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This is one I got with the 7000  last year. Everything has to be just right to pick one up these up. I am sure I walk over pounds of them so I can find one. I am sure that 

Kiwijw can beat it though. I think he has found pounds of these.

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On ‎2‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 8:07 AM, klunker said:

I find a lot of specks that  just barely weigh 1dwt

You don't really mean 1 pennyweight (dwt) do you.... that would be 24 grains or 1.55 grams.   not really small.

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Looking at all the tiny bits all you folks have posted is very impressive and reminds me of amazing these gold detectors really are!  Glad the old timers didn't have them....lol   Thanks for the pics all, something to look at and talk about to help get thru the winter duldrums.!!!!  Gotta plow and shovel again tomorrow...…..

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On 2/14/2019 at 10:36 PM, kiwijw said:

Ok...here you go. You asked for it.... Might pay to get yourself a coffee & settle in. :biggrin: 

I will add that our ground is insanely mild, as I do bang on about. But it is a HUGE factor to my "success" as it allows me to crank all my detectors  up to full max sensitivity. Ok...some times that is a bit ratty but I am able to deal with that & with a trained ear still get the signals that matter. Sorting the wheat from the chaff.

Gold Monster gold.

Found some sluice pipes. :laugh:

 

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scratching a round here....

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Got me these

 

A collection of Gold Monster gold from one of my locations

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Collection of Zed gold from the same location. Generally a bit bigger & wayyyyy deeper.

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Playing mountain goat. Using the GM 1000 as a hiking pole. GB2 under my arm. Note sluice face top right. This was walking back down from the place in the picture below this one.

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Detecting a high shelf way above the present day river.

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Loving that bedrock.

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Loving more bedrock

 

From this area....

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Got these

Off this bedrock

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And out of this crevice got this...

From here out of the old timer piles got these 5.

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From more bedrock

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THE END: I need a coffee.

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Round 2 will be the GB2. But not tonight. Cheers 

Best of luck out there

JW :smile:

Great pictures JW! All that tiny gold sniffed out, amazing!! Love seeing a bit of your neck of the woods too.

All the best,

Lanny

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My neck of the woods, up close to 7000 ft. elevation. (Two pack mules of the hydrocarbon variety in the background.)

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Bottom, slightly left of centre, pretty tiny, can't recall the weight, Gold Bug Pro.  (A dime is a dime is a dime in US and Canada, same size for comparison.)

 

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Smallest pieces here, sub-gram, all nuggets found with Minelab X-Terra 705, a somewhat interesting machine that if you go low and slow enough in ground that's producing nuggets, it just might surprise you as it did me with the tiny stuff it would find with the DD coil (the tiny stuff was extremely close to the surface however).

All the best,

Lanny

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I have found nuggets weighing under 1/10th grain (1/4800th Troy Ounce) with at least a dozen different detector models. I get stuff that weighs less (my digital powder scales only go down to a tenth grain) and so I honestly don't know about anything under that. It's not worth it to me to get a scale accurate enough to weigh gold I used to toss back in the creek when gold panning.

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3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I have found nuggets weighing under 1/10th grain (1/4800th Troy Ounce) with at least a dozen different detector models. I get stuff that weighs less (my digital powder scales only go down to a tenth grain) and so I honestly don't know about anything under that. It's not worth it to me to get a scale accurate enough to weigh gold I used to toss back in the creek when gold panning.

We throw it back in for nugget seed and have a good laugh.

All the best,

Lanny

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