I love to watch serials about amateur's Aussie gold prospectors on TV.

Looks like fun !

I wonder if anybody here has some experience / bad or good to share?

I just bought $17 plastic pan on eBay and want to have a go next weekend to try it out.

Or any lucky with electronic nugget detectors?

Looks expensive, just to try and have some fun before chance to get money back on investment...and pleanty of people selling almost new, used once

Might be better off panning for bitcoin

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lotofwind said..
Might be better off panning for bitcoin

I pan gold and silver on markets.com but that is not so much fun.

Pan Ether and Bitcoin too , but you can loose much more then $17


Panning Tesla is fun hope will drop even further...

Can somebody here found a gold nugget worth a new board? sail or kite?

It's a hobby for most people and costs more than it makes.

Some of PW's industry pals are a bit more serious though, and can pull some bulk coins for a couple of weeks in the bush. To do this you'll need a dryblower. Perhaps you can invent a better one

There's nothing quite like a jar with 20 ounces of nuggs after a couple of weeks in the bush.

There is plenty of people who have found good amounts.
With a lot of knowledge, a $50K fourby, a $20K camping setup, a $10K detector, no life and solitude

See where I'm going with this...?

I went for a school excursion to Hill End in the 1970's. Managed to get a fleck of gold while panning in a creek. Kept it in my handkerchief. It was gone when I got home. I know exactly how those people feel that have lost all their bitcoin.

All I want is to check if there are any gold in creeks , ancient water ways on my hilly lifestyle farm.
For few thousands of years untouched. Maybe some bigger nuggets laying somewhere?

Ideally will be to hire detector for a weekend, not to buy anything,
Is Minelab 1000 is good enough to start seeking?

Without knowing anything about foreseeking ,I don't know what is the difference between Chinese device at $100 and Minelab top of the line $10,000 (?)
It is like buying top windsurfing speed gear by complete beginner .

Lets imagine that you are going on traditional sailing trip , anywhere in the country
and after hours get some nuggets , that fund you new gear! Usually escapade to sail in the country involve few hours of sailing, and the rest is free time to wonder around.( Usually what one find is only the local pub)

www.escape.com.au/destinations/australia/10-places-in-australia-to-strike-gold/image-gallery/c859694b6f1349aec1fb87fce286d9b8

If amatory searching for gold on your own land require permits ?

Hot, dusty, flys, just you sitting in the middle of nowhere wasting days for the chance to find 2k nugget..... Looks good for 30mins on tv, reality though...

Oh, ... And chance of getting lost, robbed, dogged or snaked just add to the awesomeness

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Macroscien said..
...If amatory searching for gold on your own land require permits ?

Yes you do.

You do not have prospecting rights just because you own the freehold land title. That only really applies in the US of A, not many other places and not in Australia.

I don't know what the rules are in Qld for amateur prospecting but I suspect it is something like everywhere else - a fossicking permit from the Qld Mines Dept. and permission from both the land owner and the mineral title holder. Both may want a cut of whatever you find.

If you are the land owner that bit should be easy and I doubt there is a mineral lease on your land, usually isn't or you'd know about it, so just a fossicking permit. Google would know.

You could also peg your own land for minerals and pay the lease fees each year if you so wanted to.

But unless you find the next Golden Mile, who would know ??




I have an old gold pit in my back garden (well, in the jungle behind the back paddock, but still in my boundary).

I don't know how deep it is, but it is very scary and I stay away from it. I don't want to know what is at the bottom of it.

What you do, if you discover gold on your property, is get a politician to grant an 'exploration/training' lease on your property, but before it comes out, buy out your neighbours. Then you sell the lease to a mining company and walk away with $30 million.

If you are unlucky you might get 3 years in gaol, but you probably get to keep the $30 million which is a pretty good return for 3 years.

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Carantoc said.. I have an old gold pit in my back garden (well, in the jungle behind the back paddock, but still in my boundary).
I don't know how deep it is, but it is very scary and I stay away from it. I don't want to know what is at the bottom of it.

Would you be happy to let someone use it for storage?

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Carantoc said..

Macroscien said..
...If amatory searching for gold on your own land require permits ?

Yes you do.

You do not have prospecting rights just because you own the freehold land title. That only really applies in the US of A, not many other places and not in Australia.

I don't know what the rules are in Qld for amateur prospecting but I suspect it is something like everywhere else - a fossicking permit from the Qld Mines Dept. and permission from both the land owner and the mineral title holder. Both may want a cut of whatever you find.

If you are the land owner that bit should be easy and I doubt there is a mineral lease on your land, usually isn't or you'd know about it, so just a fossicking permit. Google would know.

You could also peg your own land for minerals and pay the lease fees each year if you so wanted to.

But unless you find the next Golden Mile, who would know ??




I have an old gold pit in my back garden (well, in the jungle behind the back paddock, but still in my boundary).

I don't know how deep it is, but it is very scary and I stay away from it. I don't want to know what is at the bottom of it.

Thank you a lot.
Ok foreseeing licence is not that bad. possibly in the same range as anglers pays for fishing rod license.
I need to do more reading because short description refer to foreseeing on the beach, but I want on my own property.
Possibly need another licence


www.qld.gov.au/recreation/activities/areas-facilities/fossicking/licences-permits/purchase


As I can see that fee do not apply to club !!! Could I foreseek as our windsurfing club, or even to invite all mates to dig gold ?



at least we know the all club members could seek for gold and other previous on the beaches for free!
Good to know , because I found a watch on the beach that looks like golden .... years ago..

Ok I am keep reading and reading
Where can I forseek.
Still no so sure if I can seek on my own land , having already permit and permission from myself.

www.qld.gov.au/recreation/activities/areas-facilities/fossicking/rules/designated-areas

What if I need to seek for my lost bolts and screws and nuts while doing fencing on the farm? Do I need state permit too?

I didn't know you had lost your nuts, but I did always assume you had a screw loose, so it figures.

Pretty sure your efforts of swirling some dust abut in a bowl will be so far away from actual fossicking you'll be OK.

If the mines inspector does happen to see you then the first thing they would do is come and have a chat. I suspect after about 3 minutes chatting with you they will rapidly leave and never return. Probably then take mental health leave and retire early.

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Mark _australia said..

Carantoc said.. I have an old gold pit in my back garden (well, in the jungle behind the back paddock, but still in my boundary).
I don't know how deep it is, but it is very scary and I stay away from it. I don't want to know what is at the bottom of it.

Would you be happy to let someone use it for storage?

I am scared somebody already has. That's why I stay away.

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Carantoc said..

Mark _australia said..

Carantoc said.. I have an old gold pit in my back garden (well, in the jungle behind the back paddock, but still in my boundary).
I don't know how deep it is, but it is very scary and I stay away from it. I don't want to know what is at the bottom of it.

Would you be happy to let someone use it for storage?

I am scared somebody already has. That's why I stay away.

It's an convention room . Don't need to wear tin hats that deep underground . A safe place to unwind.

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Gazuki said..
Oh, ... And chance of getting lost, robbed, dogged or snaked just add to the awesomeness

The Cohen Bros movie Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the chapter about the old prospector played by Tom Waits. Classic.

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finsup said..

Gazuki said..
Oh, ... And chance of getting lost, robbed, dogged or snaked just add to the awesomeness

The Cohen Bros movie Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the chapter about the old prospector played by Tom Waits. Classic.

What a awesomly strange show .

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Carantoc said..

Mark _australia said..

Carantoc said.. I have an old gold pit in my back garden (well, in the jungle behind the back paddock, but still in my boundary).
I don't know how deep it is, but it is very scary and I stay away from it. I don't want to know what is at the bottom of it.

Would you be happy to let someone use it for storage?

I am scared somebody already has. That's why I stay away.

I wanna look!

Never understood peoples desire to own shiny metal
Or stones
Just think about it for a moment, its actually f#####g stupid

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Carantoc said..
I didn't know you had lost your nuts, but I did always assume you had a screw loose, so it figures.

Pretty sure your efforts of swirling some dust abut in a bowl will be so far away from actual fossicking you'll be OK.

If the mines inspector does happen to see you then the first thing they would do is come and have a chat. I suspect after about 3 minutes chatting with you they will rapidly leave and never return. Probably then take mental health leave and retire early.

How is it that you are still on the Friends list and not the 'must destroy them once I build my neutrino death ray' list?

Are your witty insults too complex? Do you catch up regularly for Gold Coast 'chats-with-bros' and the insults are just a joke for the forum? Are you Chinese?

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cauncy said..
Never understood peoples desire to own shiny metal
Or stones
Just think about it for a moment, its actually f#####g stupid

One of my Indian work-mates from years ago was telling me that his wife and daughter were sending him broke with their need for gold jewelry. It sounds like its a very important cultural thing for them, probably to show how well they are doing or something. I will stick to showing people this with my beer gut.

Okay, I can't restrain myself any longer. It's not "foreseeking" and it's not "foreseeing". It's "fossicking"!

You sound like my oldest sister with your conservative orthography, Harrow.
The rest of us call her "fussy kin"

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Harrow said..
Okay, I can't restrain myself any longer. It's not "foreseeking" and it's not "foreseeing". It's "fossicking"!

Mabee it's correct in Chinglish.

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Harrow said..
Okay, I can't restrain myself any longer. It's not "foreseeking" and it's not "foreseeing". It's "fossicking"!

noted
these days we could blame everything on computers
that instantly apply grammar check and correct everything you write.In such case we should blame Alphabet and Zuckerberg for misleading and falsifying our thoughts.

clear now

fossil + seeking = fossicking

shouldn't be fosseeking rather?

what is sicking anyway?

this is possibly to another topic but seems to me that English itself is riddled with inbuild and now accepted mistakes.



what on hell gold seeking have to do with dogs ??


Yep I know, Whole world was coined by French they did use dogs for Truffle seeking, so may explain inconsistency in understanding English grammar.

That is possibly I used word prospecting in first place ( to avoid another chance of fossicking SB Pitbull's on Macro again )

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Harrow said..
Okay, I can't restrain myself any longer. It's not "foreseeking" and it's not "foreseeing". It's "fossicking"!

at least it was not foreskinning ...

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FormulaNova said..
How is it that you are still on the Friends list...

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Nothing to do with fossil seeking. To "fossick" has always meant to search thru old tailings.

So had to Google-

The first people to fossick (in the oldest and still-current meaning of the word), back in the 1850s, were picking over abandoned mining excavations in Australia and New Zealand in search of gold or gemstones. But within a few decades fossick was being used more generally to mean "to search about" or "to rummage." Fossick, as we know it, is a native of Down Under, but it may have its origins in a word known to immigrants from the United Kingdom: the dialect term fussock, meaning "to bustle about" or "to fidget."

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at least it was not foreskinning ...

That's my favourite pastime