Laancoorie Bash

[Randolph]

Well we made it to the L.B. this year. A very big and happy crowd was there and fun was had by all. The weather gods were well behaved for the weekend. My brother and I got out for some swinging in the bush. My brother Dave hired a Whites TDI from the very helpful Dean at Dunolly and he found a nice little silver nugget and I found a 1 gm. gold nugget with my 5000. The bush was beautiful but the flies and mozzies were something else. Luckily Dave had thought to throw in the repelants. I tried a 12" Nugget Finder Evolution coil and was really impressed with its stability and sensitivity as against my old 17x11 Nugget Finder. Saying that, I did find it more difficult to pin point where the signal was. Thanks for the loan of the NFE Stoppsy, it was very generous of you. By the way the 1 gm. nug. was found with my old coil. Cheers Randolph

 

[BigWave]

Hi Randolf, in all my years around that area, I've never found a silver nugget. Are you sure it's not gold covered in Mercury?

 

[Dignit]

Or lead?

 

[Bjay]

Well we made it to the L.B. this year. A very big and happy crowd was there and fun was had by all. The weather gods were well behaved for the weekend. My brother and I got out for some swinging in the bush. My brother Dave hired a Whites TDI from the very helpful Dean at Dunolly and he found a nice little silver nugget and I found a 1 gm. gold nugget with my 5000. The bush was beautiful but the flies and mozzies were something else. Luckily Dave had thought to throw in the repelants. I tried a 12" Nugget Finder Evolution coil and was really impressed with its stability and sensitivity as against my old 17x11 Nugget Finder. Saying that, I did find it more difficult to pin point where the signal was. Thanks for the loan of the NFE Stoppsy, it was very generous of you. By the way the 1 gm. nug. was found with my old coil. Cheers Randolph

is your brother staying in marybourgh, if so I think I might of just met him. Can't remember his name but found a silver nugget

 

[Bjay]

Was too hard for lead and not gold coated in mercury. Bit dark too have proper look but no idea really.

 

[Randolph]

We showed the nugget to Stopsy and Dean from the Dunolly prospecting store who both seemed to have a good knowledge of the local areas and they both seemed to think it was silver. It has a very natural shape to it similarly to some of the gold I have found in W.A. We gave it a scrape and it did not react like lead. I think we will need to take it to a jeweler or someone who knows a bit more than we do. Cheers Randolph

 

[Randolph]

Hi Bjay,. That was not my brother you met as we are both Sth. Ausies. As you said, ours was also too hard to be lead. Cheers Randolph