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Have a blast, man. Sounds like a fun trip. 😁

I've got my stuff charged and ready to load it up and drive to Rye Patch for a 3-4 day workout before it gets too warm. If this goes well then I'll try to get back up there. I'll have 3 detectors with me and several coil combinations. My plan is to grid an area (maybe with all 3) and mark what I find and see if the other detectors can see the targets. I need to mark them somehow. The other question is what detector and coil to use first ... and if I really want nuggets I should take each detector to new ground. How big will the grid area be? It's tough to find anything up in the training areas but that is where the gold was before. I'm not quadding so I can't go totally wild.

We stopped at a place where there was old gold mining activity that is near the area they want to mine. Right now it is a series of walks, hikes and old mining equipment. It has pretty good signage which shows what was once there. I'll add some photos we took. There is a bridge across a stream.

Here is a story that says Magnetic Island needs visitors and tourists. Is that true? https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/eerie-video-shows-once-thriving-tourist-island-completely-deserted/ar-BB1mBLb9

Here is a story that says Magnetic Island need visitors and tourists. Is that true? https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/eerie-video-shows-once-thriving-tourist-island-completely-deserted/ar-BB1mBLb9

Quartz most likely. Do a scratch test. It should scratch glass and a basic steel knife, but a tungsten tipped drill bit will scratch it.

Very nice finds George.

I think it's the other way around (well at least here in Australia). All new Coiltek 14" DD coils are named 14" DD GOLDSTALKER SERIES I bought one last year. It had to be ordered in from Coiltek. I always thought of them as a beige colour. On the US websites, I can see they advertise the Coiltek 14″ DD Pro Elite. Are these "new old stock" ??? or will a US buyer receive the one in the photo? I'm sure Coiltek aren't producing both versions.

I have been waiting for this response. Thanks for writing it. Maybe the only health risk would be lugging around the multiple pounds of battery/batteries needed to exponentially increase the detecting depth and power of the latest induction balanced VLFs. For me, I loved the White's detectors I owned in the past. Rugged, worked as well as anything else with comparable tech and were well made for the most part aside from some of the coils. I liked my Mercury, Plymouth and Oldsmobile cars too but those are all on the scrap heap now. I definitely won't be using any Whites models in the future except for the Garrett/Whites 24K.

For anyone who's interested in the full video, I've just posted it to youtube 🙂 I found a gold ring in the same spot the next morning but didn't have enough footage to make a full video on so I just added it to the same video.

This is a long discredited myth, though the health protection part adds a new twist I’ve never seen before. And just because some people can’t accept the times have moved on and their favored item is now part of the past does not mean it’s not so. The reality is this websites traffic has done nothing but grow over the years, it’s just that White’s portion of that growth has become non-existent. The reason is obvious - the company went out of business and its share of the actual detectors in use will do nothing but decline going forward. But do feel free to seek out and find that Facebook, Twitter, X, etc. social media site that’s just hopping with White’s action as opposed to hanging out on dying obscure forums like this one.

Thank you very much! I think that should work perfect.

The ever so resourceful Ukrainians have them for sale on Ebay at this link.

Hmm mr @phrunt any ideas where I can get a waterproof plug from? Still struggling to find one

Thank you everyone for the advise. I ended up returning the machine altogether as there were too many issues. It was bought from a pawn shop via eBay auction. When I received it, it was nothing like the photos. Broken handle, broken screen, shredded power, rusted screws, broken coil cables, missing speaker bracket, no headphones, and missing battery cover for the amp. All was replaceable and I could still justify it for the price I paid but the screen was the tipping point.

Thank you everyone for the advise. I ended up returning the machine altogether as there were too many issues. It was bought from a pawn shop via eBay auction. When I received it, it was nothing like the photos. Broken handle, broken screen, shredded power, rusted screws, broken coil cables, missing speaker bracket, no headphones, and missing battery cover for the amp. All was replaceable and I could still justify it for the price I paid but the screen was the tipping point.

Well I spoke too soon. I tried to cut and paste about 60gb of videos from my old hard drive to my new one and it just stopped after 30gb and the other 30gb simply disappeared. Still have a couple of good days of video but there's 1 really good clip I'm sad about losing. Oh well. Another video hopefully coming out today - I've been waiting to head back there with the drone to put some footage of the area in my video 🙂

And here is the second video on V1.15 that covers be :Beast Mode",

Here is the first of 2 videos I did on the new V1.15 update. This one focuses on the dt feature.

With the coil selection, the eTrac was always my favorite coin detector on land...excluding beach hunting. The only time I preferred the CTX was for the saltwater beach. I did however, like the balance of the CTX better.

I’ve owned and liked them both. The CTX brought a few more bells and whistles to the table for sure. Though I never really used things like the GPS, I did appreciate the improved screen, Target Trace and separation modes. Even though it was still heavy, I liked the ergonomics of the 3030 better. Especially the trigger style pinpoint button. I still prefer the flutey tones of the Etrac.

I am afraid that in addition to a supply problem of the first batches, it was a clever maneuver to collect all available coils bit by bit. If you do the math right, you reach almost double the price of the detector itself, excluding the M11 with which it comes.

NOT IN THE JOURNAL : Sometimes at night on that 2003 mining season Clay would open up two beers at a time and use both hands to drink them. He'd alternate his chugs between hands and could have two beers gone in a couple of minutes. Then he'd open up two more. I saw him nearly finish off an entire case one night but usually he was ready to work the next day. As long as we kept him out of the whisky he was fine.

May 7 2003 A Hungover Crew And Beer Guzzling Clay I had a restless sleep last night. I am worried about what the crew may be getting themselves into. Last night at the campfire Paul and the crew were getting into the whisky pretty hard. Even Jacob had one too many I think. Paul started going on about how we should expect trouble this Summer. He said there would no doubt be bad people coming in and out of Dreamwind. He seemed certain and I didn’t like the sound of it. I’d seen enough trouble last year to last me a lifetime. We got a late start to working because the crew was hung over from all the heavy drinking. The temperatures today got hot and Clay and Conor got sick. They were holding their heads and puking all afternoon. We called it a day well before dusk and went back to camp. Jacob had canned stew and hotdogs cooking. Clay ate some of the stew and started hollering about it being bad. He said it tasted spoiled or overcooked. This set old Jacob off and he told Clay to shut his mouth and either eat it or get the hell away from his camper where he had everything set up on a table. Clay took his plate of food and tossed it in the garbage. Then he proceeded to do what he liked the best - drink beer. He was pounding them down and we all started to have a good laugh. Even Jacob was laughing. We told Jacob his supper tasted mighty good. Then Clay started to laugh and he apologized to Jacob saying he was just hung over and his stomach was jumpy. As soon as he had guzzled down a few ice cold beers his mood changed and he became jovial. Everyone turned in early except for Clay who must have sat up into the late hours of the night because I counted fourteen beer bottles by his camp chair and he was still sitting in it sleeping when I got up at 5:00 AM. TO BE CONTINUED ...............

ps- you can't judge the popularity or usefulness of a detector, or anything else for that matter, by how many people post on a website message board. all boards have become someone more obscure as years go by, as the younger generation only uses Facebook, Twitter, X, etc. social media. same thing is happening to Craigslist. it's dying out because everyone posts classifieds on Facebook Marketplace. if White's activity is falling off on one site, that just means that particular site is becoming more obscure with time. it's not a reflection of the detector per se. in general ALL message boards have less traffic regardless of what they cater to. '57 Chevy posts are becoming less frequent too. that doesn't mean they're not highly desirable or valuable.