I just watched about 7 YouTube movies of ordinary people finding gold with a detector. I didn't see any where they didn't find any
so therefore EVERYONE will ALWAYS find gold.
Jokes aside some of the small nuggets were worth over $200. But just being out in the bush looking seemed like a good thing to try.
This activity is now on my things to do list.
Willow said
08:47 AM Mar 17, 2014
The trouble is a gold detector capable of finding small nuggets costs around 5 grand.
My El cheapo detector has so far unearth seven tent pegs and 300 bottle tops.
dING said
10:46 AM Mar 17, 2014
Well you get what you pay for
When I was gouging for a living
Had a mate with a metal detector
Who made a decent living in the
Gold fields out west -- He used to
Peg out area say 100m x10m and go over
It inch by inch then he had a old grader
And used to take the top 6" or so off
And go over it again used to do this several
Times on each pegged out area it sorta
Worked for him and he usually made
His wages
SnowT said
12:35 PM Mar 17, 2014
Another way to find gold is to use an underwater metal detector and look in the water..
- Best beach's are the ones that have a hard pack clay under the sand, as to deep a sand layer and you have to make large hole's..
does it work yes...
- I would not bother doing the beach sand as most councils have contractor come thru and run their machine's over the sand every few day's and the most popular beaches everyday..
Juergen
Diggings said
12:47 PM Mar 17, 2014
We bought an expensive gold detector and to date have also found 1 tent peg buried very deeply and the usual 300 bottle tops, but getting closer to the big find every day
brian said
01:35 PM Mar 17, 2014
Diggings wrote:
We bought an expensive gold detector and to date have also found 1 tent peg buried very deeply and the usual 300 bottle tops, but getting closer to the big find every day
l am wondering if you have the discrimination set correctly.
aussietraveller said
02:35 PM Mar 17, 2014
I use a Garrett ace 250 which has the option to lock out things like a ring pull and bottle tops and to date no gold but have found a few dollars worth of coins and the Grand Children love using it they have found heaps of coins in caravan parks around the jumping pillow.
I have used it on numerous beaches but have not yet recouped the cost of the machine but it is good fun and usually attracts a bit of an audience, still hoping to find my 1 kg nugget.
chopit said
05:36 PM Mar 17, 2014
I was given an ancient Garrett brand detector.
The detector dish hasn't a scratch on it.
Friends Ex was a "fad" fanatic. He's out of the picture
and she wanted it gone.
Yet to try it but at that price how can I go wrong ?
Looking forward to finding my first tent peg.
brian said
07:38 PM Mar 17, 2014
aussietraveller wrote:
I use a Garrett ace 250 which has the option to lock out things like a ring pull and bottle tops and to date no gold but have found a few dollars worth of coins and the Grand Children love using it they have found heaps of coins in caravan parks around the jumping pillow.
I have used it on numerous beaches but have not yet recouped the cost of the machine but it is good fun and usually attracts a bit of an audience, still hoping to find my 1 kg nugget.
The problem with discriminating against aluminium (ring pulls etc) is that Al is very close to Gold in electrical resistivity ( just 0.0000000038 ohms/m difference), the gold detector measures phase shift differences due to this resistivity, so blocking Al could also be blocking Au
Cloak said
07:43 PM Mar 17, 2014
It looks like a fun thing to do but $5K for a decent detector.. Ouch!
Gunsondeck said
12:45 PM Mar 18, 2014
Cloak wrote:
It looks like a fun thing to do but $5K for a decent detector.. Ouch!
And the rest... but there are other things to find with a more reasonable priced machine.
check out: Australian Metal Detecting and Relic Hunting
G.
villatranquilla said
02:36 PM Mar 18, 2014
Diggings wrote:
We bought an expensive gold detector and to date have also found 1 tent peg buried very deeply and the usual 300 bottle tops, but getting closer to the big find every day
did you do a course when you bought the detector?- its well worth it to set you on the right path
SnowT said
12:05 AM Mar 27, 2014
Going to Ping this for the hell of it..
On the Beach Front...
Dad had a VERY Profitable Little system..
- A Small home made Floatation rig that held a Small Honda Motor and a Compressor/hooker setup..
- a tank of gas[About 1.2lt] would last him about 4hr's.. and let him search a Lot of the Beach..
If your from Melbourne and ever to the beaches from Middle Park all the way to Brighton you might of seen him on the beaches Back pre 2007..
If he did not Pull put a ring or 2 from each dive session something was wrong..
Most of the ring's are the one's that are lost in the horsing around in the water, you know the ones that get put on the chain's so they don't get lost..
A few Old coin's have also shown up.. Afraid to say No holey Dollar's..
so the stuff is out there..
Re metal detecting for gold etc..
- You have to do your research..
Find out where the main strike's have been and go prospect in those area's..
- IF you get a chance Make sure you go into area's that have had a Burn in them.. The burn's remove all the blackberries and make it easier to get in to those hard to get place's..
A few years ago after area's of Rushworth got burnt, I know of quiet a few prospector's that got into the gullies and did quiet well for themselves.. [ DO NOT light any fires to CLEAR out an AREA]
There is gold out there you just need to find it..
Also make sure that the land you are on is NOT part of a Mining Lease..
Juergen
Ontos45 said
01:07 PM Mar 27, 2014
Don't forget areas where they were dry blowing/shaking because of lack of water. They relied on wind and vibration to move the over burden.
Delta18 said
01:46 PM Mar 27, 2014
Ontos45 wrote:
They relied on wind and vibration to move the over burden.
I just watched about 7 YouTube movies of ordinary people finding gold with a detector. I didn't see any where they didn't find any
so therefore EVERYONE will ALWAYS find gold.
Jokes aside some of the small nuggets were worth over $200. But just being out in the bush looking seemed like a good thing to try.
This activity is now on my things to do list.
My El cheapo detector has so far unearth seven tent pegs and 300 bottle tops.
When I was gouging for a living
Had a mate with a metal detector
Who made a decent living in the
Gold fields out west -- He used to
Peg out area say 100m x10m and go over
It inch by inch then he had a old grader
And used to take the top 6" or so off
And go over it again used to do this several
Times on each pegged out area it sorta
Worked for him and he usually made
His wages
- Best beach's are the ones that have a hard pack clay under the sand, as to deep a sand layer and you have to make large hole's..
does it work yes...
- I would not bother doing the beach sand as most councils have contractor come thru and run their machine's over the sand every few day's and the most popular beaches everyday..
Juergen
l am wondering if you have the discrimination set correctly.
I have used it on numerous beaches but have not yet recouped the cost of the machine but it is good fun and usually attracts a bit of an audience, still hoping to find my 1 kg nugget.
The detector dish hasn't a scratch on it.
Friends Ex was a "fad" fanatic. He's out of the picture
and she wanted it gone.
Yet to try it but at that price how can I go wrong ?
Looking forward to finding my first tent peg.
The problem with discriminating against aluminium (ring pulls etc) is that Al is very close to Gold in electrical resistivity ( just 0.0000000038 ohms/m difference), the gold detector measures phase shift differences due to this resistivity, so blocking Al could also be blocking Au
And the rest... but there are other things to find with a more reasonable priced machine.
check out: Australian Metal Detecting and Relic Hunting
G.
did you do a course when you bought the detector?- its well worth it to set you on the right path
On the Beach Front...
Dad had a VERY Profitable Little system..
- A Small home made Floatation rig that held a Small Honda Motor and a Compressor/hooker setup..
- a tank of gas[About 1.2lt] would last him about 4hr's.. and let him search a Lot of the Beach..
If your from Melbourne and ever to the beaches from Middle Park all the way to Brighton you might of seen him on the beaches Back pre 2007..
If he did not Pull put a ring or 2 from each dive session something was wrong..
Most of the ring's are the one's that are lost in the horsing around in the water, you know the ones that get put on the chain's so they don't get lost..
A few Old coin's have also shown up.. Afraid to say No holey Dollar's..
so the stuff is out there..
Re metal detecting for gold etc..
- You have to do your research..
Find out where the main strike's have been and go prospect in those area's..
- IF you get a chance Make sure you go into area's that have had a Burn in them.. The burn's remove all the blackberries and make it easier to get in to those hard to get place's..
A few years ago after area's of Rushworth got burnt, I know of quiet a few prospector's that got into the gullies and did quiet well for themselves.. [ DO NOT light any fires to CLEAR out an AREA]
There is gold out there you just need to find it..
Also make sure that the land you are on is NOT part of a Mining Lease..
Juergen
I do that pretty much every morning at home!