Recent content by Mick Cov

This is a good spot but hard to access.Blackberries,steep ravines and seemingly guarded by black snakes. Brushed dry and spotlessly cleaned 2 square mtrs of bedrock for half a bucket of gravel.

Here’s my webbing,being a truckie I try to go light so just basic 88/89 pouches ect. AMCU replaced DPCA a little while ago but have not seen that webbing before…No mollieing ect either.

I thought lead too.That would explain the weight.

Just the thougbt of it makes me wince goody :o :D

:lol: haha,it cant be that bad mate

A bit of rain here this morning in Melbourne which is a nice change.Glad to hear ya gall stones arent too big either goody :lol:

I remember the day well.We lost our home in Flowerdale,had only been there for 13 months.One neighbour in our street lost his life.I must have been one of the lucky ones as the fires never had a negative effect on me,Once we had temporarily relocated,the bank quickly sorted us out and when we...

Yeah,maybe your right.Could just be a military thing.Determination,hard work,discipline to a task and the like can be applied to all parts of life...anywhere...anytime.The beauty of it is that the many of the points the officer bought up could be delivered by anyone.Anyway,just my opinion...

Yep,Id say that was inspirational alright.But then again Im biased being ex army Haha...I love those sort of speeches....Theres something in that speech for everyone. :perfect:

Ive been throwing my cons into a bucket for the last few trips and havent panned them out yet.Anyway I was swirling the bucket around having a peek tonight to see If I could spy any good stuff and was stocked to see a rough specie picker...surprised because usual pickers here are rounded with...

Lately I have been too busy with work and at home with the family to get on the forum,but I have been on the gold regularly lately. After heaps of research I thought I would head up to the same group of mountain ranges that the ghost town belongs to,and try my luck on an ancient lead. It has...

It goes to show that if you split the rock in the right place you find the fossil... A couple of mm either side of it and you miss it!

Nice find :Y:

Good advice.I smashed open heaps of rocks before I turned up any fossils. Is that second starfish in siltstone?

Here is a very small trilobite (thorax section) Im still looking to find a complete specimen. This was found in Kilmore,Victoria.