Recent content by Hawkear

Many think panning is only for gold. Started my panning when a kid in suburban Melbourne in Gardiners Creek alongside the East Malvern golf links. Those days finding and reselling lost golf balls was the way to make a bit of pocket money. Bought myself a gold pan as was keen to see if the creek...

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: “Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell...

You have done well to do a SG on such a small nugget. 1.5 grams at a SG of around 17 to 19 would occupy a volume of under 0.1cc which would be very tricky to work with. I go along with the gold filling idea. Gold fillings may not be pure gold but alloyed with other noble metals such as...

Trying to work out from where this picture was painted. Guessing that is Mt Buninyong in the distance. That would suggest it is looking South. My guess is the artist would then have been near the fire station on Bakery Hill.

Correct me if wrong but I think sapphires are associated with volcanic rocks eg basalts. Daylesford is a volcanic area where streams have cut deep through the volcanic basalt into lower gold reef bearing slates. I would look up a geologic map of Daylesford, (should be available on line from...

Problem with using gold as a currency is that it can easily be forged ie adulterated with impurities so everyday traders would have no way of knowing its purity. Just stamping an ingot with for example 99.9% pure is no guarantee. The price of gold must therefore in part reflect the difficulty in...

Scotch whisky is not a survival currency in my house.

That makes a 20% rise from about $3000 at the end of last year to about $3600 now. Not wanting to put a damper on Holding or investing in gold particularly as a diversity, but Commonwealth Bank shares rose about 20% over the same time frame plus about $70 in spending money as dividends.

Dunno if this should be in What made you smile today or What made you cry today. But just saw this post on facebook. I cried at the cruelty and heartlessness of some people and smiled at the kindness of others. Most of all however I cried for poor Cookie. "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : Today we...

When you say one pan, do you mean one pan of concentrate from a sluice or highbanker?

In Australia sleeping on the job is only permitted within government circles. (And during workinghours)

You are right to point out another complexity apart from the obvious fortune telling aspect of bank predictions. If we intend to spend on something here in Australia most of our higher value goods vehicles, machinery, etc are imported. So even if not buying directly from OS ourselves, price...

Another thought on gold price. I have been looking at purchasing another telescope mount which is only available from overseas. On checking the aud/usd exchange rate currently around 65 cents to the usd, noted that the NAB has forecast the aud to reach 78 cents per usd by December 2025 and ING...

Well done. Love finding gold and having some nice pieces as collectors items to look at. At the end of the day though, we have our lives to live and gold cannot do that for us. So at some time good bye gold and hello the things we need.

Remember also if you are testing in a built up area, you will not be able to hear a steady threshold due to EMI interference from electricity supply lines. You need to get well away from electricity poles, telephone towers etc. You are testing to hear a very stable threshold sound. Check the...