Ants and Gold

Well i went back to the patch today with the 18" minelab coil, this is the largest coil i have and it detects deep looking for large gold
I decided to detect over the wash as its deeper and i did get a few littlies there with the 8".
Kicking sticks and branches out of the way i got a nasty bite on my leg and expected to see a brown snake hanging off my leg but looking down there was a friggin big ant and he stung, so quickly flicking him off i had a look at the ground and they were everywhere, on my boots and charging for my legs, these ants come straight at you, no messing around, so a quick dance and i was outa there way.
Its a 13k ride on the quad to get out here from camp so wasn't heading back just cos an ant bit me so kept detecting and glad i did.
Dug an 8" deep hole to get this funny looking 3.4 gram nugget out, the signal it gave made me think it might have been a specie as it was a wobbly signal, not long after i dug out the smaller .7 gram nugget.
Total nuggets now off this patch is 66 nuggets and just over an ounce, 31.7 grams, ok for 7 days work, cheers Stu

8" deep hole where the nugget came out of and the 18" coil.

3.4 gramer, strange nugget.

Ants, these are like the inch ants back in Vic

Relics from around camp

Quartz, this is an aboriginal grinding stone, it fits perfectly in your hand.

Old boomerangs, they could be hundreds of years old. 

G,day, not all you find out here is gold, here is some very old boomerangs and grinding stones and i think there called womeras, those things that are used to throw spears,

This is greenstone, its been used by the aboriginies to grind seeds. these grinding stones could be centuries old, maybe a thousand years.

Lots of rubbish from the old timers, this cup might be from the depresion years.

Old hand gun barrel, could be from the 1890s

Still working the patch

Hi, im still going over this patch and sunday i put the small coil on the detector to see if i could find the very small nuggets that the bigger coils miss, i found 12 tiny nuggets weighing 2.7 grams total. Not big dollers in small nuggets but fun to dig up.Stu



The patch

These are the 3 coils that i use, the larger one for finding patches then once found i put the round grey coil on, then to clean up all the little nuggets i use the small coil.

small nuggets that the small coil finds

A NEW PATCH

G,day, About a week ago i found a nice patch of gold, first day i found 10 nuggets then 21 the next day then 12 then 1 then 3 then 5 for a total of 52 nuggets, no big ones so the total weight was 25 grams, thats ok for a weeks work and it would be good if every week is this good. I went back to this spot with some water and a gold pan to see if there is any fine gold in the soil but not a spec of fine gold to be found which sometimes is the case. the nuggets that i found was very reefy so it hadn't travelled far from its source so i'm looking for a reef but yet to find it. cheers Stu

the first 4 days work



2 small nuggets and an ironstone specie

Elvis  ready to go home





found 5 nuggets within a very small area