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A question for the experienced among you; Is your brain more full of "where not to look" information or has "where to look" information been more valuable over the long haul? For example: I know that if I go close to an old working I might find colours left over. That's somewhere I know to look...

Thanks for all your inputs guys.

Thanks mate

I was told that if you dropped something big enough to collapse the steel you’d be better off with cleanly severed toes than a pancake of skin and bone powder still connected to your nervous and circulatory systems. Either way I’d rather not test plastic or steel.

Both my gumboots and workbooks have steel toes. Is the GM1000 smart enough to ignore them or do I need a trip to a shoe shop?

To make it easier to talk about areas. I labelled 1km blocks below. Anyone else on here going to Talgai the long weekend/Easter?

I had a happy hour figuring out Queensland Government's topographic map website today. The spider web on the bottom right is the marked creek paths at Talgai so that I could build a mental picture of the fossicking area (green arrows show general creek direction up to the high ground - dotted...

Thanks guys. I got the packet of paydirt this morning and the GM1000 made all sorts of beeps and groans when I turned it on and waved it up and down. Then it gave some sort of consistent squeal over the Amazon bubble wrap, but I had to set it to position 11 - the first auto setting for it to be...

Thanks Makka; Reading these forums gives me a lot to look forward to.

Hi all, I was preparing plate-tectonics lessons for a junior high-school science class last week and had an epiphany. My daughter is an outdoors type and I'm not. But it occurred to me that fossicking might be a way to build a hobby in common. She has a ute, I have a caravan near Warwick. I've...