What's Your Deepest Gold Target Dug? Big Score!

[idahogold]

Chime in w/ Your deepest depth target and what detector and coil, and what the target turned out to be! Enjoy this "Mega Dig" w/ Big Payoff at the end of part2!

Happy Holidays" from  a balmy warm 33f Idaho . 😆 Ig

 

[Valens Legacy]

Nice videos with some good gold at the end, thanks for sharing.

[Gold Hound]

Hi Idaho gold

Nice finds, thanks for sharing.

I found these 2 with a GPX 5000 and a 25in mono coil in ground similar to the ground you were detecting in in central Australia

The 32 was at 1180mm and the 21 was at 980mm mesuered. Both clear broad warble signals.

 

[idahogold]

11 hours ago, Gold Hound said:

Hi Idaho gold

Nice finds, thanks for sharing.

I found these 2 with a GPX 5000 and a 25in mono coil in ground similar to the ground you were detecting in in central Australia

The 32 was at 1180mm and the 21 was at 980mm mesuered. Both clear broad warble signals.

 

Dale, Way 2 Go! Truly Awesome Finds Mate!!!  I'm in Idaho, The "vids and finds" belong to Marc, He's over there  w/ y'alls.

I did rewatch some GH vids last week....gold , schneider,, gold, gold, d-tech! 5 bits same hole Classic! I have to say Thanks for the Inspirations   to go Big or go home!😄

Cheers to You, Tremain, and Dangerous Dave from Snowbound Idaho USA. Ig

[IronDigger]

15.5 Gram gold nugget, nice and flat found at 22" with ML 4500 and Nuggetfinder 20 R Mono coil.  Could have been mistaken for EMI or ground noise, but for some reason it stood out, after a boot scrap became louder but very faint. 

[Jonathan Porter]

I’ve been fortunate to have got onto some pretty good very deep finds over the years, this one was good fun because two forum members were with me when we dug it out. Actually I could not have done it without their help because it was 2 feet into the calcrete with about a foot of homogeneous soil sitting over the top. Thanks Trent and Paul. 😇

From memory final weight was around 100 grams of metal, GPZ7000 with GPZ19 coil using High Yield/Normal.

JP

GPZ14 coil in the hole during pinpointing to give an idea of the depth.

[Trent King]

I got this bit about 50 yards away from JPs bit.  Pushed about a foot of soil of with loader, then almost 3 foot into the calcrete/cap rock.  With the gpx5000 and 16” round NF.  Weighed 1.5kg, had 330g of yellow.

 

And a action shot of Paul on the patch with the jackhammer.

 

[Chris Ben]

I had one standout deep hole, it was also my largest nugget! In Gold Basin I was walking back to to truck to meet up with my buddy Dave. Moving quick but still detecting. I had done pretty well already with a few nuggets,  but more is always better lol. I decided to hit a bench in a wash where we had found a few good nuggets. I run my GPZ very hot so I am used to a bunch of noise. I heard something I thought was ground noise, so I ran the coil over again. Nothing convincing.  I almost walked away but did a boot scrape, still wasn't convinced. Another boot scrape, and I almost walked away again, but the bench looked good, a bit behind some raised bedrock. It wasn't till the 2nd dig with my pick that I was convinced it was a repeatable signal. After a couple of digs, it started getting really  loud,  so now I was convinced it was trash lol. Already down about 18 inches i figured I might as well finish up. Around the 2ft+ mark I hit a hard pack, and started getting a little excited. Absolutely screaming now, the next dig got it out of the hole. I could immediately feel the weight in my scoup.  It was a 1.4 Oz specimen, mostly gold.!! Got to dig all targets!! 

Thats a bunks large pick in hole, not sure it was even in bottom of the hole! 

Thanks Chris 

[Lunk]

 

[Libertas]

My largest was found back within a year of my starting detecting in 2003. I found it with a GP Extreme with the big black DD coil that came with it while trying out the discrimination feature. This was a patch where I later found dozens of pieces ranging from .5 grams to .5 ounces. The area was full of iron trash and the GP blanked the signal identifying it as iron. I dug it anyway and boy was I surprised when this 29 gram specimen emerged from the 18" deep hole. I found the other pieces the same day: