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Working in a coal mine I get to see a lot of ancient rock, and occasionally I find some rocks with fossils in them. So far though I've only managed to find leaves, but am forever on the lookout for an animal as my son is mad keen on dinosaurs and extinct animals. I've got buckets of leaf...

I've been slowly working towards building a trommel for the last few years, every so slowly acquiring bits and pieces to put it together. I'm now almost collected the last bits I Need to start assembly. It'll be done on the cheap with most parts scrounged from scraps and other odd parts at work...

After regretfully selling my old 2000, I've got the hankering to get back into detecting again, now my 2year project trommel is almost finished it's long journey of creation. Just wondering what's out there in the likes of a good 2000-2100-2300 etc, nothing that will break the bank though as...

Just wondering if anyone else has come across gold around coal? Found these the other day and can't figure out if it's pyrite or gold. I've found large amounts of pyrite before around the place on the mudrock.

I was wondering if anybody had found a way to find out property names in Qld? Like from the mineral maps in the other threads, so one can send a letter say to ask permission to prospect on their land?

After a lot of procrastination about building a decent gold processing unit to run a decent amount of dirt, I have been talking to another fellow prospector at work the last week, and I have decided to build a trommel. I was originally going to build a small scale one to play with on the...

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Up for very reluctant sale is my beloved minelab sd2000 which has been modded by woody. But I killed Skippy this morning and need to pay the insurance excesss, thus the low price. It has an 2200 case to better protect the controls compared to the standard 2000 case. It has extra frequency for...

The last few days I've had time to contemplate my life living under a rock and not being able to really live. Watching the movie, The secret life of Walter Mitty the other day, has given me motivation to make a plan to do stuff before I'm too old to do it. Not so much a bucket list of sorts...

What are your social etiquette pet hates? My number one is people who don't push their chair in when they leave a table. Or when people leave their empty wrappers and stuff when eating at a shopping center food court and just leave it for the cleaners. This is especially annoying on a Thursday...

Got so bored sitting around home today, I was about to die or boredom lol. So packed up my 2000 that I just got back from being nodded the other day and hit up Clermont for a little recon trip for an upcoming few weekends planned out there. Found an old site I had identified previously...

What do you get to play with at work? Here are some of my toys... That's me standing next to the bucket Looking down at the bucket on a Hitachi 5600 Drill rig with dragline behind Working on a big digger on a service down day What are your work toys?

Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. Movie nudity is virtually always female. You know stuff about tanks. A five day vacation requires only one suitcase. Monday Night Football. You dont have to monitor your friends sex lives. Your bathroom lines are 80% shorter. You can open...

Me and Tymor hit up Clermont GPA's with our detectors today. Didn't have any luck with nuggets, but found some old working along the way not listed on the maps. After a while we went exploring and came up to one of the dams and I decided to do a test pan of the tailings piles on the edge of...

I'm after a dd coil for my 2100. Doesn't matter the brand or condition just as long as it still works. A fairprice would be appreciated as I'm only a first year apprentice. I'll cover postage cost. Or if you spot a great deal on eBay gumtree or another forum.

I was wondering what you guys take for food with you when you go out prospecting. Besides the usual trail mix, muslie bars etc And for day trips not full in camping trips.

I was wondering if anybody had had any luck at rubyvale detecting for gold rather then gems? As my neigbour has a mate who has an.untouched lease for us to play on and my neigbour also has the excavator bobcat and tipper for us to move some decent dirt. But while they are playing around for gems...

I went exploring at some local creeks over the weekend between Moranbah and Clermont on the advice from Tymor. My original plan was just to sample around the creeks for gold, but at the first creek I went down tooless first just to check the lay of the land, I ended up staying there about 2hrs...

Well I've spoken about it for a while now, but now I am.finally in a position to buy an existing mining lease. Does anybody done this before? Or could offer advice? The lease has another 10yrs on it and is hard rock gold with historical data from the old times of the output from the mine.

Just wondering if anybody can do a comparrison between the earlier ML PI models for those of us who are not ready to fork out for a 4500 or 5000. Im am tossing up at the moment between a 2200 and extreme and am looking at which would be better suited for a first timer and such