Gold has lured people to the Australian outback since the first discoveries in the 1850s, and the romance of finding a nugget with your own detector still…
Cape York offers a demanding but rewarding setting for gold prospecting, relic hunting and beach detecting. The peninsula combines remote bush tracks, tropical…
Gold prospecting often depends on hearing a faint, uneven response that could easily be dismissed as ground noise. A small nugget under mineralised soil may…
Old Queensland homesteads can hold traces of everyday life that never appear in history books. A rusted hand tool, brass button, horse tack fitting or early…
A metal detector is only useful while it has enough power to transmit, process signals and drive its headphones or display. Battery performance becomes…
A remote walking trip can change quickly when weather, injury or a wrong turn takes you beyond mobile coverage. An ACR emergency beacon gives bushwalkers a…
A metal detector shaft spends the entire day carrying the weight of the control box, coil and battery while absorbing movement from every sweep. The standard…
The coil is the part of your metal detector that actually touches the ground, sends signals into the soil, and receives the echoes that tell you what lies…
Panning is the oldest method of recovering alluvial gold and remains one of the most useful skills a detectorist can keep in their kit. A coil points toward a…