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    Gwalia Mine Extension

    What a great video thanks Jaros
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    Trespassing signs!

    The guy that put that sign up I think was related to Mick Taylor in Wolf Creek, he was as crazy as Mick
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    Trespassing signs!

    His a old video player up a tree at Halls Creek to keep you out
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    Castlemaine Victoria area information and questions

    Hi If your up the Wattle gully mine way Fryerstown rd, about 1 klm past the mine on the right is the scout camp road, follow it past the camp there's plenty of ground above the camp
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    Through the eyes of the old timers

    Mates and gold, great read The greatest of the Western Australian 1890s gold rush reminiscences. Mates and Gold tells of bush life in the Western Australian desert, dangerous journeys and lonely deaths by typhoid, thirst, murder, spearing and retributional massacre. Vast new goldfields, gold...
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    Outback Relics and Ruins

    A couple of old stampers in WA
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    Gold or just another a fool..?

    Looks like gold to me, my method of retrieving it from the pan is reduce the water to about of a cup then I add small amount of alybrite to brighten it up, then add 3-4 grams of mercury rolling it around the pan, which amalgamates with the gold, then simply roll it out into a storage bottle...
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    Benalla Gold fields (Reef Hills State Park) vic

    Hi Greencheeks77 like the look of your crusher, been going to make one for quite a while , got about 50 kg to crush and was having trouble finding 10-12" pipe for the job, but as you've made your one in segments it's solved my problem some 75x10 flat will do the job just fine, Thanks for...
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    Wanted to buy

    If he's reading these posts' he could swap hand grips and you will still end up with the dud fake I would steer clear of this guy
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    Wanted to buy

    Looking at the hand grip the machine is a fake, and you don't need a gold nugget to test it, a small sinker about 6mm dia will do
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    A bit slow at posting

    Hi I should have made my first post here, but I will get the hang of things after a while have been a reader and not posted at all, but they say it's never to late. Have been detecting for 30+ years on and off, a bit of dredging back then also, recently built a Highbanker but I think it needs a...
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    A bit of Castlemaine gold

    Thought I'd share a bit of gold from the last 4 trips to the Castlemaine area, just over 16 grams. Mainly found under bushes and kicking log out of the way, and looking in the hard to get to spots.Using a GPX4500 and 10x5 NF
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    How to melt your own gold

    Hi here another way that work ok. Melting gold in a potato. its amazing how the spud handles the heat just type "Melting gold in a potato". in YouTube as I'm not able to post links
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