Kalgoorlie Gold

We have had a great couple, of days here, probably should have stayed longer.

The Kalgoorlie Superpit is incredible, we just went to the lookout and watched, trucks pulling 260 tonne loads out every 30 seconds to a minute, never stops!

Kalgoorlie is all about gold, going back over a century, and not much has changed, its still about Gold, and the hope of a better future, that's why everyone is here!

Talking to the locals, there's no negativity here, just get on with it.
And mines and prospectors are making a few dollars with gold price in $AUD Pretty good

Yesterday we went out on a prospecting tour with Gold prospecting Kalgoorlie.

One of the participants was the manager of the Exchange Hotel In Kalgoolie.
We had a meal there the night before, in paddy's bar, so we were almost locals!
He has been here for a few years, but the talk of all this prospecting had gotten too much for him, so he was trying his luck on his day off!

We turned up at Finders Keepers Kalgoorlie at 7.30 to meet Dean from Gold prospecting Kalgoorlie

I was very impressed with Deans tutorial, we all had our own detectors, and Dean actually got a small piece of gold and buried it to about 5 inches and then put the detector over it to show us how this was done, and he didn't have any trouble getting the gold back!

He went through some geology and a good explanation of how the gold is distributed.

He also made sure we were fed and watered all day, and kept tabs on us so we didn't get lost.

Realistically like most things in life, it would take some time to be proficient at finding gold, but after a day I was feeling quite confident that it was entirely possible, and really it was just about putting in the yards, and finding someone like Dean to give you a start.
The other thing that I was blown away by was the incredible amount of plant life out here with quite big trees.
These trees tend to follow fault lines, so you really start to get a feel for the landscape and the geology.

I found it a very relaxing six hrs, no one to annoy you,  just you and your detector and shovel.

But also easy to get lost I was glad that Dean had supplied us with a radio and handheld GPS that could direct us back to the vehicles, you really need a GPS would be easy to get lost.









We didn't find gold but we learnt a lot, great day out, and Dean shouted us a beer at the Broad Arrow Hotel, on the way home, can't beat that!