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Just wanted to give a big shout out to the volunteers that run the montreal goldfields tours on the southcoast NSW. I visited this for the first time, although small the information the guide Peter gave me of the area was a eye opener and invited me back to expore with him some well known(but...

After a bit of research, and beer persistence with a local farmer Got access to a section of the mighty snowy I came up with this for about 2hrs of digging and freezing cold water river sluicing. Loved every minute thou, think it's gonna cost me more beer :D

I was thinking how'd I got into this prospecting thing and realise that it was probably my grandfather years ago when I was about 8 showing me his opal collection and was fascinated by them but have only now in my 40's really got into it. So interested to find out how you got into...

Hey guys sorry another rock inquiry, I was invited out to a friend's property up here the snowy mountains as they heard I'm getting in prospecting, they have numerous quartz outcrops some of the quartz is about 1 to 1.5m wide where breaking the surface I didn't get any yellow with the sdc but...

Need some help identifying if this is ironstone?or just hot rocks, The sdc 2300 was going off over it, so I brought home about 4 large pieces largest about 25 cm to smash up, but couldn't find any signs of gold. Cheers Buzz

I'm traveling through VIC Soon from snowy mountains NSW to melbourne and have a spare day and was wanting to stop in the GT for a day, any recommendations on the better areas to detect with a SDC 2300? I've never been in the area before so not sure of terrain and ground cover. Cheers

Recently I've been taken more notice of a lot of road side cut outs, there's one not far from me on a country road about 3m height has Red dirt, slate and a small half inch wide Quartz vein running down it, hard to notice unless slowing down, so I decided to pull over and wave the detector...

Only a couple days away from Christmas I Thought I'd start a post about wish lists for Xmas prezzies ,I know it's not about gifts but spending time with Family and friends but dosent hurt to dream a little. So Santa a little more gold in 2015 and a new BBQ :D Peace, Merry Xmas everyone.

Hey guys I'm looking for the designated areas around cooma Monaro region for fossicking apparently there's 8 areas in NSW where no license or consent is needed, I tried emailing the dept. of mineral resources (nsw resource & energy) but haven't heard back from anyone and there online shop is not...

Hey all, I've been given permission to be able to prospected on a friends property , the property borders the National parks and on the map its boundry is marked on a river/stream. Does anyone know the definite boundry line Im allowed to prospect on my mates side? is it river edge or in centre...

Well I did a little pan sampling this arvo , testing 3 little areas I've been looking at and picked up my first piece of yellow ? couldn't beleive how excited I was when it popped out of the black sand. It's only tiny but it's my first and I've only started prospecting since I picked up a new...

Hello from the NSW alpine region. I'm a newbie to prospecting ,just bought my first Pan ,no luck yet. Looking forward in learning and following the great advice given on the forum.happy digging.