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They reckon its coming out early april - https://www.gold-prospecting-wa.com/minelab-gpx6000.html There's not much weight difference between the 5000 and 6000. Even if the stated 2.1kg for the 6000 is with the 11" coil. Besides the battery, which i don't mind on my back, the 5000 is 2.4kg with...

Ok....continuing story. I have a wa license/address, so I rang the premiers office to see about exemptions for wa residents getting back by road. They have no idea about how there dealing with this yet, told me to call back Later (tomorrow?) when they may have more info, or try the immigration...

Yeah I know, but Im not closing the door just yet. Ill look into a bit more and see if theres any exceptions. I have no fixed address, living in a motorhome so youd think they would let me in to self isolate for 4 months out bush.

Arghhh! Now I noticed SA border is closed. Im in QLD, thats 4 weeks quarantine before I get into the goldfields.

Just found out their closing WA border, argh! But what I got from it is that you can go but you will have to stay quarantined for 14 days. Didnt say where though, probably at the border. Im happy to sit there for 2 weeks.

Im on the same page as stayyerAU. It doesnt matter if your finding gold or not, your mindset should be the same. I dont get overly excited when I find gold nor do I feel down when I dont. Where Im at in my head is more important to me than finding gold. Stay balanced. My motto - I find what I...

Thanks to all. I will check with customs

So far I have not found any relevant info on the net in regards to taking gold nuggets out of Australia and into Europe (western). Has anyone taken nuggets out of aus to Europe? I know about declaring more than $10000 and I think you can take it out, however it depends on destination. Is this right

Ill try and explain; this is for iPad. - means click on Firstly, you have to have Dropbox then create a folder e.g. IGIS, in Dropbox, this is where you download the tenement data from DMP to. I Cant add the link, but when you go to DMP data centre - statewide spatial datasets - tenements - esri...

A bit of talk about The Happy Prospector app, but has anyone heard of or use the IGIS program? Its free. Its in the App Store, not available for android. This was given to me by a lease holder in WA. I havent used it yet on my iPad in WA, just playing around with it on the east coast, but it...

Never detected anywhere in VIC, but have used the 705 in WA and it was hopeless. Just can't handle highly mineralised ground. Turning the sensitivity right down made it usable, but from memory, it wouldn't even pick up a .2gr on the surface. Sensitivity has to be up fairly high to pick sub gr...

I Have the ResQLink as well. Battery runs out this year (5yr). Don't know replacement cost. Paid $290, but came with a good first aid kit and other useful things. Never had to use it, which is a good thing of course. Which ever one you get, make sure it tracks you down to a few metres.

The way I check if its a bottle top on the nox800 on the beach in beach 1 or 2 is by putting it in all metal then pulling back the coil while swinging towards the tip. If its a bottle top the pitch will drop to a negative ferrous tone. Sometimes I'll dig it up to make sure, but its usually a...

Cleaning out the back of my ute after a detecting trip, I left a saucepan with lid resting on the back of my towbar and forgot about it. Later drove to a mates place and along the way, about 5ks from home, passing a building site I heard this huge rolling crashing banging sound. I thought it...

"Is this SD2200D for $1,000 the bargain I think it is?" Yes it is, if it has the 7.4v battery system. In very hot ground you may struggle with the mono coils, so having 1 or 2 small/medium sized dd coils would be good.