FLYSPEC 2021

WishfulThinking wrote:Great Pictures mate!....l Think the Cohns Bottle top would sell for at least $10+ on Ebay

you have got to be kidding me wishful,10 bucks!
I'd should flog it and get a cheap bottle of plonk


cheers moredeep

moredeep wrote:

I'm still pinging some nice little nuggets from the same spot,8 today and 3 the other day[still waiting for that deep murmur]
Big fat juicy spiders are aplenty at the moment, I'm still amazed at their engineering skills by being able to attach a web to a blade of grass some distance away for structural support.
Not sure how they actual decide what to use, do they actual look around and think that's a good looking anchor point. Life's big question


cheers   moredeep

Well some of them have pretty good vision I reckon.

One day a year or so back I watched an orb Weaver build his web from woe to go.
I spotted him up on the eaves one late afternoon and watch it pacing up and down for a few minutes and then he drops down on his web to the driveway, strolls across the drive way and heads straight to the fence post on the opposite side like he had it all planed out, climbs the post , parks at the top and retrieves his single strand web that he came down on, pulls it tight then heads across it to his starting point at the top of the roof, has a bit of a think and then drops another runner and anchors it to the house and on and on this activity went till he had this bloody great web built across my driveway.. I didn't take the car out that night, ya know how big these orb weavers can get By the time I got up the next day he had pulled the web down and was no doubt sleeping somewhere. The next evening it was strung between two pine trees on my front nature strip. He seemed to like that spot coz he put it up night after night until one day I think a currawong got him.

Such an amazing thought and planning process and like you said; most orb's remove the web before sun up,I've seen that done around here.
Sort of like those sneaky hidden speed camera cars,they keep popping up in different places

cheers moredeep

Got out for a couple of hours today at the most flogged place on earth,I'd given up going there because it was DONE TO DEATH!
It's a nice part of the world and only went there for a walk, not expecting a cracker.
I got a zippy little signal through thick leaf litter and was expecting some lead a 2.55 gmer
Just goes to show ,never say; done to death


cheers moredeep

And blow me down pinged another classic bendigo soft drink cap,BCX.
Funny thing Is it's my old stopping ground as a little tacker & misspent youth;golden square.
why is it so


cheers moredeep

Nice one Moredeep. Keep it up.

Regards Axtyr.

fingers crossed mate you'll be up chasing the yellow stuff soon.
To everyone in lock down across the nation,hang in there.
For anyone struggling,seek professional help if needed or do as I do have a little fire in the back yard,sip on a lager, pat the dog and ponder.
I'm happy to yak



cheers moredeep

moredeep wrote:fingers crossed mate you'll be up chasing the yellow stuff soon.
To everyone in lock down across the nation,hang in there.
For anyone struggling,seek professional help if needed or do as I do have a little fire in the back yard,sip on a lager, pat the dog and ponder.
I'm happy to yak



cheers    moredeep

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Hi everyone
These are appropriate for the flyspec thread, some RAG territory gold,about 5 days detecting so not special but visited some good spots while I was up there
All but 2 were specimens, mainly in ironstone, no doubt there is potential up there but you have to find somewhere that the gold Is coarse as a lot of places microscopic gold ,some areas I was in plenty of shafts but no workings below
Cheers

And this one here Trilobite told me minor workings only,not bagging Trilobite at all think it is a great app, but shows mining records often don’t show the true picture
Cheers

Nice going Steve, any gold these days is good gold
I suppose that's a minor hole compared to the monsters kicking around that region.
Good luck with it all, thanks for posting, I never get sick of out back pictures


cheers moredeep

Just a couple from the last 2 days, my old spot which I thought I had exhausted grew a couple more. The bottom speci has that nice red iron oxide clay associated with gold and quartz
A bit of colour to brighten your lockdown, hang in there everyone.


cheers    moredeep

stevevic wrote:And this one here Trilobite told me minor workings only,not bagging Trilobite at all think it is a great app, but shows mining records often don’t show the true picture
Cheers

I wasn't far off that size scrap last Saturday in the Triangle. Took me 2.5hrs (seriously) to unearth a chunk of steel from underneath what i thought was a 150 year old tree.

Some nice flash's of colour in the bush at present ,plus a couple of tiddlers to boot, .8 of a gram [sorry about poor gold pic]



cheers    moredeep

Dug up an 1970 prospector's guide book, full of great info.
Victoria is surprisingly well scattered with gold, you don't realise it until you see it like this.


cheers    moredeep

should of done this pic in the first place


cheers moredeep

A lot of unknown locations are mentioned in  James Flett book "The history of gold discovery in Victoria"


The history of gold discovery in Victoria / James Flett.https://www.vgls.vic.gov.au › detailnonmodal › ada › S...
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A little outing to Tarnagulla today before the weather turns to manure here in vic, saw a few fellow prospectors out and about.
1.8 gms in total all within a metre of each other and that was it for the day

cheers moredeep

Returning home with some form of colour, is always better than no colour at all moredeep. Top going, well done.

Kon

Another trip to Tarnagulla today, as I'll probably never get back to WA prospecting this is the closet country to it.
It was very quiet with the odd bird song and some chunky Quartz reef poking it's head out.
1.1 gms all up and a couple of deep digs to get the heart racing but alas only deep iron/rust and a button.
Hopefully end of lockdown soon guys and gals, hang in there


cheers    moredeep

Well done moredeep. Weather seems to be getting warmer with each passing week. Looking forward to getting out there for a myself

Kon.

A blustery day out in the wilds today, I've known of this spot for a long time out near eureka reef in Castlemaine.
A large shaft surrounded by the tailings from it, a raised area I guesstimate to roughly 70mx 150m x 3m of blue stone shale/slate.
It's an incredible amount of rock from one mine shaft,in the back ground is a foundation for what looks like a steam powered winch.
To the left is the remains of concrete flooring and a bucket that was some distance away; which weighed a ton, I couldn't budge it,
Those guy's did it tough in the good old days
No tiddlers though

cheers    moredeep

It's been a while
A trip to the GT today was cold/hot /blustery/fly's and mozzies but who cares?
When you get a couple of tiddlers and a speci [ 5.5gms ] the crappy weather pales into insignificance and the beer tasted bewdiful


cheers   moredeep

.41g from today.

It has been dubbed "The Ingrown" as it reminds me of the painful ingrown toenail spurs I sometimes suffer from.

A trip to tarna on friday was of slim pickings
A broken stem a tiddler and a curio that looks Chinese in origin,looks like a foot made of bronze? and was found about a foot deep as well.
A nice day in the bush


cheers moredeep

A pleasant morning outing with axtyr today,the wind had a bit of nip in it though
7 tiddlers in total for both of us,my 4, 1.196gms.
I've finally passed my weekly goal of a gram a week for the year,and there's still a couple to go


cheers    moredeep

Yes, tiddler day it was yesterday.

My first piece was a massive 0.05 gram, followed by a 0.42 gram piece which was bigger than I expected. Finally I nailed another huge one at 0.06 gram. 0.52 gram all up.
Not bad for an area that we have thrashed over the past 12 months.

I dips me lid to you Moredeep.

Regards Axtyr.

cheers moredeep