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<blockquote data-quote="nuggetino" data-source="post: 379127" data-attributes="member: 1884"><p>Sounds like you have the theory down pat and it's really just a matter of swinging over a piece. The triangle is hit and miss like any popular goldfield. You can look further afield from the common haunts and improve your chances of finding a patch or look for signs of newly exposed ground. Areas having been washed out by rain, or burnt by fire etc. Also signs of earth moving. Roadsides which have been graded or dozed in recent times also reveal deeper nuggets. I once found a number of small nuggets near the roadside just out of Wedderburn after a grader had recently been through. I know prospectors in WA who have had a huge amount of success detecting only the edges of graded roads. Ofcourse you'll also get a bunch of trash but in the richest gold areas it's worth it. Also detect where others typically can't be bothered. Challenging/undulating terrain and dense vegetation sees less action by the casual detectorist and it's also more difficult to overlap swings to work these places efficiently hence more gold is missed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nuggetino, post: 379127, member: 1884"] Sounds like you have the theory down pat and it's really just a matter of swinging over a piece. The triangle is hit and miss like any popular goldfield. You can look further afield from the common haunts and improve your chances of finding a patch or look for signs of newly exposed ground. Areas having been washed out by rain, or burnt by fire etc. Also signs of earth moving. Roadsides which have been graded or dozed in recent times also reveal deeper nuggets. I once found a number of small nuggets near the roadside just out of Wedderburn after a grader had recently been through. I know prospectors in WA who have had a huge amount of success detecting only the edges of graded roads. Ofcourse you'll also get a bunch of trash but in the richest gold areas it's worth it. Also detect where others typically can't be bothered. Challenging/undulating terrain and dense vegetation sees less action by the casual detectorist and it's also more difficult to overlap swings to work these places efficiently hence more gold is missed. [/QUOTE]
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