Thread: Wattle be next

Sounds like a great way to spend a Friday, I for one am very envious

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Wattle be next.

I had the day off so with camera and metal detector in hand I headed out to the Heathcote goldfields.
I managed to catch 3 old coins and a bag of bits and pieces.

A coupla pics of Wattle and some late 1880's fireplaces as used by gold miners.
I have a feeling the last fireplace was in a pub/boarding house/dining room, as I found some good stuff in the dump just from it.

Al

Nice photo's Wattles out early not a good sign for coming summer.

Lets hope the ................j ust did a google and I was correct it is "National Park" area big OOOPPPsss Ozwinner.

Originally Posted by wheelinround

Lets hope the ................j ust did a google and I was correct it is "National Park" area big OOOPPPsss Ozwinner.

Pull ya head in, not all of Heathcote is National park.

Typical of someone living so far away knowing more about the local area than the locals.

Al

Nice photos Al.

Does the metal detector pick up Aluminium?

Just wondering about your prospecting apparel.

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

Nice photos Al.

Does the metal detector pick up Aluminium?

Just wondering about your prospecting apparel.

It can pick up any metal or not, all depends how I tune it.

Al

Find any bottles? The last time I went detectorectoring we found a few old spindle-bottomed bottles when SWMBO dropped the detector and it "clinked" in the leaves.

They sold for double our assay!

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

when SWMBO dropped the detector

Thems fighting words..

No bottles, most of the digging have been thrashed by treasure hunters, I usually go looking for the out of way places that have the remains of old chimneys, they are easy to see when you get your eye in.

Ok course, never in National Parks or Hysterical Reserves

Al

Originally Posted by ozwinner

Thems fighting words..

'Twas her detector. Me, I was a rock-hound and preferred to go fossicking for agates, geodes, crinoidal marble, etc. Yet to find a detector for them.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

'Twas her detector. Me, I was a rock-hound and preferred to go fossicking for agates, geodes, crinoidal marble, etc. Yet to find a detector for them.

Did you ever get up to Corona (sp) out back of Broken Hill?

Went there a few times for the various varieties of Sio gemstones.

Al

Corona? Hmmm... we did a lot of travelling, so I'm not sure, but I think we dug for garnet around Broken Hill and, I think, amethyst and jewellery grade quartz around Corona(??) We spent most of our time between here and Gippsland - Briagalong for thunder eggs, Toongabby for agates, Warrandyte for blue/green quartz, some place on the way down to Phillip Island for sapphires.

Rockhounds are worse than a woodturner hearing a tree is coming down. Even the remotest hint of a "find" somewhere in the state and off we scurried...

What about Diamonds on the back road from BH to White Cliffs?

Al

And Diamonds and large saphires up tolmie way too

I've scored a few old bottles with the metal detector, the old goldfield pubs often had a hole out the back where general rubbish was dumped including metal, so, find the metal dig carefully and find a few old bottles.

Originally Posted by echnidna

And Diamonds and large saphires up tolmie way too

Where up Tolmie?
Ill be heading that way as soon as it gets warmer to take Rob out for some fossicking.

Al