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Jim Foster
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Jim and Cheryl Foster have been detecting since 1979, beginning in the central Victorian goldfields of the Golden Triangle. They expanded their efforts, detecting for gold and coins over much of Australia, after the kids grew up and left home.
Their favorite place on the planet is the Tibooburra desert goldfields in northwest New South Wales and their most productive goldfields are in Western Australia where they recovered 23 troy ounces in one season.
They love desert country and spend each year travelling Australia detecting and writing for prospecting and outdoor magazines. Email Jim Foster
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Australia's First Gold Rush
Gold was found in California a few years before the first official finds were made in Australia. It was on February 12, 1851, that Edward Hammond Hargreaves flashed around specks of gold he’d found in nearby Lewis Ponds Creek and sparked the search for payable gold in New South Wales, Australia.
In 1965, I visited New Zealand and saw a South Island goldfield. I knew very little about gold at that time and stopped only long enough to peruse a few relics and old photos on the pub wall.
This remote goldfield covers an area of over 13,000 square miles of the Savanna Gulf country of Far North Queensland, Australia.
