Members Gold Album (lets get this topic going again please )

Beautifull!!!   we all know its not just the gold, its the memories made getting the shiny stuff  that is the real value eh

Wayne

Great effort keep it up.

G'day All,

Found some more of my old pics from the SD2000 days.  



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Cheers.

Mike.

Nice one Mike, that ol SD paid for its self in style, Great Pics.

They are still deep machines even to todays standards aren't they.

Thanks RR,

Yes they sure were/are we found many ozs with the old SD2000s and I never upgraded until the GP3000 came out.    

Hey Gary that top one is the one I told you about.


Cheers.

Mike.

Mike54 wrote:Thanks RR,

Yes they sure were/are we found many ozs with the old SD2000s and I never upgraded until the GP3000 came out.    

Cheers.

Mike.  

I wonder what the overall weight would have been ? Most likely a lot higher than they are nower days,

News flash,,,,,,, I just heard that recently someone has found upwards of a 20kg Door Stop near Ballarat,, what a way to start the year aye.

Tributor this one also has those nodules and l was informed that is a bit of deep lead gold that had been forced to the surface he also told me that it was eluvial gold because the bottom was flat where it had worn away as it travelled downslope rather than alluvial where it would have been more rounded from being tumbled along with water.




This pic is of gold found ovèr a short period of time by Glen and I with 4500's crown land.



The next pic is gold found by Glen and l, also found over a short period of time in an area not far from the gold found with the 4500's but this time using Zeds. The GPX's really struggled on this ground even though it wasn't far from where the 4500's did well.

A good couple days with my brother a few years back
11oz gold content....of rough, ugly silver laden gold. 11% silver. cheers Tributer

Ancient nuggets shaped and elongated under the deep sediments of the Macquarie River in the Permian era 250 million years ago. (When the Macquarie River was much bigger then it is now). The Permian landsurface and nuggets were buried and eroded out only in the last few millions of years.  The middle two nuggets in the first image show the bottom of the flat nuggets with rolled over rim edges...a feature of many of the nuggets. The top sides are smoother. The gold nuggets are very high purity with most of the silver leached out over the millions of years.

It was a good period in my detecting life finding patches of these beautiful nuggets with Narrawa and Curley and later with Rowlos, freshwater, Mad Tuna, Whatsthetime  and others.

Here are a few of mine

A few more

WOW Gypsy, that is more gold than i have seen on here for quite some time Are you still finding good gold? cheers Pete.

Hi Pete, yes still finding good gold, just got a new patch that i was working before this rain came, been house bound for a week now, just waiting for the roads to open and ill be back out there

Hi Gypsy, That is an awesome collection of gold. Good on you. Very well done. Thanks for sharing. Haven't seen you post on here for a while. What machine/machines found the majority of it & are you now swinging the Zed? Cheers.

Best of luck out there

JW  

Hi JW, yes been busy with life and doing gold tours and training here in Coolgardie
i swing the Zed and then my 4500 when zed gets a bit heavy later in the arvo, alot of the top pics were found with the 4500 prior to me purchasing a zed last year, but since having the zed haven't come home without gold yet

Thanks GB, Trib and Gypsy for the very nice pics of your very nice Gold (eye candy) finds.

I hope the weather clears/dries up so you can get back out there to your patch and you manage to dig up many more of the beautiful colours.

Thanks again to All for sharing your story and pics.

Best Regards.

Mike.

What a great showcase of members gold finds big congrats for all that have put there prospecting effort on display

Great pics don't be shy keep them coming

Good on you Gypsy. Top going, well done.

Cheers Kon.

Thanks Gypsy, its always exciting to nice looking gold. Hows your new Tour Packages going?

Hi Jef,
gold tours/training going really well, especially when clients stumble onto new patches, here a few i found last couple of days after a client found a sunbaker.

You would be very happy with that patch Kris?

Great finds being posted up here !

Nightjar, Love that White/Pinky quartz speccie !

Cheers
Ashley

Wow! Great last photo there Nightjar. Cheers, thanks for that.

Wow!  that specimen is beautiful,  I don't suppose you have any more pics of it I struggle to look away from it.

Wayne.

The pink quartz specie is also on the right of second pic.
Named it the "octopus", 300+grams total, 50+g of AU. Found at Mt Celia, it began to bucket down after heading out of Kal, was in my then brand new ute, no canopy, just a small tent and swag.
Arrived at Mt Celia and after a very wet night woke to radio message that most gravel roads to the North were closed. Made a decision, one hour detecting then hit the road and get out of there.
In amongst tin cans and other junk managed to get a more mellow signal and out of the mud finally had this little beauty in my hand.
Was very happy even having to leave prematurely and hit the road again for the 600 km drive home.



Getting out of here was not without a few problems crossing Lake Rebecca.

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Lets keep this topic running

My brother Tony's car broke down on his way to the W.A goldfields 2 years ago
So he had to stay home for the cold vic winter. Brrr
This sure warmed him up though

Just under 20 ounces

Lovely

My 458 pieces for just over 7oz of gold for 2017 season so far, lot on right is from the patch i found on my last day detecting , 42 pieces in a small area, Biggest was 6g and patch total weight was 26.6g
( going to re-visit the last day patch again this season )



P.S. Photo doesnt look like 458 pieces as it's mounded so i'll post up another pic tomorrow

Cheers
Ashley

Looking good ASH, I hope the rest of the year is even better to you.

Wayne.