Last weekend at Georgetown

Hi folks,

Here are my finds for last weekend. The smallest went 0.19gm and the biggest was 1.14gm. The one in the middle is 0.73gm and was found at 15cm in hard red clay/rocks.




My best weekend for number of bits. Just have to find the bigger ones now.

Cheers

Doug

Splendid! always nice to come home with some reward, I definately feel there is much gold still hidden in the Georgetown area.............as vast as it is, but like everywhere else....   theres an awful lot of dirt between it , good luck up there.

Wayne.

Nice looking colour. Well done Doug. I'v always said, if one becomes competent to the point of picking up the tiniest bits of detectable gold, what chance do the bigger slugs of gold have from escaping, when within reach of detector/coil capabilities? Only a matter of time.

Cheers Kon.

Nice work

I've only spent a few days in the area , but would luv to get back there !

Well done & good luck next trip .

Hi folks,

 Here is the photo of my latest finds from up that way. Both leaf and normal nuggets. All the normal nuggets were found in the same patch. We still have to get the quartz out of the largest nugget.

Cheers

Doug    

Nice! looks like some good old Western Ck nuggets, some very fine gold has come out of there in the last couple of years, I must find my way back there one day....before its all gone

Wayne.

Some nice finds there. Well done.  

rockhunter62 quote "We still have to get the quartz out of the largest nugget."

Nice work rockhunter62 . Have you tried heating the quartz then plunging it in cold water? Guaranteed to crack that sucker up. Harry

The quartz nugget is sitting in Alibtrite at the moment.

Cheers

Doug

sweet nuggies, nice assortment of size and color. ,multiple nuggies always a good day!

Great finds mate, are there still plenty of areas open to the public up that way?

Yes Grizzly, there would be about half a dozen or so properties in the Georgetown, Forsayth area that you can pay to detect/camp on.

Cheers

Doug

Cheers Doug, I wasn't really doing any prospecting when I was living in the Isa, so I missed a heap of opportunities. I'll get back up that way for a holiday soon.

Another 7.1 grams from the Georgetown area. Our backpacker from Madagascar  is modelling our finds.
Three days worth with most of it found with a Gpz7000 but all could of been found with the sdc.

Cheers

Doug

I was doing a bit of a catch up on your thread Doug
All very nice bits of gold..

Love your madagacar model, even has the detector..

Thankyou for sharing with us all

All very nice finds there Doug. Congrats to you for your nice finds and thanks for sharing.

Cheers.

Mike.

Hi folks,

Carol and I just got back from our trip up to Western Creek and here is the photos of our finds. Mostly found with the GPZ7000 that I borrowed.


Larry modelling the gold again.


We might have got the oz if we stayed another couple of days. We were averaging 2gms a day.  


The biggest was the top left specie at 3.25gms down to about 0.12gm. The first 5 in the top row are all over a gram.

I'll be back that way at the end of September.

Cheers for now.

Doug

Well done Doug, Georgetown is paying dividends for you and thanks for the pictures as well.

cheers dave

ahhhh!!...beautiful Western Ck gold, well done, good to see its still giving it up, are there many folks up that way this year?.


Wayne.

Some more very nice finds there Doug. I like the one next to the specie, nice crystalline nuggy. Congrats for your nice finds and thanks for sharing.

Cheers.

Mike.

Well done, thats some nice looking gold..

Congrats! Good looking gold.

Thanks for posting.

Digginerup wrote: ahhhh!!...beautiful Western Ck gold, well done, good to see its still giving it up, are there many folks up that way this year?.


Wayne.

Yes Wayne there would have to have been about 18-24 different caravans/camper trailers there each day over the time that we were there. Not everyone was finding the yellow stuff. One father daughter team found a 63gm nugget up one of the creeks on they're 3 day trip.

Cheers

Doug

Mike54 wrote:Some more very nice finds there Doug.      I like the one next to the specie, nice crystalline nuggy.   Congrats for your nice finds and thanks for sharing.  

Cheers.

Mike.

Yes Mike,

That one is 2.5 grams and when I dug it up I thought that it was another lead projectile until I washed the dirt off it.

Cheers

Doug

Hi folks,



Found this lot last weekend.

Cheers

Doug

Nice variety of colour there Doug, well done.

Cheers Kon.

Well done, Doug. You obviously found your way around. Bit of leaf gold there by the look of it.

AnnieL wrote:Well done, Doug. You obviously found your way around. Bit of leaf gold there by the look of it.

Yes Annie,

The large piece of leaf gold went 1.06 grams and was found with the Gold Monster 1000 with the large coil down about 100mm on Ground Balance Auto Plus and All Metals. GM gets the big thumbs up from me.

Cheers

Doug

Nice work, perhaps the flat sheet gold occurs elsewhere as well but to my eyes at least that is unmistakably some beautiful Western Ck Gold, good to hear Jeff and Shirley are still getting good numbers of prospectors to the field, some amazing gold has come from there in the last few years, big and solid lumps to make your mouth water and sheets of that flat stuff by the handful at times, much of it I have seen with my own eyes  and held in my hands but I still believe the there is without doubt some very good gold yet to be found on WK

Wayne.