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Hi Steve, interesting on your discoveries with the hot rocks, my guess would be they present to the timings differently, so in Normal it hits a sweet spot and Sharp less so, just like that half ounce nugget we got in Meekatharra that time would not respond well in Normal compared to Enhance. Have you tried Ground balancing part way on them to cut back on their signal response but not throw the localized ground balance out too far? This might help cut back on some of them. I have a creek up in NQ that drives me nuts due to all the basalt floaters, they sound just likes deeply buried nuggets and would have to be masking gold underneath them, the local ground is actually pretty homogenous so you can easily detect in fixed GB in normal timings, but the basalts ruin the fun. Steve I just came back from a 3 1/2 week trip away prospecting and did reasonably well, got a couple of virgin patches one of which I have left biting (1 1/2 ounces of small nuggets scattered over a large area has come off it so far). I had two 3 ounce days during the trip which was really exciting especially when the reason I found those patches was due to working out the local geology and targeting areas that were likely to hold gold, there's nothing more satisfying that having a hunch/plan work out. :-) JP Pic of some of the gold I found one morning off one of the patches, the big bit weighed in at 2 ounces. The material attached is a coarse type of silicious sandstone.