Posted on September 11, 2011 by NQExplorers. The townships are 1sq mile, or there abouts it’s owned by Mareeba council so go your hardest! https://app-apac.thebookingbutton.com/m … r_adults=2. We are finding people cutting fences to get into Kondo and this is causing no end of problems for us. The old pub site at Thonghborough is lived in by the Fulconers and have so for 50 odd years and Kingsborough is owned and lived in by Ike who has lived there for the best part of 30 years, that is the only parcels of …
That said I will call Derm to get this clarified to who has ownership & I definitely won't be going into an area I can't go, cheers. Is my information incorrect? We have just returned from a week in the goldfields prospecting and relic hunting. The only Gov owned sites are the Cemeteries and monuments and if you prospect them well each to their own. Joe McHugh and Rockwall are correct, the Kingsborough and Thornborough areas (roughly 1sq Mile) are public town reserves apart from the small blocks privately owned by Fulconer at Thornborough, and by Ike, MYSELF and a couple of others at Kingsborough. Colleen’s new detector, a Garrett AT Pro, has arrived at last as a replacement for the much-loved and much-used Ace250. Welcome to Queensland’s newest all-inclusive luxury property Mt Mulligan Lodge. Goldwright, if you stay at the Mount Mulligan Resort can you detect on the station at all? Metal detecting, coin and relic hunting with a Garrett GTI-2500 metal Continue reading →, Some pics from 2010 trips out west. Goldfields History. Garrett Apex: 290 Year Old Cash Coin! A meeting-place of the aborigines from time immemorial, it has seen the passing of a thousand tribes." A rich tapestry of folklore has sprung up around the Mount Mulligan mine disaster, some of it based on real events and some of it based on furtive imaginations. I’m not sure where steveG has been looking but you may find a few small bits if you put in the hard yards.... be prepared for trash never seen anything like it!
There will now be some ‘intense’ training and then straight into the field for some relic and coin hunting. Guess who will probably end up with that. They are Heritage reserves and are very small parcels of land. We return to the Far North Queensland goldfields for a week’s gold prospecting, agate fossicking and relic hunting. Last edited by Wimbo (20 June 2020 07:44 pm), Minelab GPX 4500, Detech 15x10 & 8inch round, Steel Phase sp01, Steel Phase pro headphones, Garrett a/t carrot. There shouldn't be a problem detecting inside the gazetted road boundary either. I’ve had my detector for a year and only been to my in-laws place practicing on test nuggets, cause there no places around Mareeba to go, would like to try my luck on glen russell station if allowed just can’t find any contact details for them can anyone help me out or point me in the right direction for contacting them cheers. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Australian Gold Detecting: 2.4 Gram Gold Nugget: Garrett AT Pro: Garrett Infinium. Last edited by SteveG (25 June 2020 11:34 am). Metal detecting and coin hunting in Queensland, Australia. One of his helicopters... quiet buggers eh?!!