Good times in the Murchison

Hi Folks,

Just back from a 2 week trip to the Murchison WA with a good friend Suzie. We had some great fun, lovely weather except for 2 days of near cyclonic wind that ripped my shade tarp eyelets out of the canvas.
We visited an old, well known set of shafts thinking we might pick up on a few small nuggets overlooked by previous detectorists, but to our surprise we stumbled onto a couple of patches that yeilded well over 2 ounces of small nuggets and 1 lovely 42 grammer at approx 14". Well done Suz. I got a plea on the CB from Suz, "Hey Steve I need some help, Ivé nearly dug my way to China can you come over finish the last bit of a dig for me please?"I know theres a nugget in this bloody hole but I can't seem to locate it. Well a quick scan with the 17"eliptical, thats how big this hole was, I located the signal about 14"down in the side of the hole. A quick couple of well placed scratches and the nugget dropped into the bottom of the hole. I bent down into the hole and picked up the nugget and tossed it up to Suz, who couldn't believe what I had thrown to her. SHe dropped it like a hot potatoe, the look on her face was bloody priceless. Suz was so exhausted and excited by the find, she had to sit down and gain her composure. Wow what a day!!
I am using a GPX5000 with a NF17 eliptical and Suz was using her trusty GPX4500 with the 14 NF eliptical. My weigh in netted 48 grams plus a nice speci with approx 2 grams. 65 nuggets in total.
We will be heading back to the area next week for another 2 weeks and will be doing a bit more exploring. Then my son (rarebreed) and his wife will be visiting us out there for 10 days. Just hope the beautiful weather continues a bit longer.

Cheers
Steve

ore some find

Just fantastic cheers Pete.

Wow Steve, sounds like you and Suzie had a great trip, with great results. Hope the spot keeps giving when you all return.

Ronnie

Fantastic effort from you two, great pics with the detectors, pics, coils and gold Stu

I bet that first beer tasted good........................!

G'day

Great find and yarn More luck too you

Cheers

Chimpy

Very nice find............

Great story and very nice Gold and pics... Hope your trip went well...

Cheers.

Mike.

Top effort, congratulations...... an thanks for letting us know the detector & coil used along with the depth. To me that's invaluable info given I'm a raw novice when it comes to detecting