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Creswick and Wedderburn - Golden Triangle Newbie
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawkear" data-source="post: 640429" data-attributes="member: 4728"><p>Grubstakes point is well taken here and the further north and drier the goldfields become the more iron rich the ground. The yellow clays around Creswick have I think been leached of much of their iron content and are generally milder in terms of ground balance. On reflection that may be why Xadz had some much trouble with them in Creswick trying to balance between the extremes of a mild soil and hot ron enriched rocks. </p><p>As I said I have had no experience with a gold monster but my recommendation for any newbie is to go with a top grade detector which can handle the extremes of soil and hot rock mineralisation. </p><p>A secondhand 5000 (with small coils forget the big coils for now) or 2300 are relatively cheap these days and are almost guaranteed to find gold in any goldfield. If you can't afford to have one sitting around unused for the next twelve months sell it again after you've had your time with it.</p><p>Gold detecting can be fun but at the end of the day the real objective is to find gold and unfortunately nothing can be more damaging to ones enthusiasm than having an inadequate detector and failing to find your first and second bit of golden joy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawkear, post: 640429, member: 4728"] Grubstakes point is well taken here and the further north and drier the goldfields become the more iron rich the ground. The yellow clays around Creswick have I think been leached of much of their iron content and are generally milder in terms of ground balance. On reflection that may be why Xadz had some much trouble with them in Creswick trying to balance between the extremes of a mild soil and hot ron enriched rocks. As I said I have had no experience with a gold monster but my recommendation for any newbie is to go with a top grade detector which can handle the extremes of soil and hot rock mineralisation. A secondhand 5000 (with small coils forget the big coils for now) or 2300 are relatively cheap these days and are almost guaranteed to find gold in any goldfield. If you can't afford to have one sitting around unused for the next twelve months sell it again after you've had your time with it. Gold detecting can be fun but at the end of the day the real objective is to find gold and unfortunately nothing can be more damaging to ones enthusiasm than having an inadequate detector and failing to find your first and second bit of golden joy. [/QUOTE]
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