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Well, I have checked all the places where there is no gold, now I am about to check all the places where there might be gold, incidently, the map I am using has so many crosses on it I can hardly read it.!

GOLD is a bit like sex ,you can spend your life looking for it , but after you get it you don't need it ,just as an example some years back I found a 2oz nugget after admiring it I put it in a draw and that's where it sat until I sold it some time later.

My back has improved a little , so I decided to go and try my luck I cleaned out a crevice about a meter long and here is the result. Not a very good photo unfortunately.

I recently inquired about a prospecting partner or partners and I was over whelmed by the response thank you all but unfortunately I have developed a serious back problem I hope this is only temporary . I will keep you posted .

Some years I bought a minelab 2100 of a guy in Monbulk he gave it a test by throwing a small nugget on the ground it looked about half an ounce I asked where he had found it he replied in that creek Emerald creek he also said gold can be found in pancake creek this creek does not appear on any...

Last week I decided to cut a track into Icey creek half a K Of black berries greeted me but Iwas up to the task converted my wiper snipper to take mower blades . Leeches were bad picked up eight very friendly no time to prospect going back new year

For prospecting trips mainly Gippsland area, most equipment supplied including transport . Must have manual licence and can drive 4wd in emergencies , be prepared to share fuel cost. I have a fair knowledge of the Gippsland goldfields with some access to private property. I have been going away...

Take a look at this video I almost turned green but not quite Its on SBS on demand called I bought my own rainforest

Victorian Bush, A Poem by JohnB , the place of pests The fleas and flies that cannot rest There is leaches too or just a few I think I've got one in my shoe The snakes are numerous that I have found I think I see one on the ground They say there's gold in these rough hills But as yet my take is...

Has anybody heard the story of the spanish gold coins found at a place called providence ponds in east gippsland in the 1940s or the 1950s not quite sure of the year if so please enlighten me .Many thanks JB

This is a true story. Some years ago when dredging was legal, my brother and I used to dredge on the Tanjil River at Willow grove. One particular day we headed off to my favorite spot only to find two guys and their famillies shovelling clay from a high bank on the edge of the river into the...

75 this year been prospecting since 1971 seen a lot of mates drop of the perch but you have to keep pluging i havent found much gold in the last 2 years have to try a bit harder by the way that is not a photo of me i look a lot older good luck to you all JB

For Sale is a 5 HP Briggs & Stratton & Submersible Pump 280 gallons per minute. No foot valve required, no seals, no problems. Originally designed to drive 4 inch surface dredge with enough pressure to 'blow you over'. Floats on 15 inch tube. In perfect condition. It starts and runs well...

Last week the Greek and i headed for gippsland to check out a deep lead and take some samples and run the detector over the walls and floor of the tunnel very interesting formation about a meter of clay from the floor up then a layer of conglomerate followed by a layer of basalt worked hard and...

check out this vidio click on SBS on demand Toughest place to be a miner gold mining in mongolia

no more camping at hawthorn creek and latrobe river bridge some idiots have ruined it for everybody leaving rubbish behind and destroyed the toilet a stupid question has anybody found gold in the hawthorn creek

some years ago before i got the fever i got to know a experienced prospector who had been working an area on the river for about ten years and casually asked him how much gold have you got out of here he reached under the seat of his car pulled out a football sock fullof nuggets that is when i...

Does anybody know if the DSE is going to burn in the Hawthorn creek area. I can't read these maps and can't get any sense out of anybody. Will be going in from Neerim sth end.

this is a short length of exhaust tubing the same size as the pump blocked at one end with alength of small diameter pipe welded into the side over an inlet hole on the up stroke the gold if any is drawn up the small pipe and falls into the sump eg the large pipe the down stroke will not force...

you guys are probable tired of hearing stories from the passed but i thought id throw this one in my brother and i worked a spot in the river below willow grove which was very rich we recovered over nine oz in two weekends dredging this is when it was legal went back about a year later to...