Author: dan

Hello, its been a while since the last update. We have had a disruptive past 12 months with Covid and all the restrictions, but we are back to normal now. If anyone would like to know more about our club please send us an Email.

Our June meeting was held at Mt Larcom, the showgrounds was the venue of choice. It was a bit wet which luckily enough held off for most of the morning. There was quite a lot of coins found, most of which were spendable, there were a number of pre decimals unearthed as well. The prize for the find of the day was won by Kim Gunson, who scored a nice old Esso truck and possibly a collectors item. For the find she received a 1930 Penny Tribute Token.

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The venue was Emu Park for this months meeting, it was a little bit chilly early but a nice day overall. There was some nice finds found on the day and it was an overall success. Will see everyone next meeting, happy hunting.

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Was another good meeting on Sunday the 28th of March. We had a good showing of members, 17 in total. The ground was fairly soft so that was a bonus after many months of digging hard ground like concrete. The park itself has been well hunted over the years but we still pulled a few good finds from there. A couple of pennys, a threepence, silver ring, couple of buckles, locks, some modern coinage and a couple of badges.

There was another hunt in Newcastle to coincide with our club meeting. Andrew our President, cleaned up with some really nice finds, including 2 pennys, 3 half pennys, a wheat, a threepence, a 1940 German coin, forces button and a rising sun collar badge. Great hunt Andrew.

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A great weekend was had at Seeonee Park at the inaugural Greg Egretz Memorial Hunt weekend. We had alot of members that travelled many hours to attend our meeting, they came from Bundaberg, Gladstone, Mackay, and all round the CQ area. Thank You to all those who attended. Thank You to Anthony for organising this weekend in memory of his father, and everyone else who took part in the organisation as well. It was very enjoyable for both detecting and socialising.

It was a very hot weekend, but that didn’t stop our members from getting out amongst the WW2 relics that were scattered throughout the old camp and Scout grounds. And little did we know a Police Badge from the mid/late 1800s was going to be found. Plenty of other relics were found around the property as well. Too many to mention them all, but includes coins, buckles, silvers, bullets, buttons, spoons and more.

Anthony awarded the winner of the inaugural Greg Egretz Memorial Hunt to Leonie Story, with her Queensland Police Button. Congratulations Leonie.

Another important thing on the agenda for the weekend was the annual AGM, and with all the general business taken care of, we had the election of the clubs office bearers. Congratulations to all those elected and I’m sure all members are looking forward to the year ahead. The following people were elected…

* President – Andrew Mason

* Vice President – Marvin Curnuck

* Secretary – June Birch

* Treasurer – Graham Ward.

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It’s on every detectorists bucket list, the very elusive Gold Sovereign. Well at last Sunday’s club meeting, Graham Ward, our treasurer found 2 of the golden beauties!!

After finding the first one Graham called us over and as we were admiring the Sovereign he thought there may be another one in there. So with most of us watching on in anticipation and Marvin filming, Graham dug down further to reveal another Gold Sovereign, we were all so excited and jumping around high fiving each other…Its an experience I will never forget. What a thrill to see not one, but two Gold Sovereigns come out of the ground. Congratulations again to Graham.

There were also quite a few other coins found by members on the day, being Pennys, Shillings, Sixpences and even an old Token, one of the coins dating back to 1816. But the day belonged to Graham and the golden pair of 1861 Australian Sydney Minted Sovereigns.

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It was a hot day on Sunday for our monthly meeting, but despite that we had a good showing of people who attended our meeting up at the very dry, Mt Morgan Dam.

There were quite a number of pre-decimals found, Graham come up trumps with the most silvers. He definitely cleaned up using his Equinox 800. Most of the finds seemed to be down deep, which really suited the Nox.

We had a few new people come up to Mt Morgan to our open day, it’s great to see some new faces with each meeting.

Leeann put on morning tea for everyone, which was very popular on such a hot day. All in all it was a successful meeting and I am sure everyone enjoyed themselves.

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We had a good meeting on Saturday the 31st October. There were a few more new members that joined our ever growing club, was a great little hunt. There were prizes handed out to the top three finds. Congratulations to the winners and enjoy the pics.

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We had a great little meeting on Sunday at Alan Bray Park. We welcomed 6 new members on the day, which is great, welcome to the club guys. Apart from the angry magpies, it was a great day for detecting, there was a CQ Detectorists Token, a lovely Gold coin and a mixed-decimal coin spill hidden in all different locations in the park, thanks to Marvin. We all enjoyed searching for the targets. It was good to see that 2 of the 3 hidden items were found by new members of our club, they were pretty stoked. There were also 4 older coins found on the day, 3 Victorian pennys, a half penny and some decimal coins, as well as the usual good old aluminium canslaw.

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Last weekend the club held an overnight camping weekend at the Bouldercombe sports facility. A great time was had by all that attended.
It was unfortunate that less than 30 of us were only able to attend due to the Covid restrictions placed upon us earlier in the week, but these are difficult times and some of us getting out is better than none at all.
We are well aware that these grounds have been heavily detected for several years, so it is no surprise that pickings were slim. Some highlights that came from the grounds were. 1918 Half Penny, 1936 Penny, a couple of Roo pennies and an 1891 Threepence. There were a few old metal buttons and brass saddle rivets picked up along the way. A quantity of rubbish was recovered and disposed of, and we had a 10 minute challenge with members scrambling to find as many ring pulls as they could in that time frame.
Some of the guys went under the old royal hotel and pulled out well over $100 of coins and several pre decimals with 1 member finding 9 silver threepence. A beautiful florin was recovered and another member broke her curse of never being able to find a Ram’s head shilling. She also recovered an 1862 One Centime from under the community hall. We named that coin the find of the hunt.
We also had a visit from local MP Barry O’Rourke and Rockhampton Regional Council’s Drew Wickerson who both stopped by to catch up with the club members and to see what we were finding.
A big thank you goes to Marie who opened the facilities for us on the day so we could stop and have a cup of tea with a biscuit and a comfort break. The ladies in the group appreciated this the most.
Len at the campgrounds certainly looked after us as well with fire wood and allowing us to detect the grounds on that side. He had a genuine interest in what we do and happily went through the relics we had on display.
If anyone requires a great function facility, please get in contact with the Bouldercombe Progress Association. They hire the grounds at a very reasonable rate with everything you could possibly need.

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