My 2017 W.A. Gold

My Tally for the 2017 Season in Western Australia, 715 pieces of gold, Biggest nugget was 10.87grams, smallest was 0.09grams. Biggest patch was 62 nuggies in an area not much bigger than my 14ft caravan.  All found with the mighty Zed.

Gold is sectioned in the photo as explained :

Top section and the small pile at the 9 o’clock position was from my trip early in the season
( roughly 3 months ) for 458 pieces.

Small pile at the 8 o’clock position and remainder of the gold on the right lower section was from the latter trip of just over a month golding for 257 pieces.

9 o’clock & 8 o’clock piles was the 62 patch found on my last day of the early trip and clean up on the first day of the latter trip ( best patch bit was a 6 grammer with a total patch weight of 37.56 grams )

Total weight comes in at 11ounces ( possibly a tad more when I crush the speccies )

Cheers
Ashley

Nice work Ash, well done.

cheers dave

Thanks Dave, Looking forward to the 2018 season already !

Cheers
Ashley

Top effort. Well done Ash

Cheers Kon.

Great result, Ash.

great result mate.  now i know there is somebody like me who likes fondling his nugs when not out detecting ,  remember scrooge mcduck and his money bin  got nothing on us ... kev

Hi Ash
Thats a really interesting result and a great tally.I'm sure there was a lot of man hours gone into that.Well done mate.

Well done Ash!

How many trash targets did you dig as well - that's going to amount to a heck of a lot of holes! At least the 11 oz will help pay for the chiropractor's bills!

Well done, Cheers,
GnQ

Thanks Kon & AnnieL,

Kevlorraine2 : Yep , Before i squirreled it away I had to get a collective photo as they were still in grouped containers.

Deutran : For sure, You have to spend the hours to get results.

GoldnQuarts : Plenty of trash targets were dug in some areas but on quite a number of the patch areas i did find the vast majority of targets were gold. Mind you on one patch i got 31 nuggies and slap bang in the middle of the patch was 11 shotty pellets in a smallish area.

Cheers
Ashley

A nice return for your effort Ashley !
We did 6 weeks this year NE of Leonora for 3 ounces, biggest nugget 12 grams.
Cheers,
Rick

had to look twice to see that coil under all that gold mate good work

Mighty fine effort Ash

Bet every bit gets the blood flowing & the beer would taste that better at the end of each day .

Thanks for sharing

Anthony

Congrats Ashley
Very nice

Oooo itchy feet itchy feet
Now the next few months will go slow

Thanks AraratGold and congrats on your finds.

Thanks joe82 & ttrash, Lots of fun digging that lot.

Jen : Thanks for the congrats, No thanks for pointing out the bl..dy obvious in the last bit

Cheers
Ashley

Your very welcome Ashley

Very nice finds and tally there Ashley. Big congrats to you for another good season in WA. Thanks for sharing your nice finds on the forum.

PS it was great catching up with you guys.

Cheers.

Mike.