Nice one man,looking forward to the snow melting alright!
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Good to see you here Matt! Yep was bloody chilly in the bush still, didnt last too long sniping especially when the suns not shining🥶
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Very hard won. 160mm rain in 24 hours. Biggest flood in 20 years and creek essentially unaccessible.
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A few random bits from the last few weekends.
A bit grim but better than a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
JW 
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Beggars can’t be choosers. Rivers are flooded and dirty. Took my wee plastic sluice out for a mission today. 3hrs of easy shoveling for 0.43g With the gold price what it is that’s enough to put a decent dinner on the table.
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Yea the suns on the wrong side of the river up there in winter ha ha
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Home made clean up sluice works great, helped a friend on a dredge and ran the cons through it, didnt see any gold making it down the lower end of the sluice. Great for black sand!
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After loosing my damn snuffer bottle at the end of a full days sniping yesterday i returned today to get redemption! Great day out, looking like a good summer ahead.
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Spent this weekend at the Aorere B PFA trying to get a gram!..
fell agonizingly short …lol!
Good to catch up with some locals and recharge the batteries!
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Bugger Mal. Couple more shovels & you may have got there. At least you got something. 
JW
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Also found this in my end of day clean up. I was very excited to have dug up a coin in my diggings. Later to find its a 2006 20 cent piece. Havent worked out how it got through my classifier. And proof the sluice, even when running fast looses nothing of value.
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Keep digging hard fellow miners, the gold price is on a steady climb - $152.78/g this morning.
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Happy New Year guys & gals.
Nice wee pocket there Mal. Got to love that rotten quartz for trapping gold.
6 hours detecting up in those hills a few days ago. Just smashing signals out of the bedrock.
This area coughed up quite a few small bits. Bit of a pocket.
This is what came out of that pocket
Total for a fun few hours on a run of bedrock 1.5 meters wide by 10 meters.
All the best for 2025
JW
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Looks impressive Mal. I can see how it got you heart rate up.
Bit more detected gold for another days bedrock detecting. GPX 6000 & Coiltek 10x5 GoldHawk Coil.
This piece was a sun baker. Just jammed in that crack. I actually saw it a split second before the coil hit it. In that split second I thought it was just a gold leave or goldy coloured stone, until the coil hit it. It went mental. I bent down to pick it up but it was really jammed in there. Had to hook it out with my crevice tool. .98 of a gram.
This was the next biggest bit.
Best off luck out there
JW
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A few more rats & mice for an afternoon detect on Sunday just gone.
Three were got with the GPZ 7000 & 15x10 X coil & the rest with the GPX 6000 & 10x5 Coiltek Goldhawk coil.
I got gifted a 20" Concentric X Coil. This was a prototype that is now being produced for the market. I was going to try it on Sunday but the grass was a bit long.
I love the 15" Concentric Coil so I am hoping this will go that bit deeper but still have good sensitivity. Bit of a beast of a coil & is only slightly heavier than the GPZ 7000 minelab standard 14x13 coil. I have never had a minelab coil back on my Zed since getting X coils.
JW
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Hi guys. I was dying to try out the 20" CC X coil so went out Saturday. I still had the 15x10 coil on the Zed from the previous weekend so started off with that.
Managed 4 bits on the fringe area of some old workings but in deeper ground. I then wacked on the 20"
But lucked out on anything going over the same ground. I was hoping it would go deeper on bits missed by the 15x10 but it wasn’t to be.
I then broke out the GPX 6000 that I had also taken & targeted shallow bedrock areas & cracks & crevices with the deadly little coiltek 10x5. I managed another 9 little bits for a total of 13 for 1.6 grams adding to the rats & mice.
The top 4 are the bits got with the 15x10 the rest with the 6000
Best of luck out there
JW
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