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nice day out sanguine, gotta be happy with those couple. the air up here in sunny qld seems to be much clearer than usual, especially at night, so i think less planes definately means less air pollution, and most likely less electrical pollution as well. it would be good if planes only flew once...

thanks for the gold porn! gives us all inspiration to get out and dig once all this hooha is sorted in the east. wish i was over there.... :Y:

nice work rocker hunter! do you want to swap lives for a month or so? ha you could learn to love spending your day rolling around under dirty hot machines with grease all over you, while i was out there in sunny wa digging up them nuggets, i swear you could....

hey jed, an 18ct gold ring comes in at 18-20 on my vanquish 440, and will pick up a 0.2g picker at 1 1/2inches at a 3 on the scale. i would suggest running the machine with only -9 to 0 iron discrimination, and only dig strong repeatable signals above that. scratchy signals will be iron, and to...

bloody awsome buddy, thats what you call a win win situation. social distancing (not such a bad thing sometimes), enjoying the peace and harmony of the bush, and coming up with a few bits of gold. couldnt ask for a better day if ya tried! gotta be happy! :Y:

we were out having a swing a few weeks ago, at an old gold miners camp, and stumbled across an old 1850s era percussion pistol hammer and action/lock. just lying there on the ground. not many people have been over this ground i suspect, as the missus also found a sterling silver case frame of a...

well i gave the vanquish a run on the beach today, it is as i expected after its trial in the bush, very good. in jewellery mode again, full sensitivity, it performed flawlessly on dry and wet sand. even the muddy sand in the intertidal zone, it gave no falsing signals and and discriminated...

hey guys, i just bought a vanquish 440 for $468 of fleabay and gave it a run in an old gold miners camp with very good results. we were hoping for an old sovereign, coins or maybe a lost nugget, so we run it in the jewellery mode. with the iron discrimination turned on, it ignored 90 % of the...

thanks stephen, you make some very valid points there regarding national entitys, being harder to manage, coordinate and unification of rules and regs etc. it would be nice though to get some balance of rules and regs across the states, at least the equipment we spend money on could be used in...

nice buddy, i think the scientific term for that is "biggusebony ;) usrockus", its a pearler ;)

hi marshyboy, i use a basic garmin etrex which is a great basic gps, used it for my fishin spots for years and its still going strong. just be aware that the gps coordinates on google and the mines dept are based on a different format than those used for maritime use, ( as i sadly discovered...

thanks for your support stephen, is there such a thing as the australian prospectors and fossickers association? if not, maybe theres a need for one. collectively we might be able to shift mountains so to speak. if we could get uniform access and rights across the country then the geo-tourism...

the politicians are only interested in coorporations with millions of dollars to spend (and donate to political campaigns), they dont want little joe fossicker finding and claiming possibly rich new ground, no money in that for campbell and co. qld prospectors really need to form a lobby group...

hi mjb, that unit looks great, im really interested in how you go, a unit like that could be just what i need up here in sunny(very dry and dusty) qld. good job buddy ND

thanks tm, sounds very interesting this machine of jacks, fool proof sounds good to me. haha. ive been trying to think of a mechanical way of collecting and partly separating fine gold. being a mechanic i guess im always thinking of petrol powered devices to speed things up a bit. a few years...

thanks lee, it is really dry ground which helps sieving the big stuff out, we spent heaps of hours sieving and panning in a wheelbarrow full of water and got some nice little mini-nuggets, but seperating the super fine flour gold is hard with the dirty water in the barrow. im just trying to find...

the stuff i got from bunnings is a product called MATPRO KENWARE, they have it on a roll and will cut of the length you need, $41 per lineal metre , so shouldnt cost you more than about $15, cheers

thanks ryan, keep us posted on how your dry blower works, cheers

i was just wondering if anyone had any ideas for a diy centifugal type gold extractor for seperating fine gold from dry gold bearing dirt. the area we are prospecting has really fine gold in granite sand, but no water for miles and difficult terrain so taking enough water in for a sluice is very...

yep, thats the trouble we have had with my bros sd2100e, sometimes you just cant tune the wee-waas out of it, other days its just brilliant. but the excitement of being out in the bush anticipating the next signal makes it all worth while. gotta love it!