what do you look for in an area

what do you look for in an area to go detecting in like what are the indicators its best to be in the area too but what do you look for such as slopes and flat areas etc.....

wow! yellow mellow,big question there mate,bloody difficult question to answer.
I would tally the best 50 answers and crunch them through a super computer,and maybe just maybe you'll get a result.
For me personally, I like looking for the gentle/flattish slopes in the gold fields.
The Bendigo gold expo is coming up soon ,there will be a geologist there who will tell you how to find/look for big gold.[i wish].

cheers moredeep

what are structures

It all depends which part of the country you live in yellowmellow.
The area I live in is Castlemaine which was known as the largest alluvial gold fields in the world,gold was/is basically scattered every where.
Reefs run north south,there's plenty of shallow ground/exposed bedrock plus ancient river bed that deposited the yellow stuff far and wide.
I'm still baffled at times to where I find gold,there's no logic to it at times,half the fun is just wandering aimlessly and coming across a bit and yelling ureka!!

cheers moredeep

Tim
I had a great book by Stephan Barnham years ago which I lent and never got back so Im not sure of its name.He has 2 books that you can get on ebay. Gold detecting for novices and Gold detecting for the more serious.I feel it may be the second.If it is the one I had it shows how to read goldfields.Its a very good read with diagrams and will give you stacks of information.
Cheers Dig

Tim
Type lay of the land in the search box above right.Read my post in the topic third from the bottom. Some good info there
Cheers Dig