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Hi all, I just joined up today and am a real Newbie, to both fossicking and Forums. I've had a secret desire to go fossicking for years but have never really had the knowhow. I did go on one of those tourist fossicking days on Flinders Island many years ago and found a really nice and apparently big Topaz which I had cut into nice gems. I think that is what started my secret desire but of course "life" gets in the way and kids take over, etc etc. My hubby and I recently met a couple of grey nomads from Adelaide who were camped and fossicking at the Weld River in NE Tas and were finding some pretty nice looking green and blue sapphires (hence interest re-kindled). A couple of years ago I did buy myself a second hand Whites Metal detector but soon gave up on trying to figure out how to use it. Read instructions carefully too (as we females tend to do) but as it seems to "find" treasure EVERYWHERE I soon gave up. I would like to know if there are any field days on using these "fandangled" machines as definitely need help with this, so I started with Mr "Google" and ended up here. Cheers.