The company I work for has just been awarded a contract for 10yrs worth 900 million to develop and mine gold for Anglo gold in WA. With gold looking strong and the opportunity to transfer it may be time to buy that metal detector and do a bit of prospecting. A friend of mine has been doing it for a few years now and I've seen his success with nuggets upto 2kg, I think I might have GOLD FEVER...
The old Minelab detectors are almost as good as the top of the range new ones and can be bought for under $1500 eg the SD2000,2100,2200. In fact I see some prospectors going back to them because they are simpler to use (less control knobs).