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G'day all Went for a fossick around an old gold mine not far from here this morning and found this about 8 inches down. The mine closed down in 1895. Quite pleased with myself, once I get a new handle and fit it I'll use it for driving in tent pegs when we do our camping trip around Oz later...

G'Day All A fella gave me a .CSV file the other day with coordinates for over 7000 gold mines starting at 10.5 deg S 138 Deg E and ending at 29deg S 153 deg E. This was great till I went to put some points on a Toppo map of my area and it was all in Deg Min Sec and the coordinates in the...

Have been searching the net for fossicking picks and the price range is from $70-$120. Not paying that for a pick, so I decided to hunt around for a leaf spring to cut to shape and weld a handle on. Went to the hardware to get a flange for the handle and found this little cracker for $13.

While walking my dogs this morning I spotted a piece of pinky coloured quartz sticking out of the ground. After a couple of nudges with the foot it come free, it was about the size of a cricket ball. When I got home I run it past the detector and the bloody thing went crazy. Whoopee I thought...

Was down at the local dept. of mines getting some information and the field worker put me onto the mines online website. Has anyone actually used this site and got it to work. I have tried wit internet explorer as this is the preferred browser for this site but I only got the message that the...

About 12 months ago I had a bloke with a dozer push a dam into my bottom paddock and where this thing come from had about 2feet of earth taken of the top. Yesterday I was playing around with my new detector, gm1000, and found this at a depth of around 6 inches. Wouldn't have a clue what it is...

G'day all Have just brought my first detector and would be interested in joining a club in the Cairns/Tablelands area. Can anyone shed some light on clubs in this area. Cheers Stormy

Picked up my first detector the other day and have only used it in the paddock, bits of fencing wire and a couple of nuts. I am planning a lap of Australia starting in June and was wondering if there is any problems with checking ruins and around abandoned towns for relics. Cheers Stotmy