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Central Victoria
Australia
Gold
Prospecting to the famous Central Victoria Australia Gold Fields.
Tag-a-long with our resident Metal Detector
expert, licensed Australian Miner, Gold Prospecting Specialist, and Computer System
Engineer, Mr. Gene Casanova to the out back of Victoria Australia
for a fantastic one-of-a-kind adventure.
Metal Detecting lessons will be made available
and specialized metal detectors can be rented. Rental fees will
apply towards a metal detector purchase made within 30 days of the
rental receipt.
Expeditions are planned for data gathering
and field exploration in the goldfields of 1850 and later periods.
The areas include small gold rush towns and crown land. The itinerary is
half based on the tag-a-long companions. Goldfield diggings and mine tailings
of the original gold rushes are visited and open for prospecting.
Expedition durations are pre-planned for 1 week min.
to 1 month depending on tag-a-long
companions. A local guide can be
hired. Accommodations available: camping in state parks,
private camp grounds, Bed &
Breakfasts, motels and hotels. Note, these small towns have very
basic accommodations.
US citizens:
Basic Requirements:
- Valid US Passport ( Allow a month for processing
time
for new or renewal passport)
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Travel Insurance
- Two month previous confirmation and
confirmed roundtrip ticket. (We can give online booking assistance.
Plan to spend between
$1,500 to
$2,000 USD ( US dollar) for airline tickets from Chicago to
Melbourne Australia. The roundtrip cost is less from California
International airports.
- Tag-a-long companions are responsible for
themselves 100%. We are not providing a guide, guided trip or
travel package here. We are simply offering the chance to
follow our expert on an exciting real world adventure.
Email for further details and your interest:
Tag-a-log@Casanovas.org
Update: Feb. 2002 Expedition yields
one 10 gram 23k+ gold nugget (pictured above); smaller nuggets;
one resembles a shark tooth and some some great stories from a
fantastic life adventure to the land of OZ.
Spring, 2002 Expedition Highlights: New
goldfield diggings not presented on any locally developed maps
were discovered and documented. Two very small nuggets found. Many
new maps were obtained along with many publications on the history
of the local gold rushes. Books were obtained and new stories
collected. Information from the past was collected during visits
to the Melbourne Gold Treasury building and museum and the Chinese
museum located in Melbourne's Chinatown. The
expedition was a great success. The goal was to collect as much
new data as possible on known and undocumented gold discoveries
and large nugget recoveries as well as gather the most recent
government maps of the gold fields and privately developed and
published maps of the goldfield diggings and nugget discoveries.
All this information will not be read and documented in one main
database and then transferred to the most current topographical
maps available to date. These maps will be used to plot the
potential and probability of the area for future gold exploration
and discovery. Point of interest:
While discovering new goldfield diggings, I had to wonder about
the days the men dug the fields and the struggle the people endured. Not only is there the
real potential of gold discovery in the area, but also a great opportunity to
discover relics and relive the history and period.
A person interested in serious relic hunting would love to visit
the goldfields and old gold rush towns. There is a great
potential of finding lost tools, money, and tokens used for
trading nuggets in for bread during the gold rushes of the
1850s. I was able to bring back one such bread token.
What an adventure.... outback hiking in the wilderness, camping,
a personal challenge working with maps, compass and GPS, relying
on your own skills, learning and discovering history, then add
the excitement of that potential gold discovery!
Return with a treasure load of one-of-a-kind adventure stories
to tell. I am now slowly
finding time to edit pictures from the goldfields and will add a
new section for the expeditions. Stay tuned.
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