Piles of quartz

[Mickskin]

Hi guys
Well due to the state government removing my right to highbank I have had to look at other avenues. Have been crevicing with some success but needed something more, so I invested in a SDC2300.
Been doing plenty if research and got a copy of Doug Stones Atlas. With this I headed to Mogo yesterday to have look around and have a swing of the new machine.
Wow, a bit daunting with so much ground to explore and so much info to try and recall.
My question is I found a lot of piles of quartz that looked like they were put there but didn't look like mullock heaps and there was no sign of diggings close by. Would I be right in assuming that these are the result of surfacing and if so would the piles and surrounding ground be a good place to start detecting
Should have taken a photo

Cheers
Mick

 

[samrota]

Congrats on your purchase of a great machine.

My advice is to go very slow and overlap your swings, don't try and cover a huge area everytime you go out. Do small sections at a time and come in at different angles on the same patch. Scrub the ground with the coil, invest in a heavy duty coil covers too. I have gone through 3 skid plates in a year! Also clean away some leaves and sticks to get the coil close to the ground. Don't be affraid to cover the same area on diffent days and also diffent times of the day, especially if you have found gold there before. You'd be surprised how many pieces you can miss, by not paying attention or going too fast on the day,

Do noise cancelations until humming nicely, ground balance until stable and it will pay you back if you walk over gold.

Some SDC gold

 

[Mickskin]

Thanks for your advice Samrota, will be out later in the week to get in some more practice.
Nice gold too

Cheers
Mick

 

[Moneybox]

Yes Mick a photo or two would tell the story. Over here they do a lot of scrape and detect. The SDC has very little range in depth so scraped ground is ideal. Usually guys doing this type of work have used a GPX5000 or similar big detector that is not capable of finding the small gold. The SDC can really clean up on these spots but it takes a bit of practise to get to understand any detector. Most of us walk over a lot of faint signals before we really understand what to listen for. The SDC can scream on a decent nugget but sometimes it can be only a very faint change in signal or murmur.

Unfortunately it also loves those tiny 2mm shot gun pellets and hotrocks but you just have to dig them all. Be sure to remove all the junk you dig as well because you'll very likely want to return when you know more about what you are doing and you don't want to dig the same bit of junk twice. Make sure you carefully fill your holes and flick a few leaves over the top or the next guy is just going to follow along and clean out your patch for you

 

[Mickskin]

Hi Moneybox

Thanks for the tips mate, got a lot to learn, as much about where to detect as well as how. I'm keen though so hopefully persistence will pay off.

Cheers
Mick

 

[Hunting the yellow]

Hi guys
Well due to the state government removing my right to highbank I have had to look at other avenues. Have been crevicing with some success but needed something more, so I invested in a SDC2300.
Been doing plenty if research and got a copy of Doug Stones Atlas. With this I headed to Mogo yesterday to have look around and have a swing of the new machine.
Wow, a bit daunting with so much ground to explore and so much info to try and recall.
My question is I found a lot of piles of quartz that looked like they were put there but didn't look like mullock heaps and there was no sign of diggings close by. Would I be right in assuming that these are the result of surfacing and if so would the piles and surrounding ground be a good place to start detecting
Should have taken a photo

Cheers
Mick

Those stock piles of quartz is an ore paddock put there by the miners they were selective back then with what they would cart to the crushers being so far away sometimes. They would stockpile the best looking stone to be crushed if I was you i would detect every rock leave nothing unturned see what you can find

 

[Mickskin]

Thanks HTY, I'm heading down there Friday arvo for a few hours so will give them some more investigation.

 

[jamie]

I spend a bit of time in Mogo detecting, a lot of the old diggings werent real close to the processing equipment that was set up there for a while so a lot was stock piled until it was viable to cart and process, if you come across this sort of stuff my best advise is low and slow and reap the rewards
Cheers
Jamie