From last years W.A trip

Hi all.
Well we thought we would show a little bit of eye candy from W.A last season.

Mike melted just over 5 ounces of the tiny flyspecks pieces of gold we had found together
Gotta love the SDC2300, and GPZ7000 combo  




As you can see there are 3 just over an ounce each and 1 ended up just over 2 ounces.
Plus all the other bits we haven't done anything with.



We are looking forward to getting back over to W.A this year, as we pegged two leases,
which should be approved before its time to head back over.

Gday. Well done looks good and gives me something to chase this year.
Regards big fella

Thanks for the pics Jen.
Just reminds me how pretty gold looks in any size or shape
Cheers
ChrisM

Good on yas Jen/Mike. May your finds be even greater this year. Well done.

Cheers Kon.

Thanks for showing. I often wonder how you 2 would go if you didn't detect gentleman hours. Lazy days and sleep ins lol. Hope the leases work out and the claim jumpers stay at Bay. Just set up a long term camp wander out for a short stroll. What a great way to go

Congratulations on last years finds Jen and Mike.
I wish you good fortune on your leases.
Looking forward to viewing this years posts of your goldfields finds.
Cheers spinna

Jen/Mike,

Looks like a fantastic trip, thanks for sharing the great finds. Maybe starring in the next Aussie Gold Hunters

Nice, don't ya just love melting those bits into a solid bar.

cheers dave

Well done jen & mike on your finds
sean

Thankyou all for your comments

GB    we are just a couple of old farts, take one day at a time.. enjoying life.
If there is gold in the ground for us, it will still be there when we get up and out      
It is a great life.

Yes Dave.. love the gold in that form.. i can handle them,  and not get into trouble when i drop them
As when it was in flyspeckled pieces and then I dropped them.   They would fly everywhere

And You wouldn't want to be me  

Hey GemQ
The show would be finished filming before we even got out of bed    

Thanks for sharing your last year's finds Jen & Mike.....good idea on smelting the fines, easy to keep it together in one large lump. Hope this year is a killer for us all, at least beat last year's amount...

Well done Jen & Mike. Your post was all that was needed to start me preparing for the coming season.
A mega patch awaits for you two this year I am sure.
Cheers Steve

Well done Jen & Mike nice gold all those smaller ones do add up, and i to love the GPZ & SDC combo.

That's what we like to see

Mmmmm. Gold !

Thanks Jen & Mike for the photos

Good onya Mike And Jen. The detecting lifestyle you must lead, would have taken a few years to get right, and I betcha it wasn't easy. Sounds like you've almost perfected it. Cheers, Harry

Nice finds Jen & Mike.

WOW! nice thanks for posting the pics.

How did you know what to do where to go first time in WA? Water food permits fly drive etc...?

IGotBigNuggets wrote:WOW! nice thanks for posting the pics.  

How did you know what to do where to go first time in WA?  Water food permits fly drive etc...?

The very first trip over we went on a tour, didnt learn much, but the people we met on the tour were great,
Then after the tour
A couple that had done the tours before, and been over in W.A a few times.
took us under their wing, ( so to speak ) and we learnt so much from being with these great people.
Old saying.. ( its not what you know, its who you know )
We will be ever gratefull to them.
Also when you join ALPA and go to the meetings, you get to know more nice people.. the more you met the more you learn.

Even through this forum, we have met and made great friends. also have helped out, and given advice.
The rest is what we have learnt along the way.
Always do the right thing by everyone you met, including the pastoralist.
This year it will be out tenth trip over, its like going home, feel's  like we have two homes  

Water, is available in the towns.. most at the infomation centres..
Ask the locals, and they are more then happy to tell you, ask the grey nomads, that travel over each year,
They will also be able to tell you..


Thankyou all for you comments..

kon61 wrote:Good on yas Jen/Mike. May your finds be even greater this year. Well done.

Cheers Kon.

What Kon said Well enjoy the hunt you two

Cheers Bill

Jen58 wrote:

IGotBigNuggets wrote:WOW! nice thanks for posting the pics.  

How did you know what to do where to go first time in WA?  Water food permits fly drive etc...?

The very first trip over we went on a tour, didnt learn much, but the people we met on the tour were great,
Then after the tour
A couple that had done the tours before, and been over in W.A a few times.
took us under their wing, ( so to speak ) and we learnt so much from being with these great people.
Old saying.. ( its not what you know, its who you know )
We will be ever gratefull to them.
Also when you join ALPA and go to the meetings, you get to know more nice people.. the more you met the more you learn.

Even through this forum, we have met and made great friends. also have helped out, and given advice.
The rest is what we have learnt along the way.
Always do the right thing by everyone you met, including the pastoralist.
This year it will be out tenth trip over, its like going home, feel's  like we have two homes  

Water, is available in the towns.. most at the infomation centres..
Ask the locals, and they are more then happy to tell you, ask the grey nomads, that travel over each year,
They will also be able to tell you..


Thank you all for you comments..

Hi Jen, That is some great help for those thinking or contemplating going to WA for the first time (detecting)
Nice finds of gold too & I hope this year see's you do well on your own leases.
What got you to choose the areas you did? Gold I guess but I would have thought if there was gold on it then it would already be claimed or worked to death. Are you going to get involved with more than just detecting to uncover & retrieve any gold? Still....be nice to be able to have your "own" ground. Best of luck with it.

JW  

Hi kiwijw
After visting W.A each year for 9 years.. it starts to feel like you are going home. And you get to know the areas well.
There are leases everywhere, some is land grabbing, some are working leases, there is gold on most areas, if you know abit about how to read the ground.
Which we have learnt by trial and error over the years.
Our lease may not have much gold on it., as it has been leased before. And before that and before that, probably goes back a fair way back.
But new technology helps open the ground again.
We dont care about how much gold we may or may not get, its just gives us a place to call home.
200 hectares of it.  
Plus We can still travel out to open ground from there.
We use moving maps, on the computer, we always know where we are, if we are on somesones lease, ( as you are allowed to drive through leases to get across to other areas, there arent any fences, well not many.

Which I have to thank Davsgold and his wife Veronica for helping us with that. Thankyou very much really appreciated all your help.  

Like i said there are always the good people out there, that are more then happy to help out.
Just have to be wary of the not so good ones.
Which we haven't had any trouble there yet!
Heard story's..

Yep we will enjoy going over to W.A again, and catch up with a few very good friends.
Its a funny old world. We make more friends over there, that travel across as well from here

Hey Jen and Mike, makes digging all them holes and sweat worthwhile when you see those small bits melted into a gold bar Well done and thanks for posting.

Thankyou all..
Yeah Bloodgold.. much better in a bar..

Morning Jen/Mike,
Location of your leases you did your research well for your second home.
Good luck, looks like you'll have another gold bar at end of season.

Great work Mike & Jen. Every time I hear your story's and see the gold each year that the both of you have found, makes me very envious and wishing I could be there. But one day it will happen, but when who knows.  
wombat

Hi Pete
Glad you approve
Yep, its great having a home base to go back too
Hopefully we will catch up again this season.


Hi wombat
Ya never know
All you need is the fuel money to get you over and back
You already have Everything else
Oh and plus a W.A miners right

Hi Jen,
Feel sure we'll catch up while we are at our camp. Will listen out for you, what channel do you use?
Earlier I mentioned on 'pegging a lease" about a very helpful Pastoralist at Black Flag and the shack he took us too.
Was looking for another photo and came across this one in relation to my comment that it was very cold and the shack and fire was a welcome stay as opposed to our tents.
1990 A couple of my mates.

G'day All,

Thanks for the welcome great replies to our finds and pics.

Pete, you all looked very cosy in the old shack and thanks for sharing your pic and great story. Yes that area is one of the first areas we were shown the first year we came over to WA. We will be looking forward to catching up with you over there.

Cheers.

Mike.

Cosy looking shack!
We were also offered a shack to stay in as well.
Well it wasnt a shack
It was a huge, and i mean HUGE no longer used as a shearing shed.
It did have toilet and everything attached but vandals had destroyed all that.
But this shearing shed we could park our large caravan in.. plus a few others

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