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  1. Ok, that was crotchety old bad Rick. Clear headed, objective, up to date Rick replies. If you buy a professional tool, it's not a toy. You have a job for it to do. You put it to work, you use the heck out of it, it pays a return on investment in terms of what work it does and when it has served it's useful life, you dispose of it. I get it. Are you a professional? I am not.
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  2. I certainly don't recommend going in old mines as I well know - better than most - how dangerous that can be. However, I recently had the very special opportunity to do some detecting in the Original 16 to 1 mine in Alleghany, California. It is a mine that is open, well maintained and worked by miners every day, so the dangers are not the same as old abandoned mines. I hiked all around for hours with some of the miners, but only saw a tiny fraction of the 35 MILES of drifts and other workings in this old mine. Much of their mining is done with metal detectors as the gold tends to be coarse. I took my SDC 2300 and even found some gold in an old heading where they had recently taken some gold out of the vein. I found a couple pieces and they actually gave me one - it fell apart after I dug it and so they just gave it to me. The miners had the latest equipment - the new Minelab GPZ 7000 on hand for their work - anything that will get depth and see mossy of dendritic types gold. The big 14 inch coil however is a limitation on the irregular walls of the mine. I knew they had the GPZ, so I took in my SDC 2300 as an alternative and I believe it was the first one in the 16 to 1 mine. I kind of convinced them that its small coil had some advantages and it also ignores some hot rock within the mine that sounds off on the GPZ and VLFs. All in all it was quite the experience and adventure, and the 3rd time I have been underground at the 16 to 1. I mentioned this stuff on another forum, but I thought I would share a photo and make a separate thread because of the interest in the topic.
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  3. Chris at AZO set me up with a Fors CoRe yesterday. Been eyeing one for a while. I took it out for a spin today. First, to a local modern park just to get familiar with it then to a 1870s era ghost town that is so trashy that it's hard to find a spot to ground balance. I am very impressed with it's recovery speed/target separation. It hits super hard on coins and really "locks" in on them leaving little doubt that there is a coin under the coil. I know I'm a late comer to the Nokta Fors party and everyone already knows all this so I'll just show the goodies I found today on the CoRe's maiden run... The coins are all modern and most were found in the park. The shell casings are .30WCF. Notice one has been pounded flat and the end folded over. It's got something in it as it rattles when I shake it. The casings and the little copper things near the casings were found in the ghost town. Looking forward to giving it a spin in the gold fields. HH Dean
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  4. What John said. The Core and the Gold are the same machine except that the Core has an additional "timing" called "conductive ground" that allows for hunting places with heavily mineralised soil, salt (beach), salt sand both for the same price. So, the Core is a better deal as you get an extra timing.
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  5. I thought the fastest way was for Frieda (Aurum Australis) to post it to you. Could not ask for a better Spokesman or Distributer then JP and Frieda! I have found a new source of the "old style" belt clips. There just coming on the market so it may be a few months before they make it to the consumers.
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  6. Thats just it, I depend on my detectors for my crust. Well at least part of it, as long as Ozzies keep buying HipSticks
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  7. Yes Chris You might need two, but they both need to be ZEDS. Finding an area without a target is tough.
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  8. I don't normally head back out to the Nevada gold fields until after labor day / Burning man is past - just because of the heat. The shady high country in California is just nicer when the weather is generally hot. However I was reading last night about bugs infesting the folks constructing the Burning man site - which is not all that far from the placer areas. Although the geology of the burning man area is different, the desert environment is the same. I just thought I'd let anyone planning on prospecting in that region that there is a bug problem and its not pretty. The bugs fly, they invade your personal space ( according to one guy, "They crawl all over you. They get up and in you"), they bite and they stink. They bite like a mosquito - only they are not searching for blood, but water. To these bugs, you are a big bag of water to be extracted through your skin. They take water from plants or wherever they can get it, and like a mosquito, they leave a welt. In all the years I've been out there, I've not seen or had problems with bugs like this, but this has been the wettest year for summer rains that I have seen in the 35 years I have lived in Nevada. Apparently, the regular waterings from the sky have created an explosion in various bug species. Although its been a couple months since I have been out that way, the weeds were growing at an amazing rate when I was last there, I guess the bugs followed. I figure I may wait a bit for the cold weather to knock them down. For those who want more info - see: http://gizmodo.com/weve-identified-those-bugs-infesting-burning-man-and-1725287661 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/swarms-bugs-infest-site-burning-man-festival-n413136
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  10. Got the hipstick replacement belt clip just now, Many Thanks Chris and Paul.
    1 point
  11. Tailing piles usually have a lower magnetic material content because it is removed in the washing process with other heavy material. Rob.
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