My first nuggets !!!

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Hello all,

I wanted to share my very first nuggets I found this morning.

After one year of hard working in a farm to be able to buy all the gear for that trip, I finally left Albany, WA, 10 days ago to the Western Australia Goldfields.

First, after 2 days on the road, I went around Menzies, where I went around some old timers diggings on a pending lease, I stayed here for two days but it was full of rubbish, from both old timers and recent rubbish so I left the place to another location.

Then I went between Menzies and Leonora, after 1h30 drive on a very rough track, the ground of the pending lease didn't look good for me ( too soft ground, no rocks on the surface ) :( so I didn't even took the detector off the car and I left again.

After that, I decided to go back to Menzies to try my luck just next to the town, but my newbie's knowledge told me that that ground wasn't good either :mad:

So I finally told to myself, ok, now you're going to one place and you don't #$%^&*@ move until all the ground of the lease is done.

So yesterday I moved from Menzies to leonora, and slept on the freecamp next to the gwalia mine ( beautiful view ;) )
and this morning on the way to a pending lease close to Leonora, I saw some good looking ground ( for a newbie :D ) and it was also on a pending lease, lucky I am :p , so after 2 bits of steel and one birdshot, I finally unearthed my first nugget ( 0.15g ) only one inch down.

And the two others ones came not long after, this morning ( 0.22 and 0.13 g ).
So now I stuck to this lease until all the gold is gone :lol:

Thank you everybody for all the knowledge you shared on that forum, that helped me a lot, and now I will try to put a bit of my little knowledge on this forum too ;)
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I was reading till halfway down and got excited (had to look at photos) good write up and good gold gasco :Y:
 
Well done mate :Y: :lol:
I know you would be over the moon from your first nugget, i know i was too.
Looking forward to seeing some more from your trip.
Time to have a well earned celabatory drink for you Gasco29
 
Thank you all, I still have one month 1/2 free to go where the gold is so I have the time to find plenty of them I hope ;)

I finished the day with 6 nugget for a little bit more than a gram, I am sure there are plenty left around, but the area is full of rubbish ( piece of steel, microscopic wire, and I don't know how many birdshot 8.( That is because I am less than 100 meters to some old mine shafts ) but it is in a live lease unfortunately, I found my nuggets just at the limit between the leases.

I didn't see any detector holes but I think it is because the last detector to come here was a long time ago, so because I have the Z, I might be lucky tomorrow :p

Plenty more to come tomorrow I hope :cool:

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LORD said:
Well done mate :Y: :lol:
I know you would be over the moon from your first nugget, i know i was too.
Looking forward to seeing some more from your trip.
Time to have a well earned celabatory drink for you Gasco29

Yes, I was over the moon O:) tomorrow, I will celebrate that, today it is Sunday, everything is closed I think here in Leonora 8.(
 
Great job gasco29! I know what the feeling is like unearthing your first. Obviously the start of many :cool:
 
Thank you all :) 6 more nuggets for today, total weight for 3 days : 3 grams, I'm getting rich :D

Yesterday nothing but I spent most of the time trying some settings on my nuggets to find the best combo, and today I was running the maximum sensitivity, normal, high yield, audio smoothing off, threshold 17 and volume 17, it was very noisy but I picked up a 0.15 nugget with a loud signal and swinging very fast, it was at 1 or 2 inch with a lot of rocks and ironstone on the ground.

But tomorrow I will try these settings with a 0.60 gram I found today, and I will burry it at 4 or 5 inches, to know what is the best combo :cool:

I will post some photos at the end of the week with I hope plenty of them. :D

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If you're picking up tiny nuggets like these, you are detecting pretty good...
The big one is only around the corner, keep going and good luck!
 
Hi, thank you :) I found more since my last message, and much smaller, my smaller so far with the Z is a 0.03g :D and the bigger only 1.97, the big one is hiding somewhere waiting for me one day :)
I found nearly 3 onces since my last message, I will post some photos soon :)
 
gasco29 said:
I found nearly 3 onces since my last message, I will post some photos soon :)

Awesome, is that 3 oz or should it be 3 gms ?

3 gms is still a good result in a shirt period, especially in areas you're not familiar with, good job.
If actually 3 oz you're a legend,
Cheers T.

love the photos by the way, thanks.
 
Teemore said:
gasco29 said:
I found nearly 3 onces since my last message, I will post some photos soon :)

Awesome, is that 3 oz or should it be 3 gms ?

3 gms is still a good result in a shirt period, especially in areas you're not familiar with, good job.
If actually 3 oz you're a legend,
Cheers T.

love the photos by the way, thanks.

Hi, yes 3 oz since my last message, :) I didn't expect to be a legend but thank you lol I think I have gold in my veins actually :D
3g was about the average of what I found every days, my best day 32 nuggets + 1 specie for 10 grams :)
 
It's so exciting to read posts like this. I can't wait to be able to get out there and do all this myself! Keep it up!
-Joe
 
Thank you for your comments, I can't wait to go back prospecting in 2 months ( can't go soonner due to my job ? ).
I hope I will beat the 3 oz for my next trip ?
 

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