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Topic Started: Monday 11-10-2010, 10:47 (652 Views)
seanengman
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New member from the US. I am hoping this site will help me on my future expedition to Australia. How far is it from Perth to the gold fields?

Cheers

Sean

(BTW: attached some pictures of my gold from this mining season in Washington state)
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Welcome to the forum Sean, happy to see you didn't have any problems joining.
Have posted some Kalgoorlie vehicle and detector hire information on the Hunting site.
You could hire a vehicle here in Perth and drive to Kalgoorlie region or fly and hire there.
Buy your Minelab in the US and bring it with you, much cheaper, you could sell when you leave.
Distances in this link;
http://rac.com.au/Travel/Self-drive-holidays/Free-WA-driving-maps/~/media/Travel/Stripmaps_PDFs/Travel_Stripmap_Perth_to_Kalgoorlie.ashx

If you can't find the info you require please ask.

Cheers

Peter

Good luck & safe travels
Peter


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Hi Sean,

Welcome to the forum.
Peter has given you some good info for your forth coming trip.
Perhaps you can relate some of your experiences in prospecting
in your home country.
Feel free to post & ask questions.

Cheers,

Ted


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Hi Sean I'm here in Northern Ca I've been to Western Australia in 2006 for 5 weeks in the bush and am planing to go in 2012 if not 2011 and looking for a mate, we should talk.
Australia was the best and the people are the greatest. I make how to prospecting videos that show at http://www.prospectingchannel.com/ My shows are Mineral Expeditions you can view them for free. Anyhow I like to hook up with you and talk.

How-D to the rest of you thanks for the great site. I have a 160 acre gold claim here in northern Ca it's in a old hydraulic pit, well half is in the old pit and the other half in in a gulch. The gulch is small, as far as wide, maybe 20 feet at the widest point not real steep about 1/2 mile long and LOTS of exposed bedrock for snipping and panning. You can sluice early in the year but by Sept it drys up. then you can go metal detecting through the acres and acres of cobble piles. I just got the claim Sept 2010 while I was filming my latest episode called How To Stake A Mining Claim go figure. I showed the whole possess from start to finish. Not enough gold to show yet only got about a penny weight I was to busy filming. Enough out of me glad to be a board. Here's a few pic of the claim
TG

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Hi Tim & welcome to the Forum.

It's good to see another overseas member on the forum.
Very nice country you have on your claim there along with a neat camp setup.
Looking forward to some more pics & experiences.

Cheers,

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Welcome to the forum TG,
Had a look at your site and the techniques you use, unfortunately not a lot of water in West Australia. When a creeks runs you have to be be quick to do any sluicing before it runs dry.
BTW I took the liberty to correct your link so it opens from the post, you had missed a bracket, just as easy as missing a small nug.

Cheers

Peter
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Thanks guys for the welcome. I just got in from a long weekend trip I will post more when not so tired and thanks for fixing the link Nightjar I remember you from a site you used to have it was my fav Aussie site. Very glad to run across you again.
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Morning Tim,
I folded the "Gold Prospecting in Western Australia" site because Geocities closed down it's then current web site format and tripled their fees.
Now I am retired I don't have time to form a new site. :'(

Looking forward to your stories and pics from your recent weekender.

Good luck & safe travels
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I think my last post was misleading the long weekender was not a prospecting trip (darn) it was a family thing.

I will be building an electric 12 volt puffer this winter to use out at the new claim next season, late in the year when it's really dry. It looks like you guys have a few drywashers going out at your lease nightjar ? I ran into a couple of guys using these drywashers in the old hydraulic pits and they were doing pretty good, maybe a penny weight + a day, not to bad theses days. Its' winter time here in the US I'm currently researching some new ground to metal detect this winter in the lower elevations that won't be covered by snow, my new lease will be covered by the snow soon if not already it's elevation is right at 5100 feet. The new area that I'm researching to detect is where in 1859 they found the Magalia nugget 54 lbs wow!! now that should even get the attention of Australia prospectors. I've been using the, LR2000 and GeoCommunicator, BLM site (Bureau Of Land Management) and Google Earth to do my research to find open ground , but I also have a mate who has mates that have land in the area. Here is the gps coordinates so you can look it up on Google Earth and look at the lay of the land, of course this is just the general area but close. 39 47 36.59 N 121 29 07.64 W and here's my lease coor. this is the NW corner 39 42 33.94 N 120 55 21.65 W it fun to view the ground on Google Earth. Well enough out of me.

Here's 3oz of the good stuff it all came out of one crack while my mom and I were dredging quite a few years back. The biggest bit there is 1/4 oz.
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