Hi, I'm Jim and currently live near Parramatta NSW but will be moving to Cygnet, Tasmania in the very near future. I'm a Pom and Sydney is too hot for me, even though I spent my first 10 years of life here, 26 years back in old Pomgolia has weakened my tolerance for the warm weather. Cygnet is just about as close to Antarctica as I could find to settle and just happens to be a gold bearing area....or at least was!!
I have had vivid dreams of finding gold since childhood. I begged my dad for a metal detector about 28 years ago and received a Micronta 1001 (or something like that).
After many hours of fruitless searching I found an old silver crown (coin) lying on the surface. My trusty Micronta failed to detect it even though it was in plain sight. That machine was promptly thrown in the first available bin. It's my 40th on Saturday so I decided to celebrate my maturity by finally rewarding myself with another detector.
I was never going to convince the wife that a GPX 5000 was a sound investment (not yet), so a X-terra 705 dual coil seemed a good start.
Had it for a few weeks now, bought it early so I could take it to Turon Gates for the weekend. To my untrained ears, it first seemed that either my detector was mental, on acid, or I was detecting on a giant pile of scrap metal. After an hour or so on the heavily mineralised ground I decided to call it a day, and hoped my ears would stop bleeding some day!!
I had better success with a pan (first time ever), just in front of our cabin, opposite the rickety bridge over the Turon. My best bit was about the size and shape of a sesame seed, which a promptly lost at home. I picked it up with tweezers then ping it was gone, lost somewhere in my home. I contemplated vacuuming and panning the contents......
We are going back to Turon Gates for a week at Christmas, I hope to be more successful this time, even though the owners say that 5-6000 Chinamen worked it clean back in the day!!
I would like to say a HUGE thanks to WAL and Liz for all their Youtube vids, and without which I may have never found this excellent forum.
Live long and prospect!!
I have had vivid dreams of finding gold since childhood. I begged my dad for a metal detector about 28 years ago and received a Micronta 1001 (or something like that).
After many hours of fruitless searching I found an old silver crown (coin) lying on the surface. My trusty Micronta failed to detect it even though it was in plain sight. That machine was promptly thrown in the first available bin. It's my 40th on Saturday so I decided to celebrate my maturity by finally rewarding myself with another detector.
I was never going to convince the wife that a GPX 5000 was a sound investment (not yet), so a X-terra 705 dual coil seemed a good start.
Had it for a few weeks now, bought it early so I could take it to Turon Gates for the weekend. To my untrained ears, it first seemed that either my detector was mental, on acid, or I was detecting on a giant pile of scrap metal. After an hour or so on the heavily mineralised ground I decided to call it a day, and hoped my ears would stop bleeding some day!!
I had better success with a pan (first time ever), just in front of our cabin, opposite the rickety bridge over the Turon. My best bit was about the size and shape of a sesame seed, which a promptly lost at home. I picked it up with tweezers then ping it was gone, lost somewhere in my home. I contemplated vacuuming and panning the contents......
We are going back to Turon Gates for a week at Christmas, I hope to be more successful this time, even though the owners say that 5-6000 Chinamen worked it clean back in the day!!
I would like to say a HUGE thanks to WAL and Liz for all their Youtube vids, and without which I may have never found this excellent forum.
Live long and prospect!!
