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I have been busy researching suitable areas to attack in the GT when I get down there in a couple of weeks and have come across a bit of an anomaly. I was under the impression that the whole area has been done to death by thousands of detectorists over the last 20 years and the chances of finding anything half decent was very slim. Two things are making me rethink this impression, the first is that everyone seems to be finding plenty of trash, including bullets and other non ferrous metals which I would have assumed others would have already removed if they had swung a detector over them. The second thing is that I have zoomed in with google earth on most of the gold areas of the GT and am yet to see even one car.
I know the google earth photos may have been taken in the middle of Summer or the middle of Winter when conditions are not ideal for prospecting but to not see even one car is a bit of a surprise. It also makes the Greenie's argument of prospectors wrecking the environment in the GT seem a bit ridiculous.
I know the google earth photos may have been taken in the middle of Summer or the middle of Winter when conditions are not ideal for prospecting but to not see even one car is a bit of a surprise. It also makes the Greenie's argument of prospectors wrecking the environment in the GT seem a bit ridiculous.