Golden years quest

[Elad]

I am an old newbie. I am up in Nth Qld ,Townsville actually, where its usually hot and sticky or hot and dry. I am a retired Builder / Commercial site foreman. I seem to have an abundance of free time and get bored doing nothing, so to keep busy and stay reasonably fit into my seventies I am going out camping and fossicking and loving it. I am planning on doing some highbanking and also some crevicing up around Greenvale ,Georgetown and west of Charters towers.
if any local guys can help with hints and setup suggestions I am all ears.

Elad

 

[7.62marksman]

Hi welcome mate
Give this a quick read as well The second one especially where it says No Machinery IE Highbanker

https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/activities/areas-facilities/fossicking

https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/activities/areas-facilities/fossicking/rules/permitted-activities

 

[reynard]

Since when is a highbanker considered machinery. Some official ****** in NSW deemed a pump machinery and the rest of the country is expected to follow suit , not likely.
Jim :N:

 

[7.62marksman]

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5460

 

[user 4485]

Since when is a highbanker considered machinery. Some official self lovin sort of guy in NSW deemed a pump machinery and the rest of the country is expected to follow suit , not likely.
Jim :N:

It was actually illegal (or more to the point being enforced) in QLD prior to the NSW ban.
Use of a pump is also prohibited in Tasmania.
Victoria is the only Eastern State where you can legally use a motorised pump.

 

[Draco123]

I am an old newbie. I am up in Nth Qld ,Townsville actually, where its usually hot and sticky or hot and dry. I am a retired Builder / Commercial site foreman. I seem to have an abundance of free time and get bored doing nothing, so to keep busy and stay reasonably fit into my seventies I am going out camping and fossicking and loving it. I am planning on doing some highbanking and also some crevicing up around Greenvale ,Georgetown and west of Charters towers.
if any local guys can help with hints and setup suggestions I am all ears.

Elad

Oh, I would love to go with you If I am there.. I think its somewhere near like one of our prospectors is. I wanted to post link here from youtube like he was panning and searching for gold there.. but it is not allowed. I think he is somewhere near cairns.

I wanted to go like him.. with agency BestStudy, but they can't get me visa now.

Wish you some nice finds :goldnugget:

 

[Jaros]

Welcome Elad. Have a wonderful ,lucky life in the fields, deserts, mountains and salt pans we have.
Jaros

 

[SCATTERED GOLD]

Now the Qld/ NSW border is open, I intend to travel to NSW gold mining places in March. Ive bought a Garrett set to prospect during my travels.

One set of my great great grandparents married in Forbes in 1862 and had children in Bathurst and Lithgow. Theirs, and my paternal great great grandparents travels, led to the Charters Towers region during its gold rush. My grandfather was a gold miner in Kidston. I want to know more of the gold mining history of the places where they lived.