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18 hours ago, madtuna said:

got my first lawn happening in over 2 years after we got 40mm of rain.

Like a proud father I was....

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got up the next morning to go sing to it and some damn roo had snuck in during the night and stole it!!!

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should have fenced the bugger off!

Man nice terrain...... 

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2 hours ago, kiwijw said:

Bad luck mate. Bet you were gutted having to put the lawnmower away.😂 Gosh there was that much grass it made the roo have a dump. There is still a tinge of green showing through, so not all is lost. Best get that fence up quick smart. 🤠

Hi Manny, nice pics you put up of your detecting grounds too by the way.👍 I, like you have many tough beats to get on to the gold. So I am all too aware of the efforts required. Some I can E- mountain bike into for a wee way & then slogging it out on foot. The good part of the E-bike is the coming back down. I fitted a 28 tooth front sprocket to really gear it down for the up hill grinds. Works a treat. Not so fast for over all speed but gravity coming down far over takes the peedling speed.

Here are few pics, more to come as I am out of time right now. Actually I will just bang the pics up with no commentary. You will get the picture, no pun intended,😄 but you will see the ground I have to deal with.

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Forgot to mention ....Good looking gold brother !!!!!!!!

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1 hour ago, madtuna said:

Jeez JR!! That is dangerous terrain.

Must be hard keeping your mind focussed on those faint signals while also listening for that faint whistle of a golf ball heading your way! 

MT:

Luckily, some of the signals on that "golf course" weren't too faint  :)

 

 

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On 1/13/2020 at 7:02 PM, Rob Allison said:

Hey Guys,

   I want to point out something I hear all the time as a dealer.  Many firmly believe "gold" has a certain tone or reading.  Anyone who suggests they can just pick out gold due to the tone, but leave all the lead, brass, casings and other rubbish is being fooled by themselves.  I can personally tell you over the last 20+ years swinging detectors, I have dug many targets that sounded like iron rubbish, double signals, breaking up, screaming loud and so on, that were large gold nuggets!!  That is right, big gold nuggets, some various shapes, sizes and weights, but all sounded like the typical iron rubbish.  

I think the key to "guessing" if you have a gold nugget or not, in my opinion, is more of where the target is located for the most part.  When you have detected enough, you gain a lot of experience on where gold nuggets have been found and where they typically could be.  Everyone at some point will be able to start guessing if the target they are recovering is gold or iron rubbish and will get better at the probability.  

The last couple of trips out, I was working some very trashy placers and every target to me sounded crappy.  However, one of the targets was a small 2 Gram gold nugget, so luckily I stuck with digging what I could until I burned out.  

Just my thoughts on target response.  It will be nice when technology allows us to scan over a target and the Gold Meter on the screen says - GOLD, and don't jump back in forth from iron and gold. 🙂

 

You couldn’t be any more correct, and I will always work up any hit to see what it is. I just had my first long day with a new MD, and my first time doing it in 40+ years, and went to scope out some old abandoned gold prospect claims near me, and it was just a giant modern illegal trash dump. Dang, even the prospect was buried! So I hiked around the hill for a while and found some exposed quartz and tried that. I did get some hits and got excited. It was obviously broken up previously, so that was an even better sign to me. I kept getting hits in some of the cracks and took a lot of time digging them out. Next time I need to bring a brush or an air blower bulb, and a strong magnet to clean those out instead of breathing in a lot of dust. So there I was digging away and finally I figured out what it was that I kept hitting. It wasn’t hot rocks or anything like that, it was tiny little flakes of iron, probably pieces of the pick that was originally used when breaking up the quartz. Once I cleaned those out there was no longer any type of signal coming from the quartz exposure. Anyway, it’s exciting to know how small of a iron flake my MD can pick up when in non-discrimination mode, so I know I’m doing something right and that it will pick up even tiny small bits of gold when and if I ever come near any. Maybe next time...

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