Gold Detecting

[clair.de.lune]

Have you ever hired a gold detector? How did you go?

I would like to find one bit of gold, just one to keep so I can say I found some.

We only hired a gold detector once years ago anyway and found nothing

[debra9275]

I want the same one the man who found that big nugget had.  Well done to your Dad 

Punch

[the_great_she_elephant]

I was told by a local that when gold detectors first became commercially available there was much rejoicing among the citizens of Kalgoorlie. Many oft them already had gold - they just needed somewhere to find it IYKWIM

[*mrgrizz*]

I was told by a local that when gold detectors first became commercially available there was much rejoicing among the citizens of Kalgoorlie. Many oft them already had gold - they just needed somewhere to find it IYKWIM

😉

[clair.de.lune]

lol I think I get it

[poison_ivys_pen]

The cheap detectors will rarely find gold, they are better for coins. Dad has about 5 or 6 detectors and different plates for them all. Not sure what the purpose of them all is, different depths maybe?

The bigger diameter coils have a deeper depth they can go to but are less sensitive so they don't pick up the tiny one's as much but are useful if you are looking for something larger.

[purple.cow]

I want the same one the man who found that big nugget had.  Well done to your Dad 

Punch

You'll need a few grand to buy it with before you start then Deb, about 8 grand should cover it for ya :^O

[purple.cow]

Most of the tiny pieces of gold I ever found would barely registar on my gem scales, maybe just a carat or two 😞

They were so tiny I couldn't have found the buggers when they were in my own hand without the aid of a digital finder for really fine close up work..

The most valuable thing I ever found while out detecting wasn't metal of any kind, but a couple of pieces of finely carved antique Jade.

BS I hear ya all cry at once, but it's true.

I was out on an old property where they told me there'd once been some of the old Chinaamen huts and doing a bit of treasure troving.

My detector went nuts as if I'd found a buried car or something.

I only dug down about a foot when I hit a big lump of stone and started dugging around it like a nutcase thinking I'd hit the big gold nugget beneath, but when I finally found the edges of the rock and lifted it out of the hole all there was underneath was an old rusty tin like a small size old fashion buiscuit tin thing.

When I pulled the tin out of the hole it rattled with somthing inside so i opened it thinking I'd just discovered someone's long buried fortune in gold coins or something like that, but all that was inside it was a small ratty looking canvas bag containing the jade things, but I didn't recognise them as being jade at the time.

I only learned what they really were when I took them to a Chinaman who had something to do with a historical place and he knew what they were right away.

I ended up donating them to a historical society place in Vic because they turned out to be something very special to the old hinese diggers and whatever.

They didn't look like all that much to me, but apparently they are worth a fair bit to those in the know about that sort of thing.

I've been really interested in all sorts of history for many years, but that caused me to become far more interested in historyso now my personal library at home here is half full of history books of all kinds and I read them all the while these days.

It's taught me that the world is a pretty small place when it comes to how what one country does way back when and how it affects the world we live in today, and also that that's absolutely nothing new like we tend to think we discover new concepts etc.

It's all been thought of long ago, and a lot of it done too.

Hey, how many of you can tell me who invented the first ever re-chargable battery without cheating to look it up on the internet?

And how long ago?

The answer blew me away 🙂

[purple.cow]

Oh, it turned out that the tin I found with the little jade bits in it had probably been buried by the original owner under the rock and covered with the dirt that made up the floor of his old tiny hut place he lived in.

No-one appaently suspected it was buried there until I stumbled upon it with my detector purely by accident.

[clair.de.lune]

moorna you have just given me a great idea! On the ancestry thread I've told how I've found the property where my 2nd great grandparents lived, well we are going there today but on google maps it appears to be one big farm now. I wonder if the farm owners would let me go over it with a metal detector one day?

[debra9275]

You'll need a few grand to buy it with before you start then Deb, about 8 grand should cover it for ya :^O

😮 :^O  well, that's not going to happen for me then moorna

Clair that's a great idea if they'll let you do that. We found an old tin with a key in it once, buried under the floor of an old house we had, never did find the treasure though