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Thanks again Wal, great post and good information for new starters like me. I am pretty sure I walked away too early a couple of times yesterday but I broke my pick handle (very rocky ground and got a bit excited ) and lost the ability to dig deeper! I am also loosing confidence in my ability to discriminate between tones. I have a low end detector and digging everything in hot ground has proven fruitless and exhausting so far. I am now looking at ‘investing’ ( as I pitched it to the minister for finance) in an a better detector (and pick). For me this will almost be like starting over again but I’ve only been at it for a few months.
Anyway thanks again for all your insight I really appreciate it. I will head out once more while I am in the Charters Towers area before I have to move on. Fingers crossed that I will find my first nugget while I am here as I appreciate this towns rich history. Regards Doug

<blockquote data-quote="Docs Son" data-source="post: 684018" data-attributes="member: 26646">Thanks again Wal, great post and good information for new starters like me. I am pretty sure I walked away too early a couple of times yesterday but I broke my pick handle (very rocky ground and got a bit excited <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😢" title="😢" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" />) and lost the ability to dig deeper! I am also loosing confidence in my ability to discriminate between tones. I have a low end detector and digging everything in hot ground has proven fruitless and exhausting so far. I am now looking at ‘investing’ ( as I pitched it to the minister for finance) in an a better detector (and pick). For me this will almost be like starting over again but I’ve only been at it for a few months.Anyway thanks again for all your insight I really appreciate it. I will head out once more while I am in the Charters Towers area before I have to move on. Fingers crossed that I will find my first nugget while I am here as I appreciate this towns rich history. Regards Doug</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Docs Son, post: 684018, member: 26646"] Thanks again Wal, great post and good information for new starters like me. I am pretty sure I walked away too early a couple of times yesterday but I broke my pick handle (very rocky ground and got a bit excited 😢) and lost the ability to dig deeper! I am also loosing confidence in my ability to discriminate between tones. I have a low end detector and digging everything in hot ground has proven fruitless and exhausting so far. I am now looking at ‘investing’ ( as I pitched it to the minister for finance) in an a better detector (and pick). For me this will almost be like starting over again but I’ve only been at it for a few months. Anyway thanks again for all your insight I really appreciate it. I will head out once more while I am in the Charters Towers area before I have to move on. Fingers crossed that I will find my first nugget while I am here as I appreciate this towns rich history. Regards Doug [/QUOTE]

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