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I find fingerless gloves the best for both hands. The ones that have some flexible padding on the palms. Some have little tabs at the ends to make it easier to pull them off. You can use iPhones with these and don’t have to take off a glove. But after several days of detecting your bare hands...

Tony, meant not everyone goes on a group tour. Wasn’t meaning to put down the excellent job you do educating prospectors and showing your side of gold mining. There are so many prospectors working on their own trying to find gold. Just muddling along. And a lot who have been coming for years...

We were there last year when they were filming. Film crews did lots of different venues and activities. Only so much they can fit in a program. None of the bike racing made it, but guess it didn’t fit the local scene. Nor did the art competition. Looked closely but didn’t see us in the...

Thanks for the info Goldierocks. Since this is just S of Marble Bar, and we didn’t find much gold around it, guess it is unrelated to gold deposits. I went back to dig for more crystals and struggled to find many. Way it goes sometimes. But I did find two perfect unbroken ones that I will...

Oh Hawkear I did enjoy reading that. I must be immune as walking with them in my pocket did none of that. Strap them to my gammy knee maybe? Pop them under my pillow at night? Will let you know how it affects me ... emotionally. Ha. But seriously maybe I should go back to the creek with a...

I would like some information about magnetite crystals. We have been finding a lot of these - signal close to that of gold. A creek full of them from almost invisible in size to the 3/4 inch specimens. Some rocks full of them. Very noisy. Is gold found in association with magnetite? Think we...

My My 6000 is just coming up to its 12 months. It did the WA season last year and halfway through this season. Thought I might offer my 2 cents worth. It has found some good gold but nothing outstandingly deep or heavy. But I am still learning and am not an expert detectorist. I like that I...

Thank you. Have read it and believe I saw the book in Kal and almost bought it. :) Can’t buy it here in Nullagine of course. Will just have to teach ourselves.

I would like some advice on detecting at Nullagine and Mosquito Creek please. We did a run out there today and the road at Mosquito Creek is freshly graded and widened. Yahoo! Some pending ground. Not sure whether to work the higher slopes and ridge tops, or the lower slopes and flat scrapings...

This is not country for flatlanders. You need some experience with tropical bush land and its inconveniences. Ticks and snakes. Also coverup totally. That means it is very easy to get sunstroke/heatstroke even in winter. Recognise the early symptoms and go back to camp early. Never go out alone...

NS NSL, is it rude to ask what other stuff you get from old river beds? We used to go there for holidays, but I have never been treasure hunting with detectors. Don’t like people watching me 🙂 Only use it remotely for gold. Thanks

My whinge is about finding this beauty when prospecting. Obviously someone’s lunch wrapping. But carefully rolled into a perfect ball and left on the ground where they were working. Who does this? Snd why? It will break into dozens of pieces snd drive Detectorists mad in a few years. Rubbish...

I have handed in a ring to a police station. But I also put up a notice on the town notice board (it was a tiny town) asking if anyone had lost a ring to go to police station and describe it. Of course if it was an out of town visitor they would not know about it. How else do you get the...

We came past Gympie recently on the train and massive road works were visible to the west? of Gympie. A bypass road perhaps. Hopefully it will be done in the next couple of years. It looked a big deal project.

We average 69 and did the season in WA last year from Kal to Marble Bar. Better than any gym workout. We just get flabby again over summer. Getting ready to do it again this year. Best lifestyle for us. Love it. Finding and tiny shiny piece is exciting. The learning we are constantly doing...