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Barite is an industrial mineral, many uses like being added to the mud in drilling rigs to increase mud weight and prevent blowouts. It is not particularly valuable and really not much use prospecting for. If you are going to use MinDat, look for Au (gold) occurrences, not much use looking for a...

Why would you even want to dig on a barite prospect?

Christoph, I spent 5 months mainly over the summer of 2017 , your summer our winter predominately in Leer, beautiful little town in the North. Your summers are not very hot but the sun doesn't set until nearly midnight there. Thats the main square of the town, the two monuments the statue and...

"There are no known cases of any Australian dying drinking town tap water." Any quick google will reveal the absurdity of that statement. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5462579/ I do by the way cart my own water but many visitors to our leases cannot stomach Cue water which I...

Table 1 All-source annual burden of selected gastrointestinal pathogens, Australia, 20108 Cases Deaths DALY Campylobacteriosis 774,003 52 18,222 Salmonellosis 71,255 90 3,856 Norovirus 2,180,145 17 1,109 Giardiasis 614,740 0 967 Cryptosporidiosis 195,495 0 333

Christoph, More than likely the 6000 that you hire will come with a 11' mono and a 14'DD coil, the DD coil while not my favourite is a perfectly acceptable back up coil. Some advice if I may, Stock up all your food and bottled water (take heaps) in Darwin its not uncommon for remote service...

Very good choice there with the 6000 I would stick with the standard 11 inch coil that the 6000 comes with.

Just another question if I may? You obviously have detected a lot before but what detectors are you bringing to Australia? Generally for gold here we use PI detectors and usually most use Minelab equipment. There is a small amount of users that use VLF detectors but generally they are not as...

That makes perfect sense mate, I wish you all the best. The first nugget is always the hardest to find.

Welcome Cristoph, Just out of curiosity, what made you and Cornelious pick the Northern Territory as your destination?

Its not about wether they agree with me or not, ALL complain about excessive regulation but not one of you has the guts to actually say what regulation relating to amateur prospecting is excessive, to use the excuse that there is too much regulation now and not being able to give an example is...

more bureaucracy?... please, no! Another one with a tin foil hat, again I ask what piece of bureaucracy related to prospecting offends you? Is it the once in a lifetime miners right or is it that you are not allowed on other peoples legal lease areas? You all complain about regulations and...

Sand surfer, I also agree but not 100%, I believe that fines or some financial deterrent would quickly change peoples habits. For an example I would give the use of seatbelts, when I was young (and I suspect the same with most of you) seatbelts were not compulsory and we would frequently do the...

Education has not worked so far, DMIRS flyers and APLA course galore on having the right gear fall on deaf ears. One thing that I have learnt is that a lot of people are stupid and think " I am a bushy" and PLBs are for city folk. Regulation even if it halved the death rate would be worth it. I...

Phil any pastoralist that sent a worker out into the boondocks nowadays without appropriate safety equipment would be penalised by WorkSafe ( there was a case a few years back). I think Prospectors should be the same and I reckon it should apply to birdwatchers, wildflower gazers and anybody...

Yes I will accept that but you still haven't answered my question of what rules and regulations are you refering too? Amateur prospecting is one of the least regulated activities around. Even when you go the step up and actually own a prospecting lease or SPL it is very unregulated, Virtually 2...

Tell that to the Family of James and Ray.

You assumed wrongly and that's what you come back with? All I proposed is that anyone getting a miners right (prospecting licence) has to show their AMSA registration for a PLB or EPIRB. Simple. They all have expiry dates and when it expires you would have to provide evidence of a new one or new...

Its your comprehension skills that are lacking , I stated, "I think everyone with a Prospectors Licence should have to have a in date PLB or EPIRB." I said nothing about a course. And I think the above should be enforced, most probably would have saved two lives last week and many others over...

More regulations and beaurocracy , no thanks So you can't name one regulation or act of bureaucracy related to prospecting that annoys you? Keep your tin foil hat on.