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The Hand of Faith is a gold nugget of fine-quality [vague] that was found by Kevin Hillier using a metal detector near Kingower, Victoria, Australia on 26 September 1980. Weighing 875 troy ounces (ozt; 27.21 kg, or 72 troy pounds and 11 troy ounces), the gold nugget was only 12 inches (30 cm) below the surface, resting in a vertical position.
Diggers is an American reality television series, shown on National Geographic.Filmed in various locations across the United States, the series follows hobbyist metal detectorists “King George” Wyant and his friend Tim “The Ringmaster” Saylor as they travel the United States, looking for historical artifacts.
Aussie Gold Hunters is an Australian factual television show which follows crews of gold prospectors in Australia. The series is produced by Electric Pictures and began on the Discovery Channel on 15 September 2016. The series has been a ratings success and gone on to air in 125 countries including the United Kingdom.
This is a list of historically significant items found by metal detecting method, only excluding magnet fishing finds, since magnet fishing is usually considered a distinctively different and separate hobby from traditional metal detecting.
Pages in category "Television shows set in the Outback" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Many such devices contain non-functional circuitry or naively constructed approximations of radio transmitters. A few do have functional circuitry, putting out a weak signal with a function generator or a simple timer circuit, but are still largely useless in comparison with a coil-based metal detector; others have been found to contain intentionally obfuscated or completely superfluous ...
Gary Drayton – A Florida based metal detecting expert who was recommended to the team based on his work on The Curse of Oak Island. Dave Van Farowe - Captain of the research vessel Neptune. John Chatterton and Howard Ehrenberg – A pair of divers who were called in when Kevin Dykstra was injured and was unable to dive.
Gold mining in Western Australia is the third largest commodity sector in Western Australia (WA), behind iron ore and LNG, with a value of A$17 billion in 2021–22.The 6.9 million troy ounces (214 tonnes) sold during this time period was the highest amount in 20 years and accounted for almost 70 percent of all gold sold in Australia.