Recent content by jedda

you obviously cant read too well perhaps its the blood pressure, I never said I go onto leases prospecting where its not pending I said a dh tried to get us off a lease thast we weren't doing anything more than looking 9which way the gullies ran etc) cos where we were going was a blue lease next...

dd your statement of people following pending leases around and sponging off people who register the leases etc is a bit of a joke as well how on earth do you think that all the great goldfields were opened up?? they were opened up usually by someone initially finding some gold pegging it and...

in 1894 the wa mining act was amended to confirm the Coolgardie wardens decision that allowed prospectors to enter a lease and carry out dryblowing or whatever in searching for eluvial or alluvial gold up to within 50 feet of any reef or lode within the lease a decision further enhanced by a...

anyone reading gold and ghosts will know how far we have fallen down the pecking order, even with the pending non pending lease system they have in the west

let you know by pm later once I get the facts right but I do know that he most likely will not be there next time

that's the way it should be the way they do it in the west is dumb dumb dumb, but what else could you expect, when at the last state election while I was over there a mate told me that the local incumbent conservative candidate wanted detctin small time prospectin banned...and he got in watta joke

whites 6db great machine found some good nugs

to my knowledge and up to a few years ago the gov would pay you (may still do do) if you were a bona fide prospector an allowance for food etc also gold is NOT taxable for anyone like smalltime prospectors despite what the "beancounting accountants" say

gday all just got back from 12 mths over west and discovered this forum, pretty good by the looks of it info here is tops! for the 12 mths I was over there I concentrated my weekends aound norseman kal Coolgardie widgie bulong lake yindarlgooda kurnalpi,all for a specie containing around 2-3...

loamer your post re new ground is interesting, whilst over the west workin for 12 mths I virtually haunted around norseman and I have some great pics to show when I get my 10 posts up of quartz outcrops ranging from buck white quartz to burnt black brittle stuff on the same outcrop,in a creek...

hi loamer the pic you have of the reef workings, is that by any chance over west around norseman? if not, very similar country especially that pic looks very similar to a reef line on the old coach road from norseman to dundas

i had one years ago and found some good nugget with it, most of the nuggets were found against the advice not to discriminate, that is I ran it most of the time with the discriminator on after setting it to gold (after my 1st one) found heaps of good coins with it, great early machine good luck...