Aussie Chris
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Hi all. Spent a great 3 days up bush prospecting, camping and having a generally good time. There were about 15 of us and we stayed at Ararat, the same place as last time (see first picture). I left early Thursday morning to spend a few hours at an old lake that we used to sail and swim at. It has reverted almost to the original river it is that low.
Well after 2 hours my take with the GTI 2500 was, 14,287 ring pulls. The rectangle ones, round ones, beaver tail ones. I was lucky every so often to get a sinker, bottle cap or some other piece of rubbish. Total coins for the day, 2 five cent pieces !! 10 cents for 2 hours work.
Anyway, I moved on to a place called Avoca, one of my happy hunting grounds from the 80's and pinged a bit almost straight away. When I put it on the scales, it would not even weigh it was that small ! Gold is gold I suppose. Then I moved on to the spot in Ararat where I got the bigger piece in the first photo, 3.6 grams. Almost straight away I pinged the bit with the brown ironstone on it. It weighs 5 grams (3.2 penny weights). That's a bit better. That was it for Thursday.
Friday I was keen to get back to the 5 gram spot. I spent most of the day on it and got another 12 bits (most of the small ones in the second photo) so Friday was good day also. Now the next day I decided to try a different spot and was walking up a line of diggers heaps picking a bit of rubbish here and there. I spent about an hour doing this when I pinged a small bit on the top of a diggers heap. I thought OK good, another one for the collection.
About 2 foot away I got a very faint reading and thought it would be another small bit of gold. I started digging down into white pipe clay with gravel in it, the stuff that gold is going to be in. I dug about 8 inches down and eventually got the target out. I made a couple of attempts to pick it up in the pile but kept missing ( I have ordered a Garrett prob). I eventually got it in my hand and straight away could feel the weight. I knew I had a decent bit of gold there. After a bit of a clean I could see the gold and I guessed at least 1/2 an ounce.
I was pretty stoked. Lucky no one else was around or it might have got up on you tube ! I went and showed some of the other blokes and they were happy. I then put it on the scales and it went 10 dwt 8 grains (16.2 grams), just over 1/2 and ounce. For the weekend I got 25 grams of gold or 15 dwt 22 grains. Over 3/4 of an ounce and worth A$900. Not to shabby and now I am looking forward to the next one.
HH Chris.
Well after 2 hours my take with the GTI 2500 was, 14,287 ring pulls. The rectangle ones, round ones, beaver tail ones. I was lucky every so often to get a sinker, bottle cap or some other piece of rubbish. Total coins for the day, 2 five cent pieces !! 10 cents for 2 hours work.
Anyway, I moved on to a place called Avoca, one of my happy hunting grounds from the 80's and pinged a bit almost straight away. When I put it on the scales, it would not even weigh it was that small ! Gold is gold I suppose. Then I moved on to the spot in Ararat where I got the bigger piece in the first photo, 3.6 grams. Almost straight away I pinged the bit with the brown ironstone on it. It weighs 5 grams (3.2 penny weights). That's a bit better. That was it for Thursday.
Friday I was keen to get back to the 5 gram spot. I spent most of the day on it and got another 12 bits (most of the small ones in the second photo) so Friday was good day also. Now the next day I decided to try a different spot and was walking up a line of diggers heaps picking a bit of rubbish here and there. I spent about an hour doing this when I pinged a small bit on the top of a diggers heap. I thought OK good, another one for the collection.
About 2 foot away I got a very faint reading and thought it would be another small bit of gold. I started digging down into white pipe clay with gravel in it, the stuff that gold is going to be in. I dug about 8 inches down and eventually got the target out. I made a couple of attempts to pick it up in the pile but kept missing ( I have ordered a Garrett prob). I eventually got it in my hand and straight away could feel the weight. I knew I had a decent bit of gold there. After a bit of a clean I could see the gold and I guessed at least 1/2 an ounce.
I was pretty stoked. Lucky no one else was around or it might have got up on you tube ! I went and showed some of the other blokes and they were happy. I then put it on the scales and it went 10 dwt 8 grains (16.2 grams), just over 1/2 and ounce. For the weekend I got 25 grams of gold or 15 dwt 22 grains. Over 3/4 of an ounce and worth A$900. Not to shabby and now I am looking forward to the next one.
HH Chris.
