SPECTACULAR QUEENSLAND GOLD PART 1
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- Опубликовано: 16 фев 2023
- Steve Graf's back out detecting for gold, but this time he's in Queensland where the terrain is a bit more rugged than Western Australia.
After covering a lot of country and struggling to get the coil through endless long grass he manages to secure some of the best gold he's ever found including the largest nugget to date. 
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I don’t know if anyone else noticed you look 👀 ten years younger after you found that first big nugget, congratulations man,well done. 👍😎👍👍👍
Ha ha yeah 😅 cheers.
What insane gold, i had no idea there was that much gold in shallow ground in Qld ranges. No wonder the early gold rushes were so crazy.
What the hell, if these werent filmed being dug up, i wouldnt have believed this..
that 262 gm'er OMG $25,000+ if 99% pure.
Well done mate thats bloody awesome.
Cheers thanks for that 😃.
I want to wander the wilds of Australia looking for gold. Looks like a great place to be.
Amazing. It's a miracle how you just dig in Fields and find huge chunks of gold. In the middle of open fields
"ONYA CHAMP" A NUGGET to big for the container has gotta be a good day.cheers mate.
All the goldies will be wanting to go where you are. I've never seen so much gold by anyone
The Golden Orb Spider is even more distressing when it wraps completely around your head like a hairnet in a food factory on a drunken walk home from the pub a 2 in the morning.
The trick is to not panic and just start walking backwards, the web is so strong that it is probably still stuck to the branches and will just unpeel from your head taking the spider back out with it.
Yeah that sounds pretty horrific lol 😅.
@@stevegraf9276 It is the first 3 times in 50 metres, until I figured out the reversing idea.
@@stevegraham3817 yeah funny 👍.
G'day Steve great to find you on here, great footage and a breath of fresh air to hear someone speak nicely, the way your Dad taught you boys, unlike the generations of today. We are still here, only a few of us old school bushies stayed on. Hope to see you back, the country has had its best wet season in decades, there is a spot here for you anytime.
cheers.
Michael & Leigh.
Hi Michael, thanks for that, yeah I was keeping an eye on the weather up there and noticed you must be getting some serious rain. I imagine some of those rivers must've been really flooded.
Hope it's all going well for you guys up there, I may come back up again this year sometime, cheers 😀.
Great to see you posting videos again.
🤠👍
So good to have you guys upload
I remember growing up and I had all the VHS tapes of you guys and your stag hunts.. I probably watched them 100 times on repeat.
That's great to hear, so glad you got plenty of entertainment from them, Cheers.
Good grief that big chunk of gold is unbelievable what a find you will never forget that day my friend good on you buddy 👍🏻😊
You're right about that, one of the highlights of my life cheers 😃.
I would love to visit Australia; however, I think I would be afraid to walk around in your bush. Poisonous snakes, deadly spiders, big disease carrying bats. The worst would be the wasp, from the way your hand looked, if I got stung, I would most likely keel over and die, need an anaphylactic kit right handy. I am deathly allergic to bee/wasp venom, last sting hospitalized me for a week.
Would love to find gold nuggets like you have been finding. I am lucky to get some flour gold or some very small pieces. I live not far from the Bohemia Mining District in my home state. I can find some fine gold in the moss on the rock cliffs after a few days of heavy rain. Have found some small stuff in some of the old tailing's piles or panning the streams and rivers. Unfortunately, where I live, I have to carry a sidearm in the back country, we have two large predators, the Black Bear (Ursa americanus) and the Puma (Puma concolor), then there is the Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Crotalus oreganus), deadly, but are rather tasty, if prepared right.
Enjoying your videos so far.
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Thanks for your comments, sorry to hear about your allergies. Sounds like you've had a pretty traumatic time. Interesting area where you are, I hope you get to find some chunky gold. Cheers 😃.
Awesome 👍 can't wait for part 2
Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks glad you enjoyed, I'll upload part 2 within the next few weeks. There's some more great finds in that too.
Great video. Loved the nature bits too. Amazing find that big one. Incredible
Thanks for that 😊.
Beautiful gold Steve - well done. Its great to see another Kiwi bushman with the gold fever. Cheers and looking forward to more videos.
Thanks 😀.
Sweet sweet yellow , I want to lick the tears of the sun 😄
Hi Steve the snake is a northern species of whip snake. You can see the characteristic white pattern sweeping around, below & behind the eye. It also has a large eye, small head, thinner neckline than brown snakes & long slender body. The white stripe behind the head i have not seen on this species before, however juveniles can have fading variations & there is species still to be discovered. I recently discovered a brown colored blind snake in my area that is little known. A new striped venomous snake has been found in the desert recently too. Whip snakes in general are quick moving & go about their business, most are mildly venomous but relatively harmless to humans, but you definitely don't want a bite.
Awesome finds...
But it looks as though it takes a huge amount of luck, diligence, patience, perseverance, ingenuity and knowledge and technique...
Not to mention proper survival skills...
As much as I would love to do that, you have indicated just how extreme it actually is.....
Thanks for one of the best RUclips vids I have seen for quite some time....
Well done, sir.....
Thanks for your comments 😃.
And yes you are right about all of those things you mentioned, it's not quite as easy as it looks but fortunately if it pays off then it's all worth it 😃. Cheers.
What a Sensational haul of awesome gold you got I reckon just in this video you got over at least 16 ounces and that 8 plus ouncer was mind blowing well done indeed. I 'am definitely looking forward to part 2 😮🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑😁😆😅😂
Cheers 😃. Part 2 will be up in the next day or two.
Great stuff, well done
Hi Steve , you certainly got some seriously good gold 👍, I should have changed you a bit more for the pick I sold you 🤣 , hope it's still digging good gold for you
Cheers ROB
Ha ha funny. That was a great pick, I actually wore it right down till it was too short to dig with. I could've done with a second one as well. I ended up having to get another pick in town to carry me over 🤠.
Wonderful of you.good luck❤😊
Awesome just found your channel!
I'm starting to think I should have bought a 5000 instead of the 6000. You're finding so much nice gold!
@@beergold Yeah, that’s what people say. I’d rather a few 80g and 200g speckies.
Andy's a yeti from up north . . see him fleeting glimpse amongst the tree's chasing a blood trail
WOW. You work hard, you get the rewards. Some very nice nuggets mate. Thanks for sharing 👍
Cheers thanks for that 😁
Great work Steve pleasure to know you mate 🙌🏾👍🏽🍺⛏️
Nice haul there Steve! Some unusually shaped nuggets in that lot, almost a crystalline shape. Bet you'll be back there again.
Thanks, yeah probably will be back there this year 😃.
well done on the finds enjoyed the video😊
Thanks for that 👍.
First time I"ve seen this channel! I subscribed and all notifications!
Thanks cheers 😊.
Well done boss what finds and good luck from Robbie Liverpool England 🏴
Well done buddy fantastic work 👍👍
Thanks 😊.
Wow!! Amazing!!
Keep up the good work .... I hope you have great success! ✌👵
Thanks 👍.
New subber here my goodness what nice nuggets you find Congratulations! I'd love to come down under for a little dig!
What a great trip. I’m only new to detecting, and you find more in one day than I have in 9 months. How’s that big chunk! The snake looked like a Crown Snake and the spider was a Whistling Wolf Spider, related to the tarantulas. This is you first video I’ve found, can’t wait to watch more.
Hi Andy, thanks for that, good to hear the info about the snake and spider too.
I've done another two previous trips to WA if you're interested in watching those.
The first one is called, 'Gold Fever WA'.
And the second trip is called 'My biggest and best gold'. Part 2 of this one will be out in a couple of weeks.
Interesting what you said about the go pro too. It's actually quite amazing how good the mobile phones are these days for filming. My old pH was a bit better than the one I currently have but it still does the job. Normally when Im filming wildlife and other stuff I use a good quality broadcast camera but when I go for a gold trip I'm more interested in looking for gold than filming so I don't take my good camera. Cheers 😃.
I called it a Wolf Spider as well when I first saw.
Mate.... unbelievable... how exciting would that be. Congratulations and fantastic work.. I like your presentation, explanations and no language is very nice for a change... Again CONGRATS.!!!!!
Thanks for that, yeah pretty exciting finding that big one that's for sure, be hard pressed to find a bigger one next time I think 😃.
Very good prospecting!👍
Thanks 😊.
Got to be stoked with gold finds like that, after all the rain the past few months the grass will be thick this year, when those wasps get disturbed and angry they sure hit hard, great video.
Thanks 😃.
Excellent video mate, Love watching you guys collect, I'm too old for it now, and wish I had of given it a go years ago. Thanks, and good luck
Cheers thanks for that 😃.
OH that would be me so much , real sweet finds .
WOW absolutely amazing finds buddy, stunning country up there, one day i might make it for a trip sometime but for now east Gippsland vic is my local prospecting area.
I'll definitely keep an eye out for the next upload.
Yeah there is some pretty neat country up there, but I also love some of that Victorian country you've got down there. I haven't been down that way for years but had some great trips many years ago 😃.
That spider is the common trap door, great haul of gold there.
well done mate you cleaned up
Your vary damn lucky, @ talented. Excellent video were the hell are you? Theise are wonderful finds"
Thanks Robert, yeah it was a great trip. Of course there's a lot of exploring done in between as well where I found nothing, so it's a bit harder than it looks, but I was fortunate to come onto some good spots.
At this stage I won't disclose exactly where I was just in case I decide to go back for another look, but I went to a few different locations up in North Queensland. Cheers Steve.
Absolutely awesome 😮
Thanks glad you enjoyed 🙂.
Living the dream mate. :)
👍😀.
Cool channel! Your a legend
Thanks 😊.
Damn you Aussie's have the best of both world's, hell and heaven all in one place. Spiders, killer wasps, poisonous snakes in amongst all that gold... Even heard you guys have a poisonous plant similar to poison ivy except people who come into contact with it commit suicide due to the pain because it lasts weeks. Good finds though!
Yeah funny, good description. There's certainly a lot of potentially harmful creatures in the country, keeps you on your toes and makes things interesting 😀👍.
Our Oz national flower the golden wattle , from the black wattle short stumpy tree whose bark was used early days to tan hides . . it's seeds insidious if fall into rainwater tanks & percolate , cause a madness . . cases up in Darwin NT where cops shot rural folks that went mad due to the seed in water tanks of our national flower . . all very curious
@@benwinter2420 Interesting...
Amazing that our national emblem is a powerful pscodelic government wanted to eradicate at one point😂😂😅
beautiful work guys
Gloves are pretty handy and can help those hard working hands, wow 262 gram find. What a beauty
Thanks cheers 😀
Very good, good lucky sir
I reckon that spider is a Queensland Trapdoor; anyway good luck with the prospecting & here’s to the next big find
Great gold.Only done the Pilbara and got some small bits but yours are spectacular
Thanks for that 👍
Congrats on the awesome haul of gold nugget chunks mate! Is that a stock GPX5000 with NF coil you're using? What general area are you in btw? Was it heavily detected with dig holes around? Looks like FNQ - Thanks for sharing your finds - Cheers
Thanks for that 🙂. Yeah its just a standard GPX5000, I bought it new a few years ago. I've used a few different coils on it, mainly NF 15 inch round or 13x17. Both great coils. But there's nothing wrong with the standard commander coils that come with it either.
I won't disclose exactly where I was at this stage in case i want to go back there again, but yeah its in North Queensland. Some of the country has been well dug up from the old guys back in the day and some is virgin ground. Most areas have had a detector through them at some time or another though. Its pretty hard to find completely new untouched ground these days unless you know the right people.
I cannot help being jealous of y’all over there, I live in Carolina there just isn’t stuff like this around. Maybe in the shell in the middle of the state, but there’s not exactly a big field I can go to with a metal detector and start picking out chunks of gold! Thank you for recording what you’re doing, I really enjoyed seeing it.
Cheers thanks for that 😃.
Chapter 2 was great but this one is getting better. Amazing how much time and effort you put in for such great reward. Just got to the part where you filmed the Paper Wasps. That hand looks puffy to say the least.
Cheers 👍.
Well done
Thanks 👍.
incredible finds steve youre making me keen to try queensland instead of wa need to get alot of browny points from my better half im thinking .you seem to be doing alot better than most other prospectors but time and effort pays off so well done just fantastic
Cheers William, I'm single myself so I don't have to worry about browny points lol, so it's probably a bit easier for me to get out 😁.
So so happy for you
Thanks 😃
Good day mate from NZ. Never been gold hunting always hunted our bush with a rifle the 4-legged kind, knees are fked now so won't be walking of the garden path much these days. I like your walk abouts and wish I'd tried what you're doing years ago now, the back blocks the native things you show every thing just great. That paper wasp you incantated yep we have them here too and yep their stings are sure killers, bit like a red-hot poker being forced up your bo-eye ah. Over here they are called hornets owes range in color from black, rusty red or yellow and black either way they are killers when it comes to stinging and like you, I used to swill up. You know when you're on their nest when you hear their buzzing about your head, some even let out a odd hormone smell and once you get to know that smell get te hell out of there a few paces. Kia ora keep up the good movies mate cheers.
te gradeço pelo teus videos , ganhou mais um escrito, te acompanho do Brasil, Juazeiro do norte, as tuas mãos deixa claro q vc já batalha a algum tempo, vc é merecedor de toda riqueza, encontrar muito ouro. obrigado por compartilha tua experiência .
Thanks for that 😃.
Wau que bello lugar tienes el mejor trabajo del mundo manejas tus horarios y estas en la naturaleza 😊😊😊 me gustaria buscar oro nunca tube la oportunidad
Crikey that's some serious gold there! I'm lucky to find a one gramer and you're pulling these lunkers out of the ground!
Yeah I know what you mean, any gold is hard to come by these days so when you find a patch or some of those bigger chunks its certainly pretty exciting 🤠.
Wow great job! I've always wanted to try metal detecting for gold but thought you couldn't really find that much in one day consistently.
Generally speaking most of the time you don't find that much, but if you can manage to find a good area, which usually takes a heck of a lot of walking and persistence then it shows what can be possible. Cheers 🤠.
You can tell how hard it is to get some of these nuggets by the blisters and callouses on your hands - My nephew is planning to start detecting and i dont think he realises how much hard work is involved
amazing
verry good
That spider definitely isn't a funnell web. Some kind of tarantula. That said, your safest bet is to assume every spider is a funnell web unless you're 100% sure it isn't. You were right on the baby brown snake. Amazing finds!!!
Thanks for that, yeah I pretty much treat everything out there as if it could be venomous, better to be safe than sorry.
Very spectacular finds! Congratulations! Is this your first goldtrip since covid started? Looking forward to episode 2. Do you still use the rooftop tent setup?
There's a bit of footage from a trip I did during covid in 2021 and some from this season just finished, which of course will be in part 2 as well, which I'll upload soon. But of course I don't film everything I find or many of the other events that occur during my escapades. On these two episodes I didn't actually go with any intention of filming any of it to start with but just decided at the time to film the odd bit along the way. That's why it's all just on my mobile ph. If I was filming it more intentionaly I'd do a better job of it, but it's just for fun really.
In regards to the rooftop tent, I've never actually had one, although it would be a good idea to get one. Ive always just slept in my vehicle. On episode two I show what my set up is inside my old Prado. 😁
Nice
Wish I could go gold minneing with you!! Stay safe
BRRRRRRILIANT SHOW
Thanks 👍.
I am throughly enjoying your channel. Thank you.
My friend and I are hoping to go camping over the holiday season and we’re going to buy a detector to hopefully have some fun. Would someone recommend one for 2 women that are both vertically challenged lolll. Some of them look very big and bulky to use. Thank you
Steve is currently out in the hills, but will get back to you as soon as he's able to. All the best of luck with your trip. Cheers, Clyde :)
Hi, currently I think the easiest and definitely the lightest good quality metal detector for gold available at the moment is the gpx 6000. I use the earlier model, (gpx 5000) and it's a great machine, I've used it for years but it is a bit heavier. The 6000 is fairly expensive because it's up there with the best. There are a lot of cheaper ones which can also still be very good, like the SDC but I've never actually used any other ones so I can't really comment on them. Good luck to you, cheers 😃.
Absolutely amazing great video.. were all the coils mono coils?
Thanks Richard, yeah they're all mono coils. I've never actually used a double d coil but I'll have to try one sometime. 😀
Aloha from Hawaii looks like you have The hands of a hard worker hands of steel or is that hands of gold have ❤ a great day God-bless you.
Thanks for that 😃 cheers.
Well done Steve. Another great video . Your first one detecting in western Australia a few years ago is the best I've seen so far. Can you tell us were you detecting on public or private property up there in north Queensland? Thanks
Hi Mark, thanks for that. In case you didn't see it I also did a second trip over to WA as well, which was called, 'my biggest and best gold.'. My Queensland stuff is a mixture of public fossicking areas as well as some on private stations that are available to anyone as a pay to camp and detect set up.
They are massive working cattle stations where they get extra income from allowing people to come on for a fee. Unfortunately in Queensland there is not a lot of public fossicking areas available that have not been absolutely hammered already, so unless you happen to know a farmer, (which unfortunately I don't) there's not alot of options. In Victoria I think you're allowed to fossick in most state forests which gives a lot more country to roam.
@@stevegraf9276 thanks for your reply Steve. Yes i did watch your second trip to western Australia and it is the second best detecting video i have watched . I'll say it again your first trip to western Australia was and is a classic, very enjoyable to watch
That spider is a Tarantula (Selenocosmia crassipes) - plenty of em' up there around the Palmer.
Happy for you , patience is a virtue , OK not trying to make a poem here
Thanks 🤠.
That's what we Americans called the Red wasp
Ok, you've made me jealous.
😃.
The Queensland tarantulas rare human bites are not fatal, however, some can get large enough to take a baby chick, hence the common name ' bird eating spiders'. They do have large fangs and are very quick when they do strike, and can inflict a painful double puncture. Usually its the mature boys you see, out hunting the females in their burrows. Males only live 2 or 3 years on average. Females can live over a decade.
Cheers thanks for that.
I was up the Palmer last September,had a swollen hand just like yours wasn't much fun
Yeah those wasps are the worst I've ever come across. I got stung on the top lip some time later as well and it swole up big as well. I'm not sure what they are but I've been stung by all sorts of wasps, bees etc over the years but never had any reaction like that 😁.
Having a great run like this you must be in Palmerville/cannibal creek area. If not, have you been there ? Well done, cheers 🍻
Thanks, yeah I have been there. I don't like to say exactly where I've been at this stage just in case I want to go back 😁, but I've been to a few different locations up north including spots near Georgetown and of course Clermont as well.
That spider might be an Australian Tarantulas as we do have s species up North
Awesome stuff mate. How far north are you,and what detector you got? Is it 7000? Love your show.
Hi, I'm up around Cape York area and I use a gpx 5000, had it for several years and it's been a great machine. Cheers 😃.
Wowza
Great going Steve, you have a new sub. thinking your new pick looks like a"Walco"from Shepparton. was that Rob or maybe Cliff?
Thanks, the first pick I bought was from a guy I met out in the bush and the second one was from a place in Mareeba. Don't know who the owners are 🤠.
@@stevegraf9276 cool, thank you
Can't beat our Ausy gold
Hi sir awesome video so tel me sir how does one obtain a propecting license do to this type of prospecting what you are doing
Hi, every state is different but in Queensland you can just buy a fossicking licence online for about fifty dollars a year. I forgot exactly but something like that. Similar in every state. That allows you to go on public fossicking areas and you need permission to go on private land of course if that's what you intend to do. Cheers 😃.
I'd be setting up camp for a few months or years depending on how rich you want to be. I hope you can get a gold lease in that area. And I think the spider is a tarantula.
From what I've heard it seems to be quite difficult to secure a lease in Queensland.
I haven't actually tried myself but I was told that you have to prove you have a certain amount of machinery, such as a bulldozer or the like and other serious equipment before you can apply. Don't know if that's correct or not. Someone else also suggested that the spider is some sort of Tarantula, good to know cheers 👍.
@@stevegraf9276 oh well then it seems to me that you have all the machinery you need, a good detector and a pick and shovel and most importantly the knowledge of where to go back to. Yeah I raised about one hundred and fifty babies they thinned them selves down to 89 baby spiders each in separate gravy tubs. One lived for 8 years and she got about the size of a tea cup saucer. North Queensland bird eating spider or tarantula. Keep digging those nuggets you lucky bastard. Meant in a good way.
@@aaronhopkins6697 Spiders when they breed inside a house are stuff of nightmares . . whats all that fluff on face when going to toilet in the dark . . oh yes millions of small precious ones every inch hanging from ceiling & over all . . best friend is lots of bug spray & ZERO mercy to insects . . they have entire globe outside the dwelling to roam around . . inside our own always instant death to them , heard about folk that like spiders but don't appreciate their spiders fertility during a birth
Hi mate what detector do you use from minelab?
Hi Terry, it's a gpx 5000. I've had it for a few years and been very happy with it, cheers.
The wasp is obviously a paper wasp species of which there is 12,000 recorded in Australia. It is a red wasp but usually they have black wings & not always so pure red all over, the red wings stand out & if you look at data photos i doubt you will find one with red wings & body so you might even have a new species or variation. A very similar one is the Southern Paper Wasp in a red form. I knew an entomologist who believed there is millions of insects yet to be identified & recorded.
Thanks Steven, you're clearly very knowledgeable about these critters. It's quite fascinating to find out what species they actually are and some info about them. Due to the fact that I'm not too clued up about them, I pretty much treat everything with caution just in case 😊.
Would be pretty cool to discover a new species. Cheers 👍.
Wow.
I git these for a 'cold beer' out there.
Incredible Gold bloke, well done, is that Crownland or private permission needed?
Some of it is on general public fossicking areas and most of it is on 'pay to detect and camp' areas which are usually large cattle stations in which the owners make extra money from allowing people to fossick on.
They are open to anyone for a fee.
The trouble is in Queensland there is very little public fossicking areas available considering how massive the state is.
If you're fortunate enough to know a farmer and get permission then that's the best thing but unfortunately I don't know any, cheers.
@@stevegraf9276 Thanx for your reply, that seems a little strange to me, if the farmers are open to pay to detect shouldn't they be advertising it, like in Gold/Gem and Treasure or on the prospecting forums?, i am from South Oz and there is probably little chance i would ever detect there, but u never know, if the chance came i would probably go for it, perhaps if you do get to meet some it might be worth a suggestion to them?
@@beergold Yeah I actually think it's a shame that more stations won't allow the same set up because at the moment I don't think there's that many. I only found them by searching the internet. I've got a feeling that the main reason they don't is due to health and safety issues. They're worried that if something happens to someone they could be in some striff, because people sometimes get lost or hurt etc. On the other places you have to sign a statement clearing them of any responsibility should anything go wrong, which is fair enough, I don't think anyone has any problem with that.
@@stevegraf9276 That signing of a statement should be put in place everywhere and away we go!!!!
Beautiful nuggets mate! Not many people gets days like that.
Take me with you ❤❤❤
What acid do you soak them,in to clean the, without damaging them?
Hi, you can soak gold in nearly any acid and it won't affect it, that's the amazing thing about gold, It's very stable in that sense. While it's also quite soft in terms of metal, and can be hammered extremely thin as well as being able to mix with various other metals like copper, silver etc. it's always recoverable if necessary.
The only acid that is known to dissolve gold is called Aqua Regia and it's a mix of two other acids combined. So don't put it in that. But don't worry because you're very unlikely to ever come in contact with any of that stuff. The main acids that I use to clean are straight hydrochloric acid, which you can get at Bunnings or mitre ten. And Ali bright aluminium cleaner, from mitre ten or super cheap auto. You just leave them soaking for as long as possible. I usually change the acid several times as it becomes weaker.
It's a slow process so it takes a while depending on how many impurities there are and how much you do at once. Small bits can clean fairly well in a couple of weeks, especially if you scrub them with a toothbrush in between times. Always wear protection like rubber gloves and goggles. Some nuggets only require a bit of a scrub with water if they're fairly clean already. There are other methods but they can be more dangerous like hydrofluoric acid which is extremely dangerous and a license is needed to even use it. People have died from accidents with that stuff.
After I remove nuggets I soak them in water and bicarbonate soda over night to neutralise the acid.
Hope that's some help, cheers 😃.
@@stevegraf9276 thanks
what led you to that area mate ? was there anything that caught your eye that makes you want to detect a spot ?
Nothing in particular, firstly it's just a case of finding where you can legally go or get permission etc. Then I pretty much just cover as much country as I can. From then on I'll keep an eye out for any promising looking ground, such as quartz or iron stone outcrops or good looking gravel etc.
@@stevegraf9276 cheers mate, great work keep it up love your vids.
@@stevegraf9276Hi Steve, how do you figure out who to ask for permission?
I am in Qld and thinking of starting out, but getting permission seems daunting.
@@Gardener7 hi, yes I agree that approaching a farmer or station owner does seem daunting and that's probably why I've never done it myself, although I probably should because all they can do is say no. But so far I've only ever gone on public fossicking areas or pay to detect stations. Unfortunately Queensland seems to be the worst state for public access areas. Clermont is probably the best public fossicking area in Queensland with quite a large area of state forest allocated. The pay to fossick areas are usually large working cattle stations where they charge people a fee to camp and fossick. They are open to anyone but you do have to pay to go on them. There are at least four that I know of near George town but I've only been to one of them. You can probably just search on Google to find them. Good luck cheers.