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    Metal detecting for sluicing op

    I have a brand-name pin pointer - smallest piece of gold it will detect is a 0.5g pressed up against the nose. If you learn to use your pan and sluice properly, you should be able to find "every size you would be able to find in a creek". If you're looking for flour gold, get a 30 mesh sieve...
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    Back track device

    Still available - no idea where one would buy in Adelaide, but there's plenty of them on eBay. https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=bushnell+backtrack&_sacat=0
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    Angle grinder crushers

    Good one, Massey - hours of fun guaranteed :) Did some crushing today - noticed something you might want to watch out for. After crushing about 5kg, I opened up the crusher to remove the last of the dregs, and noticed that a small piece of quartz was jammed in one of the outlet slots. Obviously...
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    Angle grinder crushers

    You will not regret your decision. I buckled and bought a 700W Makita for the Cobbers unit recently because I had a number of small volume samples I wanted to check out. Using the Cobbers saved me having to set up the Muzzas. Buying a Makita for the Cobbers was way cheaper than buying decent...
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    River Access (Victoria)

    Perhaps some of this will help: CROWN LAND WATER FRONTAGE Also worth noting that this document goes on to say: https://www.necma.vic.gov.au/Waterways/Crown-land-water-frontage This site is very handy in determining the location of Crown Land and Water Frontage reserves, etc...
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    Equinox 600 gold detecting tips

    Heaps of info on all things Nox here: https://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/53-minelab-equinox-forum/
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    Angle grinder crushers

    I have both the Cobbers (single feed) and the Muzzas Muncher (continuous feed). Both units are well made - the Muzzas is powered by the Makita grinder that came with it, and the Cobbers by a battery grinder I bought on eBay. The battery grinder is quite good, but the batteries it came with will...
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    Beginners gear

    Here are a couple more simple hand tools you might like to consider: For scraping away small branches, vegetation, surface gravel, etc: https://www.bunnings.com.au/saxon-hand-cultivator-with-thumb-grip_p0242958 For running dirt containing suspected target over your coil...
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    Whinge of the day thread...

    I have a wife like that. Back in 2011 when they got to around $14/kg, I had to hide her credit card :)
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    Panning techniques and a few other questions?

    I think you might be referring to the black pans shown being used by most of the the kids in the video...the ones with raised riffles. The last kid shown in the video is using the same pan as the bloke doing the video. It's an Australian-made pan....it has deep recessed riffles....I've been...
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    HF radio antenna - DIY

    Repeaters?? What the hell are they? Old mate of mine (RIP) from Albury, and myself in Wodonga, used to regularly have scheds with a couple of stations in Melbourne on 2m.....admittedly sometimes had to revert to CW when the going got rough on AM. Here's my gear, and the array........those were...
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    2021 Victoria Trout season

    That's the beauty of trout fishing.....you can fish in the morning when the water's nice and cool, and then pan in the afternoon when the fish have all gone to ground. Best of both worlds. There's an old saying "Just imagine what the world be like without fishing........now slap yourself and...
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    2021 Victoria Trout season

    Tomorrow, Friday August 6, marks only four weeks remaining until the opening of the Victorian Trout Season at midnight on Friday, Sept 3. We've had good rains, and all the streams and rivers up my way are running a banker, hopefully clearing out any remaining bushfire residue. The extent of...
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    Found this in a Chinese digging ?

    Found something similar at a NE Vic location.....Chinese activity there also.
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    Rocket launches LIVE.

    They are all full of it: Virgin Galactic admits Richard Branson did not ride a bicycle to the launch site before blasting into space...
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