Nice effort again Scrounger, and it looks like ya earnt Sundy off anyways. 
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Thanks Chewy. Bloody hell mate, wife and i went out to the pub for Sunday lunch and the rain was almost horizontal. A few snow flakes came scudding through as well. Went home, had a few whiskys and watch movies all arvo. Been a cold winter here in Ballarat.
Phew, the wind chill factor has had Ballarat at below "0" for the past few days. I went to PMG training school at Wendouree and thay always had the courses about ARK Rural tel. exch's out there in the middle of winter. Might have been punishment, wasn't the greatest pupil- hands on learner.
I remember the old defence force huts the school was located in and a small lake out front that was frozen most of the time.
Jaros
I remember the old defence force huts the school was located in and a small lake out front that was frozen most of the time.
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Jaros, the heater's been going everyday for about a month now!!! It's the wind chill that really hurts ya, i'm happy to go out when it's down around 5-7 degrees, doesn't worry me so long as it's not blowing from the south. If it is it's like cold needles peppering your face. Oh well, that's my bitch for the day :lol: A short (or longer) break in sunny Queensland would be very nice at the moment mate:lol: :lol:
Great work Scrounger, some interesting shapes there
TheSilentBugler
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Pretty nuglets Scrounger.
SC75 said:Good going champ.I would be wrapped if i can find just one of those pieces
+1
I headed for the hills today to dig some sapphires and swing up some gold.
I had intentions of sleeping in my car but the tally for the day matched the temperature gauge at 5pm so I chickened out and went home.
Yes the photo is blurry, that will happen when you try to test pan some dirt to see if the bucket of wash you extracted has some pretty blue or gold in it. brrrrrrr. :8
I had intentions of sleeping in my car but the tally for the day matched the temperature gauge at 5pm so I chickened out and went home.
Yes the photo is blurry, that will happen when you try to test pan some dirt to see if the bucket of wash you extracted has some pretty blue or gold in it. brrrrrrr. :8
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G'day people,
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited onto a private property with the blessings from the owner. I was told the previous size nuggets found and where they we found. Avoiding the known areas and choosing the other side of the gully.
The property has a deepish lead mine and a series of mullock heaps running down the gully for the length of property. The area is known for HOT ground, but with the amount of rain Victoria has had the ground was off its head.
After trying out different settings to get the ground noise under some sort of control. I had to dumb the 45 back to FP in Enhance. After the first sweep I got a very quiet signal which I took notice of, stepped over and kept swinging. After noticing most of the ground noise had been taken care of after altering the settings, I stepped back to that initial signal a meter or so back and scraped the surface with my boot.
With a slight improvement I proceeded to scrape with the pick, with each inch of gravelly decomposing conglomerate I got through the better the signal got until I got close enough to blank my machine. I have been waiting to experience that process since I started prospecting and knew I was in undisturbed ground.
After several scoops the target was over the coil and screaming like a bullet. In no time at all I could feel dense wait in amongst the clay and than there it was 8) my biggest piece by far. You f#@%in rippa. Sat back and absorbed every part of the dig. Pretty soon the owners returned and I went up to show them my find and saying the next on is yours and got back to it. An hour or so later the .91 popped out and was handed over with a BIG smile.
The little one went .1 and was found on the other side of the gully.
I could have made the post twice as long as every millisecond is still fresh in my brain, but I though its probably long enough
Cheers, Lee
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited onto a private property with the blessings from the owner. I was told the previous size nuggets found and where they we found. Avoiding the known areas and choosing the other side of the gully.
The property has a deepish lead mine and a series of mullock heaps running down the gully for the length of property. The area is known for HOT ground, but with the amount of rain Victoria has had the ground was off its head.
After trying out different settings to get the ground noise under some sort of control. I had to dumb the 45 back to FP in Enhance. After the first sweep I got a very quiet signal which I took notice of, stepped over and kept swinging. After noticing most of the ground noise had been taken care of after altering the settings, I stepped back to that initial signal a meter or so back and scraped the surface with my boot.
With a slight improvement I proceeded to scrape with the pick, with each inch of gravelly decomposing conglomerate I got through the better the signal got until I got close enough to blank my machine. I have been waiting to experience that process since I started prospecting and knew I was in undisturbed ground.
After several scoops the target was over the coil and screaming like a bullet. In no time at all I could feel dense wait in amongst the clay and than there it was 8) my biggest piece by far. You f#@%in rippa. Sat back and absorbed every part of the dig. Pretty soon the owners returned and I went up to show them my find and saying the next on is yours and got back to it. An hour or so later the .91 popped out and was handed over with a BIG smile.
The little one went .1 and was found on the other side of the gully.
I could have made the post twice as long as every millisecond is still fresh in my brain, but I though its probably long enough
Cheers, Lee
Thats awesome mate felt like i was there with you great writup. Definitely lools like deep lead gold nice and brassy. Good atuff hope you keep the momentum
Twapster
Peter
Lucky the next one wasn't the "other hand of faith"....try handing one back that size! Great post...keep the nuggets coming.
Great write up, congrats thats nice looking gold.
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