Just so you know that sometimes gold is hard won. Checked out an creek I’d not been to today, total of 15km hike with 1200m elevation gain. All for a few crumbs, but bloody good to get out there!
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Good stuff mate a came across ur YouTube a month or so ago are u going to do anymore
Probably not, haven’t got the time these days
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Hi Matt. Effort & reward. You have to be out there doing it to put yourself in with a chance. You may not think it is very much but you got to check out a creek you hadn’t been to before & got some colour. So that is a bonus regardless. Better than a skunk, which is what I got yesterday. 
Best of luck out there.
JW 
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I would keep looking there…that is nice stuff
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I like exploring new areas. There is the thrill of knowing that I might stumble across a big nugget or a rich creek that hasn’t seen a detector. Much more exciting than scraping crumbs out of known spots. But it can definitely result in not finding anything other than some new knowledge
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Yes… the exploring is a huge part of the fun & adventure of searching for gold.
JW
So is digging a big hole and making money 
What do you call a big hole? 
I can guarantee I have dug many a big deep hole & only been rewarded with rubbish. A lot more so than finding gold. Old gin traps, broken picks, shovel heads, pocket knifes, nails… But sometimes gold.
Probably my deepest was 2.5 feet for a pocket knife. Found initially with the GPZ 7000 & Minelab 14" coil but the Gold Bug 2 with its small snipping coil pinpointed it better as I got down deeper. It also told me it was an iron signal too. But I dug it out anyway on the off chance that there might be a gold signal down there as well. This time there wasn’t but often after removing a junk target there has been gold down in the dig, & usually more than one.
Best of luck out there.
JW
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Yeah, I found a wee nugget hiding under a nail up Moonlight Creek. I was running a GPX 4500 and everyone else I saw up there had Goldbugs so I suspect it got left behind as most people discriminated it as iron and walked on.
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Good for you Gav. 
I like Moonlight Creek (West Coast I assume) not our QT Moonlight. I like that one too. There must have been a bit of a crowd for you to say, everyone else. My last time there was just me & I was using a modded 4500. I just went down to the bedrock area straight down from the car park at Andersons flat. Down that track. Probably the most thrashed bedrock in the whole creek but I managed to find a piece. Gave me a very positive outlook on the modded 4500. I was using a 14 x 9 NF Advantage coil too. So not an overly small coil. I was blown away. I haven’t been back there since.
JW
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