⭐ Gold Detecting Show'n Tell

[Dawsy77]

GPX5000, strikes again

Looks very familiar?

 

[Potbelly11]

my biggest bit yet with the 4500 yesterday. Castlemaine area

 

[Jaros]

Went out again today, this time with a friend who has vastly more experience at detecting and where best to go than I do - and I found my first two pieces of gold. I was so excited when I got down to those last few bits of gravel expecting to see another piece of lead shot and could almost not believe my eyes when I saw a tiny piece of gold. It weighed in at 0.13 grams. The second piece I found quite a few hours later and it weighs 0.11 grams. Not huge pieces but Im happy with that.

Thank you everyone who told me to dig every target - I did that today, found a lot of rubbish and got a few blisters, but I also found my gold.

Well done.

 

[user 22230]

Went out today, dug a huge hole but just didn't dig or walk in just the right spot

 

[Dean Mortimer]

The best place I have found gold is in old open mine shafts that have drives coming off them. You don't have to go all the way in, just detect the floor for anything dropped. No ones else seems to do it.

 

[Trace4369]

The best place I have found gold is in old open mine shafts that have drives coming off them. You don't have to go all the way in, just detect the floor for anything dropped. No ones else seems to do it.

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I bet a few will be trying now, now that your secret is out. Lol.

 

[Moneybox]

I bet a few will be trying now, now that your secret is out. Lol.

The old railway lines tend to stuff up the detector signal a bit

 

[user 22230]

The best place I have found gold is in old open mine shafts that have drives coming off them. You don't have to go all the way in, just detect the floor for anything dropped. No ones else seems to do it.

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Might be because they don't have a canary or a lit candle handy at the time

 

[AUaddict]

Hello All

Thanks to everyone who attended the Amherst meet up, it was a great weekend.

Plenty of shotty pellet with many in the dreaded Kinder Despise, but I did get two in the Kinder Surprise.


I managed a few small bits and .75g was the biggest and a total of 1.31g all with the SDC.

Regards Anthony.

 

[Mackka]

Hello All

Thanks to everyone who attended the Amherst meet up, it was a great weekend.

Plenty of shotty pellet with many in the dreaded Kinder Despise, but I did get two in the Kinder Surprise.

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I managed a few small bits and .75g was the biggest and a total of 1.31g all with the SDC.

Regards Anthony.

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Very nice mate and i am sure that the gold was just a bonus. Mackka

 

[Trace4369]

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my biggest bit yet with the 4500 yesterday. Castlemaine areaView attachment 105

Nice, hopefully I’ll find what you left behind. Heading there next weekend.

 

[Trace4369]

Went out today, dug a huge hole but just didn't dig or walk in just the right spot

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Hope you filled ya hole back in

 

[Gem in I]

Nice, hopefully I’ll find what you left behind. Heading there next weekend.

what you don't own enough shotty pellets

oops sorry wrong post my bad. You definitely deserve the win auaddict

 

[Hawkear]

Just looking at my collection of nuggets for the last year or so of on and off COVID interfered detecting. One lot (7.7g) I found with a 5000 using an 8" mono and the other lot (9.7g) with a 2300. I spent more time with the 2300 as shown by the nugget count.
Just thought it would be interesting to lay them out side by side.

 

[Gold Mbr2020]

Been in the Pilbara detecting for a while as a hobby. If I had to live off it I would be as skinny as a rake, but enjoying every moment of it. Just survived a summer and looking forward to get out there now it is cooler. Using a GPX 5000 with a NF 17 x 11 elliptical coil.

 

[Gold Mbr2020]

Ha, us in Vic probably don't feel too sorry for you; almost an Oz, I dream of that? Has taken me over 2 yrs and many many trips and km to find a little over half of that. Very slim pickins. You've done very well.

 

[Potbelly11]

Nice, hopefully I’ll find what you left behind. Heading there next weekend.

Take some spray for the bush flies!

 

[Teemore]

Hello All

Thanks to everyone who attended the Amherst meet up, it was a great weekend.

Plenty of shotty pellet with many in the dreaded Kinder Despise, but I did get two in the Kinder Surprise.

Well done on the gold ..... to me the junk is just an indication that the area was not throughly worked previously.

 

[Teemore]

Lazy session in the GT, not made any easier with sinus/cough issues and the bloody March flies, still managed to snag 7 tiddlers that SDC users had left behind, gobbled up by the 6000 ......

 

[20x]

Last night's result (New area)..