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Wow, where did you find that little lot? shmiff

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A fascinating read. Perhaps it's time for the Echunga Stockade Rebellion of 2018. shmiff

Thanks, but jeez, that is a well crap system.

The Environment Protection Act, overseen by the Department for the Environment, with the Minister for the Environment at the helm. From what I can gather, the Department for the Environment can restrict access to any state land, for whatever reason they want (like liability concerns) even if the...

Hello malri, I stumbled across this website http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ It's great. You can select overlays to show things like ownership parcels, land usage, state heritage areas (not all of Hahndorf is heritage, just a corridor of it) and state/Crown land and recreational areas etc. etc...

Funnily enough, the legal manager of the mining department mentioned that we could band together and purchase a mining lease in South Australia, and be free to prospect to our hearts' content (and also keep anything we find) in our little rectangle, but unfortunately we might not be allowed to...

I'll do what I can, though I'm so new that I don't even have a metal detector yet. Which are the big clubs in SA? If we could draft a letter and send it from all of them, signed by all members, that would be good. Individuals could also email the relevant ministers. Let's see who gets the...

Hello from the Adelaide Hills. Just to pass on some information from a series of random people I met yesterday, all of them related to mining policy in SA. First the Liberal candidate for Heysen knocked on my door asking for my support in the upcoming elections. He wondered if there were any...

Not yet, though I'll post the information if I find it. I gave the politician my contact details and asked him to keep in touch. They're very keen to get votes at the moment so this a great time to bring up issues and ask for changes. shmiff

An afternoon of coincidences.. after meeting Mr Teague I happened to get the manager of the Labour party's election campaign in my car, and immediately afterwards the legal manager of the South Australian mining department in my car, so I got the chance to have lengthy discussions with both of...

If it's any consolation, the Liberal candidate for Heysen, Josh Teague, has just knocked on my door asking for my support in the upcoming elections, and wondering if there were any particular issues that I'd like to see addressed. I talked to him about the over-restrictive control of state land...

Thanks Malri :)

Thanks Malri, I didn't realise detecting spots were such closely guarded secrets. As a paraglider pilot we have access to quite a few private Hills properties for flying, and I don't think it would take much to get additional permissions to detect on them. But I'll follow the code and keep them...

Thanks Dean. Whereabouts are you based? Any location tips for a beginner? I'm more interested in finding relics of the colonial years than small pieces of gold. The ancient (relatively speaking) settlements like Hahndorf must be strewn with items from the past. Are we allowed to prospect in...

Thanks! :)

Thank you and OMG. What would be really handy would be a map of Adelaide and the Hills, shaded in blue to show the areas where it is legal to prospect, including the correct beaches, roads, rivers etc. And sure, I'll always leave things as I find them. The gold locations on the topological...

Thank you! I doubt that I'll only be obsessed with finding flecks of gold. It seems to me that the Adelaide Hills ought to have a rich history as the settlers who founded villages like Crafers, Stirling, Aldgate, Bridgewater, Hahndorf etc. would have been carrying all kinds of coins (possibly...

Hi, I'm shmiff. I live in the Adelaide Hills. When I was 14 years old my father had a metal detector that had two buttons - an on/off switch, and a black button that made the background beep quieter the longer you pressed it. There was no discrimination and no display. I'm guessing that things...