⭐ Gold Detecting Show'n Tell

Here is our effort from last weekend ( actually 5 day weekend ) the wife and I spent in the triangle
All were cleaned in acid first as some were completely covered in ironstone
the 2 top left side were one before the wife broke into 2 pieces thinking it was a piece of rusty steel or iron
but was surprised it was solid gold inside.
Good weekend had by all.

cheers Bob..

Wow, so rusty iron isn't necessarily iron. Note to self check all targets properly. :goldnugget:

Yup. Bob..

Nice haul for the GT Bobby,
what detector do you and the boss use ?
cheers Johno

Hi Big Johno

Both using 5000s coupled with 14" camo coiltek for me and the wife's machine has a 14 x 9 camo
seem to do the job just nice .
Went out Tuesday around Daylesford , me 2 wife 1 all up around 0.75 grms.

Bob..

Couldn't resist, seems like the wife and I are competing for the smallest gold with a 7000. This is hers from today, drizzling rain wet ground, and tiny!



....found in the top 25mm of gravel throw-out from a water race. GPZ 7000 with Nugget Finder 12 inch coil, factory settings...lost for words on the size ????

Yep that's Bloody small all right, good find .
Anything that looks like gold is a good find nowadays.

Bob..

Victorian GT gold .... GPX 4800 & 11 Coiltek Elite showing how versatile that combo can be .....

smallest 0.1gm largest 3.76gms.

I need the grass to dry out and burn!!!
Over head high where I want to go.....

davent said:

I need the grass to dry out and burn!!!
Over head high where I want to go.....

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You only want to go to that spot because nobody can see you. What are you going to do when there's no grass to hide in? :lol:

Nice Teemore cheers Muk.

Moneybox said:

davent said:

I need the grass to dry out and burn!!!
Over head high where I want to go.....

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You only want to go to that spot because nobody can see you. What are you going to do when there's no grass to hide in? :lol:

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Im going to detect like Im possessed! Will make hay while the sun shines Phil!

Dammmn! I'd be very happy digging up those layful: erfect:

Nice finds Teemore!! Let's hope there's more in that spot for you.

I have a new combo of my 4500 and an old NF 10x5 elliptical. It's one of the early white fibreglass ones. I went in to buy as Sadie but Coiltek didn't have one in stock at the time.
The white NF was sitting in the second hand section looking lonely so for 80 bucks I took it home.

I tried it in a spot a I went to about a month ago and it has now paid for itself on the first outing.

The original skid plate was an ugly looking thing, thick as a frying pan, so I took it off because it was worse for wear anyway.
Five of the six pieces were found by sticking the coil in under bushes and moving sticks, poking it in around the overhang on some old holes etc.

The worked area is very small, maybe 100m by 20m, and many people have been there before me but I am happy with the finds and happy with old Whitey.

Avoca Gold 1.65g

Goldfield Joe said:

The worked area is very small, maybe 100m by 20m, and many people have been there before me but I am happy with the finds and happy with old Whitey.

Avoca Gold 1.65g

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Well done GJ and thanks for posting .. only ever managed gold with the SDC in the Avoca area, the Sadie would possibly clean up a few more, but I'd be sticking to the current combo till you've cleaned the area.

Teemore said:

Victorian GT gold .... GPX 4800 & 11 Coiltek Elite showing how versatile that combo can be .....https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1375/1616748709_1ed5b1bd-1ca5-419c-8b80-69451e32c430.jpg
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And hard worker by that hand. Well done mate!

Warrenmang Gold, my first time detecting there.

I asked permission to detect in this particular spot on private land so I am pretty happy with my first time there.

These two pieces weighed in at 2.02g combined.

The bigger piece sounded like a piece of wire and it blew up my headphones (almost) but when I raised the coil and swung again it made a more promising sound.

The gravels here are very very mineralised so ground balancing is not easy, very noisy even after balancing. The gold looks quite different to what I have been finding lately, I'm not sure how to describe it - gritty looking perhaps? Hopefully there will be some more to uncover soon!

Nice finds GJ erfect: and a private permission is as good :Y: best of luck with your next visit :beer:

Thanks RM, I hope I will find more. It's tough going, a lot of high grasses and the mineralised gravels are unlike any other area I have detected. I won't let that put me off though!

Goldfield Joe said:

Warrenmang Gold, my first time detecting there.

I asked permission to detect in this particular spot on private land so I am pretty happy with my first time there.

These two pieces weighed in at 2.02g combined.

The bigger piece sounded like a piece of wire and it blew up my headphones (almost) but when I raised the coil and swung again it made a more promising sound.

The gravels here are very very mineralised so ground balancing is not easy, very noisy even after balancing. The gold looks quite different to what I have been finding lately, I'm not sure how to describe it - gritty looking perhaps? Hopefully there will be some more to uncover soon!

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/3537/1618043956_img_5930.jpg

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We find that bubbly gold usually where there's calcrete or limestone. It's very hard to detect with the GPX4500 and even the SDC usually ignores anything under about 0.3g