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	Fists Full Of Gold by Chris Ralph 362 pages $49.- + post How you can find gold in the mountains and deserts Chris Ralph distills down his decades of field experience and knowledge to help prospectors all across the globe upgrade their understanding and improve the results of their golden quest. From equipment operations, to the geology of how gold deposits form, to the nature of coarse gold nuggets, this book takes a unique approach in teaching the 'trade skills' of prospecting, and focuses primarily on the knowledge you need to find locations rich with recoverable gold. Metal Detecting Gold & Relics in Australia Hardcover - 424 pages 1.78kg Fourth Edition $125.- + post by Douglas M. Stone This book is designed to provide all the information needed to successfully operate a metal detector on Australian goldfields. Help on how to choose a metal detector, where to go to find coarse gold and relics. All mainland states are covered, maps of gold producing areas and many images of interesting outback locations.
	Putting Queensland on the Map By Felicity Jack - Hardcover 275 pages 1.49kg $55.- +post The Life of Geologist & Explorer Robert Logan Jack New publication on the life of the geologist and explorer Robert Logan Jack. This book is written by his great grand daughter Felicity Jack. It covers his early years, his time as Queenslands Govt Geologist and explorations in Queensland's mineral fields. The accompanying CD includes transcripts of family letters, images and maps.
	Angor to Zillmanton Paperback 462 pg by Colin Hooper $69.95 + post Stories of North Queensland deserted towns. This is a wonderful written book about the early settlement history of North Queensland. There are great stories of places and characters that populated the early day landscape. The hardships of mining and exploration endured, are still visible today in the remains of ghost towns. This book is full of useful historical information including copies of early town survey maps. It shows how important tin and gold mining was to the eventual establishment of our larger coastal townships. It could be said that that we owe our existence to these early day pioneers. Read more at www.desertedtownsatoz.com
	More of North Queensland Deserted Towns Torres Strait - Cape York Hardcover 54 pgs By Colin Hooper $39.- ea Cooktown - Palmer Hardcover 48 pages By Colin Hooper $39.- ea Chillagoe - Hodgkinson Hardcover 81 pgs By Colin Hooper $39.- ea
	Cape York An Adventurer's Guide by Ron & Viv Moon Paperback 287 pages $29.95 Comprehensive and detailed guide to Cape York. Includes natural and historical information with many maps and detailed trek notes. Also covers fishing, canoeing and national parks. A must for those going to the Cape.
	River of Gold Paperback 217 pages by Hector Holthouse $22.95 The Wild Days of the Palmer Gold Rush A classic book that has started many a fossicker and prospector on a journey of adventure 'The gold rush at Palmer River, on Cape York, lasted about seven years in the 1870's but with 35,000 diggers it was the country's wildest while it lasted. Holthouse has researched the story of those days well to make a lively and a very readable book.
	Gold Panning For Novices Spiral bound booklet A4 23 pages $22.95 Using a gold pan & basic prospecting methods. by Stephen Barnham Australian book covering all the basics of gold panning with many coloured illustrations on the how and the where. This is one of the best books of this type I have seen. Highly recommended. Also available in this series: A Manual for the Novice Gold Prospector $19.95 Gold Detecting for Novices $19.95 Gold Detecting for the More Serious $19.95 The Innovative Prospector - Ideas $19.95 Go to Likely Prospects for more details
	Gold Fever Paperback 80 pages The Art of Panning and Sluicing by Lois de Lorenzo American handy beginners book with many pen drawings and step by step instructions on on gold panning. There are some do it yourself projects on building a simple sluice with many helpful hints.
	Riches of Wolfram Camp Paperback 90 pages $18.50 A Mareeba Historical Society Publication Compiled by John C. Hay "A typical American mining camp in an Australian setting, was this Wolfram Camp - busy days, wild nights, hard work and easy spending, but no two-gun bandits, no stage coach hold-ups. There never was, there never could be another township such as Wolfram Camp..." Hugh A. Borland - April 26, 1939
	The Lone Wolf Paperback 204 pages $24.95 Last of the old-time prospectors Autobiography of Sam Elliott Edited by S.G. St. Clair -Kendall and John Hay Sam Elliot learnt his mining trade in the rugged mountains of north-eastern New south Wales. He also learnt to live alone and to survive where others would die. In 1937, he saddled his two faithful horses and rode for eighteen months until he reached Cooktown in Far North Queensland. When Sam found the Palmer River in 1939 he made it his home. For the next half century he found adventure, mystery, the remains of a bygone era and gold! This is Sam Elliotts story. Gold The Noble Mineral Softcover 112 pages extra Lapis English No. 5 Ideal book for the gold nugget enthusiast with many stunning high quality colour photographs. Subjects include What is Gold?, Evaluating & Testing, Crystals & Nuggets, Mining & Deposits, Electronic Gold Rush, Mineralogy of Gold, North Carolina & Georgia, California & Canada, Australia & Colorado, British Gold Rush.