Thanks for joining up Matt. It is fantastic to see hard workers kicking goals in their chosen pursuit. Good luck at your future sites and I hope you keep doing well. Cheers Rick.
A lot of people were picking the crap out of this guy before he posted anything on the forum. I think he has provided proof that he has a bit of an idea on the subject of gold. He is entitled to offer what he is offering for a price. There is a number of people offering gold tours for a price. You don't get expert service for nothing. Only my opinionLambs73 said:Settle Wintersnake,
I don't see anyone handing over an ounce of gold, let alone 10 ounces. It's an advertising ploy.
Didn't you read the fine print under their course discription on the webpage. See below;
(As these are real prospecting courses we do not guarantee gold will be found on every course.)
Wintersnake said:Magilla there are some vids on u tube with clients and some small finds.
kemjak57 said:A lot of people were picking the crap out of this guy before he posted anything on the forum. I think he has provided proof that he has a bit of an idea on the subject of gold. He is entitled to offer what he is offering for a price. There is a number of people offering gold tours for a price. You don't get expert service for nothing. Only my opinionLambs73 said:Settle Wintersnake,
I don't see anyone handing over an ounce of gold, let alone 10 ounces. It's an advertising ploy.
Didn't you read the fine print under their course discription on the webpage. See below;
(As these are real prospecting courses we do not guarantee gold will be found on every course.)
Timbuck said:Well done Matt , and thank you for enlightening us on all your hard work and persistence
I'm only a lurker on this forum and know very little about gold detecting. But the amount of thing I have read over the years about people finding a little patch and waving there detecter over it and that's where there story ends. They think it's cleaned out and very work out why they found a few specks.
My father always taught me "logic" is the pathway to understanding. I really admire you approach to finding where the gold is , and understanding why and how it got there , and how to find the next little surprise.
I kind of find it laughable people are shooting you down It's there opinion and I respect that , But just looks like of tall poppy syndrome and if they where doing well on there little patch I'm sure you and everyone else would be patting them on the back. I wonder how any little patches could be big patches that have been detected and now lost and forgotten just because a million detectors have been over it.
I've had very little $$$ growing up. And have worked very hard to get to where i am now. I'm 35 own my on home about to buy another , got a little money in the bank and I'm just about to go on my first oversea's trip to europe. I think paying $4k for a week of probably some of the best info out there available is cheep. And I'm sure there are quite a few well respected members on here that I'd pay $4k so spend a week with aswell. As far as I'm concerned knowledge is wealth , And if someone is willing to show and teach you what they have learned in a life time , and for me see it first hand in real time , is brilliant. I know for one , I'm better at face to face , hands on type learning , than being a text book kind of guy.
And personally I think the 10oz thing is fine. I'd be there to learn and experience , not to retire.
I'm sure just being on some untouched ground and to expirence nice popping something out of the ground photo worthy or memory worthy would be the rush.
As far as I understand most of us are here due to the fact we love the thrill of the chase and shooting someone down due to them sharing some interesting photo's and info is not cool , and so what this is his living , and who really cares if he uses an ATX , Gtx 5k or a **** smiths detector. As far as I can see everyone on here makes there own decision anyway
I think this forum is better with an interesting new face like Matt. And I'm sure over time he will bring more positives than negatives to this great forum , and if you don't like his information. It very easy to just not click on his posts.
Anyway , I'd love to follow Matt around with my crappy ATgold and find the picker's he missed ha ha
Tim
Matt Duncan said:Hey nuggetino, mate you may not have missed the big rushes. They may not have been found yet. The early days were fun, there was enough gold for everyone and the ambient feelings on the various patches were of camaraderie. Every one used to show their finds for the day and there was never any patch jumping or moving in on somebody else detecging. I remember many nights at the National hotel in Sandstone where the bar was ringed in nice nuggets and specimen. I got distracted. What I want to say to you is look for your own ground. You will have much more fun and find better gold than if you stay within the safety zone of places found by others. You will always find bits and pieces around the old patches, and every now and then some one will walk over a lump, but at the end of the day there is nothing quite like the thrill of the chase and finding your own patches.
Which brings me on to you Goldtarget
I didn't realize I was being so blase' while digging up nuggets. I do still jump around and dance on the flat from time to time when we hit a nice patch. Let me tell you a story that still makes me look stupid and give everyone a good laugh.
I was in the depths of Victoria with a mate of mine, (who I will have to ask before I use his name on here) ... A little background, he had come out here and I had taken him out beeping. His first bit was a pretty quartz speci with about four ounces in it and we got over a kilo for the week biggest was just over 20 onz. Anyway he says to me come over to Victoria and find some big gold which I thought would be fun so I flew over for a week or so to have a look around. I was digging a noise down in your famous clays when there in the bottom of my hole was something I had never seen before in a detecting hole. Hey mate come over here and look at this. .over he trundles through the bush and he is saying what, what, what have you found. I reach down into the hole and pull out a big fat worm ... he just wandered away shaking his head. One other thing about that trip was I looked out to the edge of a paddock and couldn't believe my eyes. Stunned I walked over to where he was working and said Mate I have just seen something remarkable.. a giant rabbit... he just wandered off shaking his head yet again. I had just seen my first hare.
Any way I think my point is I do get excited it just depends what it is.
I am back out trying to catch up on the gardening, I will talk to you all later.
Matt
AUSTRALIA IS A DREAM!!Nugget said:
Matt Duncan said:Hi Ridge Runner,
Happy New Year mate and to everyone else that belongs to this site Happy New Year to you all. Ridge Runner thanks for the insight and I hope your year is full of golden surprises. I think most of you are enjoying my stories and I have done two more. I have done one called the "Wild Stallion Gold" and the other isn't posted yet but it is about one of the times I was doing gold in the states and Canada.
I am a member of few gold forums and rather than post all my stuff on each of them I just put it on my web page. The Wild Stallion gold story and video link is on Mates and Gold web page with a few other stories from other people and the youtube link is there as well. You need to read the story before you watch the video. The one on Republic gold will go on this week so if you think it may hold your attention please feel free to have a read. I am having fun putting my prospecting life up for everyone to share. People who know me have been asking me for years to write my stories down before I get too old and forget them, so I think this is the way I will start to do it.
So for those that are interested the link to Mates and Gold is www.matesandgold.com.au
Cheers,
Matt
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