A customer came into the BendigoGold store and showed us a wonderful gold specimen weighing 273 grams.

It was found using a Minelab SD2200 and a depth of 2 feet using a 16″ DD Nugget Finder coil in the side of a Garden Bed.

A customer recently came into the BendigoGold store to show us some pieces he had found whilst out with his new Minelab GPX 5000 metal detector that he had purchased approximately 2 weeks beforehand.

One piece was a gorgeous 11.8 oz quartz specimen which was found at approx 400 mm depth using a Nugget Finder 12″ x 7″ coil.

Another 18.05 gram piece was found about 30 meters away from the quartz specimen the previous week.

Other numerous other nuggets were also found weighing about 16.45 grams in previously worked ground.

All up there was about 10-12 hours spent using the Minelab GPX 5000 to find these great pieces.

A regular customer came into the Miner’s Den Sydney store and brought in an enormous 63 KILOGRAM specimen of quartz the other day. He’d found it with his Minelab GPX 5000 metal detector very close (within 25 feet) of his last major find.

He brought in the quartz because I’d asked him to show me the next chunk before he crushed it to extract any gold. We photographed the quartz and found that it did indeed have a strong metal content inside.

This specimen triggered a strong response from the Minelab GPX 5000 metal detector and even the store’s Minelab Pro-Find 25 Pin Pointer before crushing.

The ingot below is HALF of what came out of the specimen: 7,134 grams. The second ingot was almost the same weight.

The large slab of quartz and a smaller one combined to produce just over 14 kg’s of fine gold.

Worth in excess of over $700,000.00 at the time of sale.

This is the second such specimen brought in by the same prospector within four months.

Two local BendigoGold customers and two friends were visiting Bendigo and went to the Whipstick Bush for a few hours metal detecting after a burn off was completed.

They detected over a recently burnt area and 8 small nuggets were discovered along with numerous other targets.

Burnt branches and piles of ash continued to give off false signals but target signals came through loud and clear.

A great collection of finds!

We had a regular customer drop into the BendigoGold store a few days ago, who showed us some great nuggets he had found whilst out prospecting in Western Australia.

One of the nuggets was a 43 grammer found under a bush at about 8″ using his Minelab GPX-4500 Metal Detector and a 20″ Nugget Finder coil.

The other was 12 grams found at about 12-14″.

Great Finds!!

I fitted a new Rooster Booster and 24″ Elliptical Nugget Finder coil to my Minelab GPX 5000.

I found them to be a great combination when prospecting in the Central Victorian Goldfields and found a small run of nuggets, some of them were 12 inches deep with a 6.5 grammer at 15-18 inches depth.

In total 18 nuggets were found.