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I've panned and sluiced for quite a few years along the upper reaches of the Shoalhaven at the usual spots like Jembaicumbene, Jinglemoney and Warri with the usual fine gold. I also tried further upstream on the Shoalhaven and Jerrabattgulla Creek with no colour at all. I once found a report on...

Well I have had a good look at them... No 1930 pennies I'm afraid to say. The earliest coin is 1911 and the latest is 1951. They are all pennies and half pennies... There are quite a few 1951 actually, so it must be pretty near the time the cache was "lost". A bit further evidence... under the...

112 coins in all! I will get cleaning, gently, and report back!

I have just surprised the heck out of myself by actually finding something useful, and perhaps valuable, other than gold with my metal detector. I was out prospecting quartz veins and the like east of Canberra in the Great Dividing Range and swung the detector above an "outcrop" of mineralised...

Found five more teeny tiny "nuggets" after crushing some more ore ... when I say tiny, I mean tiny - these photos are 100x magnification! I lost three of the "nuggets" being they were even smaller. Both are really interesting because they are like tiny specimen nuggets - it looks like a bit of...

Thanks for the reply Araluen! I have tried several more crushing but failed to yield any results - though admittedly I am not crushing very much at all really, just handfuls of rock from different parts of the vein, and if the gold is concentrated rather than finely spread then I may have to...

I have a property not far from Majors Creek NSW, with basically the same geology. The property has a quartz vein extending across it for some 400 metres above the surface and under a hill where it disappears. At its most eroded extent it is about 50cm above the surface and eroded components of...