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Thanks GT and yes I too am looking forward to meeting up with some of the members here. Membership is due 30th June 2015, so if any existing member who wants to transfer their dues over to our branch, you are most welcome to. Our branch has fought hard to get this off the ground and now we...

Gidday members, yes we are official and would like to introduce myself - I am the President of the PMAV Bendigo Branch and would like to take the opportunity of working with this fantastic forum and with Nugget. I have spoken with Rita Bentley PMAV President and Wallace Young, Secretary of the...

I run the following coils on my Hoover 5000 - Minelab 8" commander - a bloody dream to use - I wear out the tape before the skid plate - NF 17x11", 16" round NF, NF Sadie 8x6", NF 12x7", 11" Commander mono, DD - I have never had any false signals with any of them - I use the 8" a lot - great...

I use my Hoover 5000 like a vacuum cleaner LOL :P - The lower the better - Skid plates are cheap as and if you hover too much off the ground, with the leaf matter etc - You will loose a good 3-5 inches in depth and also gold :) I also know plenty who have VLF and they do the same - Fair enough...

Well done :D It's awesome finding nugs with the 5000 :P The Nugget Finder coils sure do a fantastic job. Their name says it all LOL ;) We have the Sadie 8x5", 12x7", 17x11" and the 16" round. The 16" round is easy to pinpoint with and sure makes you dig for your target. We found our 5...

Thanks everyone :) That's a good idea Ozjono LOL :D Mark and I both love detecting especially in the Whipstick, as we are always guaranteed of finding a nugget or two..we only have one 5000 and not selling any of our gold until we have enough nugs for a new 5000 :P ..The best we have done is 8...

Well done Wal and Liz :) Keep those vids coming. It's fantastic to find nuggets like that, all in the one spot. Go the 5000 all the way. We just love our Hoover 5000 :) cheers, Lynnie Hindle

Thank you :)

Hi there members, Mark and I were detecting in the Whipstick on a Good Friday, when we found this lovely 5.040 gram nugget. It will make a lovely pendant on a necklace. http://i47.tinypic.com/21132iu.jpg

Yes it was an amazing find wasn't it :). It was just on the news, which I missed and is going to be on morning show tomorrow on nine at 7.13am and then on seven at 7.40am. Dave that owns the Miners Den shops is on nine tomorrow and the owner of the gold shop in Ballarat on channel sevens show :)

Wow that is awesome Hunting The Yellow :D It's amazing once you were down there, what you pulled out. Be good to see how you go with the rest :) We have found a nugget that still had quartz attached to it :) They are all so unique in their natural form :) Well done once again

Just also to add, as I forgot to mention DIGGER, that you just need, a gold pan, a classifier, or sieve, buckets, shovel and a bonus if the creek you are fossicking in, has water in it. LOL :D Don't forget you can also find gold this way. But you do need to dig right down to the bedrock :)...

I've borrowed many books from our goldfield regions library and as we have seven in the region, they send them to our Heathcote library where I can pick them up there. I have borrowed heaps of Aussie gem books. One in particular I can't recall the name LOL, but it's not just gem books to search...

Well Mark just arrived back from the Whipstick with the hoover 5000 and found two nuggets weighing in at 0.175 grams. Not big, but still gold. Found in our usual spot LOL :) when we last detected that spot, we had said, there was an area we wanted to go back and detect. And guess what, we were...

Coley, gold is around $43-50 a gram, but some bigger pieces have known to have sold for more, due to its unique characteristics for its shape or natural formation. example, being encrusted with some crystal quartz, now that looks amazing. I have found a small nugget that has a bit of quartz...

No we don't sell them or melt them down. We are saving up all our nuggets and getting a other 5000 LOL :D I have found one nugget that I have stored the pic on my laptop and it's in the shape of a little baby crouching down and it looks like it is crying. Very unusual :) If you look on my FB...

Hi guys, I recently went to Anakie and Steiglitz in Victoria last week and came across the old Maude cemetery . It was so full of history, that I could have spent hours checking out the head stones :) took the Garrett pans, but the only place you were legally allowed to pan, was 200 metres down...

Thanks for that :) have uploaded some pics of recent finds with the 5000:)

Hi members, just wanted to show you some recent finds using the GPX5000. These were all found in the Whipstick, Bendigo National Park. The first pic was using the Nugget Finder 12" mono coil and the second pic was using the small Sadie Nugget Finder coil

Well I hope everyone had a prospecting New Year and have been finding heaps of yellow. I am currently on holidays at the moment and haven't been detecting. (Left the 5000 home with hubby) :D I'd put some pics up, but can't seem to find where you can upload them. Or is it because I'm a newbie...