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Date Posted: 18:55:24 03/19/02 Tue
Author: Ralph
Subject: fwd: Matt's Story

The following was sent to me by Matt at goldnuggetexchange.com for the forum...... a good read! Thanks Matt
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Hey everybody, well reading Ralph's and Dave's posts have got me thinking about prospecting. It doesn't happen that much these days, I thought I had got it out of my system, but it seems not, I think those golden memories run to deep to ever be completely gone. (I think it was the talking about the kids that did it)Any way I thought I would share a short moment in my life of chasing the weight. Just as a bit of back ground on me I gave up prospecting for a living about seven years or so ago and although still working in the industry I very rarely go out beeping any more, "except sometimes" when I get these odd ideas in my head to go and have a look somewhere.
Anyway this is not a story about me it is about my son and his first gold.
I am not sure if many of you know Western Australia at all but you have to drive a long way from Perth before you hit known gold country (about four and a half hours going north and six going east). Perth is nestled down on the flats between the Darling Range and the Indian Ocean. Now the Darling Range has never been known for gold, it is this big slab of granite that was pushed up and looks as "barren as", but if you look really carefully, there are a couple of tiny greenstone belts hiding in all that granite. What has happened is that the gold has mobilized out of the Quartz stockworks associated with the greenstones, and precipitated out in the iron rich gravels of the laterite overlays. It forms in "Pipes" (these are like chutes full of nuggets). There were a few inferred occurrences in the very early days of the colony (yep we were a convict settlement) but nothing that even came close to a goldfield. Well about two years ago I decided to go and have a look at a place where I had found a bit of gold over the years that was under an hour from Perth and twenty minutes from where I live. It was prospectors heaven, green grass, an all year creek and gold nuggets all over the place. My son and I started doing these little Saturday trips there, it was so cool, yabby net in the creek a bucket in one hand for the mushrooms and a rate of about two to one with the nuggets (two nuggets to one mushroom) it was such fun. He used to generate crowds at his school telling the weekend stories to his classmates, they just couldn't believe that there was gold to be had so close. (we ended taking a few up and showing them how to get a bit of gold too) Tobias (my son) was swinging an old gold bug that I had floating around(I had to cut the stem down because he was to young to swing it as it was) and I was swinging a modified SD 2000 with a fourteen DD coil. There are two memories that I will carry with me forever, the look on his face when he found his first nugget and the look on his face when he reeled in his first big fish (ahh but that's another story). We spent the year up there just mucking around and having fun when we had the inclination on the weekends, the gold was a bonus but it was more the fact of getting out and doing something together that I enjoyed. I am going to try and put a picture in of one of his bits. It wasn't his first but I think it was his biggest. It is a speciemen with about two or three ounces in it.



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