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Hi all, Sorry if this has been done but I have found a 1938 Penny. I have heard pennys that are rare and can be valuable?wasnt sure but Heres a couple of pics for you. Any advise would be greatly appreciated

Hi everyone, Im unsure if this is in the correct section but I have two pieces of this, the piece pictured weighs about 1.5kilos and sounds metallic when struck with another hard object. It almost has a wood like grain on the outside? I hope you can help or lead me in the right direction...

Well after alot of studying area maps and google earth etc. I went for another trip to the GT with my eldest son. I kept my settings the same and the GPX 5000 was pretty quiet. Went out most of Saturday and managed to find these little rippas. ranging from 0.12 - 1.2grams at descent depths, to...

Well went to Inglewood for my first day detecting with the 5000, Had some troubles at first with the settings lots of hot rocks, but after a while I managed to get it settled, I learned a bit and have tonnes more to learn, for me thats part of the fun . Unfortunately no colour this trip but I...

Hi all, With Xmas over for another year I'm now in the market to buy my GPX5000 :party: :party: . I'll be going to Miners Den Bendigo on Friday to purchase it plus a few other basic items required. We might even stay the weekend and go out and give it a try around Bendigo, Inglewood then...

Hi everyone, I've been going through the forum slowly, so my apologies for not posting much to date, I hope this question hasn't been done to death. My question is, Can you tell a Gold nugget for certain by measuring it's electrical resistance in Ohms? I've seen on line somewhere that Gold is...

G'day All, I'm a total newbie to detecting, in the coming weeks I will be purchasing a Minelab GPX 5000 and like many looking for Gold with my wife and our youngest son.We can't wait to get out there and look for some Nugs and learn all we can about detecting. We'll be starting out in the...