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Hi @kingswood When I used to work in the mining industry in the 90's we used to drop the leading parts of coordinates, so that it became more managable. when making hand crafted maps. Especially when working in small areas. Most coordinates on maps from the 90's (small area geological maps...

Hi @Whisp, I think I have found the issue you have found and hopefully will be rolling out a fix real soon. Not sure what changed, but I'll leave a message here when I've upgraded the site and hopefully this fix the issue for you. Thanks for reporting the error. Regards Bruce

Hi Dave, The lease info is updated almost as soon as the Mines Department releases an update. At worst case, this site shouldn't be more than 30-45 minutes out.. Hope that helps. Bruce

Hi NorthEast, There is no commodity type associated with most of them, so I didn't bother to display it. There are definitely places closer to Perth worth checking out.. Most of these will be on private land so make sure to ask permission first :) All the best in your gold prospecting.. Bruce

Hi Mike.. I've been meaning to update the website for a while and this post of your's has just prompted me to push a new version of the data up onto the web. Now to answer your question: The Blue & Green areas are leases. The green leases are those classified as LIVE, meaning that its a legit...

Can you try visiting the website using Google Chrome? This might work for you whilst I try and fix the IE 11 issues.

Planned improvements.. (read as coming v.soon) 1. WA mining leases - Live and Pending, with plans to update the dataset every time DMP updates their database! This will include most of the contact details that are in TENGRAPH. 2.I'm trying to make this work offline, but that may be little ways...

Thanks for the feedback.. @Nightjar that is something I'm working on right now! Also planning on making it mobile friendly later tonight. Current version is desktop only!

Hi, I've just created a brand new website called FossickingPlaces.com that shows old mine working, townsites, dumps etc. The website is entirely WA focused at the moment (coz I live in WA), but I hope to soon add data for other states as soon as I can get my hands on some decent data. The...

Hi all, Anyone know where they are getting the raw data from? I ask coz, I make these sorts of map for my job, and think a much better tool could easily be made. If I could find a source of data I'd make a better version of this map and let everyone on PA use it! Whats your thoughts..

Welcome aboard.

Nice finds! I'm looking forward to finding "loot" like that :)

Great advice there "RM Outback and "pinfire opals" Will do this.. Quick question.. How do I "like a post"? Do you have to have a certain number of posts before that feature comes available? Regards Bruce

Hi all, New to the forum, just joined a few days ago and just yesterday bought my first metal detector. Its a Minelab Gold Monster 1000. Got it off Gumtree. They guy hadn't even opened the box and was selling it for half the normal retail price, so I grabbed it! So early this morning, I headed...

Hi everyone, Just joined today and I am real keen to get into metal detecting. I am primarily interested in chasing beach coins (because I think it would be easier to get started with), with the ultimate goal of doing some extended gold detecting. I have yet to get a detector, so I am looking...