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Date Posted: 10 July 2019

A Lesson to Be Learned

We all know as we gain experience as prospectors most of the trash is scattered all over on top of the ground and if you find a nail the audio usually gives you a double beep as it receives a signal from both e

Date Posted: 4 September 2013

Hunting for Goldies with the Minelab CTX 3030

I often liken detecting to fishing sometimes we come home with very little, sometimes we get a lot. Like fishing rod, bait etc, detector choice and location can make a big difference. My passion for Metal De

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Jack and Jill’s Western Australia Gold Prospecting Adventure - Part 1

Have you ever considered a gold prospecting trip to outback Western Australia? Not sure what to expect? Where to go? What to take? Is there any gold still to be found? We have been asked to share our diar

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Jack and Jill’s Western Australia Gold Prospecting Adventure – Part 2

Hello again from Jack and Jill in WA. As we look back through the diary it is great to be able to assure you that, no matter how many prospectors come and go around the old mining centres, no one gets all the g

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Jack and Jill’s Western Australia Gold Prospecting Adventure – Part 3

“Those look like detector holes”, Jill said, pointing to the right-hand side of the track, as we drove along. The terrain was flat, and quite uninteresting, but, sure enough, someone had obviously found some go

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Jack and Jill’s Western Australia Gold Prospecting Adventure – Part 4

Jack and Jill’s most northerly prospecting spot gave only mild success over quite a few days, with only one area that had been previously scraped to remove the surface stones, providing a number of small nugget

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Jack and Jill Return from WA with nearly 1000 Gold Nuggets

Having just returned to Victoria after 11 weeks of prospecting in Western Australia, we have cleaned, weighed, counted and admired our golden finds. There was not one piece that would make any national news bro

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Jack and Jill's First Day Out with the Minelab SDC 2300 Metal Detector

The area we chose to try out our new Minelab SDC 2300 detector in the W.A. goldfields was freshly chained when we first detected it three years ago. The chain man left about sixty small pieces for us at that