Isaac Regional Council councillor Barbara Stranks said gold was a big part of Clermont's history. "Many years ago, a fossicking strategy was put in place, where general commission areas that are ...

GOLD DIGGING: General permission areas for fossicking in Clermont's State Forests. "With this new area to explore, it opens up a world of opportunity for avid fossickers and metal detector ...

That's according to Clermont business owner Frieda Berry-Porter ... contributed to an increase in interest for prospecting and fossicking. "We see people from a wide range of postcodes and ...

Byron Williams, who published the exhaustive 1913 history of Clermont and Brown counties in Ohio, spares not a single word in his two-volume epic for the gold rush of 1868. Perhaps this is ...

The 54-year-old has turned his love for fossicking into a job running prospecting tours in central Queensland's gold heartland, Clermont. And with the price of gold skyrocketing, Mr McGrath said ...

Gold prospectors have another 181 hectares of Central Queensland to explore, at the Flat Diggings fossicking area 15 km north-west of Clermont. "It is important to note that anyone visiting these ...

The Department of Mines has issued 7,686 prospecting licences so far this financial year for use in specified fossicking areas. Donnie Pascoe, 55, has held gold prospecting workshops in Clermont ...

co-owner of local store Outback Prospector and secretary of the Clermont Community and Business Group, is a key spokeswoman of the campaign. "This is a long-running issue,” she said. "Gold ...