Brrrrrr, it was cold.

Hi all.

I had a pleasant day out at Castlemaine. 4 of us have flogged this area over the past 3 years and I am surprised that there is anything left there.
I managed one small piece of 0.06 gram.


I couldn’t believe the number of pellets I found, all of which are number 9 shot at least. They look even smaller but I didn’t think they were made that small. I also found a couple of old percussion caps and a button as well as the usual assortment of .22 calibre projectiles. There was also a number of hot spots that I was sure were metallic signals but after digging them up they either spread out or disappeared.

A lot of junk from a thrashed area. The mind boggles.

Regards Axtyr.

Cold indeed & getting colder as winter sets in. Good on you for braving the weather conditions Axtyr & one bit of colour is better than no colour at all. Well done
Some types of gold & the way it sits orientated in mineralized soil, can be completely unresponsive to ones coil.
It is not so much that most gold bearing ground is flogged to death, as much as it is with the limitation capabilities of our detector/coil combos.

Kon