The 4 Unwritten Laws of Gold Prospecting in Western Australia

Your detector isn't the reason you're not finding gold. Four rules decide it before you ever switch the machine on — where you go, what you know, how you cover ground, and what you learn from every dig.

How to Read an Old Mine Shaft (and Find the Gold Everyone Walks Past)

Most detectorists crowd around the collar of an old shaft and miss the easiest gold on the site. Here's how to read the shaft, chase the strike, and work the downhill slope where gold has been shedding for thousands of years

The Rise and Fall of Mt Palmer: Western Australia's Short-Lived Gold Boom in the Yilgarn

A rich find, a frantic rush, a proper little town with a survey and a name, a mine that paid extraordinary returns — and then war, labour shortages, and a played-out reef, and the whole thing folds up and blows away with the red dust. In this post I want to walk through the lot: how the gold was found, what the mine and the town were actually like, why it died, and — for those of you keen to go and stand on the ground yourself — exactly what you need to know about getting there and, crucially, why you can't just wander in and swing a detector

Southern Cross Gold: A Beginners' Prospectors Roadmap

The Southern Cross region is legendary. It’s a cornerstone of the Western Australian gold industry. But here’s the thing: you can’t just drive out there, wander aimlessly through the scrub, and hope for the best. If you want to actually find something—and more importantly, if you want to do it without getting a fine or getting stuck in the middle of nowhere—you need a plan. You need to know the ground, you need to know your gear, and you absolutely need to know the law.

Where Can I Find Gold in Western Australia? A Geologist's Guide to WA's Goldfields

The best regions to find gold in WA — Eastern Goldfields, Murchison and Pilbara — plus how to read gold-bearing country and the permits you legally need before you swing a coil.

Hidden in Plain Sight: 5 Overlooked Gold Zones in Historic Workings

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