JOHNS GRAVE

G,day all, one of the prospectors that lives out on the mining lease that i stayed on the other week is an American called Hal, he likes to go detecting at a spot where a young New Zealander was burried back in the late 1800s, his name was  John Aspinall and he died from a lightining strike at age 23, Hal seems to think that John is hiding a big nugget out there and there seems to be a fair amount of gold that gets detected on a regular basis, ive been out there twice and the first time i only got 2 very small nuggets but thursday i found four nuggets weighing 3.7  grams with the bigger one weighing 1.8 grams, i also got 3 nuggets at another spot early in the day,


[ top ]Some of the gold i found near Johns grave [ above ] Johns grave ]

Had a good day

G,day, i went out this morning for a detect and only had one nugget before lunch but got a few straight after lunch with the bigger nugget weighing just over 3 grams and the total came to about 5 grams, the big one was about 8 to 10" down sitting on the hard calcrete, on the way back to the c,van/park i had to stop for 10 minutes because of blasting in the big open cut gold mine near town, when im out bush you hear them blast and its like an earthquake,cheers Stu

The speccie

The quartz speccie

G,day all, seeing as though this nugget is not very much to look at i decided to put it in the dolly pot and mash it up and see how much gold is in it, test before i smashed the specimen indicated that there was about 26 grams of gold, after smashing the nugget and panning it i then weighed all the gold and it came to 26.69 grams so the test is pretty accurate, it looks pretty good in the pan, the machine in the pic is a dry blower which dirt is droped onto the top and the large rocks slide off and the rest is proccesed by hot air instead of water, cheers Stu

panning off, and below the all the gold from it

the old dry blower

Lou's nugget

 Above is the 2.6 gram nugget i dug up a few months ago for Louise, i had a loop put on it at the jewlers in Kalgoolie last week and bought the necklace, happy birthday Lou,


left,some flora, i drove past acres of this little purple flower but didnt stop to take a pic,

left is  the outside dunny but it is a flush toilet,

 the quad above and some gold this week,

Hi all, well im living on a mining lease and house sitting or i should say shed sitting for them while there away on prospecting trip, ive been given a quad bike to use for a week while there away and i was thinking of getting a postie bike but now ill get a quad bike as it has alot more room on it to carry stuff, ive been having a good look around on the quad and found an area that has had previous detectors go over it but i decided to give it a go anyway and tuesday and wednesday ive managed to get 11 small nuggets weighing 4 grams not alot but its been adding up slowly, im here until saterday then i might head into town for a few days then head out somewhere again, seeyas later, Stu





right, ive seen a couple of these lizards now,

 

couple more nuggets, 5 grams, the bigger  one is 3.6 grams

Furthar off the beaten track

G,day all, well i headed out for a two week stint in the bush looking for a lost and abandoned mine, [ its lost cos i havnt found it yet ] first stop was an area ive looked at before and i spent 2 days there and found just 3 small nuggets, the pic above was taken from a hill not far from where i found the 3 nuggets and the white speck right of centre is the campervan, after this i went looking for the mines and it took all day but i finally found them and they were about 2 ks nth from where the map says they were, i unhooked the camper from the trailer and found that the rear step/bullbar and tow bar was just hanging on by a few lose bolts,the roads are terrible at the moment, 2 bolts had been sheared off and the rest were bent and i couldnt tighten them, i was about 20ks from the nearest dirt rd and well off the beaten track so i decided to stay for a couple of days seeing as though i was already there, alot of searching and walking in all directions around the mines and i came up with ziltch gold but the veiws and birds that i saw made up for it, the first parrots i saw were Port Lincoln parrots, large birds and emerald green with a blck head which looked amazing in the wild, the second parrot i saw i couldnt identify until i got on the internet when back in town but it blew me away with its colours, it was a Mulga parrot which i had never seen before and the pics i took were shockers so i downloaded some pics of them so you could see what they look like, after another day i decided not to work on the van out here in case i made it worce so i headed slowly back to town 90ks away and broke a fan belt on the way in. Its 29/8/12 and im in Laverton c/van park again and i spent all day fixing the van and bought new bolts at the servo and now its ready to go again but ive booked in for a week so i will do some local detecting until next week when i head off again, the gold has dropped off a little latley so i hope that changes soon, cheers Stu
below [A few good nuggets i found near town ]

the old not so lost mines,

i would love to go down them and have a look but to dangerous on my own,

veiws from the top of an outcrop, its amazing the flowers that grow amongst the rocks

below is the outcrop that i climbed

another mine close by

this is the Mulga parrot, just amazing colours, this parrot is about the size of an Eastern Rosella

the Port Lincoln parrot, its about the size of a crimson rosella