Laanecoorie Weekend Wrap Up

Hi All,

Well what a weekend and how was that turn up :cheers:

Firstly I would like to thank Jim & Robyn at the park for what can only be described as a sensational effort in showing all our forum members a great weekend. Starting with name tags on arrival, a wonderful pre dinner event on Saturday night, backing it up with a great Sunday night of entertainment and Monday with a very late check out for some. To Jim, thanks for a very very informative talk and sharing your wealth of knowledge so freely with all who attended. To both of you, thank you for showing us all some real Laanecoorie hospitality, I'm sure many people will return to catch up in the future.

To all our fantastic sponsors, A BIG THANK YOU, the raffle went off without a hitch, I think we had about 35 - 38 people in for the nights activities. The main prize of the Coiltek Coil went to George from over the boarder, and a very happy man he was. I think most people ended up with one or two prizes, in fact I think every one was very pleased with what they won.
You should all be proud of yourselves as we raised a total of $650.00 for the SCOSA charity that was nominated by Coiltek, and to Trevor at Coiltek thanks for all your support, I'm sure there was plenty of Coiltek caps wandering around the bush on Monday.

To All our Sponsors,

Coiltek SA
Gold Prospecting Australia
Gold Search Australia
Laanecoorie Lake Side Park
And the members that donated prizes

Thank you from the forum and to all Forum Members please remember these names when you are next purchasing your equipment.

Now for the Tally,

As of Sunday night we had a total of 36 pieces of gold found by members plus the 6 pieces that ARARAT took home that day, this makes a total of 42. I was out with Graham ( who may I say snagged 19 gms on Sunday ) and saw him add another one to the list, so that is 43 and by the way that was well over 1oz from that little spot.

What I now request from all those who attended is a final tally from each member and their weights so we can post a final count for the weekend. Please post your findings on this post for all to see.

I have just re-sized all the photo's and will post them up on the site, and to the big fella ( you know who you are ) I won't put your photo up there.

To all those who didn't make it up there, you missed a great weekend, but the good news is that there is a heap of support for the next one and some dates have been suggested around the Cup Day Weekend. So as this forum is so good at doing, lets talk about it and start the planing now so everyone can keep that dates free.

To all that attended give yourself a big pat on that back and look forward to catching up soon

Mariner3800
Peter

Hi Peter,
My total was 2.
And once more thanks for everything.
Hopefully see you soon.

Hi Mariner3800,

Ange and I have a tally as follows:

Tin: 10+ bits
Shottie pellets: 6+
Musket Balls: 1
Shells: 2

and

Gold: still waiting

But we still had a great time

Thanks again,

Nature Pete.

Thanks for putting in the effort Peter and others,good one, just sitting here in Noreal park on the river at Albury,our regular stopover on the way home from Vic. barbequing a couple of steaks,aint life great, Im 4 for 2.3, Phill and Chris

mariner3800 wrote: The main prize of the Coiltek Coil went to Graham,

Better edit that to George for the winner of the coil.

I came away with 3 bits for 9.38 grams.
I have posted a photo already in another thread so will post a photo here of them once they are out of the acid and clean.

Once again, top effort.

Cheers

Hi Goldstalker GPX,, OOPPS

All corrected now, hey great effort with the 9.38gms and cannot wait to see them cleaned.

Look forward to catching up soon

Mariner3800

Here are the two of them just out of Hcl after 12 hours,


They are now back in acid, this time giving them a soak with Ali-Brite.

Well done to all!

Glad to see some nice pieces were found and that all had a great time.

I must say that the generosity of the attendees was outstanding to raise the money you did! It goes to show that the prospecting community are there not only to help their fellow prospectors, but to also put a hand out for others. Impressive stuff!

Congratulations to the winner of the 14x9" BLITZ coil - George. We hope it brings you success.
And also to all the other winners (sounds like all of you!!! ) ... congratulations and enjoy your prizes from all those who donated gear.

Take care all
Trevor @ Coiltek Manufacturing.

G'Day Mariner 3800, the bigfella here i hope, new to this so lets see if it works then you won't be able to get rid of me.

G,day big fella glad to see you made it onto the forum

hhope you had a good nite monday

hope yo see you out there in the not too distant future

cheers bob

G'Day
thank,s cranky for the reply also thanks for a great weekend, from you, mariner3800 ,nature pete and angy and to every one, great to catch up with the one's i know and to meet new people.

mariner3800 mentioned something about cup weekend that sounded like a plan

HI PETER
well what a weekend had a great time found 9 bits all up a button and coin the last night out with nugett and dingo.

Congratulations Mariner and to the team for organising and managing a successful weekend.

It is great to see how the forum has progressed and when you see the friendliness, the support and the comaraderie on such a weekend, it makes you proud to be involved.

It seems that many found gold as well as learning how to do so. Well done from the Management, and to all involved, you are to be complemented on a very enjoyable and worthwhile event.

Jeff

G'day Big Fella, Good to see you on the forum now and a surprise to bump into you at Laanecoorie, now that we have had a few camp outs together we should do it more often.

Great finds goldminer997

Cheers

G'Day Goldstalkergpx was great to catch up,i spend a lot of time up there that's why i bought the onsite van, with health isues it's a lot easier just to have thing's set up,not always fit to go out and then only for a short time,hope to slowly improve with time (no violins allowed ).Anyway if anyone is up that way keep an eye out and give me a yell,happy hunting.
Big Fella

Thanks Mariner for organising a top weekend, & all that donated prizes for the raffel.

It was great to meet other members from our forum, I am looking forward to the next one.

I ended up getting 4 bits for 1.9 Grams.



Cheers DINGO

awesome dingo mate, wish we got to chat more and i wish i got to catch up with a few more that weekend. i was trying to get back sunday to catch up with more people for a chat but couldn't get back...next time...it's great to see there's still good gold getting around these spots...
cheers
stoppsy

Thanks Stoppsy,

Hope to catch up with you next time, or even meet up for a detect before that.

Cheers DINGO

yeah for sure mate..
cheers
stoppsy

Hi all

Had a very enjoyable weekend many thanks to the sponsers and those in the background that did the little extras
to make the weekend what it was

Dingo and Tracy thanks for the hospitality
Invited me to stay provided ample refreshment then gave up an hour or so detecting to cook a roast for
Golden and myself the only area where it fell down is you did not tell me where your patches are

Hey Golden lucky i did not get into the rocket fuel i would have kept half the park awake

GoldstalkerGPX thanks for digging that dud target for me but where were you when i dug the musket
ball at more than 15 inches (Thankfully in worked ground)

Ended up with 4 pieces over the 3 day w/end 0.9 gms but detected Tuesday and part of Wednesday for another
8 pieces. The 12 came in at just under 2 gms for the trip






Cheers Ruffles

Hi, It was great to meet so meny forum members at the weekend.
Thanks to Marine3800 & others for organizing a great forum get together. Also thanks to Jim& Robyn for hosting & the informative talk.
Much thanks to GoldstalkerGPX for finding his nuggets on Saturday that gave me confidence that gold could be found in that location.

Finds Report
Friday- No Gold
Saturday- No Gold
Sunday - .7gm .6gm 10.2gm's 6.3gm's 2gm's
Monday- .2gm 3.5gm's
Total 7 nuggets for 23.5gm's
Pictures
10.2gm nuggets
Hole 10.2gm was recoved from.
7 nuggets on scales
Cheers
"TWO BOB"

Ohhhh Baby!
Nice Nice Nice

TWO BOB, you would be one of the most humble and sincere blokes on this forum. Your luck this time is not only welcomed by us, it is absolutely celebrated.
Well done mate.

Hi TwoBob,

It was a pleasure detecting with you and for 3 reasons, 1- really enjoyed watching you extract that 3.5g nugget on Monday, 2- for sharing your photo's with Elsie and myself of your finds over the years, 3- You are such a humble and genuine bloke as mentioned above.

Love to do another day in the bush soon.

Mariner3800
Peter

that's great mate well done and thanks for posting the pixs up
cheers
stoppsy

HI All,

Almost forgot to put some gold pics up, still trying to post the general shots in the Gallery but not having much luck?

3 pieces = 1.16g but that includes the quartz

Some Happy snaps from the weekend

Mariner3800

awesome mariner3800, i better get my butt into gear and get out some more and start finding a few more bits i think, seeing what everyone found over the great weekend is making me itch...
cheers
stoppsy

a link to more photos

https://s1125.photobucket.com/albums/l582/TheH0ward/Laanecoorie%20Weekend/

you need a password to view them.... password is 'spider'