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« on: December 27, 2010, 09:49:44 AM »
Can you remember your first Nugget?

This is my first, found on my first day using a Pi detector, a borrowed 2000 or 2100. Of course I was over the moon and thought finding gold is not that hard!  Well, that really was just "begginers luck". Some begginers take months if not years of casual prospecting to find their first gold.  The second took much longer to find!

This strange flat (almost fused-looking) nugget was found near Moliagul, Vic in early 1990s. about 2-3" below the surface under a tree on a dense clay base. Weight is 6.5 g.

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« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 10:02:53 AM »
Quote from: Huego on December 27, 2010, 09:49:44 AM

Can you remember your first Nugget?


O yes, my first nugget I dug on eBay direct from Australia. It is the last too.
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 10:22:37 AM »
Kinda sad WM6!

Do you prospect for coins or other buried historic treasure in Europe?
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2010, 12:49:41 PM »
Quote from: Huego on December 27, 2010, 10:22:37 AM
Kinda sad WM6!

Do you prospect for coins or other buried historic treasure in Europe?


Yes Huego, so far mostly for coins and some historical artifacts (WWII mostly), but now all around become historical/archaeological area and strong protected by law.

I do not want to act against the law, treasure hunting is not my existence, only hobby, so I decide to move to a safer area, to gold prospecting. There are some area (say quartz and alluvial) here with possibilities to find something like gold. Maybe nothing - as I say this is beautiful hobby for me.

I am a beginner in field of gold prospecting and I have a lot to learn, but first to get or make an appropriate detector, factory and homemade VLF-s and PI-s that I have, are mostly dedicated to coin searching and not proper for gold prospecting.
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« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2010, 01:14:30 PM »
Hi Heugo, yes i do remeber my first gold nugget, it was found in Bendigo and only at .3g and I didn't feel much until I got my second bit of .5g just  a1/2metre away and that's when I got really excited. It's unreal that even a small bit of gold can get you excited.
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« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2010, 03:46:49 PM »
It doesn't take much gold to get carried away and excited does it! 
Or to think "if this is here there has to be more around, and bigger!"
Sometimes there is, often there isn't.  confused

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« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2010, 04:42:42 PM »
HI HUEGO- my first... 11.3 grams found in a gully on a mates lease that has plenty of old chinese diggings and worked ground. what isn't as easy to remember is how many pieces of crap i had to dig beforehand lol but hey at least i was getting fit ::38::

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« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2010, 05:16:48 PM »
Taken in the dark Dusty but I can just make a yellow lump out!  Clown

That's a good size for a start mate!  Hope you still have it. Don't go giving it away to a non-appreciative woman!
When was that found Dusty? 

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« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2010, 06:36:45 PM »
My first nugget was found a Inglewood 1980 with a Whites 6000 its about 7grams
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« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2010, 07:35:47 PM »
Quote from: kris on December 27, 2010, 06:36:45 PM
My first nugget was found a Inglewood 1980 with a Whites 6000 its about 7grams

Very interesting Kris, and that brings back some fond memories.
My first nugget was also found at Inglewood around that same time !
It weighed 2.2 grams and was found with a Red Baron RB7 at a depth of 4 inches in red clay near a surfaced area east of the Columbian line of reefs, and not very far away from a puddler.
My second nugget, weighing 1.8 grams was found five minutes later in the same hole, just after I'd completed a challenging Irish jig with the first nugget still in my mouth. (It was a bloody hot day too!)
Also of interest is that gold that size was considered flysh!t in those days !! (5000 owners take note!)

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« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2010, 11:46:13 PM »
Here is a pic of some nuggets found during our 2007 trip, a few showing ironstone attached.

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« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2010, 12:37:07 AM »
Quote from: TWA on December 28, 2010, 11:46:13 PM
Here is a pic of some nuggets found during our 2007 trip, a few showing ironstone attached.

Cheers,
            Trevor

Congratulation Trevor, nice findings.

Can you explain signal difference between pure gold nuggets and those with ironstone attached?
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« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2010, 01:09:35 AM »
I guess the most noticeable thing that firstly it was not as sharp a sound although a good signal just the same. The area was an ironstone enriched area with some signals I would associate with hot rocks. the larger one I dismissed as the enriched ironstone gave off a lot of readings and when dug the signal petered out, so signals that sounded the same after a few holes had been dug I walked away as the signal did not cross on the 18 inch Mono. I was only later that one sounded slightly different and when dug it revealed a nice ironstone encrusted nugget, so I when back and checked a few more old noises that I didn't check hence the bigger nuggets. (I now dig every noise until the sound disapears or a nugget is located).

I will see if I can find a pic of one of the holes dug, if located the larger stones gave off a signal but no gold was evident.
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