New to Forum - wanted to share a great find :)

[golddiggerdave]

Hi All,

Just wanted to say hi, introduce myself and share with you a great find. I'm Gold Digger Dave from Miners Den Australia.

We’ve just had a customer drop in to sell a small amount of his finds, whilst in the BendigoGold store he also pulled out a magnificent looking gold nugget weighing 447 grams or approximately 14.4oz with an approximate value of $22,500.

This beautiful nugget was found in Victoria on the slope of a hill about a foot and a half down, found with a Minelab GPX 4500 Metal Detector and a Minelab 18” Commander Mono Coil. It was just the second time he had used this coil and has only been detecting for about 12 months.
A great find!!




Happy Prospecting and hope to read about some more great finds

golddiggerdave

[Iron Mask]

Hello and welcome to the forum. Thanks for sharing that great chunk of yellow find.
Enjoy your time here.

[geoff]

Thats some lump!
Welcome to the forum too!

[NeoCult]

wow!! well found!!

[omegamike]

Welcome to the forum Dave and thanks for posting those pics - now that's what you call a nugget!!

[Ants]

That's £14,037.80 uk. Very nice

[Captainpugwash]

Nice, find of a lifetime.Welcome to the site.

[Steve_T]

Warm welcome to the mlo forum .Oh! and some nugget that brill..

[GaryBrun]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for sharing.
Can you send me my half first??

[wheresthegoodstuff]

Wow, awesome find.

[GaryS]

Right..thats it !!! Just worked out how I can afford the new CTX3030.
Just head on up to the goldfields and find a lump of gold like that. Even a smaller one would be enough.
Thanks for showing and making us drool golddiggerdave.

[GaryS]

...back again....this reminds me of the time ,long ago when I drove up to Wedderburn and bought a Minelab FT16000 (latest and greatest gold detector then) from Barrie Johnstone.
There was an old bloke in the shop that pulled out a nice 4 oz nugget from his pocket that he had recently detected.
Now that would do me nicely...

[sod-it]

Great find Dave.

The only gold I found would be a gold crown swallowed whilst eating dinner, after two days it was located and recovered. I made an appointment with the dentist who agree to refit the crown, on finishing the refit he said “right job done, should be OK but you may suffer bad breath for a couple of days”
And before you ask, it did not leave a love bite on the way out.

[whigsvolt]

Hell of a find for sure.Well done.

[robsue]

OOOeee!!! I want one of those!

[ARGONAUTE]

it really is an excellent find!

[wand-waver]

Well that got my attention , did u clean it in Albrite ???

[Shilo2010]

Nice Dave.

I would just like to inform you that I lost a nugget very similar to that half way up a hill in Victoria a few years ago. Happy to supply my postal address.

[robsue]

How good is that? I can only dreammmmmmm....................

[StanMonk]

WOW - top find

[Goldhunter]

Fantastic find, I wold love to go proper gold hunting with a GPX.

[Ted]

Amazing! Welcome.

[golddiggerdave]

Thanks for all the welcome messages, Sorry I haven't gotten back on here sooner. I've got some more great finds to share with everyone, goes to show there is still gold out there.

Below you can see a 3.7gram specimen one of our newest staff members from our BrisbaneGold store found when out detecting with his GPX 4500.

gold-specimen-1.jpg

Good Luck and Happy Prospecting!

Gold Digger Dave

[Kyle]

very nice excellent find - well done -can i ask how does it work in Australia regarding laws on gold prospecting do you have to declare where you find these finds - do you have to buy permits to gold prospect ?
are the locations recorded ? is there a database kept ?

hope you strike more