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Visited there in '93. Even went up into the bell towers, bullet holes/impacts still visible in the stonework near the front entrance from the French revolution. An amazing place that just oozes history and incredible to believe that it is nearly 1000 years old. Huge loss.

Pretty sure that is a lump of either smelted metallic nickel or cobalt, but more likely to be nickel. Nice find :perfect:

Just do a google search. Plenty of pics there. You can usually find then in cow/horse paddocks at this time of year growing in the open in clumps or in circles, pretty easy to spot. Ive found them growing in deep leaf litter or pine needles somtimes too. They're the typical white mushroom shape...

Yep, got a few myself on the weekend in the Adelaide hills. The old man used to call them horse mushrooms, big fleshy things maybe 6" across and maybe 1-1.5" thick. Huge meaty mushroom flavour and nothing like those styrofoam balls that you find in the veg section of Woolies etc. Fried whole in...

Ahh ok, was wondering how a machine like this would compare to a dedicated gold finding machine like the SDC. I guess the design brief for a machine like the F3ci doesn't have finding small gold at the top of its list though! Rusty nails, fencing wire and old bed springs would seem to be more...

Anyone used one? Or are these things verboten to the average punter? Had a play with an F3ci at work recently for a couple of hours. Looked exactly like an SDC2300 only green. VERY easy to use, just switch on, ground balance and away you go basically. No threshold audio at all, completely...

They look like boolits from an early small calibre (.30 cal?) muzzle loading pistol, something like a pepperbox. They often used hexagonal rifling. The small size, lack of a hollow base (greased cloth patched bullet), lack of any cartridge crimping marks, lack of significant impact damage i.e...

Hi there Shane Just up the road from you near Springton. A bit of a newby myself but have done some casual detecting and panning around the place. Plenty of bullets but no nuggets (yet). Welcome.

I'm local, near Mt Pleasant. Would be super keen to see these or copies of them.

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As promised, here are a few finds from around the place I've picked up using a borrowed F3Ci Compact. Obviously the quartz and the copper weren't detected but just found laying on the surface. An old .22 Long round. No longer manufactured. Old 20 gauge shotgun shell. A long way from home...

Hey man. I find these same stones in my creek near Mt Pleasant. Match head sized, deep red coloured stones in the bottom of the pan where the gold should be. Usually maybe one or two in every 3 or 4 pans. Not sure whether they are rubys, iron contaminated quartz grains or just something else...

Hi All Just checking in, been lurking for a while and generally find some great reading on here so I thought I'd better register. I'm Ken and I live out near Springton in the eastern Adelaide Hills (not far from Mt Crawford). I've got 34 hectares out in the moss-rock country here that I enjoy...