Pirates GoldProspecting Tours

Greg has personally prospected the Eastern Goldfields around Leonora since 1984, and turned his own private leases into tag-along tours in 2019. His wife Liz cooks for the camp — her largest find is a 5-ounce nugget, against Greg's own best, a 64-ounce specie. Tours run April through August, the cooler months when remote camping in the outback is workable, and stay entirely on Pirates Gold's own leases rather than public fossicking ground. Guests bring a detector or use one supplied, and Greg trains everyone himself before anyone swings a coil in the bush; non-detecting partners travel free. The operation carries full public liability cover and is accredited with the WA Tourism Board, but there is no shopfront, no static dig site and no roster of contracted guides. It is Greg and Liz, working ground Greg has walked for four decades, taking guests out in tag-along convoys into the Northern Goldfields for however many days a tour runs. The pitch is unadorned: real detecting on real leases, training included, run by the same two people every season out of Leonora.