Gold.That time of the year again.

One Easter many years ago David, a couple of us (we were single then) went to a place called O'Allen Ford on the Shoalhaven River near Braidwood N.S.W.

My mates were keen fishermen and went off doing that. Having nothing else to do, I got a washing up dish and started to pan some loose stones on a sandbar of the river.

I got 38 quids worth of gold in one hit (1961), sold it to a gold buyer in Sydney. When my mates came back they must have shifted about 10 tons of gravel & never saw a bloody thing.

The Mt. Browne Goldfield (Tibooburra) is north of where I live, locals go up there and fossick about, one fellow I knew reckons he never got anything, but gee he went back a lot. On a railway shunter's wage, he always had a new Toyota FWD every couple of years.

I'm talking with my wife about getting a 'detector' and giving FNQ a go. Anyway, good luck, it's a great hobby.

Dick

G'day David,

This Easter I am off to a dairy farm on the north coast of NSW. My neighbour owns it and says there is two old gold mines on the property and two on the property next door.

I leave mid May to join a Gold Prospecting Australia tagalong for 10 days at Laverton. Then myself and a Victorian couple are off by ourselves for thee weeks detecting, before I come home to Sydneytowards the end of July.

I detected at Halls Creek, Cue and Tobooburra last year .

Willie

When we first got married 39 and a bit years ago, I was doing some work in the back yard, digging up some weeds, any way I found what I thought was a Brass Compression Spacer that slides over copper tube, any way I put it in my shirt pocket and didn't give it any more thought, anyway when the Cook was doing the washing she found it and put it in a nicknack jar, she allways kept junk she found in my pockets, anyway several years later I was looking for a spacer washer, and just by chance I found this so called Compression Spacer in her jar, I gave it a clean up in the laundry tub, and found it was a Gold Wedding Ring, the Cook soaked in Jewellery Cleaner and later on she got it valued, it was worth $480-00 that was the only time I dug up Gold lol lol.

Cheers
Daza

Hi David M

In 1998 I was staying in Alice Springs and got talking to a guy who had been detecting around Tenant Creek. He claimed there was a lot of gold there and to prove it came back to see me with as much gold as a man can hold in two hands at once. Just amazing. Still in nugget form with lots of quartz. Must of been over $30,000 worth at the time when gold was $380 an ounce.

Been a fancy of mine for years to go out looking. Tried it once with a mate around Pine Creek (gold town in NT). Lots of gold mining going on there. Of course as amateurs not even really knowing how to tune a detector we did not find anything.

David

Wife and I are going to Mt Isa in in a couple of weeks and will be there for 4 weeks.

Is there anywhere I can go prospecting for gold up there?

Failing that where can I go fishing , or find a good pub. LOL

Regards BooBoo

We are certainly considering it. Being new to this gold detecting game I'm currently researching all I can about the various detectors available, SWMBO has agreed that maybe our $900 handout plus some could go towards the purchase of a detector. I just need to decide on the $'s we are prepared to spend to make that initial purchase, the detectors I like is, of course, the most expensive. Hopefully we will make it out into the bush (S/Cross/Kal) this winter.

Thought there might be a few prospectors on site.

Would have been a lot more easy gold around in 1961 Dick.Always pays to carry a pan on your travels.
Know the feeling well Williem :) Makes ya heart sink a bit.

Signed up with Prospecting for Halls Creek in July Willie.
Still gold around Laverton.If you can see the town water tank your in the right area. Spent 3 months there last year and did OK.

Not a bad days work extfilm.How did you go next day. :)

Don't know much about Mt Isa Boo Boo. A look on the NT Mines Dept site under fossicking might be a good idea.
Cheers Dave M.