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1856 shilling found with Garrett deepseeker back in 1979.

Here's my best coin find, from 1979 found at a depth of 22cm with a Garrett Deepseeker. It has a bit of pitting from corrosion, but is otherwise in fairly good shape.

Hi Wally69, the 0.07gm piece came from a layer of clayey alluvial wash directly under a sandstone overhang in a position difficult to reach with other detectors. It was about 4cm into the clay layer. The 0.87gm was 7cm into the side of the same wash layer. Both initially gave a faint but...

Hi all, after reading all the positive feedback on the Sdc2300 on this and other forums, I finally decided to bite the bullet and buy one last month. Two weekends ago, going over ground that I had worked with my other detectors, I found three pieces of Au, weighing in at 0.87gms, 0.07gms and...

G'day Loamer, I am in the Vic goldfields at present and have noticed a lot of similarities with the Geology of NE Tasmania. Our gold bearing host rocks are primarily Ordovician to Silurian/ Devonian in age and underlain or intruded by Devonian Granitoids. Deep leads are often covered with...

Hi all, got this 1876 3d the other day while out gold prospecting with the GPX5000. I had just dug out a lead slug and was about to move on but swung the coil over the hole again & the detector told me in no uncertain terms that there was something else there. Digging down 10cm on the edge of...

Went out detecting with the GPX 5000 on Thursday and got a faint signal in a mullock heap adjacent to an old shaft. Dug down about 5" and the target was out. It appeared to be just another of those pesky hot rocks which abound on the field, apparently just iron impregnated sandstone. Passing it...

Nice work there Loamer! I am heading to the Vic goldfields in a couple of weeks. Will have to get myself one of those Sadie 8"x6" coils for my GPX 5000.

Hey Tassie Daz, don't throw away your green coated fuggets, mate. Back in the 70's when I was a kid, I went on a field trip to Moonta mines, digging into some of the mullock heaps in search of interesting minerals, such as atacamite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, cuprite etc. Of particular...

Good one Matchy, 1935 is a fairly scarce date for the sixpence.

As KS says, knowing the approximate location that these stones came from would give a clue to their identity. Green stone could be fluorite ( hardness of 4 & easily scratched with a knife blade ) or beryl ( hardness of 7.5, slightly harder than quartz & will scratch a knife blade ). It appears...

Thanks Alex, I found that info very helpful. The price of the 8" coil/ stem assembly scares me a bit though, so I might just put up with the DD for the time being and wait to see if Garrett drop their prices some time in the future.

As anyone who has detected in the Apple Isle knows, nuggets can be very elusive. After several weeks of coming home empty handed, I nailed this 5.5gm clunker 12cm down in an 1870's mullock heap in the North East on the weekend. I had been finding a few lead slugs and shell cases and thought "...

The 0.05gm to 0.07gm pieces were in a patch of mineralized clay and down only 2-3cms. The signals were very faint at first but more definite when I broke the clay into chunks and rubbed them over the coil. Carefully breaking them further revealed the bits of gold inside. The larger pieces were...

Was using standard 10"x12" DD coil.