My new beginning_life outside the Hole

[FatChance_fossic]

Hi people, newbie here with a hankering to try my luck, fell in the welfare hole and need to dig my ways out, literally Lolz ? just cleaning house getting mobile, simplifying, thinking of using a detector and spending a few months scouring the Menindee to broken hill field. A bit of advice on equipment and budget shopping for a "I found the light' fossick would not be met unfriendly like.?

 

[BigWave]

Hey mate, glad you're getting out of the welfare hole, but it's not likely to be by hobby prospecting.
It's largely a hobby for us PAers, where the motto is: "The best way to get a small fortune prospecting is to start with a large fortune".
It generally takes years of experience and learning, before even small returns are made.
I've been gold detecting for around 5 years as a hobby. I've found around $7k of nuggets, but have easily spent thrice that on detecting gear, research, travel and accommodation.
Gave many of the better looking nuggets to ladies/daughters as necklaces.
All the best mate.

 

[FatChance_fossic]

Yup, not expecting a picnic, just a detector, pick, pan and backpack and hydration pack and park and fossicking permits,my mobile device and solar rechargables, total 65kg and field guide, surf a few reefs, the money saved paying rent and power etc will keep me in good supply, nothing to do but research and prospect, thank Spock for science, might even find a few meteorites and relics, beats sitting in the hole being inventory in a broken system :Y: