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to the following three (3) customers who each won a popular Fisher "F 75 Anniversary" Metal Detector in our last "Purchase a Metal Detector Draw" drawn on 1st June 2009.

Purchase a Metal Detector with a chance to win a FREE Bounty Hunter Sharp Shooter II Metal Detector !

For a Metal Detector of any brand, purchased directly from us between 1st June 2009 and 30th September 2009 your name will be entered automatically into the draw giving you a chance to win one (1) of five (5) Bounty Hunter Sharp Shooter II Metal Detectors being offered ... each valued at $660.00.

The winner will be announced in our October 2009 Newsletter.

This ever popular title has been out of print for many years …. however since then the author Doug Stone, well known Australian author, prospector, geologist and gold-field tour guide has devoted the interim 30 years or so researching, prospecting and field mapping Australia's goldfields.

The first edition released in July 1980 was at the time when two local high school students from Wedderburn in Victoria found the 'Beggary Hill Nugget' weighing 2.65 kg when gold reached a peak of $800 per ounce in Australia .

A lot has changed since those days with gold now reaching over $1,400.00 per ounce and still rising. It is predicted that gold will most likely hit $2,000.00 per ounce within the next 12 months. Coupled with this, Minelab Electronics with their research, development with current technology have produced the world's best gold prospecting metal detectors.

This massive new hard cover edition of "Metal Detecting for Gold & Relics in Australia" which measures 280mm x 210mm with 424 colour pages weighing 1.75 kg is crammed full with over 300 pages devoted to detailed maps covering all mainland states.

Many new maps have been added to this new edition covering the "Top End" such as Barkly Tableland and East McDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory; the Pilbara in Western Australia; additional maps for Victoria's 'Golden Triangle'. A large section on the Tibooburra and Milparinka goldfields in north-west New South Wales is also included as well as many of the important goldfields of South Australia from Echunga in the south to Teetulpa in the north just off the Barrier Highway from Broken Hill..

Other chapters in "Metal Detecting for Gold & Relics in Australia " include an excellent history of metal detecting in Australia , information on the current models of metal detectors presently available in

Australia

, excellent instructions on their use as well as some of the pitfalls and differences on detectors. Also included are hundreds and hundreds of colour photographs.

This book is arguably one of books which should not be missed by the serious prospector.

Be one of the first to get this magnificent book ... Email your order order to us today !

Minelab’s Multiple Frequency Full Band Spectrum (FBS) technology is the only technology in the world that provides detectorists with both deep detection and deep precision discrimination, regardless of ground conditions and target type.

Serious treasure hunters understand that every outing is a unique moment in time that needs to be enjoyed and maximised.

just click on to: METAL DETECTOR WEB SUPER SPECIALS at the top of this page for further information.

For all the full information on this brand new model of metal detector please view our MINELAB METAL DETECTOR page ... just click on METAL DETECTORS at the top of this page.

For our special INTRODUCTORY PRICE ... just click on to METAL DETECTOR WEB SUPER SPECIALS at the top of this page.

The "Pinpointer" was designed to be used with any of the Bounty Hunter metal detectors to help find treasures. It pinpoints exact location of "Coin-sized" buried metal objects. It is also a handy tool for homeowners, hobbyists, and mechanics; anyone needing to find a lost metal object. Easy to use with single knob control to adjust sensitivity and features audio signal indicator and vibrator. The unit is small and light for easy handling and carrying.

Special price when ordering a metal detector. Please telephone for details !

Please don't forget to check our METAL DETECTOR WEB SUPER SPECIALS for our special deals on Metal Detectors and other products.

Western Australia is a treasure trove. Emeralds, green tourmalines, purple lepidolite, lustrous black tantalite and other minerals are found in pegmatites scattered across the vastness of Western Australia. Fossickers, prospectors, and miners have searched out and mined these pegmatites since the late 1800s. Successive mineral booms for cassiterite, muscovite, beryl, lithium, feldspar and most recently tantalum during the 1990s resulted in further pegmatite exploration. The locations, directions to the deposits and descriptions of these localities are often buried in obscure or unpublished reports or even kept secret by a handful of fossickers.

The Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia summarises the history, geology and mineralogy for all the known pegmatites in Western Australia. Most importantly, the book provides specific, geodetic locations of these deposits and their ownership where known. As such, this guidebook is an excellent first tool for planning recreational fossicking trips to Western Australian localities. For professional geologists first encountering Western Australia, the guidebook is an excellent introduction to the pegmatites and their economic minerals, containing first hand information, in some cases available no where else.

For armchair collectors with purchased mineral specimens, the guidebook will help clarify labels of minerals attributed to Western Australian pegmatites. More than 200 pegmatite groups are described with 75 maps and 100 pictures in 340 pages, completely referenced. Each pegmatite group is located, directions given to the locality, its mining history, geology and mineralogy. This book is an essential companion to Edward S. Simpson’s 1948-52, Minerals of Western Australia, locating the sources of his described pegmatite minerals.

The authors of the guidebook know their subject. Mark Andrew Calderwood is a second generation pegmatite geologist-mineralogist, who started exploring and mining Western Australian pegmatites with his father in the 1970s. He has personally mined more than a few of the described localities and currently manages a tantalite deposit in Africa. Benjamin Alexander Grguric is a professional mineralogist and a life-long fossicker. Mark Ivan Jacobson is also a geologist-mineralogist with a specialty in pegmatites since the 1970s. These three have combined their experiences, providing the reader with the results of their searching and finding pegmatites in Western Australia. [ISBN 0 85905 378 4], (2007, New).

Introductory Price: $85.00 (Including GST) plus $12.00 postage within Australia.

Many expeditions over the past 70 years or so have been conducted in the hope of locating 'Lasseter's Lost Gold Reef'.

It appears that the original map drawn by Harold Lasseter was technically correct, but all the landmarks and details were reversed.

This then suggests that the location of Lasseter's Reef was actually to the east of Alice Springs rather than to the west as previously thought. All the geographical features mentioned by Lasseter now seem to line up.

For some years now, Vietnam Veteran Mr. Bill Decarli has undertaken much research into the famed 'Lasseter's Lost Gold Reef' and now believes that he has found the location.

When he applied for an exploration licence for 155 square kilometers around the reef and a syndicate was formed with a plan to mine it, the Lands Council declared the area to be sacred.

A book entitled "A Dead Man's Dream: Lasseter's Reef Found" by Angie Testa and Bill Decarli recalls Bill's journey, is now available.

Due to numerous requests we have had for information on gem fossicking and locations, I have decided to add this information to our web-site.

This is currently 'under construction' and will be available soon ..... YES ... It's still coming ! It takes time to do it properly !

To access this new section, just go to the top of this page and 'click' on to GEM FOSSICKING INFORMATION.

If you have any further ideas and suggestions or areas that could be added, please email me at: sildale@yahoo.com

2009 is our 34 th year of trading ... being the longest supplier of gold prospecting and treasure hunting equipment in Australia ... we are here to help and support you .... because we care!