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Digger58 What type of equipment are you planning on using, and what type of ground will you be using equipment on? Am only asking because things like dry blowers, cranked by hand, are a thing in W.A. and I think are going to be worth while if you come this way. Obviously a gold detector is handy too.
 
Yeah, a detector and pan.

I'll have to research "dry blower, cranked by hand."

To tell you the truth I'm scared to look as it sounds a bit, um, no, I won't go there lol. After seeing your monkey **** I am a bit scared.

:( :eek: :/
 
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Here's a few pictures of one of my former favorite spots after a mate 'shared ' it with some 'nice people' on the net. Looks like someone has gone through there with a D9 dozer with triple shank rippers on it. Keep your secret spots secret people!
 
Dave79 that is terrible, sad thing is I am not really surprised. When it comes to gaining wealth there is a disproportionate amount of greed driven arrogance that brook no kindness towards the people they interact with unless you have something they want and is only absent the moment you have nothing they need.
 
Not me Dave, I only use an excavator. Besides, no-one will share their secret spots.

In all seriousness that was a ******* act if ever I saw one. Nice mate you have that would do that to you. bad enough telling, but on the net, really!

No more secret handouts and zip the lip as tight as a Nuns um, fishes arsehole.

Sorry for your loss. I'm being sincere too.
 
Retirement Stone said:
D58 I suspect you already know the answers but are expecting a cue jump to the pearly gates.

Here's what I used when I first started out. It all been said before you have to go to locations where gold has already been found as a starting point. Hence books n Google are saturated with info and maps.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...es/1817/1579674432_img_20200122_171651563.jpg

I spent 3 months fluffing around in some of those locations and eventually after hundreds of hours of driving, digging and failures, cracked the code. Now I know I will find gold every trip.

Here's your goldfields in Qld according to Doug.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...es/1817/1579674485_img_20200122_171757975.jpg

You have been given that much "personalised" advice so far you must now go forth and create heaven and earth and of course some gold, although rumour has it the gold came from outter space.

PS gold is ridulously hard to find, you will be lucky to cover the cost of a Chuppa Chup let alone the fuel bill.

Keen to seen you progress over time

Cheers

RS
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Thanks for that. I've actually seen that book and maybe a thousand others, and I've gathered so much info the last month or two that I need another HDD to organise it all into.

I certainly will reveal all once I begin. Don't expect too much if anything, as I know it will be a long learning curve and statistically I'm an outlier on the bell curve or any format, to be honest. Anyhoo, good or bad I'll post.

Honestly, I don't give a sh.t about the value of gold as it is the experiences I crave. Having said that you'll hear me yelling and screaming if I happen to strike it rich lol.

Cheers RS. :)
 
The first lesson for newbie detector operators.

Like you there are a few here that haven't learnt the lesson 'Dave79'.

If there was $50 notes lying around in a creek bed would you pick them up or walk away?

(1) Never walk away from gold. :goldpan: :money:
 
They are good hobbies, metal detecting, and prospecting.

The more you put in, the more you get out.

Theres thousands of pages of info here. Much more than when I first got here in 2014.

Sitting at home does not make it easier, just select somewhere and go for it. Every mistake you make you put you one step closer.
 
OldGT said:
They are good hobbies, metal detecting, and prospecting.

The more you put in, the more you get out.

Theres thousands of pages of info here. Much more than when I first got here in 2014.

Sitting at home does not make it easier, just select somewhere and go for it. Every mistake you make you put you one step closer.
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very true sitting at home isn't prospecting and its all about the amount you put in for newbies find an area you like print out a map and just start ticking off areas gold is not a easy thing to find and a lot of time needs to be put in to be successful and that cant be guaranteed
 
Frankdonovan121 said:
I found this while looking for ideas to do with dry blowers:

https://www.prospectorworld.com/best-place-to-find-gold-in-western-australia/

In case you ever decide to travel over here, also in case you have not seen those maps yet.
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Thanks Frank. I haven't seen that link yet, and it looks good, so thank you. I have put it in my WA folder. Currently, I am researching Qld in a bit more depth.

I actually lived in WA in the eighties and spent a bit of time around Kalgoorlie and the Pilbara but never thought about hunting for gold, even though I went with a mate once to detect in the late seventies. I'm kicking myself now. You should see the bruises, huge lol.

I also lived in Shepperton for a while in the eighties and the Golden Triangle wasn't far away from there.

Anyway, I may be in Victoria later in the year so I'll give it a flogging then, between events like the Melbourne Cup, Bathurst, the AFL Grand Final (never been in a hundred thousand crowd so that will be an experience), Phillip Island for the MotoGP (been there before, but would love to ride the bike there), duck up to Sydney for the League grand final, and some more which I am trying to work out a plan now. May even hang around for the Australian Tennis and the Formula 1. Maybe not the Formula 1 as I went to it when it was in Adelaide in 1987 I think it was, and the bloody things were so quick you couldn't even tell who was who as they flashed past in a nano-second. I ended up sitting on the grass with my girlfriend and watching it with a hundred others on a big screen, and it was a relief from the noise at the track too, incredible. It may not even happen too.

Good times ahead with detecting being another thing I'm into now. I was going to do a few trips through the outback on the bike, so if that eventuates I will take a pan and detector with me, though the bike will be loaded to the max lol.

Cheers Frank. :Y: :)
 
OldGT said:
They are good hobbies, metal detecting, and prospecting.

The more you put in, the more you get out.

Theres thousands of pages of info here. Much more than when I first got here in 2014.

Sitting at home does not make it easier, just select somewhere and go for it. Every mistake you make you put you one step closer.
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And the lifestyle too OldGT even without the gold. I have my Crocodile Dundee hat and the knife, all I need now is Linda, hehe. :drooling:
 
Northeast said:
Id go to WA.

It is vast and considering how big a coil is and how much ground is there the actual percentage of gold bearing ground that has been properly worked with a late model detector?? My guess would be less than 5%. Maybe far less even.

Or be one of the 100,000 others that have swung a coil in the Whipstick ;)
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None left in WA it's all gone. :lol:
 

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