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Researchers in Switzerland have developed a process to manufacture "gold nuggets" using a plastic matrix with embedded gold nanoplatelets: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2020/01/gold-nugget-made-of-plastic.html

I'm in no way qualified to give medical advice, but I think that while testing is generally good, it brings with it a responsibility to become particularly well informed about how to interpret the results, which can be difficult when emotionally charged after receiving a potentially malignant...

Some web searching leads to a linguistic analysis [https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2016.1249272] that suggests that it was (someone who became) a NSW gold commissioner and mining warden, Frederick Dalton, who wrote "A Visit to the Western Goldfields", supporting mbasko's statement about the...

I've been reading some old (late 19th century) newspaper articles in trove about gold mines, and can't get over how detailed they are in terms of revealing yields, depths and other information that I (in the 21st century) would have thought would be proprietary secrets. Why did old timers, and...

I like your use of the ball sinker - that should really help in reproducing the tests. Should be done more often!

Thanks mbasko. Some good material in there.

Thanks Aussiedigs, but those links seem to all be about locations rather than being specific to detecting.

Thanks for the tip Moneybox. While I shouldnt judge a book from its cover, the titles suggest that these are specific to WA & Queensland. Do they also do a good job of describing detector issues, rather than locations? Is any one of the 4 books better than the others at describing detector...

What books or other material do people recommend someone read to learn about how metal detecting for gold differs from other prospecting approaches? e.g. they might cover topics such as the importance of deposit granularity/depth for detecting, and how detectors work. Some that I found by...

Thanks for the advice.

I'm currently researching areas just west of Sydney, say from Mudgee to Goulburn. As DrDuck says, finding crown land is easy on Minview; the harder part of the research seems to be finding who manages it. In a separate "Help with Six Maps" thread, mbasko mentioned that nswlrs.com.au sometimes...

Good point mudgee hunter. And that raises the follow-on question: how do you determine whether you can prospect on crown land? Sometimes the land is labelled either on a map or with signs, which makes it easy, but all too often crown land is nameless. Is asking crownland.nsw.gov.au the only next...

Thanks mbasko

What are "Former Fossicking Area"s? At face value, the name sounds like fossicking is no longer permitted there (without some sort of consent), but some visitor centres still promote fossicking in such areas (e.g. the first one "Former Fossicking Area No 4" is promoted in the visitoberon...

Fair enough, thanks for replying.