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Well folks and fellow prospectors, I recently sold 20 oz's of my dredging gold (still have lots left, lol) and bought me a Canon Cinema camera. The Canon C300 Mark II with a Canon 18-80 Cinema zoom lens. There are two things I love to do... Mine for gold underwater and shoot video!

WOW! Incredible rig Alan!! You sure that is not an LRL?

I was going to say what I would buy with 20 oz of gold. But your already low opinions and reputation of me would be considerably lower and I would probably be kicked off of the forum . ?

For those curious, I flew my drone over the Gold Hill Pocket gold mine in Oregon and filmed it. The same we are discussing in this thread:

"NEW LONDON, Conn. — Keith Wille was metal detecting in the woods of Connecticut a few years ago when he found a triangle of brass about 21/2-inches long with a small hole in the middle. He thought little of the find at first, and threw it in his scrap pile. Wille, 29, is a manager at a survival training company, but spends most of his spare time metal detecting. In September, Wille drove from his home to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center with several boxes of objects — the highlights of his recent collecting. The museum — a vast, glassy structure that looks like an airport terminal, complete with a 185-foot-tall traffic- control-style tower — is a testament to the years when the Foxwoods Resort Casino made the Pequots the wealthiest tribe in the nation. Although those fortunes have declined, the Pequots are still financing projects by the archaeologist Kevin McBride, who works full time on what Lori Potter, a spokeswoman for the Mashantucket Pequot Nation, called “history that’s written by the conquered and not by the conqueror.” Inside the museum, Wille unpacked his boxes, displaying items discovered around the Pequots’ homeland: George Washington inaugural buttons, musket and cannon balls, a gold ring, commemorative spoons, a 100-year-old military insignia and the triangle of brass. McBride, the museum’s director of research, and David Naumec, its senior historian, inspected the lot, but were most curious about the crude brass triangle. They knew it was a kettle point, an arrowhead fashioned from a piece of a brass trade kettle (which resembles a pail) — an archaeological signature of the 17th century." Rest of the story with photos

All great advice. I try not to over analyze the CTX.... just dig all things that hit good in the range I have discriminated out (in trashy parks) ...sometimes I'll open up the screen and dig anything that gives me a whisper. Just depends on where I'm at and what I'm looking for. The Pendant has been confiscated !

My wife just lets me know what I am getting her for Valentine's Day

I've been metal detecting a long time and I have not the slightest idea what is "2 factory rolls in the bag" Perhaps the price includes a gift certificate to Cinnabon? I am guessing that it came from a site that is not in English and this may be something that didn't translate well.

Funny thing about how alloys effect the conductivity. In actuality when alloyed together two high conductors read lower. Take the ring I posted, although it has good mass, the fact that it is 20K or 83% pure gold helped push it up into the zinc range. I have found many large 14K mens bands and none of them read much higher than tabs. Tom

I am sure it takes great pictures but can you send a text message ? :)

That's a great idea preserving a rose. just wondering if they could dip a whole plant in a pot! cause my misses hasn't got a green thumb and every thing seems to die (except for the plastic ones lol ) I've already got my better half a valentines present. I dropped off a 10gram nugget to the jewellers and got a loop brazed on it to go on a necklace Cheers ozgold

The Nevada BLM closed 8,195 claims between January 15th and February 1st. That's nearly 194,000 acres opened to location in two weeks. Most of those claims were held by the big mining companies - Kinross, Barrick. Some of these claims go back to 1893. Of course you would already know that and have an individual map of each of those 8,195 claims section areas if you are a Claims Advantage Member. This is an unusual number of closures in such a short period of time even for Nevada, the biggest mining State by far. Annual turnover in Nevada mining claims is about 20,000 claims so this could be just an unusually productive period for the Nevada BLM in updating their case files. Why the big mining companies are dumping so many claims is a matter of speculation since I don't sit in on their board or management meetings. This may just be a blip in reporting. In any case I'll leave the speculation to others. Probably more important is where these closed claims are. That answer will probably produce a flurry of prospecting as soon as the weather permits. Go get u sum

The reality here is there are a lot of great do it all detectors that are fabulous for jewelry detecting. A lot waterproof beach detectors are for all intents and purposes jewelry detectors. Yet as many people as there are for whom jewelry is the number one thing, I do not recall any company ever selling a detector that specifically targeted that market. White's has a leg up in a way in my opinion. The DFX with BigFoot is my favorite park and field jewelry detector. The Big Foot coil is a large part of that, but the DFX 15 kHz raw "un-normalized" mode is hot on jewelry and the SignaGraph is one of the best jewelry hunting digital displays ever designed in my opinion. I think there is a market for a premium price machine sporting a BigFoot type coil, running in a native 15 kHz type range. This does cause coin responses to lump up on the high end but spreads out responses on various aluminum items, allowing certain pull tabs etc to be better identified, and if need be, ignored. There has to be an ability to notch items, especially on the high end. One thing I do not like is machines with discrimination schemes that assume you are looking for coins and do not allow the high end to be blocked out. If I am cherry picking for gold jewelry, it is the high end coin range I am likely to block out, not anything in the low end. A stripped down DFX would be the ticket, or, if White's does not want any new metal box designs, something similar in the MX Sport package. Tesoro could easily come out with a machine that used a Cleansweep coil mated to a properly designed Golden uMax if they went for a tone based unit. Or, a machine with dual disc controls. One knob starts at the bottom and eliminates items as you turn it up, just like a normal disc knob. But I want a second knob that starts at the top end, and eliminates items into the coin range as you turn it down. These two knobs could either be straight forward reject item controls, or better yet, set the break point for three tones. Turning the one knob up sets the low to med tone break, and the other knob the med to high tone break. I tried to get Makro to make a BigFoot coil, but nothing has come of it so far. Mated to a Racer 2 you would have a great unit. An X-Terra 705 in native 18.75 kHz mode with a BigFoot/Cleansweep would do the trick. A Fisher F44 with a Cleansweep coil - water resistant! The key to all this is name the machine so that people know it is a jewelry detector, and sell it as a jewelry detector. The Jewelry Finder Extreme (JFX)! Given that nobody makes a BigFoot right now Tesoro could do this with more or less off the shelf parts if they desired, and it would help freshen up their lineup.

new video! Enjoy!

A little of every thing... until I find a niche that pays decent.

Dang! Me being a guy that only understand things that smoke and leak oil -I'm really impressed. I hope you realize that we are expecting some astounding posts.

Good work guys. It always helps to show people who use metal detectors in a good light! "We could dig for hours trying to find them and still be a few feet to the left or the right," Moore said. "Plus we have to wait for the plows to come through and do their work, they throw more snow on top of the hydrants and that makes them even harder to uncover. Even with the flags on top a lot of these hydrants are just going to be hard to find." That's why the department got in touch with the Reno Prospecting and Detecting Club. The idea was to use their equipment to help pinpoint the exact location of these hydrants." Full story with video Reno Prospecting & Detecting Club website Club Facebook Page

Nice bit of gear there , feel free to come to OZ anytime you like and take some Nature shoots Marty

This may be of interest. Got a couple more similar vids to come.

go Alan go!

It's nice to see people getting along who may have a different opinion on certain things in life whether it's politics or the simple hobby / obsession of metal detecting and treasure hunting. The objects found in this article were made of iron, brass and lead. Not Gold..... Gold changes everything. Gold changes everybody. The history of mankind revolves around gold and other valuables dug from the ground, but gold is # 1..... always has been, always will be. If the gentlemen in the story started finding gold in any quantity the story would have been different.

take a look at this... Link deleted since Findmall Forum update broke all old links I agree with you Steve, on the need for a dedicated inland gold jewelry unit. The issue is that there is a mistaken belief that a good relic unit makes a good jewelry unit. Or that a high frequency unit makes a good jewelry hunter. All bogus premises. A inland jewelry hunter's problem statement is, "how do I locate a low to mid range conductive target in a high EMI environment full of low to mid range conductivity non-ferrous trash?" What we are given, for the most part, are what I call trash squealers. High conductive relic units that are good in the ferrous.vs non-ferrous response but poor in the low conductor vs low conductor response. You can find gold with them the same way you find gold with any detector but its not optimized. It squeals, you dig and hope for the best. The V3 is the first unit to come along that actually holds promise for a inland jewelry hunter, yet, as has been said it has a long learning curve. HH Mike

A lot of gold is mixed with copper to get the rose color. If you pass on pennies, you're leaving gold in the ground.

I'm planning on going prospecting so she can have a day to herself. I get a to be a little hard to take this time of year. I will include a card of authenticity.

I Have used my ML pin pointer 100% of the time on the gold fields with great success. They do save a lot of time and guess work digging and locating targets in confined spaces. Here in oz we are going through extremely high summer temperatures with high humidity which makes for unpleasant prospecting at the moment. Recently I have found a new use for my pin pointer around the house. My wife wanted a picture mounted on the wall, so got the trusty pin pointer out and found the stud in the wall to fastern the mounting point to (we have a steel framed house). It got me thinking more on what I could use the pin pointer for. I was out in the chook house hunting rats with my air rifle and foxy terrier / jack Russel dog the other night and managed to get a couple. I got the pin pointer out located and surgically removed the lead slugs from the rats so I could feed them to my pet diamond python. Might be a thought for KIWIJW in NZ when hunting ducks and other birds in locating lead shot before consumption. I have read on another forum that pin pointers are also good for taking to the shop when buying non metal boots for detecting. I have found that detecting of any type gives me relief from the fever when I cant get out swinging ! Cheers ozgold

Thanks for that offer Randy!!!! I think I am going to hunt a couple more days with another friends sdc 2300 and call it good.. For awhile.... That stuff getting stolen kind took the wind out of me.... I am looking at my semi retiredness being over soon, and if i have to go east i won't need a gold detector for awhile. Condor may be interested though..while he waits for some new ones to come available.... Used ones just don't seem to be out there now.... I have been looking online all evening for flights and seats for the 2017 trip to Australia..., can't wait. Got to work for awhile and sack up some cash... Well Randy, ....(and others, who have offered their machines, etc)... It just shows the true heart of the people who frequent this forum. I know I kid alot on here, but I truly appreciate all the friends I have met in the last 6 years in this mining world. What a great bunch! Paul

Is Kinross cutting back too Chris? A lot of those claims were theirs. It's hard to get the big picture from a two week report but this is big volume for a single report period. It could be an interesting year.

Barrick is shrinking it's holdings. They have also sold off properties that have significant drill identified resources.

looks like a piece of glass I threw back in Plumas County...in an area where diamonds had been found. I think about that now and then; it certainly was not a big diamond...at least that is my hope... fred

A horrible accident occurred at the famous Ima Ginery mine when an excavator was working near a steep face and dislodged a huge gold nugget which fell directly on the excavator. Several members of the world renown Detector Prospector forum were ask for opinions on the accident and suggestions for recovery and all agreed that proper ground balance makes large nugget recovery easier.The one comment from Australia that was printable was "Cricky! It's uh bludie rippa!". An expert from New Zealand said he uses a 7000 and so he has little experience with huge nuggets. Suggestions for recovery were numerous and quit varied. Such as "Fill the pit with sea water and pull the nugget off with a tug boat" and "You need logging equipment" or "Truck the snow out of my front yard and bury the whole mess until spring time" and finally "I bought a new detector and I'll give you some ideas after I write a review" An investigation by MSHA (Mine Safety Hazard Administration) revealed that the mine safety plan lacked the directive titled Huge Nuggets Falling On Excavators And How To Prevent It so the mine owner, a mister Klunker, was found at fault. He claimed innocence by reason of insanity which was induced by Cabin Fever there fore no citations were issued.

MSHA cannot forgive any citations and it is mandatory that fines must be assessed. Since this was only a first time violation, a minimum fine of $200,000 was assessed. The legal notification of the lein against your property will arrive by registered mail tomorrow. We are watching you and don't think that the Trumpster can save you. Sincerely, MSHA Enforcement Division.

Nice one Steve :) I do hope the person who gets it keeps it original. My own specimens have all had to come from rock and mineral shows and are itty bitty but who knows maybe I'll pick up a chunk like that one day in my pan.

Now that is some fine gold! I have always been a nugget chaser myself, but there is something very fascinating about the recovery of super fine gold. It is an art in itself, and the plain fact is you can find tiny gold in a lot more locations than you can find gold nuggets. For many people developing skill at fine gold recovery is a far more productive path to finding gold than chasing gold nuggets.

Got out a little about 4 weeks ago and made gas money...lol.... That small amount was recovered from about 4, 5 gal buckets full of beach sand. Other than that not much to report. Not much to report since the snow. Conditions are still less than favorable and the beach deposits haven't really formed yet. Last time I went there wasn't even any surface black sands and no layers to speak of even 2 feet down. Will go take a look again this coming weekend most likely.

I use the SDC 2300 to scan quartz that has been pulled out of mines...as well as the ATX. Hard to beat the gold bug 2 for this doing though, prob the best to use for this...

Yes, I have been to the Gold Hill Pocket! They just stumbled accross it while hunting. It was large slabby pocket gold, inches thick. No placer directly below it though, which is strange. But small multi-pockets in the entire area, as well as placer on the other side of the ridge which feeds the Rogue river. Every peice of quartz that I collected and took home and crushed from that area had gold in it.