Hello Matt Duncan,
Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing some of your stories. There is a great bunch of blokes and girls in here, some extraordinarily intelligence flows through the forum and you are going to get the skeptics.
For example let's look at the obvious,
A post of a find of 2kgs of gold discovered leads into the following,
Your prospecting/mining with resources of the highest quality machinery at your disposal,
Admission of experience stemming from as far back as the 1970's,
Admission of tour guide for Garratt employers,
Admission of only mining large quantities of gold and leaving the pickers,
Advertising your support for Garratt,
Advertising your support for the prospectors patch stores in WA (who used to sell Minelab detectors until recently, now only dealing with Garratt),
Advertising your new venture of gold detecting courses (with the offer of splitting upto 10 ounces of Gold that the client finds. Lol, my favorite) and;
Advertising your side business for miners cards.
I think I covered it all, considering it all came from the one thread.
Thankfully your not a bias person and don't have added business interest anywhere else and it's just all about sharing your stories.
So again welcome and I look forward to reading more of your stories.
Cheers
Lambi