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Hi Goldseeker, The Minelab GPX 5000 is now available again at $4595.00. I have new ones ready and available to ship, so if anyone is interested, we can make a deal. Rob

Hey phrunt What kind of price does Nokta have on their PI ? For myself I haven’t seen any price and to think of it I haven’t seen any detector. In fact we named a detector but haven’t been told what that is. Sad to say but I don’t think Minelab has much to worry about anything right now. But yet we don’t know what tomorrow brings. Chuck

After we left you and went back north we met up with my nephew who lives in Auckland. He told us that he snowboards. We asked how often he goes to Queenstown and he said not often. He said it would be cheaper to go to Japan than down south. I don't know what factors he considered but I think air/hotel/lift ticket. We had not considered it even comparable. I haven't been to Japan. I thought that would be expensive.

Even without the coin I'd say that day you found "something good". WITH the coin , it's a WTG day !

A can of marker paint would be easy enough. Good luck and enjoy your time out!

Noktas keeping them on their toes. No doubt it will have ground balance and be better than the Vanquish for design too. I love competition. Next will be the lower priced PI to compete with the Algoforce and Nokta PI.

Nice display George ! 👍 🤔It's like a who's who of coin royalty got together for a reunion.

I've got a monster like that, but without any cracks. I wondered, for about 3 years, what it was, and finally realized it was jasper. It weighs 45 lbs. I've never seen anything like it in southeastern Idaho. Looked all over where I found it without finding another one with similar color and texture...of any size. A real anomaly.

Thank you for your sacrifice. Can you now buy an SDC 2300 so I can get the lightweight update?

Great coin LS, that wooded area had some old activity for sure. The decorated button next to the coin is intriguing, are any of them Tombacs? Oddly enough your gray clay/sandy soil is very similar to mine in some areas. Keep 'em coming! 👍 Sad my relic season is mostly over.

That's sort of true.. There's still plenty of backpackers, just not so many families or day-trippers at the moment.. But this could all change again next week, it's up and down without much rhyme or reason.. There's a fair bit of 'poor me' in that article by some well known whingers.. Finds are still about the same as always, including two gold rings underneath a little water fall at a swimming hole last week.. Townsville's also got a whole mob of detectorists, I still have the island to myself.. although I did meet a young fella with a Go-Find the other day.. He'd found a huge clunker silver ring and was nearly doing back flips with joy.. I think he'll be back!

Hi Deep, thank you for the post. I appreciate your response. I actually knew Jim personally and went to his house in Fontana several times before he got real sick and passed. I have a copy of his Follow the Drywashers book that signed for me on his dining room table that I keep in a vacuum bag for safe keeping. I have a couple of his smaller books as well. He was certainly a walking encyclopedia of geology in that particular area (and others). And a really great guy as well. Honestly, I have been to just about every area out in the Rand and El Paso Ranges that you can get a regular car in to (even a couple of places where it was real sketchy getting my car in to...lol). The problem with those areas is that: 1. They have been so heavily hit by people in my same vehicle situation that there is not much to be found anymore. 2. Those same areas are, as my good friend DolanDave put it after taking him there one day, like a freaking war zone. You literally cannot go 2 feet without digging up a bullet, bullet fragment, or casing. Not to mention all the trash from the ATV riders out there. I do plan to take my Camry out there and hike a couple of miles into some areas I am interested in. But it would be nice to be able to get a little farther off the beaten path, ya know? 😁😉

wonder what the price range will be.. maybe just little bit expensive than vanquish?

$2000 Australian. So right now about $1350 US. But he is on family leave until at least late summer.

How much does Mick charge for the modification?

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/hbcH51pPMzjRt8dJ/?mibextid=WC7FNe looks like it will be submersible, possibly competing with the Nokta Score and Double Score. Figures, after I just bought an Xterra Pro.

Your Large Cent looks to be in nice condition. Those are some pretty woods that you are hunting in. Glad you made a new friend.

That small Evo coils looks great on it!

Was going out a few times a year but now they are running people off and threatening to confiscate detectors, quads, trucks & jail time. Especially now with the Ukraine war and new weapons development/testing going on. The new longer range Excalibur artillery shell targets are pretty close to the southern prospecting areas.

The first day tied in with Simon's subject in another thread. The other days need more comments about where and what to be interesting. I'm more focused now on getting to my Rye Patch trip.

Hi Chris, There are good goldfields out near Randsburg that you can get to in a passenger car. Check out a book by Jim Straight. Lots of good info on the Mojave arae. He was from the IE also. Happy hunting

The downside to the lack of tourists is they're not there to drop finds for Erik to find. When I went to Magnetic Island it was cheaper to fly overseas than to Townsville from Brisbane and catch the ferry across even though it's in the same state, so it doesn't really help the situation. I'm in NZ and we get more Aussies come to Queenstown than go to Magnetic Island by a significant margin, and our growth of Aussie tourists is increasing not slowing, so it's not the "cost of living crisis" causing it. Aussies continuing to flock to resort | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz) Erik maybe needs to jump on the ferry and detect in Townsville a bit more with the bigger population there has to be more finds available. The downside is not much swimming in summer at the beaches because of the stingers, and crocodiles 🙂

Yes I was running large gold. I didn't have a lot of time when I did the gold test. 8" commander coil was calibrated for the E1500 when I took it out to do the gold test. You guys that actually have one and can experiment with all the different coils will have to tell the rest if us what works best. From what you're saying, the 9" Elite would have probably have done better on the small gold. I'll just leave it at that. I personally was more interested in seeing how the E1500 would work for coins and relics. Based on what I experienced, if it ever comes available in the US I'd most likely grab one for relic hunting.

Looks impressive through a microscope. Too bad I can hardly see it with naked eyes 😄

https://sites.tufts.edu/fellsgeology/files/2021/08/Chap7StructuralGeology.pdf part of the full document found here: https://sites.tufts.edu/fellsgeology/introduction-to-geology/