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I too have read every post since the beginning and have really enjoyed it. Lots of times after a hard day of work it is nice to take my mind to something else. Thanks.

Look for bedrock. Shallow ground. I was a gold seeking machine back in Redding. I found several patches that produced several ounces at each spot all in a span of one year. Now I'm in Winnemucca working my arse off and can't get a day off. Have been out about 20 times. Saw tooth, rye patch, Eugenes, it just doesn't jump out at me like Redding patches do. Everything is so monotone, homogeneous, with the exception of sawtooth, I'm confident I can find gold there. But so far not a speck of Nevada gold in the poke for me as of yet. Anyway if you put in the time, you will learn the area. The fact you're finding gold right off the bat, you're doing good. If the gold is not big, a dry washer or recirculating sluice might be a better bet. Good luck and keep us posted

This is a topic that has been brought up here before...say you have a silver coin worth potentially $1700-$4500 or more..it has some dirt that rinsing will not get rid of maybe a iron stain on it..the coin is in fairly good shape.. what would be your next move? strick

Yay, I'm so glad it helps! There's not too many of us that do it so you're more than welcome to ask away if you have any questions about it. I mainly snorkel but I do occasionally use the Blu3 Nomad for assistance, but very rarely. My breath-hold isn't great so you may not need it at all. The conditions in this video were very calm, I've got another video coming out this week showing a bit more extreme conditions 😄 Here's a quick preview

Thank you for sharing this treatise Steve. The diagrams are really interesting. Seeing how the old timers set up sluices with what they had on hand is very cool!

Close, but 5 years = 60 months = 10 rings per week average from this spot. 😉 If it wasn't for the premiums I sell gold for, as well as the random large pieces, your numbers would be very close. I try to keep pretty good track of my numbers. This year so far, gold has been 35% of my total ring finds. Last year was 26% from 262 total rings, and the year before was 29% from 225 rings. The years before that I didn't categorise metals, just tallied the rings. The average ring would be 2-4 grams of either 9ct or 18ct with the exception of the odd 10-20g 18ct. Approximately 74% of each years rings are from this spot. of the other 26%, about 20% would be from another good spot I have. That's a pretty rough guess but it wouldn't be far off. I do keep a very good record of what it's worth in scrap price, as well as what I've sold. I sell a lot of relics and I try sell gold at a fair premium after it's all cleaned up. It sure is a great spot. we go there every chance we get. 🙂

The sadder part was that no one has tried to revive Tesoro. Although lots of people would see them as old technology there are still some who WANT that. I'm glad I was able to at least own and use a Tesoro for a little while. A Tesoro Cortes, and the only reason i got rid of it was because it was a battery eater/hog and I wanted to have more target ID capability. Really wish they would have went farther with that idea and modernized it slightly and throw in a rechargeable onboard battery. But most of all wish I'd have kept it. The only steel penny I've ever found was with that Cortes.

Not sure on the clubs there but spent time detecting there a long time ago. We had a relative that worked at the Empire Mine and my relatives were caretakers of the Saint Anthony Mining Property.

Thank you very much. It has been a pleasure.

Would 1/8th plastic be too thick or should I go the next size down which is roughly 1/16th?

Do you keep the stock skid plate on it? I’m trying to find one in the US right now but can’t at the moment. Might try my luck at making one.

One of the most underrated detectors to have ever been produced, if i did not already have one I would bid on it

I’m going to try to make one with ABS sheet plastic and bend it with a heat gun to get an edge around it. I was out this weekend in some stubble from a freshly cut wheat field and was losing a few inches due to it. I don’t care about a little extra weight. Honestly I wish someone would come out with a solid closed coil.

Im in Malaysia sir

Thank you GhostMiner, I really did enjoy following this and looked forward to seeing the entries every day. Cheers

Fully agree with that Gerry. This is exactly what I use the Manticore for. Love that machine (I only use it with the M8) and I can highly recommend it for gold hunting at mine sites (threshold on, goldfield, all metal, prospecting theme)! In fact, the only detector I have that produces there. Also, hot rocks can reasonably well be identified by their often unstable ID, when going over them from various angles (in particular with the M8). This is an added benefit provided by the advanced ID system and is great considering it is just a VLF, which usually struggle the most with hot rocks. IMO the Manticore beats the 6000 for shallow gold (<2 inch) in trashy (and hot rock infested) areas. I just get more gold at these sites and also keep my sanity (if any left). GC

Ah, Panama. This is the reason I never bought a place in Panama. My Black Sand is nowhere near that bad. I think your only choice would be a PI machine, which I have no experience with. If I had to rank how the newest machines worked on my beach it would be. Tarsacci, close second the Equinox and Manticore [TIE] and the worst is the Deus2. We will soon be testing a Rutus.

That type of early eagle is refer to as the "Turkey style" eagle

Ancestral treasure is the best kind !👍

When Vince convinced his mother to close the company and sell the building, an entrepreneur down south bought all the remaining machines in the warehouse. I Imagine they will be selling soon if not already. Wish I knew, I'd be first in line!

Tis bloody difficult removing those blinkers.... I try for a few hours but the 6K, E1500 and Z start bellowing out for use..... a VLF/PI Gerry dream machine plus hobbles are needed.... 😉

I have information on the mines & crews going all the way back to the 1870's there. Some of it was in the journal but there was quite a bit left out. Every now & then I used to post "Not In The Journal" info for the readers. I was thinking of putting more of this out here for the everyone. I think some people got sucked into this story like a long running TV series. I got interested in writing all this because of all the wild events that really did take place there. Some of it was fiction but some was fact. Also, I will be posting more about whether there was another mining season with the crew after 2002 and also what happened to Jacob who was definitely a real person. The story about what happened to Jed in 1936 was also true - he was murdered for his gold. Hang in there, I need a little break for now & will get some things going again. The pressure of writing continuous entries for over 2 yrs was not easy at times. I only missed a handful of days over that time period. I will be back. Cheers.

Even dateless Standing Liberty quarters aren't easy to find, IMO. (I've yet to get one.) Even missing the date yours is still an attractive piece of art. Button appears to be in great shape for being in the ground for who knows how long. Nice to find a meaningful family heirloom as well. Clotheslines are great hunting spots. I've only been able to detect under 3 of them but two of the three paid off with silver and Wheaties.

You are correct, and I'd have a PI if I wanted to dig 3' holes, but most of the beaches I go to are restricted to 2'. This of course doesn't stop the scofflaws that dig 5 foot pits and leave them 🤪 saw some kids get busted this last time 🤣 I've been looking at the pulse machine with discrimination. 🙂 Guess you could say I'm kinda spoiled by my Deus, I talked to someone afterward and they said that if I was finding deep sinkers in the wet (and I was), that I should have found gold rings if there were any. 🤔 Made a lot of fishermen happy anyway. The F350 Platinum SRW 6.7 can pull 16,000 with ease, my trailer is 13k empty. Add the golf cart and sundries and it's probably near that, but I get about 10mpg on a road trip with it, and about 20 with no towable. I don't fill water, I also pick parks with amenities. It's a short bed so I'm not a fan of back-in parks, opting for pull through instead. Turning isn't much of a risk due to the nose cone on this one, it's much better than the last 40 footer I had, a Keystone Fuzion. I once blew out my back window with that one. 🤬 Bad directions = bad results, and a $700 charge to replace the window. 🙄 Short beds tend to keep putting the trailer in the same spot you backed into. It takes a little more to get them where you want them. I do employ a gooseneck hitch with a 4" extension hitch ball, so it's a little further back.

Thanks Kodiak, yes they seem to be concentrated on one area mainly.