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Metal Detecting for Gold
What Made You Get Into Gold Detecting?
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<blockquote data-quote="Teemore" data-source="post: 573863" data-attributes="member: 1375"><p>My wife's aunt (vera) is actually responsible for my detecting/prospecting passion....</p><p></p><p>Back in the late 70's a massive nugget was unearthed around Snake Valley out of Ballarat, it must have taken her fancy she bought a detector and joined a gem (?) club around Preston/Coburg ....... needless to say she asked me to help her out ...... I had no idea on how to use a detector and of course we found nothing using that Whites Coinmaster.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward to my retirement and although fishing was my passion I realised I couldn't do that 365 days a year ..... lightbulb moment .... why not give Gold prospecting a bit of a bash. 8 years later after fiddling around with an xTerra 705 and MacKirk sluice to start with I'm now swinging a GPX and SDC and have enough Goldrat product (not really can never have enough) to involve all the family and finding gold on close to 100% on my outings (2 -3/week in non Covid times).</p><p></p><p>Since then I've had the pleasure of introducing others to detecting helping many find their first (and biggest) pieces.</p><p></p><p>Sadly Vera has since passed on (aged 93) .... I celebrated her life by making sure a few of my species were buried with her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Teemore, post: 573863, member: 1375"] My wife's aunt (vera) is actually responsible for my detecting/prospecting passion.... Back in the late 70's a massive nugget was unearthed around Snake Valley out of Ballarat, it must have taken her fancy she bought a detector and joined a gem (?) club around Preston/Coburg ....... needless to say she asked me to help her out ...... I had no idea on how to use a detector and of course we found nothing using that Whites Coinmaster. Fast forward to my retirement and although fishing was my passion I realised I couldn't do that 365 days a year ..... lightbulb moment .... why not give Gold prospecting a bit of a bash. 8 years later after fiddling around with an xTerra 705 and MacKirk sluice to start with I'm now swinging a GPX and SDC and have enough Goldrat product (not really can never have enough) to involve all the family and finding gold on close to 100% on my outings (2 -3/week in non Covid times). Since then I've had the pleasure of introducing others to detecting helping many find their first (and biggest) pieces. Sadly Vera has since passed on (aged 93) .... I celebrated her life by making sure a few of my species were buried with her. [/QUOTE]
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