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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #120 on: October 19, 2022, 06:25:27 pm »
Went out for another play in the forest. Worked quite hard find a few small pieces. The gold is shrinking in size again.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #121 on: October 19, 2022, 08:02:43 pm »
Les,
I?m waiting to see you come home with a large nugget. 😊
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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #122 on: October 19, 2022, 08:14:16 pm »
Les,
I?m waiting to see you come home with a large nugget. 😊
Jim Altmiller

It is possible! The old saying is "Gold is where you find it".  If he does he might need to change his name form Lesgold to Moregold..  :grin:
I enjoy reading and viewing the pictures of your finds as well as the beautiful scenery you sometime display.  I hope you find the bonanza Les!

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #123 on: October 19, 2022, 08:41:45 pm »
Les,
I?m waiting to see you come home with a large nugget. 😊
Jim Altmiller

It is possible! The old saying is "Gold is where you find it".  If he does he might need to change his name form Lesgold to Moregold..  :grin:
I hope you find the bonanza Les!

Phillip
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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #124 on: October 19, 2022, 09:40:25 pm »
Always looking to find ?more gold? This is another hobby that is just as addictive as beekeeping.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #125 on: October 19, 2022, 09:48:18 pm »
I always look forward to reading your gold posting. Very interesting.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #126 on: November 03, 2022, 06:29:24 am »
Went out for a detect around some old workings with a mate this afternoon. Found most of these pieces in an old classifying pile. (Where the soil and gravel was run through a sieve to remove the rocks and larger pieces of gravel). Most pieces of gold were attached to some of the conglomerate gravel and were missed by the old timer miners.




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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #127 on: November 06, 2022, 09:41:31 pm »
Went out for a swing with the detector a couple of days ago. We were in a deep gully that was worked by the old timers. Got a screaming signal on a vertical gravel wall. When I looked to see where I could start digging, I spotted the piece on the surface. This is what I saw.

Just picked it out with my fingers. It was beautiful and yellow in colour. Unfortunately, it was very small.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #128 on: November 06, 2022, 09:57:14 pm »
That is awesome! How big is is next to a quarter? (What weight) If there was gold in my area I would be searching too!

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #129 on: November 06, 2022, 11:05:49 pm »
Hi Phillip. It was pretty small. Just like the rest of the pieces that I?ve been finding lately.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #130 on: November 08, 2022, 04:17:14 pm »
Yesterday was another adventure out in the bush with a mate. We had a good day out with 16 small pieces making it to the rattle jars.  Not big but still heaps of fun with some exercise and a good walk helping to make the day.


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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #131 on: November 08, 2022, 08:19:36 pm »
Les,
With all of the pieces that you have found, are you close to an ounce yet.
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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #132 on: November 09, 2022, 04:10:37 am »
No where near that Jim. That little collection on the coin weighed about .84 grams. Still a long way to go to get 31 and a bit grams.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #133 on: November 11, 2022, 12:03:24 am »
Another good fun day out prospecting. Very small pieces but a heap of fun.



I need to fertilise this gold so that it can grow a bit.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #134 on: November 11, 2022, 12:47:49 am »
Gold is where you and how you find it; It's gold and you found it! 


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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #135 on: November 13, 2022, 01:01:38 pm »
Wow.  We do a bit of panning on a couple of pieces of property and in the rivers in CA close to my parents, but get mostly flour gold.  I have never found anything other than coins and trash with the metal detector.  Your pics might have lit the fire again though   :cheesy:
Someone really ought to tell them that the world of Ayn Rand?s novel was not meant to be aspirational.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #136 on: November 13, 2022, 08:57:53 pm »
Go for it Kathyp. Once you have the gold fever, it never leaves you.

Here is a bit of a clip I put together on my day out in the bush. I hope you enjoy it.

Cheers

Les

https://youtu.be/4CpXe1T6hxY

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #137 on: November 13, 2022, 11:04:38 pm »
That's very cool.  Thanks.  I don't have a metal detector that is that fancy, so my gold would have to be bigger.  I think I have better luck in the rivers or with the dirt we collect and bring home to fool with.
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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #138 on: November 19, 2022, 04:37:52 pm »
A few hours out in the bush yesterday doing some research for a YouTube clip. Couldn?t help myself. Had to dig a bit of gold.

Tomorrow I?ll be hopefully filming a comparison video on a couple of different coils that we use on the detector.

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Re: Gold prospecting using a metal detector
« Reply #139 on: November 19, 2022, 04:46:06 pm »
Thanks Les you have my attention. I Look forward to the coil comparison video.

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