note i have founfd the same button from m & L London. small world.

Gday Colsar That button got me qurious ,so I started looking for the owner of it, Moses Levy were drapers and Uniform makers in London,Especially Sailors uniforms, Now the stories go that there were many ships sitting idle at Port Melbourne Pier after bringing people from all over the world to the most popular city in the world at that time in history, and they all hightailed it to Ballarat or Bendigo,
And I have a feeling that some of those sailors on those ships decided to earn their fortunes doing the same thing, Alas ships with no crews left idle !
I wonder if those buttons flew off those sailors uniforms as they swung those picks with all their might ! I wonder how much gold they owner of the button I found got ! and what became of him ?
I don't know how much gold my Great Grandfather got at Ballarat but he eventually settled in Collingwood, and his son became a bricklayer living in Newport,
mondo198

Mondo198 said:
Down memory lane,
Forty years ago this nugget on the right made me scream out and dance with a bloke I used to play golf with (no dancing !) and that nugget along with the other one had already been dug from the bedrock wash over a hundred years before by a digger that didn't have enough water to wash all his paydirt,but he probably got many more in that little hole in Dunolly,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583299557_first_gold.jpg
Both were from the surface of mullock heaps, Boy were we happy!
Just a few weeks later just above Dunolly at Kingower,a man called Kevin was kneeling beside a hole he had just dug crying tears of happiness and relief looking at the top of a nugget that was still half buried and one that would change his life,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...llier-interview-hand-of-faith-gold-nugget.jpg
I never got to meet Kevin but in the last year or so after reading his story I couldn't think of a more deserving bloke,
Not long after our little finds I was back in Melbourne at a barbecue a couple of streets from my place at a mates place and he introduced me to a relative of his (a gem dealer) who might be interested in my detecting hobby, His name was Cyril Kovacs, a nice guy,
As time passed I learned what job Cyril had taken on !
Sadly Kevin and Cyril have passed but they will remain famous,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583300820_hand_of_faith.jpg
I eventually put the nuggets on neckchains but the "boss" hardly wore them,So I got the local jeweller to put them in a ring,but you need your arm in a sling to wear them 18.5 gm ;)
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301175_img_3767.jpg

Have you ever heard the saying "In the right place at the right time" ?
Well I got it half right around 1970,I was in the right place at the wrong time, and I was working for a mining company called Geotechnics based in Perth,we were being payed to go all over Western Australia pegging claims during the Poseidon nickel boom rush, they said that there were 3 or 4 paper millionaires in Leonora at the time, I was walking over gold everywhere and didn't know what a metal detector was,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301732_mt_house.jpg
The red cross on the map is where we had the camp and the helicopter at Mt House cattle Station,The motorbike we used to tie to the side of the chopper
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301963_kimberlies.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583301992_widgemooltha.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583302078_dsc04922.jpg

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583304044_chopper.jpg
Forty years later the gold urge hasn't abated but from all the photos of gold I see there's still a bit out there,
One more interesting incident that happened in the kimberlies was flying near Regent Sound along way from the nearest road I noticed a fire and told Ron the pilot,it was only the size of a campfire and when we landed Ron went across to kick it out and something caught my eye and I noticed a bloke dart his head back behind a big rock,we went across to him and he didn't speak english,he was wearing a very torn suit, and he looked very frightened
and weak, we took him back in the chopper to Mt House, it turned out he had arrived in a ship in Perth and got a car then headed north, the people at the station had given him directions ,but he just kept going towards the coast of the Kimberlies,the road must have run out for him so just walked on, another few days and that fella would have had it ! I often wonder what ever happened to him,the hamburger I cooked for him dissapeared without touching his throat !
Australias a big place guys,
Oh, One more pic,
Got some coins,but the one top left was being minted the year Peter Lalor started an argument with the government,1854 a very important year,
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/17617/1583303342_img_3759.jpg

Cheers guys
mondo198
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Went out with my son this morning for a detect first chance for ages due to work and heat here in the Pilbara done ok 25 bits 17 with the z and 8 with the sdc very happy 5 hrs of detecting cheers Muk
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