hows you year been???

hi all, just wondering how your detecting season has been, good great shisthouse myself have managed only 4-5oz for the year

I managed about 5 grams under an ounce. Not bad considering I had a lot of time off after a hernia operation and now physio on my left shoulder. I knew that Zed was heavy.

Regards Axtyr.

We had a good time on our usual field excursion to WA for about 5 months, nice amount of gold for the effort, busy planning the excursion for next year.

cheers dave

Hi all

Had a good year on finds not as good as last year as lack of time on the field.
Biggest this year was a nice 13ozs lump and many 1 ozs plus and hundreds of smaller bit and most of those were with the 2300 .
One more trip this week before the years out and hoping for another Sov as the place I am aiming for should bave one and lots of good silvers too.
Hope to see afew more of you all out there next year so all the very best for Christmas and new year and stay safe.

Cheers
Detrack

that's good to hear (except adrians knees n back) I have one last weeklong push starting tomorrow til the big man shows lets hope theres some big nuggys to boot

This is embarrassing.
Only about 10 pieces for under 5 grams
But our health is good & we enjoyed every little bit we found.
Better than gold we got two beautiful grand children for the year.
Rob.

Hey Joe, flat a strap bro Hope your crew and all other members have a great xmas and all rip into it next year Cheers from the Gold Hounds.

hotrob wrote:
This is embarrassing.
Only about 10 pieces for under 5 grams
But our health is good & we enjoyed every little bit we found.
Better than gold we got two beautiful grand children for the year.
Rob.

hey mate,gold is gold but grandkids congrats to your family mate best xmas pressy ever and let the gold gods shine in 2018

bloodgold2 wrote:Hey Joe, flat a strap bro Hope your crew and all other members have a great xmas and all rip into it next year  Cheers from the Gold Hounds.

hey man, yeah always flat as they say aint no rest for the wicked a feeling we no all to well in the gold game, cheers for the well wishes and lets hope 2018 pumps em out all the best to you guys (and gals) have a great break and good luck for the new year,cheers joe.

joe82 wrote
hey mate,gold is gold but grandkids Very Happy congrats to your family mate best xmas pressy ever and let the gold gods shine in 2018

That is so true mate.
And thanks for the good wishes. The same to you & yours.
Rob.

Better than last year and the year before that. A big slug is still alluding me - maybe next year.

I got my new PB. A healthy 12.17 gram piece. And a total of 12 pieces for 22 grams and a beautiful speccie of .81 of a gram for the year.
Being a full time single Dad of 2. Means I don't get out that much.
But I'm happy as larry with my results.


Lee

happy wife happy life as they say Adrian don't worrie gem I'm still waiting for her aswell I went down 500mm yesterday on the side of a quatz reef where I have pulled nuggets on the right side, I got a soft target with the 7000 in normal on the left side. it was gold alright XXXX GOLD TIN  good work on the PB neogeo something to look forward to breaking next year eh I to also have 2 young boys and no all to well how hard it can be to get out some days merry Christmas to you all,

gday all, yep had a happy year detecting, got more than i probably deserved they came my way consistantly during the year with the exception of the tail end, i went seven days without a sniff of gold, and on the eight day i found a .04gramm clean speck that gave me the best thrill of the year.

i am not used to going a few days without anything, and this day really was only a compromise, as i had dug a target, was down two inches, tested the throwout pile and got a faint signal, it turned out to be the .04 nug, {could only find it when tipped onto the coil and rubbed} but the main signal was still in the hole, it was a shotgun pellet down about six inches . i will keep them no matter how small or how they come my way.

so as my technique seemed to be broken i decided to send my detector back to minelab for repairs, it needed a new screen replacement, and as the warranty runs out next march, this is a reminder to all that the three years is up then if you need to have repairs done ... kev

I did about 5 trips to Tibooburra this year for about 25 days of detecting I think. I also did a reasonable amount of detecting locally in the triangle. All up I got so far 35.5 grams. better than last year as I only got an ounce then. 32 grams. Merry Christmas all.

G'day Joe & All,

We can't complain, as we have noticed that the Gold is getting smaller these days, but as they say All Gold is Good Gold.

MERRY CHRISTMAS To All and a HAPPY/Prosperous NEW YEAR To All.

Cheers.

Mike.

hey mike, true that as long as its yellow, heading out again today so far 7.2gm for 2 days all the best to you guys for the festive season I'm planning a big one for 2018 have a great break,

My year has been cathartic, cleansing and purgative (hmmmm,,,,lotsa good words in there!). I've finally decided to give up serious prospecting. After 35 years of it and some good gold and really good times, I'm afraid "I'm over gold". Over it, sick of it, too old for it, bores the A*s* of me etc. But what really turned me off was the horrible realisation that over the last few years, I've been living like a fool and deceiving myself that one day I would find something really good. I never did and now I've given up thinking about it. I've finally given up second-guessing gold. But that shouldn't stop others from having that dream, just do it!

My dozer's up for sale, almost sold, I've sold the crushers and some other gear already. I have a small wet plant still out there and I'll be bringing that in next season. It's for sale if anyone is interested. All my GPX detectors have been sold but I'll keep the 7000 and the SDC for rare occasion if I ever go out to visit old mates.

There's a lot less gold around than there was back in the day and we need to walk a LOT further than we once did. But I'm too old to be putting in those miles any longer; my knees are buggered, my back's worn out, arthritis is murdering me and body strength is diminishing to much to be of any use taking a "Cruiser gearbox out on the side of the road"!! (Yep done that and worse).

However, I'll maintain my interest by continuing to support prospectors by working for APLA in Western Australia. It keeps me busy, very busy and I'll still be watching what's going on. In fact, these days I find it's more fun doing APLA than actually looking for the stuff! I know that's weird but that's life.

Good luck to you all, and don't forget - without APLA in WA we'd be like Victoria and NSW, basically buggered. "We need you and you need us"

Merry Christmas all.