G'day, Im Raz, im 55, a boilermaker specialising in structural, and i live in Frankston, Melbourne, Vic. Thanks for accepting me to your group, i came upon it through a search prompted by watching a couple of mining shows, I read one thread and got an immediate and definitely qualified education, in the difference between mining, and television production. That said, what i read gave me fold for thought and a place to start. Really happy to be here, and i hope that i might find my way in my search for the elusive. I'm pleased to meet you galz and guys, and look forward to explore this site and fully intend to go premium this week. Cheers.Thanks again, Razzle Dazzle.
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Hi Raz and welcome. yes the public perception and reality of prospecting can be vastly different. Access to the best areas where chunks of gold can be easily got can be difficult and the TV shows don’t convey the paperwork and issues that must be dealt with before that access can be obtained.
Nevertheless we are fortunate particularly in Victoria that many old mining areas have been preserved as State forests where ordinary people seeking execercise and enjoyment of a hobby like prospecting can go.
The first step is to get yourself a miners right. They are cheap and give you prospecting access to many of those areas.
I’d recommend starting out with a pan for your first bit of gold. The streams coming down into the upper Yarra and in the hills north of Drouin almost all contain gold and would be a nice drive from Frankston. Once you have success you will learn a lot from your own efforts about how gold gets distributed and the research that you will be driven towards.
No doubt you will, if not already be attracted to the idea of metal detecting for gold, but that for an absolute beginner can be fraught with the dangers of making expensive mistakes.
Nevertheless we are fortunate particularly in Victoria that many old mining areas have been preserved as State forests where ordinary people seeking execercise and enjoyment of a hobby like prospecting can go.
The first step is to get yourself a miners right. They are cheap and give you prospecting access to many of those areas.
I’d recommend starting out with a pan for your first bit of gold. The streams coming down into the upper Yarra and in the hills north of Drouin almost all contain gold and would be a nice drive from Frankston. Once you have success you will learn a lot from your own efforts about how gold gets distributed and the research that you will be driven towards.
No doubt you will, if not already be attracted to the idea of metal detecting for gold, but that for an absolute beginner can be fraught with the dangers of making expensive mistakes.
Thanks for your response, great to meet you and thanks for taking the time. Prior to my quite recent dual hip replacements, i was a keen, and legal, dirt bike rider and have been riding upper yarra and Thompson river, for many years, and it is most definitely my place for beginning, i will be pan and crevace prospecting, also experimenting with some sub aqua techniques that i reckon are within the regs, and may not have been exhausted yet. I have no intention of buying up on tech at this stage, as im a little time poor as i begin this little hunt for some elusive, and intend to sample, measure ,map and move, trying to maximize the time i will have for retrieval later in the summer. Thanks again for replying, this is an awesome group, great info, advice freely flowing, and shared passion.
Cheers Hawk
Raz
Hi Raz and welcome aboard the good ship PA.
One man's crevicing is another man's 'sniping':
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