Golden Triangle Detecting (Avoca)

[Coiltothesoil]

Heya, so I know this question has been flogged on this forum. however I’m finding it a little overwhelming all the info, leases and rules in general and hard to narrow down where to go.
So I’m around Avoca, looking to see if anyone else is around and keen for a catch up that’d be awesome or just looking for advice on somewhere to have a bit of a swing session
Any help/advise is appreciated

Just thought I’d add… I’m not looking for any exact locations or anything, I understand everyone does a lot of research/trial and error to find their own areas etc. More where to go for the info (apps or certain books) I don’t want to take away the hard work anyone puts in as I’m happy to put in the hard work myself. I just don’t want to go breaking any laws I am very new to all of this so apologies if I came across like a scab for info. Definitely not my intention

 

[sand surfer]

may be a group (facebook) or a club around the avoca area that you can join coiltothesoil
someone in that area may be able to point you in the right direction

 

[Coiltothesoil]

Yeah ok thanks!
I’ll have a look at the missus Facebook for anything as I don’t have it, I’m only around here for a couple days so I doubt if there were any clubs they’d let me join

may be a group (facebook) or a club around the avoca area that you can join coiltothesoil
someone in that area may be able to point you in the right direction

 

[grubstake]

Heya, so I know this question has been flogged on this forum. however I’m finding it a little overwhelming all the info, leases and rules in general and hard to narrow down where to go.
So I’m around Avoca, looking to see if anyone else is around and keen for a catch up that’d be awesome or just looking for advice on somewhere to have a bit of a swing session
Any help/advise is appreciated

Do you have any goldfields map/s with you for guidance?

 

[Coiltothesoil]

Do you have any goldfields map/s with you for guidance?

Nah I don’t. I am very new to it all so didn’t even think when I left Perth to grab any. I’ve been looking at the Doug Stone ones, I’ll have to grab some when I finally get my bank cards sorted
Are the Doug Stone ones the go to?
Thanks!

 

[OzzieAu]

If you’re staying in the Avoca caravan park, then there’s bound to be some detectorists you can possibly introduce yourself to and you may gather some helpful info on the local area.
If not this may give you an idea where to look. Just keep to the tracks in the State forest area and you will come across plenty of gold diggings in the red highlighted spots. Hope this helps.

 

[Coiltothesoil]

If you’re staying in the Avoca caravan park, then there’s bound to be some detectorists you can possibly introduce yourself to and you may gather some helpful info on the local area.
If not this may give you an idea where to look. Just keep to the tracks in the State forest area and you will come across plenty of gold diggings in the red highlighted spots. Hope this helps.
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Holy moly, that’s more than I could have asked for mate thank you so much. I am currently free camping so the yarns with the fellow travellers hasn’t been as good as usual as not too many around at the moment at the free camps.
As I was pretty confident with an area I’d found in Ararat I was looking to head back there tomorrow but I will stay here now thanks to that info. Might head back that way with an upgraded detector.
I have a deal with the missus that when I find some gold I can upgrade the detector, I guess it’s the same mentality of learning to drive in an old bomb so the sooner I find gold the sooner I find more gold I suppose
You’ve definitely helped thank you

 

[grubstake]

Nah I don’t. I am very new to it all so didn’t even think when I left Perth to grab any. I’ve been looking at the Doug Stone ones, I’ll have to grab some when I finally get my bank cards sorted
Are the Doug Stone ones the go to?
Thanks!

For hard copy maps, the Doug Stone maps are better than nothing, but John Tully's maps are more reliable IMO. John put in the donkey work of driving his little postie motorbike down every track to verify where the old-timers' workings (if any) actually were, then cross-checking with historical records to ensure accurate naming of gullies, tracks, mines, etc.

Most people now seem to rely on electronic maps such as Trilobite that are GPS-linked, so they know exactly where they are at all times.

 

[Coiltothesoil]

For hard copy maps, the Doug Stone maps are better than nothing, but John Tully's maps are more reliable IMO. John put in the donkey work of driving his little postie motorbike down every track to verify where the old-timers' workings (if any) actually were, then cross-checking with historical records to ensure accurate naming of gullies, tracks, mines, etc.

Most people now seem to rely on electronic maps such as Trilobite that are GPS-linked, so they know exactly where they are at all times.

Ok awesome thanks so much for that. I’ll look into grabbing the John Tullys. I’ve just downloaded the Trilobite app too
Definitely helping to boost my confidence so thank you

 

[OzzieAu]

BTW, there’s always the chance of this type of gold if you’re in luck. This was found in one of those red highlighted areas not far from town.
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/threads/bucket-lister.42884/#post-684741

 

[Coiltothesoil]

Oh yes I saw this earlier today (been trolling all the old threads) what a cracker! I’m an avid Australian coin collector as I was gifted a container of random Australian coins when I was just an ankle biter and it set me on that random path. The comment about your mate’s hands shaking… mate I reckon I would have peed myself. Absolute stunner that one!

 

[kiwifred]

If your in Avoca ....head over to Caralulup just out of Talbot, 23 minutes by google maps..... go down Caralulup track.......plenty of Areas around there

 

[Hawkear]

Coiltek at Maryborough certainly sell Tully maps. Around $25 ea for a booklet of maps for a particular goldfield.
I'm a great fan of paper maps that you can pour over without eyestrain to see relationships between all the diggings within a given goldfield.

 

[Coiltothesoil]

If your in Avoca ....head over to Caralulup just out of Talbot, 23 minutes by google maps..... go down Caralulup track.......plenty of Areas around there

Ah awesome! A big thank you for the info

 

[Coiltothesoil]

Coiltek at Maryborough certainly sell Tully maps. Around $25 ea for a booklet of maps for a particular goldfield.
I'm a great fan of paper maps that you can pour over without eyestrain to see relationships between all the diggings within a given goldfield.

Fantastic! I’ll be heading that way so that’s perfect thank you!

 

[lazypat]

If you’re staying in the Avoca caravan park, then there’s bound to be some detectorists you can possibly introduce yourself to and you may gather some helpful info on the local area.
If not this may give you an idea where to look. Just keep to the tracks in the State forest area and you will come across plenty of gold diggings in the red highlighted spots. Hope this helps.
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At tarnangulla a man at the camping ground used to use a 4500 but then up graded, he set my 4500 up the way he had his 4500 prieviously and it now runs wisper quiet and goes down ave 2ft but just not walking over the gold as most areas have previously been flogged to death so have to walk much furth now and harder and more time to find a patch, any where with a ton of rubblish and bullits flakes of tin are a good start as once you dig all that up there is a chance so small gold can still be amongst the rubish, panning is the same and a lot easier as you keep walking the creek until you find a patch then stay there until you flog it then start walking to another area, you can also grid search those areas as well with the detector, i dont think you said what PI detector you afe using as anolouge is no good in a hot rock area

 

[Dave's Office]

Ok awesome thanks so much for that. I’ll look into grabbing the John Tullys. I’ve just downloaded the Trilobite app too
Definitely helping to boost my confidence so thank you

If you've got Trilobite all you have to do is click on Gold Deposits and you can see where the gold was found.

 

[Coiltothesoil]

Morning all!
So I’m currently out in the state forest here, I’d appreciate honesty over stepping lightly cos i won’t be offended at all… should I just turf the X Terra Pro?
So I think I have my setting as good as they can be for gold with this unit, 15hz, I’ve done the noise cancel, did the ground balance, also trying out the ‘tracking ground balance’, discrimination is off and the recovery speed is low so I can get the depth.
So I’ve walked out here, had 5-10 mins of nothing then hit an area where I have had about 10 good tones in a couple square meters, I’ve dug a few now to find nothing. I’ve moved away and had silence then come back and same thing.
Could this just be an extremely mineralised area that my cheap detector just can’t handle? Also Avoca had a good amount of rain yesterday so the ground is quite wet and am not 100% if this would also affect it.
Thanks for any feedback

 

[grubstake]

The XTerra pro is a pretty good coin and relic detector and would do alright in the dry sand at a beach, but its old technology is no match for the typical goldfields mineralisation/hot rocks. Wet/damp ground will only make things worse for it. You've travelled a long way to get to the Golden Triangle, only to waste your time there with an inadequate detector.

I'd suggest you pop into Coiltek in Maryborough or EE Day in Ballarat or Miners Den in Bendigo and hire a Minelab SDC2300. They're easy to use, highly effective and a well-proven gold finder all over Australia. It's unavoidable that you'll dig lots of shotgun pellets and tiny nails etc., but you'll also pick up gold if you stay close to old workings and shallow ground (look for old-timers' surfacing areas), and work very slowly/carefully, keeping the coil on or just over the ground. Shuffle rather than walk is a good approach too.

 

[Coiltothesoil]

The XTerra pro is a pretty good coin and relic detector and would do alright in the dry sand at a beach, but its old technology is no match for the typical goldfields mineralisation/hot rocks. Wet/damp ground will only make things worse for it. You've travelled a long way to get to the Golden Triangle, only to waste your time there with an inadequate detector.

I'd suggest you pop into Coiltek in Maryborough or EE Day in Ballarat or Miners Den in Bendigo and hire a Minelab SDC2300. They're easy to use, highly effective and a well-proven gold finder all over Australia. It's unavoidable that you'll dig lots of shotgun pellets and tiny nails etc., but you'll also pick up gold if you stay close to old workings and shallow ground (look for old-timers' surfacing areas), and work very slowly/carefully, keeping the coil on or just over the ground. Shuffle rather than walk is a good approach too.

Yeah ok awesome. So we are on the road full time so it wasn’t a specific gold hunting trip, I got the bug when we were up in Tibooburra last year, I did manage to find heaps of lead up there so thought I was on the right track. I originally did buy this detector because I figured we would be at a lot of beaches but even the missus ended up with the noodling bug in White Cliffs
She’s actually with me today so it’s good she can see the way this unit works on this type of ground and she’s already suggested maybe an upgrade… I think she’s even looking for a second hand one now
I’ll keep having a cruise around seeing as I’m out here but I’ll be having a good look at another detector for this type of detail