Great expectations 2022

hugh62 wrote:

geof_junk wrote: Adrain Did you drop these teeth at the beach while swimming.

 

thats a bit spooky geof junk , did ya  detect those falsies ? there was no other remains nearby ? i'm just curious m8 , how can ya loose ya falsies ,espically when there gold plated ? how old do you reckon they are ?

NO bodies. The teeth would be about 1930 and made out of sovereigns. Unfortunate I did not find them but my wife brother did back in the mid 1980. He got about 300 gold rings before I got there and I found over 50 gold rings myself when I got to the same beach which was hit with large waves due to a hurricane.

Slow going over the last couple of days,the wet ground is making life interesting here in tiddlerville
I'm not sure if the old timers hit the grog to celebrate or to drown their sorrows, either way it looks like they had a good time



cheers moredeep

Good on ya moredeep. Considering saturated ground is now found in just about every area of the golden triangle these days, one can only do whatever the ground & detector/coil timings allows them to. Well done.

Kon

Twas another hard slog today,ground noises everywhere, numerous setting changed to try and soothe the hot rock beast
I was getting a little punch drunk when a nice broad signal popped up a 4.6 grammer

A couple of tiddlers during the week as well.


cheers     moredeep

Nice slug of gold there moredeep. Well done.

Kon

That's a great reward for all the hell we are going through at the moment.

Regards Axtyr.

Nice clunker for the rattle jar well done

Just under a gram, the ground remains hard work with lots of iffy signals; they're nearly as bad as the bugs.
Lashed out a bought a can of bushman's with deet, it worked a treat



cheers moredeep

Nice going moredeep.
The skeeters with so many now stagnant pools of rainwater about, coupled to humid temperatures, are atrocious. Drilling operations commence from the moment one exits their vehicle.  They seem to attack the weary prospector/detectorist in squadron form, shrinking ones head to the size of an orange in next to no time. Blood sucking, head shrinking witch doctors I tell ya.  

Kon

Thee old mojo has been a bit quiet lately, what with the rain, mozzies and battery gremlins I had a mild dose of the can't be's
Finally got out far an hour or so this arvo and rekindled the spark of sorts with this sub gram speci.


cheers moredeep

Good on you moredeep, well done.
Less it comes down in buckets again any time soon, the grounds in & around gold localities are just starting to dry up.

Kon

A trip to Tarnagulla today yielded just under 4 gms.
It was the same area I'd been to many a time but for some reason the old 5000 seemed to be humming nicely.
The hot ground wasn't as bad today and I also managed to snag a bit of rubbish at about 300mm.
The weather was nice and cool with a robust wind which helped keep the mozzies away


cheers     moredeep

I was keen as mustard to get out again after my last effort but the audio gremlins struck again
Several attempts to fix the problem on site failed, so it was out with the buzz box relic detector [ minelab sovereign ] .
To my surprise a fairly pristine 1882 half penny popped up, it was in an amazing condition for something that had been in the ground for 140 years
The other pic is of a popular gully around here ,check out the amount of hard labour these diggers did to remove the rocks out of the creek.[picture below]
A fair bit of high banking activity was noticeable especially after the recent heavy rains.



cheers  moredeep

moredeep wrote:
I was keen as mustard to get out again after my last effort but the audio gremlins struck again
Several attempts to fix the problem on site failed, so it was out with the buzz box relic detector [ minelab sovereign ] .
To my surprise a fairly pristine 1882 half penny popped up, it was in an amazing condition for something that had been in the ground for 140 years
The other pic is of a popular gully around here ,check out the amount of hard labour these diggers did to remove the rocks out of the creek.[picture below]
A fair bit of high banking activity was noticeable especially after the recent heavy rains.



cheers  moredeep

The Sovereign can still find things in the gold fields; I used mine there in Tarnagulla  and elsewhere in the Triangle with some success many many moons ago.
Yeah that coin is in very good nick after such a long time in the ground....They were made from bronze.

The year is coming to a close at a rapid pace
My aim this year was a gram a week and I'm about 3 gms away.




cheers moredeep

At least you are still finding the stuff mate.
I have not even turned a detector on in over 4 months.
Forum is a tad quiet aye!

tis a bit but that's ok, I can handle quiet
I'll just keep posting my tiddlers to keep things ticking over


cheers moredeep

And I have re acquired my interest in meteorites...Have stuck a few super magnets up on the roof to see if I can catch some iron micro meteorites.
These things are continually settling to earth. Be interesting to see if something  attaches itself to any of them......Might be waiting a while
I guess I could crawl about on the roof searching all the nooks and crannies with the magnet but I am too lazy to do that. I will just wait for a week or so and see what the magnets have attracted during that time.

Well that's it for the year, nearly made the 1 gram/week
Happy new year and have a great 2023:cheers:


cheers moredeep

Around 80 bucks per week = approx 4000 AUd = a lot of digging and a lot of back filling, fly and mozzie swatting.
Wish I wuz doing the same....Maybe 2023 will be my year.

That's it Adrian, it's only a hobby, gets me out of the house and off my bum
Plus digging and back filling makes the beers taste sooooooo much better



cheers moredeep