GoldFinder

04/05/2025

Exciting News! In collaboration with Trilobite you can now access Goldfinder's soil sample database directly in Australian Geology Travel Maps (or as everyone else knows it as the Trilobite app).

The process is fairly simple and there is image attached of the steps.

1. Make sure Australian Geology Travel Maps is updated to the latest version from playstore/apple. You will require version 2.4.11 released 1st May 2025 or later.

2. Go to your GoldFinder Map (map.goldfinder.net.au)

3. Go to your GoldFinder Account settings and copy your Trilobite export token

4. Open Australian Geology Travel Maps and go to downloads section and find and go into "WA GoldFinder soil data"

5. You'll be prompted for the token, paste the token into this, press ok and then back out then back in and you'll access to download the soil sample data for all samples greater than 20ppb. Note. If you do not get prompted for the token you do not have the latest version of Australian Geology Travel Maps and must update to the latest version.

6. Download WA Soils min 20ppb and now you can now use this like any other overlay in Trilobite. Enjoy!

Over the next few weeks we plan to add drill hole result data, placemarks made in GoldFinder, dead SPL tenements and maybe some more!

Note the colour coding of soil samples are the same as the default in GoldFinder.

Purple = 100+ ppb
Red = 50-99 ppb
Yellow = 20-49 ppb

15/04/2025

Recently excavated quartz hosted gold reef. In an area with high value soil and drill results that have been publicly available for the last 25 years. The patch was only discovered with metal detectors recently and is now being worked with machinery. The drillers in the late 90s even drilled directly into the quartz-gold reef but it terminated after approx 1.5m (probably because it was proving too difficult to drill) and moved approx. 1m across where they drilled along side the reef. Crazy stuff.

11/04/2025

Section 40E Form generator is now live!

Pretty simple to use.

1. Just click on an Exploration Licence.
2. Click the button to Create Section 40E Permit.
3. Select the Graticules you want within the Exploration Licence (Max 10 and sides touching)
4. Fill out the remaining Applicant & Vehicle details (Note. your details are prefilled from your account settings details)
5. Click on Generate Permit and a PDF document will download to your computer. Then print and sign.
6. Take to your nearest DEMIRS Office or Lodge online with Mineral Titles Online (MTO).

Note. Only desktop/laptop supported for Section 40E permits at this time. Still tinkering to see if we can fit this on a mobile screen.

04/04/2025

Some more photos of the gold recovered from that patch.

01/04/2025

Part 2. Enjoy.

31/03/2025

New patch found last year using soil samples not far from town (Part 1). Who wants to see more?

**For the comments regarding filling in holes. The gold found in the videos is on their private lease about 2km from where their 14 tonne front end loader was parked up as they're full time prospectors. The area was subsequently pushed and rehabilitated shortly thereafter. The holes were left open for the video and to identify the run of gold so they had a clear idea on where to excavate the dirt with their loader. If this was on vacant, pending or section 40e ground their holes would have been filled in with leaves sprinkled on top so you could never find them.**

31/03/2025

This is how I search for gold.

This is an image of some pending ground with some high value soil samples. Upon closer inspection the high value soil samples in the middle appear to already have evidence of a gold being found (disturbed ground, possibly pushed with machinery for gold nuggets). There are two locations, one in the bottom left and one in the top right that would I would spend some time searching / metal detecting around.

I've never been there and quite frankly is too far from home for me to try. I don't know if there are gold nuggets there or not but this is an example of where and how I'd be looking.

Probably won't post too many of these as I'm sure I would eventually upset someone by accidently giving away someone's secret gold nugget patch😄

29/03/2025

Our website is now live. Check it out now!

GoldFinder is an easy to use web app (that even works on mobile devices!) that you can use to dynamically search for gold bearing ground in Western Australia.

21/03/2025

Another example of a patch (pushed and rehabbed) correlating with drill and soil results.

21/03/2025

Why are high value soil or high value shallow drill results so important? This is why. A prime example of a nugget patch found and then pushed. At least a kilo found here that I know of.