Newbie @ Wedderburn 5 grams in total.

Not bad for a newbie as ive only started this hobby 6 months ago, however what better way joining up this forum than to share with you my recent finds from Wedderburn. What a great place! friendly locals (well the ones that i came acroos) great weather and nice looking ground. Near by hills coated with conglomerate old river wash, many being processed by dozer's and a great spot to start. 5 nuggets were found and spot on 5 grams in total. largest one was a 2.5 followed by a 1.8 specimen ... others 0.2's so on.

Rob...

Hi Robo

Sounds like a great outing, some lovely gold, for a great reward, congrats.

Ronnie

Nice looking piece Robo and nice photo of it too... maybe a reference object alongside but none the less a gr8 looking piece. What equipment were you using?

Thanks guys, and yes 4rd that's a good point, i will note that down for next time.
Im probably the only person here who is using the GPX4800 but it's working brilliantly!
At the time i couldnt financially get the 5000 however the deal i got with this machine was to go to pass
up! Has no trouble what so ever picking up the smallest of nuggets 0.06 grams as i did last weekend up in Majorca.

At wedderburn the 2.5 was picked up using a 12 mono Nugget Finder coil about 1 ft in depth, hitting nice coarse
gravel for rock bottom which she was resting on.

Rob...

Yes you have done well Rob, very nice gold and pics, keep up the good work hope you find many more.

Cheers

Mike.

G'Day Robo and welcome to the forum, got some nice looking nugget's there well done How was the 4800 behaving with ground noise at Wedderburn? What soil timings were you using?

Great photo's also

Regards Ren...

Great effort Robo and your photo's really do the GOLD justice.

What camera did you use

Mariner3800

Well done Robo, great nuggetts and great pics to match...i'm sure there will be many more to come good stuff.

well done on the finds mate
nice pieces

Beautiful pieces, well done.

JR

Ren wrote:G'Day Robo and welcome to the forum, got some nice looking nugget's there well done How was the 4800 behaving with ground noise at Wedderburn? What soil timings were you using?

Great photo's also

Regards Ren...

Hey Ren thanks for the welcome.

As you may know, Wedderburn is known for its noisey ground however the 4800 worked surprisingly well. The settings used are as follows: Stabilizer 10, RX gain 12. Soil timing was in enhanced.

Rob...

mariner3800 wrote:Great effort Robo and your photo's really do the GOLD justice.

What camera did you use

Mariner3800

Thanks Mariner! Just my standard Cannon 450D with the standard lens

Thanks also everyone for there comments and warm welcome's.

Rob...

Well done Robo on your gold finds,good looking nuggets and your photographs show them off nicely.

PS..That`s a fair trip in a day,as i`ve done that return trip a few years back when i lived in Melbourne.

Cheers Eureka Dreams

Eureka Dreams wrote: Well done Robo on your gold finds,good looking nuggets and your photographs show them off nicely.

PS..That`s a fair trip in a day,as i`ve done that return trip a few years back when i lived in Melbourne.

Cheers Eureka Dreams

Your right it is a fair track up north from Melbourne so i made good use of the weekend. Also found something very strange which i've never found before ... made the same sound as gold which i dug up however it wasnt! It looks to be a silver nugget of some sort? It isn't a slug bullet, it's has brilliant shine (like it was polished) and the surface is un-even so its nothing man made. I'll post up some pics when i can.

Rob...

Gday Robo sounds like you may have found a Platinum nugget not sure but sounds like Platinum, did it have any weight to it. Be interested to see a pic of it fingers crossed.

Cheers.

Mike.