WEB SUPER SPECIALS

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 .... now it's double that !

A lot has changed since those days with gold now reaching over AUD $1,600.00 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 to us today !

Special Price: $125.00 ... Including Standard Postage within Australia

WEB / BOOK SPECIAL # 2

GUIDEBOOK TO THE PEGMATITES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

NEW ! ... Recently released

Review: 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).

Case bound, laminated, 394pp, well illustrated, 830 grams.

Special Price: $85.00 ... Including Standard Postage within Australia

WEB / BOOK SPECIAL # 3

A DEAD MAN'S DREAM

LASSETER'S REEF FOUND ?

Review:

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.

Special Price: $25.00 ... Including Standard Postage within Australia

WEB / BOOK SPECIAL # 4

WHERE STRANGE GODS CALL

by: A. M. Duncan-Kemp

We are offering this magnificent Australian 'out of print' book which was originally printed in 1968.

This book is now catalogued as bringing over $60.00 in second-hand condition !

Review:

This book describes in rich and absorbing detail the Channel Country world of the author - the far south-west of Queensland and the north of South Australia where lie the mighty cattle kingdoms.

Few, apart from the Aborigines, know the Channel Country as does the author - its climates and its moods, its secret trails and the creatures that use them, its shadowy blue ranges and its rugged stony slopes, its maze of water-bearing streams and gullies - in good seasons the far-from-simple network of irrigation channels provided by Nature to carry silt and seed and water across the land, its shy tribesmen who lived in three worlds ruled by strange gods, self-contained but connected by spirit-links all rigidly inaccessible except to the initiate and those favoured few white folk who know the Aborigines well.

In its dangers and discomforts, and above all in the unwritten laws of its wild society, she finds a deep personal fulfilment in early youth her father told her: "You will always be alone, but not lonely. Loneliness can be communion."

William Duncan's strangely attractive personality is unforgettably caught up in these pages so understandingly written by his daughter . So is the country itself (called "desert," but which is totally unlike any other desert in the world) and the ways of the creatures among which the author has spent so much of her life.

Alas! ... The ever onward march of civilization leaves less and less room for the untamed, whether land, animal or human, and Mrs. Duncan-Kemp's colourful and fascinating book shows what Australia and the world has already lost, and could lose beyond recall by their passing unrecorded.

In the midst of this strange, yet attractive area lies an old cattle station, "Mooraberrie," owned by her parents from the early 1890's, and where Alice Duncan, as she prefers to be called, was born and grew up. "Where Strange Gods Call" tells of her love for this, then, remote spot, the Kirrenderri of the aboriginal tribes that once roamed and had their being there. It portrays adventures and experiences unusual in any language and in any walk of life. It is a narrative which threads its way through a vast and colourful canvas - a story (or many stories within a story) which divulges as many secrets of the country's mysteries and aboriginal people as it recounts exciting encounters with wild cattle, sudden floods and a wild untamed land, written by a person with rare insight and experience in these little-known areas.

Alice Duncan has told more than the tales of growing up on an outback cattle station. This is her fourth book is at the same time an important study of natural history and of the aboriginal tribes who were associated in these adventures. It is a vivid account of men and women against nature, of survival, of the dangers as well as the pleasures of the seldom trodden tracks, and of making the pioneers' lonely way over the trackless sand-hill and channel country.

Special Price: $30.00 ... Including Standard Postage within Australia

WEB / BOOK SPECIAL # 5

QUEENSLAND FRONTIER

by: Glenville Pike

Review:

This popular historical book describes the courageous adventurers, and unbelievably real characters of the life in North Queensland in the 1860's to 1870's. It also describes how the pioneers pushed the frontier of settlement northward on the tracks of valiant explorers in the 1845 - 1880 period with stories of courage, endurance, and mateship; of shipwrecks, and great horseback rides; of wild gold rushes - all against a background of constant guerrilla war waged by the Aboriginal tribes in a desperate attempt to stem the white invaders in the North and West. Illustrated with some black and white photographs.

Soft Cover. Revised Reprint 1988. 382pp. in brand new mint condition!

Special Price: $27.50 ... Including Standard Postage within Australia

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WEB / BOOK SPECIAL # 6

BEAUTIFUL QUEENSLAND GEMS

This 24 page book with a comprehensive text, is beautifully illustrated with 61 colour photographs, a detailed location map and 4 tear-off colour postcards which can be mailed to your friends.

‘Beautiful Queensland Gems’ provides the reader a general insight of the rich vast gemstone deposits in Queensland . If you are an avid fossicker, a tourist or like to travel in the comfort of your arm chair, you will enjoy reading this delightful book over and over again because whatever beautiful gem you are searching for – you will without doubt find it in Queensland .

Special Price: $10.00 ... Including Standard Postage within Australia

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WEB SPECIAL # 7

LONG JOHNS

STOCKTAKE CLEARANCE SALE ... SPECIAL !

These "Long Johns" or sometimes referred to as "Thermal Underwear" are the well-known top quality brand 'Brynte of Norway' which are generally worn under jeans to keep you extra warm during those winter months.

BRYNTE super lightweight and super warm SPORT-THERMAL with mesh construction in MERAKLON produces a very high level of insulation with almost a built-in thermostat. Overheating and overcooling are the two main enemies in keeping energy outputs to a minimum, and BRYNTE is designed to limit these excesses. The mesh allows circulation during movement, while holding pockets of air essential to heat retention during inactivity, creating an effective control over body temperature.

BRYNTE SPORT-THERMAL should be worn with normal over-clothing providing as an effective windbreak and prevents wind-chill.

We have only a few of these left which are available in the following colours, sizes and shows the amount of stock left: (1/2/2009)

White - Large # 52 ..... 3 left

Navy - Medium # 50 ..... 3 left

White - Small # 48 ..... 1 left

Navy - Small # 48 ..... 4 left

SALE PRICE: $18.00 per pair ... plus Postage.

Please add $5.00 standard postage for 1 pair ... or ... $10.00 standard postage for 2 pair or more.

NOTE! This offer is only available within Australia only.

WEB SPECIAL # 8

AUTOMATIC CHOPSTICKS

We have been selling these popular AUTOMATIC CHOPSTICKS for quite some years.

What are they? ..... (you may ask!)

They are a pair of genuine bamboo chopsticks which have a central spring-loaded nylon disc at the top. They are in the shape of a V when opened. When pressure is applied to each chopstick with the thumb and forefinger, they close up thus enabling you to pick up the food. This disc can be removed for easy cleaning if required, thus separating the two sticks.

There are many other uses for these AUTOMATIC CHOPSTICKS such as keeping a pair for picking up objects out of acids, feeding sick and injured birds (especially kookaburras!) .. all you have to do is use your imagination ... they come in handy for all types of situations! They are also an inexpensive gift (for any occasion) for your family and friends.

These normally retail for around $1.95 each in kitchen and hardware shops.

As a WEB SPECIAL we are offering these to you at a SPECIAL PRICE for a limited time only at the following prices posted within Australia.

10 pairs AUTOMATIC CHOPSTICKS for only $10.00 including standard postage. That's a saving of $11.00 !!

20 pairs AUTOMATIC CHOPSTICKS for only $18.00 including standard postage. That's a saving of $27.00 !!

Larger quantities - price on application.

If you would like a SAMPLE pair, the price is only $2.00 posted.

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If you would like to place an order now … Just go to the top of this page and click on to HOW TO ORDER … all the details are there.

Just mention these WEB SUPER SPECIALS when ordering !

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