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If there are any gold bugs out there looking for a rattling good read, DIGGER is now available for download from Amazon Kindle. (The Kindle app loads onto any device). Digger is the non-fiction account of a Pom who abandons his well-paying job with Londons Sunday Times newspaper to try his luck...

Congratulations to Tudogz -- it's a HUGE achievement. I've been around that block three times. Once with a book on gold, once with a book on North Adelaide and (worst of all) once with a TV documentary. I reckon it's like one of those Japanese game shows where people pop out of nowhere and force...

Thanks AussieAu -- I haven't seen that document! I know the Mid North a bit having worked up there, and have often wondered about the Teetulpa fields. Much food for thought!

Thanks guys - been looking over the forum and reckon this has to be one of the friendliest online sites around! RM, thanks also for the interest in the book, though figure I might start quietly on the site -- follow some lessons I got taught as a new chum back in WA! That said, I've just...

Great looking forum! I've been detecting on and off for 15 years, and live in the Adelaide Hills. In 2005 I wrote a book about learning to be a prospector in a remote West Australian town of 13. My unrealised ambition is to find a skerrick of South Australian gold...