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Hi all,
My wife and I have just started on the prospecting and fossicking journey within the last month. It all started with my wife wanting to do some metal detecting on the local beaches of Port Macquarie with her cheap detector from aldi. This prompted me to purchase my own cheap ML gofind 40 so i could join in the fun. We spent 2 days detecting the beaches for a total find of $2.65c, a cheap charm bracelet, a toy car, a metal torch, a fishing lure and some sinkers and a heap of bottle tops.
This got us eager to try our hand at gold prospecting and Gem fossicking, where we purchased a panning kit and river sluice. I have been on 3 trips, 2 with a close friend and 1 with my wife. My first trip with my friend resulted in a lot of driving no gold but some gemstones from the Coffs Harbour area, My second trip was with my wife to an area around 3 hrs drive that I researched using GE and GSNSW data warehouse which resulted in 2 very small specks of gold for 1 bucket of dirt, My 3rd trip was with my friend in a new spot that resulted in 3 tiny specks of gold for 5 Buckets of dirt.
Needless to say after seeing our first wild gold even though it isn't much maybe $1 worth if that, my wife and I are hooked leading me to join this forum to hopefully learn more about the hobby.
Cheers
Havinago
P.S If anyone here knows of any areas not requiring a 4WD and closer than 3hrs drive from port macquarie to try for the yellow stuff that would be highly appreciated.
My wife and I have just started on the prospecting and fossicking journey within the last month. It all started with my wife wanting to do some metal detecting on the local beaches of Port Macquarie with her cheap detector from aldi. This prompted me to purchase my own cheap ML gofind 40 so i could join in the fun. We spent 2 days detecting the beaches for a total find of $2.65c, a cheap charm bracelet, a toy car, a metal torch, a fishing lure and some sinkers and a heap of bottle tops.
This got us eager to try our hand at gold prospecting and Gem fossicking, where we purchased a panning kit and river sluice. I have been on 3 trips, 2 with a close friend and 1 with my wife. My first trip with my friend resulted in a lot of driving no gold but some gemstones from the Coffs Harbour area, My second trip was with my wife to an area around 3 hrs drive that I researched using GE and GSNSW data warehouse which resulted in 2 very small specks of gold for 1 bucket of dirt, My 3rd trip was with my friend in a new spot that resulted in 3 tiny specks of gold for 5 Buckets of dirt.
Needless to say after seeing our first wild gold even though it isn't much maybe $1 worth if that, my wife and I are hooked leading me to join this forum to hopefully learn more about the hobby.
Cheers
Havinago
P.S If anyone here knows of any areas not requiring a 4WD and closer than 3hrs drive from port macquarie to try for the yellow stuff that would be highly appreciated.