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Well the weekend didn't go quite as planned. With the little man sick during the week with his first cold and still recovering, Saturday didn't happen at all. Shame with such nice weather too. Instead we did a day trip Sunday and even that didn't quite go as planned, only manage to finally get...

Hi folks Whipped the prospecting licence out of the glovebox today and noticed the date was filled in wrong when I purchased it last year The amount paid was $32.10 (from the Beechworth visitor information centre) The date filled in was valid from 8/6/2014 valid till 7/6/2014 LOL it expired...

Hi Folks Got myself a X-Terra 705 late last year (from one of those anaconda 20% off sales) and done a little bit of detecting at an old school site that is now owned by a local 4x4 club that uses it as their club rooms. Got permission to use the site via a friend who is a member in the club...

Its been an exciting and busy year this year with the arrival of a new family member, a bouncing baby boy arriving in March, prospecting has been on the back burner for pretty well 10 months being a good supportive husband and forgoing trips in the summer to stay at home with my wife! In the...

For Sale Aussie Pumps Ultralites QP1/GX25 1" 4 Stroke Pump. One of the lightest pumps on the market at only 5.3kg dry weight. Purchased for $472 new + suction hoses, quality Japanese lay flat hose and all cast aluminium camlock fittings. Hoses and fittings is at least another $200+ worth. All...

Hi Folks I am after some advice on cleaning coins. I've found a few "silver" and "copper" decimal coins (1c, 2c, 10c and 20c) so far and given they have no real value I was wanting to clean them up and have them somewhat slightly more presentable. I guess I kind of need to break this up into...

I got out over the weekend with my X-Terra 705 for its first run at finding stuff (outside of my backyard that is). I played around on an old oval and found the following bits (in the picture below working top to bottom left to right) 1) an old aluminium can, mostly complete but well squashed...

Just in case anyone was looking at an entry level detector or stocking up on some camping supplies Anaconda 25% off store wide sale started today. I've been hanging out for this for months now waiting patiently as I have the OK from the Minister of Finanace and Wars (my wife) to get my first...

Not sure if anyone has posted this story in the news at the moment, but for all thats interested here it is. http://www.9news.com.au/world/2014/10/23/17/38/monster-gold-nugget-unearthed-in-the-us

Its been a while since I've posted, but that's in part to the fact that its been a while since I've been out digging too! Been on holidays in Queenstown NZ again this year, and despite a distinct lack of success with finding the shiny yellow stuff on my last two trips over, I decided to pack my...

Saw this article this morning. Concerning to say the least. http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/prospects-dim-for-fossickers-20140601-39cm5.html Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber said the process could be very damaging to river banks and could cause untold damage to archaeological, Aboriginal...

Saw this article this morning. Thought some might like to read http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/aap/8839117/congo-opens-massive-new-gold-mine Not sure how new new it is as the info on the Randgold Resources website indicates its has been around for at least a couple of years, perhaps...

A mate took this short timelapse video last year from our trip to NZ. Spent an afternoon panning and sluicing along the Arrow River at Arrowtown on the South Island of New Zealand. Didn't do any good, just a dozen small colors or so but the location more than made up for it. Absolutely amazing...

Went out over last weekend for a dig, glad to report the walbanker works a treat! I invited a mate along to have a crack at some nice gold I've been digging lately and this is what he dug out of my hole! I nearly cried when I saw it in his sluice, the biggest piece I've seen come out to date...

Saw this article hit the news tonight, according to the article it hasn't been fully excavated yet but they are thinking it may be up to 50 tonnes! With a stone like that they are probably going to need a bigger truck...

Hi Folks Had the pleasure of catching up with golddoctor last weekend, taking up his offer to come and have a dig around one of his local haunts. Being the first proper field test of my highbanker it was a good opportunity to get a look at how it ran, among other observations I wasn't...

Here is another quick video of my modified walbanker running at home. Since last time, I have tested and now gone and purchased a Aussie Pumps QP1/GX25 1" Pump. So no more testing with the garden hose!!! The QP1/GX25 uses the Honda 4 stroke motor with an Aussie Pumps pump head. Fantastic motor...

I've dug up a bunch of quartz crystals from out of a quartz vein in the bushland not to far from home. There is a bunch of orange rusty colored encrustation (and or staining) on most of the crystals. Although the crystals aren't big or particularly good specimens I was hoping to clean them up a...

Had the new wal-banker out New Years Eve for its maiden test run out on the creek. It got nick named Leuitenant Dan (as in from the movie Forest Gump) due to the fact that at the moment it has no legs. Had to make a bunch more holes in the spray bars to get better coverage over the grizzly bars...

Based on Wals ever popular Wal-Banker, I've put together this machine. In the video its only running off a garden hose, but its enough to get an idea of how it will eventually work. Still need to: 1) Work out some legs 2) Work out a mechanism to make the hopper tilt adjustable 3) Make a few...