Recent content by daalkodetector

Hello to all, hope that I am in the right place for this. We have just returned to Victoria (cold & wet) after taking a 2 month break to WA. Our big lifetime adventure that we have looked forward to for a verrry long time. We travelled to Kalgoorlie, spent time there and then to Leonora...

Hello to all, hope that I am in the right place for this. We have just returned to Victoria (cold & wet) after taking a 2 month break to WA. Our big lifetime adventure that we have looked forward to for a verrry long time. We travelled to Kalgoorlie, spent time there and then to Leonora...

Hello to all, I am planning to head from Kalgoorlie to Marble Bar, wondered if any members have travelled much on the road between Newman and Marble Bar, I know they are marked as maintained dirt roads and most of the roads here are pretty well kept, is the most I have to expect a fair bit of...

Hi Stalker, heading up that way soon. Caught out with a wet day and probably a couple more while the roads dry out but at Sandstone now and going to spend some time here if it goes well, then probably off to Cue. Most of the area is under a lease application, most of the older main digging areas...

Thanks for the info DD. Its always hard to know just what the go in a new place is, that is why this forum and the people on it make it such a great thing to be a part of. People here are always willing to lend a hand if they can. It is much appreciated and can save a lot of time, fuel and not...

Thank you all, have put a fair bit of time in getting the gear sorted (dual batteries, gen set, gps, tyre repair kit, first aid kit, air compressor, maps etc) so fairly hopeful that all is sorted. Intending for a start to do a couple of 5 -7 day ventures out to look around, get my bearings a...

Finally have made it to Kalgoorlie as a jump off point, now to find where to jump too !! Thinking of just moving up the line a little, get our miners rights sorted on Monday and then off to Meekatharra via Menzies, Leonora, Laverton, Wiluna and then on the way back Cue and Mt Magnet and...

Hi Bushranger, I could be completely on the wrong track here but it does remind me of a small (about 40 mm long) lead aeroplane (looks like a fighter - guess a spitfire) that I have. My father was 7 when WW2 broke out and he had 2 brothers, a sister and also a brother in law in the services, as...

Thanks for the reply Shauno, I will do as you suggested with the baseline tests. We reset all our machines back to standard factory settings and so are trying to work from there. We all have boosters as well. Being new I just do not know enough details (as you said about the tonal difference)...

Hi to all, new to the forum and detecting and was really glad to see this post come back up, great help to us newbies. It does raise a bunch of questions for me that hopefully someone can help me out with, such as (running 5000, usually with a NF 14x9 Elliptical, sometimes older green coloured...

thanks for the replies, we really are looking forward to the time over in WA. As you said Nightjar, lots & lots of research to do yet, I have a couple of places (Cue, Kalgoorlie, Sandstone) that I need to find out a bit more (okay, a lot more!!) about. Will keep reading and researching and at...

Hello to everyone, I am after a little bit of a heads up, we have a long term (maybe May/June 2015) plan of heading off to WA to detect and see a bit of the country. I am about to start researching a bit to figure out some reasonable places to head for. Hope to have 2 or 3 months over there (who...

Thank you to all for answering, I will keep checking back on your hints and pick the bits up as i can. Looking forward to really clean bits of gold.........after I can find the little beggars.

Thank you for your reply Geoff. I will go and get the ultrasonic cleaner from Aldi and also the aluminium cleaner, is that a liquid that I just put the gold in for a time, then a solution of the drain cleaner (is that the one that is crystals or powder you mix with water?) and leave it in that...

Hi all, probably a typical newbie question but wondering if you can share with me the best way to clean the nuggets once we actually find the little beggars. So far I have soaked them in soapy water and then used a toothbrush to get just the general dirt and looser type stone off them, and after...