Everyone is by now familiar with the now famous Walco Pick Fracas which spawned many comments and speculative remarks. People complained, threatened to cease posting on certain forums and the row even caused the deletion of a forum post regarding the subject.

In a new, yet equally stirring development for Arizona Outback, Johnathan Porter of Aurum Australis, famous for his mega nugget finds and video series on the Minelab GP series detectors has announced to his Australian customers via the AZO forum that U.S. entity Arizona Outback has opted to dissolve their business relationship with Aurum Australis! As a result, Aurum Australis will no longer carry the Arizona Outback range of detecting accessories. A blow to the prospecting industry to be certain. Jonathan Porter however insures his customers that “All detecting DVDs including The Outback Prospector 1, 2 & 3 as well as NuggetHunting Essentials* Vol 1 & 2 (*Australia only) will remain available direct from us. ” Those that wish to get or perhaps even require further clarification of this situation from Aurum Australis will have to wait 10-12 days while Jonathan buttons up his 10 week stint “in the bush”.

Of course, no other substantive details as to why this termination took place have been revealed by Jonathan.

Chris Gholson confirmed the information and has responded in part with “….Some of the things occurring were totally inexcusable and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt, that enough was enough.  ”

Well, obviously Chris is miffed about something that was being done but again, no further substantive details are available because, as Chris said, “…Spreading rumors and fueling gossip about others has never been my cup of tea.  ”

Well, amen to that. That’s the thing about posts like this. They really only fuel the fire.

AZO continutes to excell in our dealer poll despite all the fracas.