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I have a Pulsestar 2 detector from Kellyco altho I got mine used for a lot less money. It has 10 inch, 18 inch and a 1 square meter coil and is a pulse unit.

A guy in Kansas, US, found a million dollar meteorite with a detector like this some years back.They had to use a backhoe tractor to remove it from 10 feet deep I heard, in a plowed farm field. He was using a coil rigged up to tow behind an atv and found it. He could cover a lot more ground this way vs on foot and would put markers down for any signals he got to go back and dig later.He also had agreements made up with the local farmers to do his meteorite hunting on their land for a percentage. It was a known meteorite fall from the 1800's and he was looking for BIG pieces down deep.

I tried a Gemini 3 and the 2 box from Whites but sold both, too tricky and finicky to even tell when you have got a bonafide signal to dig,in my opinion. My Pulsestar has a control box you wear around your neck with a meter and crude discrimination for ferrous and nonferrous and you swing the 10 and 18 inch coils on a rod like most detectors.The 1 square meter coils requires a special harness or 2 people to make use if it. I never tried this detector for gold nugget hunting, wonder how it would do?

With that meter coil i wonder if it would make a good tool for shallow covered gold-in-vein detection?

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Maybe we can get Steve to buy one and try it out on gold veins or I might be willing to loan him mine? I don't have any gold veins to try it out on ?

Hmm, I did find 30 pounds of galena/lead nuggets in SW Wisconsin on a relatives property .Maybe I should take it up there and see if it beeps out in the woods where the old diggings were from the 1800's? Maybe the old timers missed some veins? I think the farmers just dug for lead for extra spending money. Dunno how they knew where to dig? Maybe they just tossed a coin and dug a hole?

We found an old powder spoon/tamper rod  and old pick heads in the inverted cone shaped holes in limestone bedrock .

This was where I  learnt to listen for metallic underground nuggets and whisper signals since there are no gold patches in my area. My biggest piece of lead/galena was what looked like a hunk of dull yellow limestone bedrock sitting on the edge of one of the dig holes and the size of a large pancake and an inch thick. But my MXT screamed over it and it was VERY heavy.There was a thick seam of galena thru the middle of it and it weighed 8 pounds on the bathroom scale. Dunno how the old timers missed it?

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I use a Fisher TW-5 which is basically the same as the Gemini 3,they are not your every day detector of course,but i use mine predominantly for pot hoard locating,if i have found say a few coins that have been dragged up by the deep ploughing and these coins are in a tight radius this usually indicates either a purse drop or a scattered hoard.

Then once we have located what we feel is the main concentration then that is when you would use a twin box in my case the TW-5,and as mentioned above the target usually needs to be reasonably large like say a orange size target or bigger,the bigger the target the deeper it will go.Of course its a specialist tool but all it takes is just one pot hoard to pay for itself many times over,also one has too remember that in the UK banks and other forms of safe security was not even thought about nearly 2000 years ago,so everything of value was buried for safe keeping in the ground.Hence one can see why a twin box can be a useful tool to have.

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On 4/20/2015 at 1:19 AM, spencer@wy said:

With that meter coil i wonder if it would make a good tool for shallow covered gold-in-vein detection?

Well, the only way to know for sure is to give it a go.  But my thinking is that unless it's a really thick gold Vein it's not going to work.  The coils for that meter (Pulstar) are fairly large and not necessailry sensitive similar to 2 box units and are made for finding fairly large objects deep.  Seems a high freq VLF, a 7000 or SDC would be more effective for finding shallow gold in vein.  

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