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Found these bits on a narrow run down a gently sloping hillside. The smoother one bottom left is 4.1 g. Stooged me badly. Gave a nice broad dropping tone. Dug down 10" and it was still the same, dropped the coil vertical into the hole and no signal, yet. That usually means a good bit deep. From the top still broad. Dig another few inches and drop the coil in again but this time its there. When I got it out and holding it in my hand im thinking "how did you sound like that? You were supposed to be bigger!" :blink: Not that I was ungrateful, it just stooged me big time. Until I saw it I was thinking "yep, this is my clunker for 2013!" The others were from the same area. All in a very narrow line.

The other pic is where it was from. Ironbark forest.

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Hello Roo, nice looking gold you are getting. Very similar to the pocket gold I get here in the Redding,Ca area. I was in Australia just the other day. Not Actually I have a piece of property that I detect on that has a few Eucalyptus trees growing on it and I have found some small bits around the trees. This is probably as close to Australia that I will ever get to. LOL TRINITYAU/RAYMILLS

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Its an odd spot. The diggers looked liked they had a hard time figuring out where the gold ran. Down the hill away form the run is some minor segmented diggings. No constant run. You can see where they trenched here and there hoping to pick it up. No significant reef workings either. Just small test holes and two very minor actual workings. Lucky if they had taken out a couple of ton of rock. Here,s some pictures of some of the areas I hunt and some wildlife. The pic of the big lizard up the tree is a Goanna, he'd be 5 foot long easy, big fella. Usually they hide around the other side of the tree but he had just had a big drink at a waterhole and was too full to move so just sat there. The little one is a dragon lizard, they stand up on there back legs when they run flat out, front legs off the ground. The wallaby was the fattest wallaby I have ever seen, they are usually only half as fat as that one. You should be able to make out the remains of an old diggers puddler in one of them. That was at the base of some mountain diggings.

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Went back and had another go. Small run but a good little one. Its not a huge area and I reckon its finished. Will still check the surrounds out wider but this particular little ones done. The stuff on the coil is 4.5g all up. In the hand 9.8g. The best bit in hand is 5.9. GPX 5000, Fine Gold mode.

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Hey.. I saw this a month back. Just completed Physical Geology and aced it. Check it out Roo and Ray!

http://www.sci-news.com/geology/science-gold-eucalyptus-trees-01486.html

Lol

Daniel

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Nice Slugs there Roo ;)

Some top piccies too mate and yeah that wallaby is the fatest ive ever seen.

That surfaced area looks real familiar to me, reckon ive been around the area many

years ago in your pics above, nice lookin country that is..

Pete

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