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  1. i have just purchsed a gpx 6000 and want to buy a nugget finder 12 7 eceed coil for it no one in the uk keeps them and every where else i have tried in usa and aus will not post them to the uk does any body on here know who will post them to the uk
  2. There was big gold found there in the past in that valley alone there was 30000 oz taken for coinage and there were a few big nuggets found biggest was 37oz a few 20s but they never found the source but I bet they never got all the big ones to big an area they only worked the places where there was a river to run sluces so a lot is un touched
  3. Only one small bit a .47 picker just under the surface in the scaur on the hill
  4. These are pictures of me detecting in scotland for gold this is the typical ground that gold is found in
  5. I will try different settings this weekend and if nothing works it's going I have tried a lot of different settings over the years I have had it it could be like you said high mineralisation the ground is pure orange in places on my gold kruzer it ground balances at 90 so quite high thanks for all the replies
  6. the 7000 still has unstable threshold when still i think it is bad emi but the 5000 and 4000 dont have it there is a nato early warning station up there it could be that dont know i have found gold with it but the 7000 was a lot of money when new 8500 pounds and i dont think its a patch on the gpx series detectors i will post pictures where i go next time i am at leadhills there were some big nuggets found there in the past biggest 37 oz that was my reason for getting a 7000 for the depth it was supposed to go . it might run better with a new nugget finder coil regarding settings it will run fairly quiet with very low sen 4 max
  7. hi there thanks for letting me join this forum i live in scotland and have detected gold near where i live for a few years i have a few minelabs i have got over the years 2 sd 2200d a gpx 4000 5000 and a gpz 7000 out of them all i have found more with the 4000, gold from 0.5 gram to 3 grams i cannot get the 7000 to run quiet like the gpx series the ground is mostly wet glacial till with a lot of iron deposits in it i went over a patch with the 7000 in high yeild no result went over same patch with 4000 and got 2 bits out of it with coiltek joey coil does the 7000 need dry ground to work properly have ground balanced it with the ferite ring . i even got a 2 grammer with the 2200 are all 7000 like this in wet ground conditions or am i missing something on set up i know i am walking over gold with it have had this detector for 6 years done a lot of hours on it with different settings
  8. hi there I am new to this forum I have hunted gold where I live in Scotland for a few years with a metal detector .the type of ground in your pictures is not that much different to where I hunt the leadhills area . if the area where you hunt for nuggets was covered in ice in the last ice age gold can be transported vast distances where I hunt the old timers in the 16 th centuary got thousands of oz in the valley floors by washing the ground through sluice boxes . but they did not have the tec to hunt on the hill tops and the hard packed clay the ice left . the mountains before the ice age would be huge and the gold veins inside them would be pushed and rolled below the ice as they broke up .huge bits of quarts with gold inside would just be left on slopes and valley floors .then the quarts would erode away leaving the gold . in some places you would get a glacial lake or ice dam which left wave lines on the hillside due to wind action on the water . and with this action gold on the slopes worked its way down or got stuck in clay or bed rock . where a lot of people think there is good gold can sometimes have none . one patch I worked with my gpz 7000 and gpx 5000 I got five nuggets all about one to three grams I thought that was all that was there till I started to scrape two inch layers off then went over it with the gold monster and the place lit up one day I detected 30 bits only small . this gold was left in hard clay 200 feet up on the hill so when it is in the creek its on the hills as well
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