Ben78
Ben
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Been researching like a cramming uni student lately trying to get the oil on all the known alluvial coarse gold locations around here. A local prospecting acquaintance has been posting on our facebook group the finds he has made lately and I hit him up for some details on how he goes about his prospecting. I also ran a couple of locations by him and got the go ahead on one.
I was supposed to go yesterday but the weather held me back so today I packed the car up and headed out. I was told I would get my car down the track 'no worries' but when I got out there trees and ruts pulled me up about 200m from the creek so I walked it in.
Had a bit of a look around and found a spot to stash my lunch and started detecting. First signal was a mashed bullet and then I got that nice sweet 'helllloooo' signal along a crevice. I removed a plant in there and the signal remained. I was kinda perched on this rock in the middle of the creek so I decided to just scrape it out and pan the contents. The little 0.47 gram piece was what was causing the commotion. I continued on down the creek but no more yellow reared its head (plenty of iron flakes though argghhhghghg).
I returned to my lunch and had a feed before walking back to the car. I drove out and let my wife know I was alive (I'm out there solo) and that I was going to scout around some tracks up there. I had a look at a couple and then headed down one that goes to another alluvial location I had researched. Couldn't quite get to the bottom again due to fallen trees but when I got out there was a suspiciously cleared area so I put the 5000 away and grabbed the Explorer.
First target out was the 1911 Half Penny, then I spotted the bottom of a broken bottle. Straight over to the very small dump and I found the leather sides from an old shoe. Wandering around there I eventually picked up the little buckle. There was some broken crockery and then the cutlery handle in amongst it. A few metres away and I found a 10 cent coin, hang on no thats a KGV 1917 Shilling lol, my first KGV. If anyone knows hallmarks I put a pic of the cutlery marks on too.
So pretty happy, copper silver and gold all in the same day!
And a little bit of video.
[video=480,360]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZz1buee_bQ[/video]
I was supposed to go yesterday but the weather held me back so today I packed the car up and headed out. I was told I would get my car down the track 'no worries' but when I got out there trees and ruts pulled me up about 200m from the creek so I walked it in.
Had a bit of a look around and found a spot to stash my lunch and started detecting. First signal was a mashed bullet and then I got that nice sweet 'helllloooo' signal along a crevice. I removed a plant in there and the signal remained. I was kinda perched on this rock in the middle of the creek so I decided to just scrape it out and pan the contents. The little 0.47 gram piece was what was causing the commotion. I continued on down the creek but no more yellow reared its head (plenty of iron flakes though argghhhghghg).
I returned to my lunch and had a feed before walking back to the car. I drove out and let my wife know I was alive (I'm out there solo) and that I was going to scout around some tracks up there. I had a look at a couple and then headed down one that goes to another alluvial location I had researched. Couldn't quite get to the bottom again due to fallen trees but when I got out there was a suspiciously cleared area so I put the 5000 away and grabbed the Explorer.
First target out was the 1911 Half Penny, then I spotted the bottom of a broken bottle. Straight over to the very small dump and I found the leather sides from an old shoe. Wandering around there I eventually picked up the little buckle. There was some broken crockery and then the cutlery handle in amongst it. A few metres away and I found a 10 cent coin, hang on no thats a KGV 1917 Shilling lol, my first KGV. If anyone knows hallmarks I put a pic of the cutlery marks on too.
So pretty happy, copper silver and gold all in the same day!
And a little bit of video.
[video=480,360]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZz1buee_bQ[/video]
