sandgroper
Elite Member
So for my last school holidays, dad and I decided to travel to Western Australia's goldfields to do some prospecting for gold (to the place we camped was just over 1000km, or 620 miles from home). We stayed for approximately 10 days near a friends place, who lives in an old homestead which was built in 1896, however, we slept some nights in the bush and a few at the homestead.
Overall, we had some pretty amazing finds including 38.2g of gold, most of which I found by myself with both the GP Extreme and the GPX 7000. Dad also found quite a bit of gold.
I also got permission to do some metal detecting around the homestead (with my Xterra70 and of course the Pro-Find 25) and found $13.15AUD as well as a 1c and 2c coin (these coins are still commonly found, but were withdrawn from circulation in 1992). I was really hoping to find some old coins at the homestead, considering it was built in 1896, and was very happy to find a 1922 Australian florin (which was withdrawn from circulation in 1966) and an 1896 English Sixpence and an 1885 English Shilling (which I think were used even before the Australian shillings, pennies etc.)
And of course, I dug up a bunch of shot gun shells, bottle caps, pulltabs, bullet fragments, pieces of wire...
Overall, we had some pretty amazing finds including 38.2g of gold, most of which I found by myself with both the GP Extreme and the GPX 7000. Dad also found quite a bit of gold.
I also got permission to do some metal detecting around the homestead (with my Xterra70 and of course the Pro-Find 25) and found $13.15AUD as well as a 1c and 2c coin (these coins are still commonly found, but were withdrawn from circulation in 1992). I was really hoping to find some old coins at the homestead, considering it was built in 1896, and was very happy to find a 1922 Australian florin (which was withdrawn from circulation in 1966) and an 1896 English Sixpence and an 1885 English Shilling (which I think were used even before the Australian shillings, pennies etc.)
And of course, I dug up a bunch of shot gun shells, bottle caps, pulltabs, bullet fragments, pieces of wire...