Our W.A.trip for 2014.

Thanks all for your great replies once again.  

I went and bought the 18 inch nugget finder coil
Within the first day out with it...

BANG!!!!
It paid for itself.      Very happy with it.    

The two larger pieces are what I had found first day out with it..
Top left 8.8 grams top right 10.24 grams
Total weight is 26.4 grams all up in the pic.



Now my young bloke had a go with my 18 inch nugget finder coil..
He had found enough gold with it to go and buy his own 18 inch nugget finder coil   

So my coil had paid for his as well.

 Smart bugger!!   

Cheers All.

Good going there Mike. Well done. Not sure if you have seen my recent post on members finds but I went back over old ground with the NF 17 x 11 & was blown away with the small gold it got from ground I have flogged with smaller coils & still pinged 42 bits for 13.65 grams. The smallest was .05 of a gram   . You got to love it when your first day out with a new coil & it pays for itself. Keep up the good work & keep raking that gold in. Hi to Jen.

Best of luck out there

JW

Well a couple of days ago, the boys went for a walk about without their detectors, checking out the ground, when they spied these rocks.





It's amazing what they come across..  

Oh and it's a beautiful day, although the breeze can be a bit chilly   


Hi JW..   we will try..  

      

Good to see you guys are doing well

Those rocks appear to be Hematite.
Hematite is an Iron and oxygen mineral, its magnetic and a good indicator of mineralization that could lead to gold if its followed.
One of my biggest patches came from following a hematite bearing fault......... multiple Kg from it.

Ahhhh  Goldchaser  we have been found out   
It was fun while it lasted, although it didn't last for long..
They looked the part though.  
It was great catching up with you   

Hi Aurumpro.. Thanks for your input, I was wondering if any one would know..
Put a magnet on it, nope not magnetic..
Will go google now..
Nope doesn't look any thing like it..
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Thought while we were in the area we might have a play of two up..

Had me fooled in the dark last night for a bit......
Good to meet you guy's and Burnie! Had a ball.....

goldchaser wrote: Had me fooled in the dark last night for a bit......
Good to meet you guy's and Burnie! Had a ball.....

   it had the guys fooled in the day light!   

Yep.. Nice to put a face to the name..
Hopefully catch up again soon..

Hi guys, Ha....who needs a detector   . Nice spotting    MMMMm...What do you call chilly? We had minus 5 this morning & a high of just 4.

Good luck out there

JW

kiwijw wrote:Hi guys, Ha....who needs a detector   . Nice spotting    MMMMm...What do you call chilly? We had minus 5 this morning & a high of just 4.

Good luck out there

JW

Anything under 10c    at the moment it's a top of 17c lovely sunny day.. Ahhhh   

Never know what you can find over here..

Hi Jen & MIke. Great finds with the 18in  I am heading your way on Friday     please leave some gold for me, I don"t want much about 3oz should be OK. I have been following your trip,you seem to be having a ball.  
Cheers Dave.  

Hi jen
I just checked my memento bit of hematite from my patch and it is only very weakly attracted to a magnet.
So weakly attrackted that its hard to notice unless the magnet is very strong, I noticed the attraction with my 60kg pull force rare-earth magnet.
And it looks nearly exactly like yours.

Most of the photo's are of specimen quality hematite, but if you do an image search on google and scroll down you will see one that looks like yours.
Yours is degraded by weathering and oxidization like mine.

Cadian wrote:Hi Jen & MIke. Great finds with the 18in  I am heading your way on Friday     please leave some gold for me, I don"t want much about 3oz should be OK. I have been following your trip,you seem to be having a ball.  
Cheers Dave.  

Hi Dave..
We are having a ball.. Enjoying the weather.. Heard it's very cold back home..  
We will try and leave some just for you..  

  3 ounces you say..
I reckon you can do that easy..
Just have to get on the right ground..

Have a safe trip over you two..  

I hope this encourages you to follow up on the hematite


This was one of the mid sized nuggets off the patch, notice the quartz and hematite attached
Sorry about the picture quality

Hi Mike, Jen, and Mike junior, all I can say its great stuff team    very happy for you guys   may their be a heap of sunbakers stubbing your toes before you have to head home    whats going on that's twice this week that gold has been found with out a detector    

You sure have our attention now..
Love your rock   

There was a fair amount of this rock there.. They both came back with thier arms full of it.
The detector doesn't make a sound on them either..
There was old (costeine ) can't spell)digs, plus massive quartz outcrop running along the ridge of the big hill.. Which was above the black stone.

Thankyou very much Aurumpro, the boys are indeed going to have another look now..
It's on our to-do list to go back.
Well worth a better look..

Just go to the Costean and look at the rock type and faulting trend and follow it along its strike and detect any dips, gully's or creeks that cut the line of strike.
You'll definitely pick up doing this.

Hi Aurumpro

Found this on google search..
The colours in it, is the same.

  told ya.  

You have to take into consideration the weathering process that the specimen you are trying to ID has gone through when comparing it to pic's in a mineral book or the net.
As most will be pictures of the mineral in the highest grade that a collector would want to collect and display, and not what you'll commonly see in the field.

Get the whip out Jen and get the boys following that mineralization and follow my advice above and you'll do well.

And if ya get a rock like that that makes a noise it will probably 90%+ have gold in it !

You sure did..  

I know what you mean about the pictures on the net, or in any book are a much clearer and better..

We haven't even tried to clean these rocks, as there isn't any gold in them..
Can see the different colours in them.. They look like they have copper in them..

But you sure have the guys attention..
Plan to go back there, in due time..  

   for your help..

   the whip...   oh that's a good one..  
If only I could..

bloodgold2 wrote: Hi Mike, Jen, and Mike junior, all I can say its great stuff team     very happy for you guys   may their be  a heap of sunbakers stubbing your toes before you have to head home    whats going on that's twice this week that gold has been found with out a detector    

Oh... how I wish it was that easy.. You know tripping over the stuff...   
Nah... Not so lucky..

Thanks Aurumpro,

I know how the old timers felt when they found fools gold.         When I found the first rock I could see that beautiful golden colour and I said to the young bloke we have struck it rich now.  Then he got out his 5000 and run it over a couple of the rocks.............. Silence zilch nada....... Bummer I thought.     

You have given us NEW hope now and we will be going back to that spot once we have checked out these other areas we are currently heading to.  So again a big THANKS Aurumpro.      

Hi all   

A little something to warm those who may be freezing..  



Oh and while I was playing with my phone, I took this picture..
Can anyone see anything ????? Other than the fire?

I give in Ha Ha  

Hey, Jen... your'e pushing your luck with all the "cold" gags... don't forget you've gotta come home sooner or later..   

And, yeah, I can see it... looks like your dinner's burnt again...!!

Andrew.

Thank Jenn . Got the wood heater going flat out since i got back.
Makes me want to fuel up and hit the road again.
Man its been crap weather here.

Cheer's John

Jen58 wrote:Can anyone see anything ????? Other than the fire?

I see foot prints, do they count.   

cheers dave

Hi Jen & Mike, Man I wish I had that fire at my job site yesterday. On a new house build up on the roof doing rafters. We had -7    with a high of a supposed 3 but I doubt it reached that. There was a keen wind blowing that would have made that -7 more that that I am sure. Sun didnt get over the yard arm (mountain ridge) until 10am & even that made bugger all differencs. Beautiful stunning clear cloudless day though, but the cold is the price you pay here in winter on those clear days. HARD frosts.      

Now....in your photo, apart from the fire I can see sticks, stones, & dirt. But I guess that isnt what you are teasing us with.    There is a ball of something in the middle of the fire....could that be your burnt dinner. Ha ha     ...Na...  ... got me stuffed.

Good luck out there

JW

PS. Is one of those stones a gold NUGGET?  

WOOD

Hi Jen,
Looks like a baked snake to the right of the fire?????
Sure enjoying your running commentary once again this year.


Cheers
Peter