Jp’s Gold Thread

[flakmagnet]

2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Long periods between targets makes me sore and grouchy.  

The ultimate in "incentive." Good luck.

[Jonathan Porter]

Well yesterday was fun, firstly we have finally had a cold front from the south come through and cool things down which means perfect central QLD metal detecting weather and secondly at one past Midnight they opened up our General Permission areas to detecting again for those living within a 50 KM range, so yippee.😎

I had a plan and stuck to it with only tiny bits coming in initially but then things improved with a decent little specimen.

Pic of one of the holes I got a nugget out of, see the nice tightly packed gravel layer in the background sitting above the deco?

With the first location done and dusted (I always seem to be able to scrounge a few bits off here before I get too bored) I then went to my main location which has been very good to me over the years. The ground is extremely variable and noisy so requires all your equipment to be working in sync with your mind set. They ground has Extremely high X, the X signal is so bad here I have to ferrite balance with the coil in the air because the Tracker gets all bent out of shape when it’s exposed to the variable ground signal, saturation signal and conductive (salt) signal). Fortunately we haven’t rain for months so the conductive signal is largely in the back ground, this means I have to really concentrate on the swing speed and the height of the coil to avoid the nasties. 

Going low and slow I was able to listen through the surface signals for the subtle wider more mellow responses which are hopefully the non-ferrous gold targets. There is a fair bit of surface thrash in this location with a little gold mixed in to keep things interesting, so I dig the odd mellow sounding loud response just in case. When I first found this place about 18 months ago a VERY loud mellowish surface signal pulled me up enough to investigate and only an inch or so down this popped out. 🤩😜😇

So as you can imagine having a success like that always finds you looking for an excuse to go over the area more thoroughly, in those subsequent trips I’ve manage to widen the gold producing area a lot but haven’t managed to repeat the sluggster experience....yet!!😁

Finally towards the end of the session I got a really nice deepish sounding signal that had to be gold, removing the surface layer the signal didn’t improve that much a sure sign that the target was in-situ. Down about 9 inches out pops a really water worn sub 2 gram piece putting a bit of icing on the session and explained why the signal was so, although mellow, very dominant at the start. 

All in all it was a fun morning with wages to boot. When I got back I dollied up all the small scrappy stuff and the specimen and gave it the bush button potato treatment, keeping the flat water worn piece for the skite jar. When melted our Clermont gold is spectacularly bright running around 97% pure. 😎

JP

Gold haul for the session

 

 

 

 

[flakmagnet]

not many of us have regular days like that JP…nice to see.

 

[Jonathan Porter]

Pics of the last few days detecting session when I’ve been able to get out and about. Sure enough the weather improves then I get stuck with other jobs so things have been a bit limiting at times. I hit up an old favourite and had a ball pinging bits and pieces on what I thought was flogged ground, one was really deep. The stand out signal for the day was the loud one I got sitting right on top already wrapped up under glass. 🙂 This is the second time I’ve found someone else’s gold, with another one years ago with Paul K from this forum when he was out visiting us from the States.

Nice super deep chunkster and the lost test nugget.

Yesterday, seeing how I was having so much success on old patches I thought were done to death, I took a punt and went to another long defunct spot further out of town. Time was limited but the pickers soon started rolling in. 🙂 With todays high gold price I am not going to sneeze at finding gold like this, especially when you consider how many people are stuck not being able to go detecting at all. 😞 

These pieces were ultra deep for their size but were clean and obvious above the ground signal, the key was to go low and slow and not rush, as soon as I heard a slight pitch change I would slow down even more and try and centre the coil right over the target, once I got the height, speed and centering right the targets just popped out of the threshold. The hardest thing was to force myself to go slow and not try to cover too much ground too quickly. I have so many crumbing spots to revisit with this new Rona mind set . 😷 😎

JP

 

A sign of the times, gold and hand sanitiser 🙂 

 

[Jin]

What coil JP? Coil shape in one of the pictures almost seems like the shape of the gpz19. 

[Steve Herschbach]

On 3/26/2020 at 2:01 PM, Jonathan Porter said:

I am able to literally step out my front door and go detecting more often than not with my detecting buddy Mia. 

 

The heavy rocks are nice but there's the real gold - a true buddy in the field you can always count on!

[klunker]

14 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

a true buddy in the field you can always count on!

One of these days the perfect prospecting dog will follow me home like my last one.

[Jonathan Porter]

On 5/7/2020 at 11:00 AM, Jin said:

What coil JP? Coil shape in one of the pictures almost seems like the shape of the gpz19. 

I’m not always at liberty to show images of coils as I’m often using gear that is locked down tight under confidentiality agreements etc. That’s not in any way saying I’m testing anything in particular just that some of my gear is unconventional in nature and would raise eyebrows in the wrong circles. I have coils here that date back to pre-production of the GPZ, old favourites that produced the goods and I quite often find myself putting them on for a particular location or concept that I’m experimenting with.

I’m always experimenting, it’s whats keeping me sane during this year of lockdowns and restrictions, going back over old spots trying something new or different can be challenging, using something a bit different puts a mental slant on things that can justify the reason to go back and keep trying again and again and again...........😬😪🤕

Below are some pics of my last few sessions.

JP

My personal message to COVID19

Plucky 2 gram surprise that came from thinking outside the square (thats 3.9 grams not 390!! 🙂 )

I haven’t taken Mia out detecting with me for a week, so did some local detecting to give her a nice day out. I call her the “Pair-Hair” which is a play on words for “Precious” and “Hairy” 🤪 Mia has a sense of humour much better than most humans, except when I leave her at home, then she’s quite unimpressed and disgusted.😳

Mia’s day out gold

 

[Jin]

5 hours ago, Jonathan Porter said:

I’m not always at liberty to show images of coils as I’m often using gear that is locked down tight under confidentiality agreements etc. That’s not in any way saying I’m testing anything in particular just that some of my gear is unconventional in nature and would raise eyebrows in the wrong circles. I have coils here that date back to pre-production of the GPZ, old favourites that produced the goods and I quite often find myself putting them on for a particular location or concept that I’m experimenting with.

Thanks for replying and sorry if i asked a question that caused any problems. It must be enjoying sometimes being a tester and always having to analyze everything you say or show.

Anyhow i only asked as we hobbyist hang of what you and other influences do (to hopefully increase our chances of success). On looking at that coil and thinking it may be the 19” i was thinking maybe i should be using a larger coil more myself.

[Lunk]

I got a kick out of the subtle humor of your first pic and caption, JP! 😂 Way to wring a few more drops of the good stuff out of those old patches.