- Joined
- Oct 1, 2019
- Messages
- 66
- Reaction score
- 437
Looks very familiar?
GPX5000, strikes again
⭐ Gold Detecting Show'n Tell
- Thread starter Goldman
- Start date
-
- Tags
- gold gold detecting show
Help Support Prospecting Australia:
- Joined
- May 25, 2015
- Messages
- 247
- Reaction score
- 284
my biggest bit yet with the 4500 yesterday. Castlemaine area
Well done.Went out again today, this time with a friend who has vastly more experience at detecting and where best to go than I do - and I found my first two pieces of gold. I was so excited when I got down to those last few bits of gravel expecting to see another piece of lead shot and could almost not believe my eyes when I saw a tiny piece of gold. It weighed in at 0.13 grams. The second piece I found quite a few hours later and it weighs 0.11 grams. Not huge pieces but Im happy with that.
Thank you everyone who told me to dig every target - I did that today, found a lot of rubbish and got a few blisters, but I also found my gold.
user 22230
Gavin of Garfield
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2021
- Messages
- 998
- Reaction score
- 2,679
Went out today, dug a huge hole but just didn't dig or walk in just the right spot 
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2015
- Messages
- 34
- Reaction score
- 67
The best place I have found gold is in old open mine shafts that have drives coming off them. You don't have to go all the way in, just detect the floor for anything dropped. No ones else seems to do it.
I bet a few will be trying now, now that your secret is out. Lol.
Moneybox
Philip & Sandra Box
The old railway lines tend to stuff up the detector signal a bit
user 22230
Gavin of Garfield
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2021
- Messages
- 998
- Reaction score
- 2,679
Hello All
Thanks to everyone who attended the Amherst meet up, it was a great weekend.
Plenty of shotty pellet with many in the dreaded Kinder Despise, but I did get two in the Kinder Surprise.
I managed a few small bits and .75g was the biggest and a total of 1.31g all with the SDC.
Regards Anthony.
Thanks to everyone who attended the Amherst meet up, it was a great weekend.
Plenty of shotty pellet with many in the dreaded Kinder Despise, but I did get two in the Kinder Surprise.
I managed a few small bits and .75g was the biggest and a total of 1.31g all with the SDC.
Regards Anthony.
Very nice mate and i am sure that the gold was just a bonus. Mackka
Nice, hopefully I’ll find what you left behind. Heading there next weekend.
Hope you filled ya hole back inWent out today, dug a huge hole but just didn't dig or walk in just the right spot
View attachment 115View attachment 117
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2016
- Messages
- 941
- Reaction score
- 826
what you don't own enough shotty pellets
oops sorry wrong post my bad. You definitely deserve the win auaddict
Last edited:
Just looking at my collection of nuggets for the last year or so of on and off COVID interfered detecting. One lot (7.7g) I found with a 5000 using an 8" mono and the other lot (9.7g) with a 2300. I spent more time with the 2300 as shown by the nugget count.
Just thought it would be interesting to lay them out side by side.
Just thought it would be interesting to lay them out side by side.
Attachments
Been in the Pilbara detecting for a while as a hobby. If I had to live off it I would be as skinny as a rake, but enjoying every moment of it. Just survived a summer and looking forward to get out there now it is cooler. Using a GPX 5000 with a NF 17 x 11 elliptical coil.
Ha, us in Vic probably don't feel too sorry for you; almost an Oz, I dream of that? Has taken me over 2 yrs and many many trips and km to find a little over half of that. Very slim pickins. You've done very well.
- Joined
- May 25, 2015
- Messages
- 247
- Reaction score
- 284
Take some spray for the bush flies!
Teemore
One foot out the door
Well done on the gold ..... to me the junk is just an indication that the area was not throughly worked previously.
Teemore
One foot out the door
Similar threads
