Gold detecting in Victoria - videos

Part 2....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwrtuoFgpKI[/youtube]

This is the first time I have videoed someone detecting. Using a (fairly ordinary) non-high definition fuji camera so sorry if it's pixelated for viewers.

Uncle Russ has been detecting for Gold the last 2 and a half years and the nuggets shown in the videos are the average size he usually finds.

Worth the effort? He has found 2500 of these in the last 2 and a half years. Over 17 ounces.

He would also have dug at least 20 bits of crap per nugget which is a lot of digs and work.
 
Part 3...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mCJtVS2pd4[/youtube]

All together he ended up finding 7 nuggets for a total of 1.16 grams in around 3 hours.

A great way to spend New Years Day. :)
 
hiho said:
was C3PO with you?
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:lol:

We werent sure if the signals would be audible...he is using headphones instead of an external speaker and we werent sure if wind noise etc would be a problem also.

This is our first recording effort. Hoping we can provide better quality, edited footage in the future.
 
Uncle Russ went detecting on Saturday without his cameraman and dug a nugget weighing 0.82 grams.

Checked where he had dug it and there was another faint signal.

Two feet under the small nugget was a 37 grammer!!!

His production crew (me) is hitting him up for a pay rise (currently getting bugger all :( )
 
A new Uncle Russ vid will be up on youtube soon.

Same crappy camerawork, but is being edited in order to improve quality. :)
 
^^^ Has anyone been able to watch this?

I cant embed it. Have allowed embedding on youtube end.

My tech skills are like my camerawork. :(
 
mmm....shiney! said:
Conglomerate??? LMAO It's turtle-heading schist!!!!

Or echidna, I think.
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Sorry to not know my schist from my arse. :P Thus the large friendly disclaimer accross the screen. :D

It's all quartz, orange clay, dirt, hot rocks, pipe clay, dirty ugly coloured crap....whatever. We just find the good stuff thats amongst it minus the national geological knowhow.

So much of the ground has been dug out, turned over, sluiced, dredged, mined and then remined in later years with better equipment, that having a great knowledge of geology counts for little....Then some people decide to build a Bowling Club there. Hard to find indicaters and things amongst such mayhem, let alone decide whether any of the multitiude of targets is worth digging or not.

The drain shown has a flattened area above it that was formerly holes and mullock heaps from deep lead mining. It has been excavated for a new Bowling Club, but still hasnt been topped and levelled. There's 150 years worth of assorted junk that has been lifted, turned and redistributed there. The drain itself is also littered with surface targets.

Around these parts its not just a matter of look for some nice ground and away you go. Most of the nice ground has been done to death. Working out which are the best signals to dig in high junk spots is the hardest bit.
 
Dig the lot is what I would do EM, doubly so on our own block of land once my folks move into the area (got a nice looking bit of ground out that a way) :)
 
silvertorrent said:
Dig the lot is what I would do EM, doubly so on our own block of land once my folks move into the area (got a nice looking bit of ground out that a way) :)
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It depends on the ground. If it isnt original ground then deep targets could be all sorts of things. Got to be very fit to dig deep holes all day. All good if the ground is good, but if the majority is crap it can be very wearing.

We use small coils and try and find smaller gold that is closer to the surface. More targets, more digs, more possible positive results. Small coil will still find a large nugget, but not always the other way around.
 
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