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    Second timers find 1.6 kilo nugget

    Well done cinken, bet that got ya ticker going into over drive....cheers BJ
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    Not sure how i feel

    Hi Sandta, mate I feel for you as we (my partner and I) had it done to us last year, we were told at the interview we had years and years of life at the place where I was working.... so based on that and with the missus working we invested in a 4 bedder (new) hoping when we retired we could have...
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    Pump this, Sluice that...

    Hi Chris, I Looked at your rooster tail and mate that thing is going to bring all your hard work undone, I have some experience at building these things but I'm not the expert and what I will pass onto you is what I would do if it were mine. I would be put mesh with miners moss in the bottom...
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    Heart Attack!!!!!!!

    There is a fabrication shop in Maitland NSW who charge bugger all to buy your sheets from and a bloke in Newcastle does a fine job with a Tig, ...cheers ...BJ. GO THE MIGHTY MARONES!! :lol:
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    Coiltek 14" Mono Elite Coil information and questions

    Hi Goldtarget, How much are these coils worth? Cheers BJ
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    The Rockin Yobskin.....Yehaaaa

    Hey yobskin that will give you a hard on, chuck out the Viagra mate they're too dear..looks great...cheers BJ
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    Somebody doesn't like prospectors !

    I heard of a similar issue up in the topend where a motorcycle tour company used a certain road with the owners permission, but someone with the mentality of half a bag of wet sand decided he didn't want the bikes using this particular road and he spiked it, with telling consequences no doubt...
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    Show us your camp set-up

    Almost, it's what the missus call,s home when we are on the road? BJ
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    Show us your camp set-up

    This is mine Nugget, not game to post the other one, hahaha, you'd chuck rocks at me!!!! BJ
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    Cement mixers to break down clay

    Hey Mate, I use to know an old codger who had the same issues as you and he got about half a dozen steel balls from a ball mill crusher at another mine site and he chucked them in with his clay balls in the cement mixer for a while and hey presto, all good. Correct me if I'm wrong here guys...
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    Settings for 5000 in WA

    Thanks guys, I wish I had a mate with me but not this time!!!! but like you all say there are always someone in the Caravan Parks willing to part their knowledge.....Cheers BJ
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    Settings for 5000 in WA

    Hi Guys, I certainly am new to the electronic technology, I've had my 5000 for awhile now but never have had the opportunity to use it successfully, and thanks for being totally honest as I have been on here for quite some time and have become jealous, hahaha...not....."envious would be the...
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    Settings for 5000 in WA

    Hi Everyone, I posted this a couple of weeks ago and I'll try again!!! I know over 60 people looked but didn't reply for some reason or another?? does anyone have settings for WA that work better than others? I know some of you have sacred settings but I'm a pensioner and passing onto someone...
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    Trommel for sale

    Hey Hardyakka, this things gives me goose bumps!!! I reckon if I had something like this in the areas where I like to go it would be like Viagra and I'd have a ballarat all day shovelling into it hahaha, it certainly looks like it was professionally put together, if you made it? is all I can say...
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    Qld prospectors warning!

    We are hearing you washgravel is there any truth to what a member of the mines dept told me!! I was told in no uncertain terms just approximately 6 weeks ago that those who do have leases and don't show either how, when and how much money was won or lost will be asked to forfeit their...
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