The Part Time Prospector

New video up on YouTube.

It's about using the landscape to find gold spots.

https://youtu.be/GHL9umJEddY

GOLD Prospectors Are Missing THESE 4 Signs In the Landscape! GOLD Prospectors Are Missing THESE 4 Hidden Signs In the Landscape!**Unlocking Gold: 4 Signs to Enhance Your Prospecting Game! 💰⛏️**Welcome to our latest vi...

New Video up on Youtube..

"Unlock Hidden Gold: What Old-Timers Missed in Their Gold-Processing Techniques!" - GOLD PROSPECTING What the old-timers missed — and how you can find the leftover gold they left behind.In this video I walk you through how 19th & early 20th century miners ac...

https://parttimeprospector.com.au/blog/stop-guessing-and-start-digging-how-to-find-your-own-gold-mine-without-leaving-y

Stop Guessing and Start Digging: How to Find Your Own Gold Mine Without Leaving Your Desk | Part Time Prospector Most prospectors spend their weekends driving through the bush, swinging a detector at random and hoping to get lucky. This "hope-based" prospecting is a recipe for frustration and wasted fuel. Professional geologists don't find gold by accident; they find it by doing their homework. The secret to c...

There is one specific habit that separates the professional prospector from the hobbyist: the ability to recognize "blind spots" in historic goldfields.

Most beginners walk straight past high-yield targets because they focus on the obvious markers—the massive mullock heaps or the deep, yawning shafts.

They operate under the mistaken assumption that if a site was worked a century ago, it must be "cleaned out." In reality, gold is often missed not because it isn't there, but because it is hidden in zones that were either ignored by old-timers due to the limitations of their era, or are bypassed by modern prospectors who lack a geological understanding of how gold moves.

By linking historical mining logic with modern soil science, you can identify high-probability spots that have remained untouched for over a hundred years.

Hidden in Plain Sight: 5 Overlooked Gold Zones in Historic Workings | Part Time Prospector Most beginners walk straight past high-yield targets because they focus on the obvious markers—the massive mullock heaps or the deep, yawning shafts. They operate under the mistaken assumption that if a site was worked a century ago, it must be "cleaned out." In reality, gold is often missed not b...

New video up on Youtube.

Why I Do not want to Find a MASSIVE GOLD NUGGET Buy me a coffee, it would be really appreciated!https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bruceprospectorWhat would you do if your metal detector pulled up a 50 kg gold n...

Every prospector has the daydream. So let me start by making it specific.

At the time of writing, gold is sitting at around $6,500 AUD per troy ounce. A 50-kilogram nugget — one like the Welcome Stranger, the largest ever found — contains roughly 1,600 troy ounces of gold. Do the maths: you're looking at $10.4 million dollars sitting in a hole you just made with a hand pick.

Now let me tell you why that hole might be the worst thing that ever happened to you.

Why Finding a 50kg Gold Nugget Could Ruin Your Life | Part Time Prospector Every prospector has the daydream. So let me start by making it specific. At the time of writing, gold is sitting at around $5,000 AUD per troy ounce. A 50-kilogram nugget — one like the Welcome Stranger, the largest ever found — contains roughly 1,600 troy ounces of gold. Do the maths: you're l...

https://parttimeprospector.com.au/blog/why-old-workings-are-the-best-prospecting-ground-in-wa-and-why-most-prospectors

Why Old Workings Are The Best Prospecting Ground In WA — And Why Most Prospectors Are Reading Them Wrong | Part Time Prospector An old working isn't a hole where the gold used to be. It's a hundred-year-old geological survey. Those men who dug it were very good at what they did.

https://parttimeprospector.com.au/blog/the-ground-is-lying-to-you-and-its-costing-you-gold

The Ground Is Lying to You — And It's Costing You Gold | Part Time Prospector Here's the setup: nearly every gold nugget ever found in WA's goldfields came from a soft, pale, crumbly layer of clay sitting beneath the surface. Not from ironstone. Not from quartz reefs. From cream-coloured clay that most prospectors walk straight past on their way to something that looks more '...