22" GPZ X Coil Concentric Results

[phrunt]

I thought I'd drop these photos here as I thought they were cool and some people might like to see them, it wasn't the 22" concentric on the GPZ the guy was using but the 17" concentric that he was using when he found this stuff, the guy only bought the coil a couple of months ago, his first X-coil and went for a 1 month Western Australia trip with it and came back with some brilliant gold, it makes me really want to go to WA one of these days.   360 nuggets for 30 days, 645grams. The biggest nugget was 320 grams.

He must have a very good spot to go to as back in 2016 he also did very well there, there are his photos from 2016 with the GPZ and stock coil.

Really gives you some envy for the people lucky enough to be detecting in Western Australia.

[geof_junk]

53 minutes ago, phrunt said:

  360 nuggets for 30 days, 645grams. The biggest nugget was 320 grams.

1 nugget about ½ of the gold found. 359 nuggets for the other ½ of gold.

1 day about ½ of the gold found.       29 to 30 days for the other ½ of gold.

 Interesting statistics what do you do chase f!ySh!t or get a big coil?

That is the ground that I like.

 

[Northeast]

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

He must have a very good spot to go to

Looks like drag coil country to me  😉

[jrbeatty]

2 hours ago, geof_junk said:

 Interesting statistics what do you do chase f!ySh!t or get a big coil?

Geof: I'm going down the big coil path again (with the new 26"CC) as I usually do. Admittedly, It's all or nothing- and often nothing! 

OTOH, Financially, I only need to hear one faint broad signal-

[Aureous]

1 hour ago, jrbeatty said:

OTOH, Financially, I only need to hear one faint broad signal-

Lots of days of nuthin....to find that one decent signal that makes up for it. Knowing where the big stuff has been found before is the key. I'd need 2 lifetimes lol

[cobill]

@jrbeatty I've been thinking about finding bigger deep gold in the US and recently heard about a 6 ouncer found with the GPX 6000 in NV. The old timers found alot of big deep gold in AZ and NV using analog SD 2100s, GPs and 18" coils, but they never had access to larger coils like we have today. I keep reading your exciting big lunker posts and those from @Reg Wilson, lots of good stuff! I'm planning for 2024 and wanted your insights before taking the X Coil CC large coil leap. This post is now over 2 years old, any thoughts you guys can share or updates from Australia?

 @jasong I was wondering about using the 22" X Coil CC in NNV, since the RX coil would limit searching in tight rocky/brush areas. I also read on X Coils FB page that you have to overlap swings alot to insure good ground coverage. I was also curious about it's ability to locate big deep gold and would you be able to run in General or Extra Deep with Normal Ground type(for  max depth). Definitely a BIG investment ($2,100 AUS plus a Western Union transaction) for one heavy 1300 gram coil!😁

Have you had a chance to run your coil in NV or AZ yet?

@1515Art Has a 22" CC, maybe he can update us and chime in. 

Bill

[Steve Herschbach]

2 hours ago, cobill said:

The old timers found alot of big deep gold in AZ and NV using analog SD 2100s, GPs and 18" coils, but they never had access to larger coils like we have today.

Oversize coils have been available for nearly all Minelab models going back for 20 years. My 25" Nugget Finder coil in 2009....

[jasong]

5 hours ago, cobill said:

@jrbeatty I've been thinking about finding bigger deep gold in the US and recently heard about a 6 ouncer found with the GPX 6000 in NV. The old timers found alot of big deep gold in AZ and NV using analog SD 2100s, GPs and 18" coils, but they never had access to larger coils like we have today. I keep reading your exciting big lunker posts and those from @Reg Wilson, lots of good stuff! I'm planning for 2024 and wanted your insights before taking the X Coil CC large coil leap. This post is now over 2 years old, any thoughts you guys can share or updates from Australia?

 @jasong I was wondering about using the 22" X Coil CC in NNV, since the RX coil would limit searching in tight rocky/brush areas. I also read on X Coils FB page that you have to overlap swings alot to insure good ground coverage. I was also curious about it's ability to locate big deep gold and would you be able to run in General or Extra Deep with Normal Ground type(for  max depth). Definitely a BIG investment ($2,100 AUS plus a Western Union transaction) for one heavy 1300 gram coil!😁

Have you had a chance to run your coil in NV or AZ yet?

@1515Art 

I haven't run the 22" CC yet but I will very soon. 

My feeling is the 17"CC was deeper than my 4500 w/25" NF. On everything up to half Oz anyways, never found anything bigger with the CC, and my experience with the 25" was not extensive. 

The 17" CC did ok in NNV. It did awesome in AZ. I think the 22" may be slow going in NNV but I will see.

[1515Art]

I sold my 7000 and all it’s goodies just before the Axiom was released and didn’t use the 22” concentric coil more than a dozen times and at that never more than 3 or 4 hours at a time my back couldn’t take it. It’d take me a bit to recover between outings too… it was heavy enough to take the joy out of swinging a coil.

Now had I had success in the conditions this coil excels in the pain in my back would have been a non issue, more specifically a known deep nugget patch area. I did not have that access to that spot and a patch hunter in my opinion this coil is not. the coverage is narrow compared to its overall footprint as well so absolutely you need to overlap, some swingy thingy contraption might be the answer I didn’t have one of them load levelers and was on a mission to simplify…

I’ll confess I miss the 7000 a little and may have been hasty but will wait and see what the new zed might bring to the party if there ever is that party, only thing she better make the 6000 look corn fed.

[phrunt]

Here is a guy that's just put up a live dig video of the 22" on a 10 gram nugget in Western Australia.

I don't know if that's deep for the nugget size or not, I'm not lucky enough to find such nuggets 🙂