Hi All sufferers of the fever!
Jan 14th 2014 arrived & I was just knocking off from night shift, the ute was packed & the fridge cold as I had 6 days of detecting at "Dells Hole Gold" (formally Long Gully Gold) planned, so a little over 5 hours drive I pulled in at Forsayth after a good trip, pulling into Steve's place of Savanah Gold tours Forsayth, I had arranged to stay with Steve on this trip ( I am calling him the "Savanah Gold GOD" the prospector formally known as Steve Very Happy Very Happy Smile lol! ) Steve & I have been mates for a couple of years now so it was time for a bit of a catch up too.
The next morning saw us on our way to book in with Kevin Young of Dells Hole Gold, Steve had worked out a plan off attack & wanted to show me the spot where he got the latest 25oz Glory Hole, he showed me the spot & we discussed the indicators & such in this area before starting out for the days detecting, Steve could only do a 1/2 day as he had to pick up his son & go meet Joe from Charters Towers.
I had a really good look around for the first day with nothing to show.
Next day was more of the same at the same area, afetr a few hours after I climbed a hill to have a look over the area I spotted some really red ground so I made my decent from the hill & headed for the red area, I came on to an oldtimer digging near a gully so I inspected it & had a look at the rock pile to see what they were working on, I crossed the gully & spotted some more of the same rock from the diggings, Gossan, Ironcap Ironstone reef, ironstone quartz matrix, call it what you will but I knew this was the Schit not schist lol! the area was 150m x 75m in area so I started to carefully detect it & 15 minutes later I had my first nugget for 2014 it was about a gram.
So I was a happy man, I kept scanning carefully & about 1/2 hour later got a good signal at 4" out popped a nice 7 gram nugget.
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Very happy now as this was my best bit since my 6 oz nugget in 09 Time for lunch a 1 k walk back to the ute. smiles all round as I told the boys.
After lunch I headed back to my spot & continued on with the job, 45 mins or so I had another signal & out popped a 1.6 or so nugget with more happy dancing
Another hour went by with more swinging & scanning & then affraid I thought it was a bloody horse shoe it sang that loud? anyway its gotta come out, first scrape of the surface rubble & it moved ah its junk I could not get the coil close to it Jeez then I picked up a dirty looking rock that sang to me WTF WTF I had my newest best bit in a few years at it it went a little over 50 grams with a little rock the consensus was definatly 1oz plus of "Mellow Yellow"
Steve & Joe, thanks for a great couple of days lads.
BTW the weather was hot but the sky was overcast so the heat was bearable until the sky turned blue but thankfully the gods (Savanah Gold God) were on our side.
cheers
Lee
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Jan 14th 2014 arrived & I was just knocking off from night shift, the ute was packed & the fridge cold as I had 6 days of detecting at "Dells Hole Gold" (formally Long Gully Gold) planned, so a little over 5 hours drive I pulled in at Forsayth after a good trip, pulling into Steve's place of Savanah Gold tours Forsayth, I had arranged to stay with Steve on this trip ( I am calling him the "Savanah Gold GOD" the prospector formally known as Steve Very Happy Very Happy Smile lol! ) Steve & I have been mates for a couple of years now so it was time for a bit of a catch up too.
The next morning saw us on our way to book in with Kevin Young of Dells Hole Gold, Steve had worked out a plan off attack & wanted to show me the spot where he got the latest 25oz Glory Hole, he showed me the spot & we discussed the indicators & such in this area before starting out for the days detecting, Steve could only do a 1/2 day as he had to pick up his son & go meet Joe from Charters Towers.
I had a really good look around for the first day with nothing to show.
Next day was more of the same at the same area, afetr a few hours after I climbed a hill to have a look over the area I spotted some really red ground so I made my decent from the hill & headed for the red area, I came on to an oldtimer digging near a gully so I inspected it & had a look at the rock pile to see what they were working on, I crossed the gully & spotted some more of the same rock from the diggings, Gossan, Ironcap Ironstone reef, ironstone quartz matrix, call it what you will but I knew this was the Schit not schist lol! the area was 150m x 75m in area so I started to carefully detect it & 15 minutes later I had my first nugget for 2014 it was about a gram.
So I was a happy man, I kept scanning carefully & about 1/2 hour later got a good signal at 4" out popped a nice 7 gram nugget.
.Very happy now as this was my best bit since my 6 oz nugget in 09 Time for lunch a 1 k walk back to the ute. smiles all round as I told the boys.
After lunch I headed back to my spot & continued on with the job, 45 mins or so I had another signal & out popped a 1.6 or so nugget with more happy dancing
Another hour went by with more swinging & scanning & then affraid I thought it was a bloody horse shoe it sang that loud? anyway its gotta come out, first scrape of the surface rubble & it moved ah its junk I could not get the coil close to it Jeez then I picked up a dirty looking rock that sang to me WTF WTF I had my newest best bit in a few years at it it went a little over 50 grams with a little rock the consensus was definatly 1oz plus of "Mellow Yellow"
Steve & Joe, thanks for a great couple of days lads.
BTW the weather was hot but the sky was overcast so the heat was bearable until the sky turned blue but thankfully the gods (Savanah Gold God) were on our side.
cheers
Lee
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