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OK, I know people are probably tired of looking at my Fly-Poo gold, but check out the amazingly tiny piece in the middle that the GM1000 heard no problem this afternoon up at my "old reliable" bench! Again, I had to take out some brush and dig down a little to get these 6 little guys. Anyone who knows me, knows I love my GB2, but I think I'm starting to love the Monster more....it's such a fun machine! ?

After taking delivery of my new Gold Monster 1000 a few days ago, I was finally able to get out into the hills with it this afternoon. Most of the ground I detected was mild enough to use the deep all metal search mode and a manual sensitivity of 10; other areas were pretty mineralized but tolerable using the sensitivity plus setting. Pictured are 3 nugglets and 3 flakes recovered with the 5-inch coil.

Mn true Lunk can probably find gold with a stick and blindfolded, but in time I believe it will prove anyone can find gold with the Monster, it is that kind of a detector that suits the newby through to the pro. But I`m just praising our downunder product so they can make heaps for R&D on the Z2...................

Ya know, now that i look at the picture of patty the squach, it looks just like nursepaul. Even has the same face. That was him in that gorilla suit that was traipsing around over in bluff creek. Probably trying to scare the kids off so he could try to take their fishing hole. Great gold finds again. I assume alot of people will be showing pictures of the tiny stuff the monster can find. Once they find a multi gram nugget it will probably sound like a hood of a truck buried under ground. Good luck with your gold monster finds.

Scott, It sounds so easy to use ... even your dog could use it! Mitchel

I can't wait for my Monster to arrive next week.

My biggest for the year 7.66g.Found under two slate tiles 13" down.

The winter is the best time to beach mine... the winter storms clean the blond sands of the beach. Summertime is when the blond sands start stacking up and the overburden just becomes too much. Whales head beach has a good amount of black sands and there is another creek about one hundred yards south of the main creek that can be pretty good as well. Port Orford has a couple of areas that produce also.... In fact Hubbard creek is a historic beach mine. and Gold Run has a bit in it as well. Seven devils has some history but you have to watch the tides and is just north of Whiskey Run which has a lot of history, last time I was there it wasn't too impressive but that can change with a tide. Don't know much about Nesika, the times I have stopped there I haven't seen much concentrations of black sands. and there isn't much water to use. Arizona beach has some history and there seems to be good water supply as well as Humbug creek. All in all you can find gold almost anywhere on the coast. I would like to make a trip up to the northern tip of Oregon and check out the beach an the Cloumbia.... Benson beach over on the Washington side has some real good gold and you can use power on the beach in Washington. A couple pics from Benson beach and the gold below. I generally go to a little beach a few miles north of me, it isn't a big producer but it is close to home and I have pulled a couple grams off of it.

Do you mean up to "old reliable" bench? I use it for when I'm on a serious skunk and need to see gold, no matter how small, lol. That's why I took the Monster up there to learn it....wanted a place I knew I'd have a good chance finding small gold if I tried hard enough! Now, I'll spend my time up at cabin looking for new spots ?⛏

Matthew was a very finicky hurricane.. Sat Bch / IHB / Melb Bch all had erosion with breaching in places, while CCB / CC and Wabasso down on the Treasure Coast had sand deposited on shore with a tide surge that only made it halfway to the dunes' toe.. Drive up the coast to N of Daytona Bch and by the time one gets to Flagler Bch is where it all got stripped bare with the coast road being undermined as well.. Weird.. The renourishment is kind of a double-edged sword, because 20 - 30 years ago it wasn't so much a renourshment project as it was an absolutely necessary beach rebuilding project.. As examples: In Cape Canaveral there once was a house on the SE corner of Washington Ave ( N of Adams Ave / S of Cherie Down Park & E of Presidential Ct ) that'd been built closer to the shore than the others.. In the late '80s - early '90s we got to watch the Atlantic Ocean undermine and partially collapse it before 'they' finally came along and tore it down before it went afloat.. During the same timeframe, in Cocoa Beach just S of Minutemen Cswy there were properties missing half or more of their backyards, in one case a mere 8' from the back porch.. Some folks had already hauled in coquina for shoring and were building their own jetties.. It wasn't until after threats of fist-a-cuffs and weaponry began circulating that the city / county / state / Fed / whomever finally came to a decision on how to get this thing done.. I don't think they chose the best way; they chose the quickest way, mainly because by that point there was no other way, and for whatever reasons ( possible hint = continual $$s exchanges? ) continue to use dredging / hauling and grading as the renourishment method.. About four winters ago they dug up the beach @ Ocean Park in Melb Bch to bury those large perf pipes that enhance ocean flowback to help inhibit erosion too.. I'm not up on all this stuff these days.. Bought a place inland in '92 to get out from under that rent thumb and one of the trade-offs is not seeing or hearing about certain dealings on a daily basis anymore.. Anyhow, that's the how & when of the renourishment programs' beginnings in this part of Brevard -- in many areas the beach for all intent & purpose was gone.. Swamp EDIT: One can easily see the Cape Canaveral location in Google Earth.. And I do remember photos of the Washington Ave house and the Cocoa Beach backyards / dune cliffs being in the paper.. I imagine a search of their archives (if possible) will turn them up if one is curious..

https://youtu.be/1XkPeN3AWIE For all of my Yank friends that don't know what a Bower Bird looks like, I found this link. Great video Norm McQ

Thanks Mitchel. I cut my prospecting teeth using a Gold Bug 2 back in the day, so the Monster is a pleasant and user friendly vlf blast from the past in a futuristic kind of way for me.

Ah Lunkster ... you can find gold with ANYTHING! Good detecting. Mitchel

That's exactly why I am a psych nurse!!!!!

Well done! Gold nuggets big or small, I like them all!

Hold on let me get my glasses. Good job

Good Job Mike C...

Al, your Infinium says it wants to come live at my house. I'm actually bidding on a Surfmaster PI on Ebay right now. It looks like a light weight, nice little machine. I'll just have fun in the water now and I have a few months yet to pick something for finding Montana gold. Maybe a GM1000? Maybe Garrett will roll out a lighter weight ATX before next June. Maybe one of Steve's Minelabs will get mad at him and hitch a ride to my house too.

Look out Idaho...she's on the loose with the "newest Sasquatch" in town---- His big brother..... the "Monster-Squatch" has arrived..

There are so many good targets that will sound and VID as in the Zinc penny range. This pretty pendant is marked 925 sterling but is plated with 10K gold. It is in such good condition that I could not redily tell the difference between it and 14k......While I would rather it had been 14K..... I am still happy with the find. 12-35 on the CTX. It's your choice...dig or not to dig? strick

No, I'm not talking about politics and being a Moveon.org trainer. I'm talking about resistivity detecting. Electrical resistivity tomography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) or electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes. If the electrodes are suspended in the boreholes, deeper sections can be investigated. It is closely related to the medical imaging technique electrical impedance tomography (EIT), and mathematically is the same inverse problem. In contrast to medical EIT however ERT is essentially a direct current method. A related geophysical method, induced polarization, measures the transient response. The technique evolved from techniques of electrical prospecting that predate digital computers, where layers or anomalies were sought rather than images. Early work on the mathematical problem in the 1930s assumed a layered medium (see for example Langer, Slichter). Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov who is best known for his work on regularization of inverse problems also worked on this problem. He explains in detail how to solve the ERT problem in a simple case of 2-layered medium. During the 1940s he collaborated with geophysicists and without the aid of computers they discovered large deposits of copper. As a result, they were awarded a State Prize of Soviet Union. Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, the "father of ERT" When adequate computers became widely available the inverse problem of ERT could be solved numerically, and the work of Loke and Barker at Birmingham University was among the first such solution, and their approach is still widely used. With the advancement in the field of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) from 1D to 2D and now-a- days 3D, ERT has explored many fields. The applications of ERT include fault investigation, ground water table investigation, soil moisture content determination and many others. In industrial process imaging ERT can be used in a similar fashion to medical EIT, to image the distribution of conductivity in mixing vessels and pipes. In this context it is usually called Electrical Resistance Tomography, emphasising the quantity that is measured rather than imaged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_tomography Here is one unit being offered by Kellyco. https://www.kellycodetectors.com/blog/find-gold-resistivity?utm_source=email&utm_medium=BlogBUTTON&utm_content=BlogGoldResistivity&utm_campaign=MSTRBlogGoldResistivity20170624&utm_term=Lead_SuperBowlGiveaway2016 Mitchel

I believe this could be used to find the individual placer nugget- if the nugget was 3' wide.

I dug a nice, large men's wedding band and it have a solid zinc audio and ID number. I was really surprised. If I'd been rejecting zinc pennies that day I'd never recovered that one.

nice going Lunk

Nice work there IdahoPeg. . All gold is good gold, congrats to you. Cheers. Mike.

Gold of another sort....

Nice job. Will you ever have to go back there again? Mitchel

Fun times! Keep swinging Rick

Before you come back with my new supersede pick, can you let some other prospector that can actually find gold touch it for good luck. Haha when you get back you can have these gpz spare parts and flip flops that you keep shipping to me. They dont work on my gpx. Everybody back home is finding lots of nice gold, too bad you missed it. Must be good luck for us for you to be downrange. . I bought a nice used couch in hoopa. It came with a gold nugget some nut lost. See you when you get back. Have fun get some gold.

The ground phase number is always reading the ground and changing despite having a proper gb. One tip i always used is, if you go over some hotrocks, they will transmit a audio signal and possibly a very high or low target id. But during then the ground phase will jump around like normal. But if it is any metal, the ground phase number will drastic drop lower towards 0. Usually somewhere between 0 and 20. If it is a hot rock it will not drop towards zero. Youll just hear the zip zip like a signal. Ground phase is not a target id but can be used to identify a hot rock or metal. I had this happen hundreds of times before i received any target id for the metal for it was still out of range for the target id to identify. I dont remeber ever finding one hot rock that made the ground phase drop towards 0. Other then that, what everyone else said also was helpful. Good luck

Melbourne and Satellite beaches are pretty barren too. On a positive note, most of that "re-nourishment" sand from 2 years ago seems to be gone. And, of course, they are talking about another sand dump in late 2018 or early 2019. They have to build an artificial reef first for those darling little endangered marine worms to call home before they can dump more sand on our coquina rocks. I was out at Pelican Beach a few days ago and saw the barge about 100 yards off shore actually working on it. Good luck to you too. Gold rings are great, but I'm having fun and losing weight, so it's all good! Ammie

A perfect ground balance would have absolutely no audio change when the coil is raised and lowered over the ground. If audio is produced such that it sounds like a target when you sweep the ground, you need to work with the ground balance and sensitivity. In a perfect world you eliminate ground effects with these controls. However, the worse the ground (worse meaning you have to keep playing with detector controls) the more often you have to adjust. I have been on a lot of ground where I can set the ground balance in the morning and forget it. And then you have Rob's ground - every ten feet. Remember, ground balance is about obtaining a smooth threshold sound. If you achieve that, numbers flashing mean nothing really. You actually do not need the screen. I can tape over the screen and run the machine just fine.

Thanks for the posting. We NEED eye candy. Mitchel

I've used the GB Pro and F19 for years now and came up with my own routine for maintaining ground balance. When detecting in mineralized ground (most gold districts) I got into the habit of every 10 or so swings, hitting the GG while pumping the coil a couple times, 10 more swings and then repeat. After a while you don't even have to think about it and it works well for me. If the ground is super hot and nasty you would have to ground balance much more often but at that point I just go and get the PI. Good luck!..........Rob

You can find good and bad commentary on any detector. Don't pay too much attention to it. Since you are new stick with a very well known name brand with good accessory availability. The popular brands all make very good detectors and with few exceptions there are no real turkeys. The bang for the buck is now $500 - $600 and if you go with a popular brand name unit in that price range you will get a good detector with good warranty support. Go with a feature list that fits your intended use. Again, I was keying in on waterproof, so AT Pro makes sense. It is only one of the most popular detectors ever made. A lot of people own them. That being the case, more people also complain. Even though the percentage is small, the sheer number of AT owners means stuff will happen. Whatever, Garrett makes good machines and if you have a problem, good warranty support. Similar but more expensive model the White's MX Sport is worth a peek. If you decide you actually don't need waterproof then there are many good choices. Too many really. Here is a way to weed out a lot of odd brands and models - stick with models that have lots of online forum activity.

I'm sorry, but you cannot have my Infinium.. Incidentally, even when wearing the control box, if you're using the Power-coil the Infinium will get heavy on ya after a couple hours un-aided swinging.. On the plus side it is extremely well balanced.. Swamp

I hope you do well.. Cape Canaveral & Cocoa Beach have been extremely unproductive this year so far.. Swamp

Ooooh, I like it! I'm glad Hubby doesn't confiscate my "pretties". Nice find!

Nice one deutran, Beats my biggest nugget to date for this season, It's a 6 grammer found on my last day detecting, Lucky to have found a patch that yielded me 42 nuggies for the total weight of 26.6g ( Heading back to that spot inside a month as i'm sure i have some unfinished business there ) Pic is of my finds so far this season, 458 pieces, 6 grammer is in that pile on the right from the last day patch. Cheers Ashley

Well it happened today.... Barra Gold !!!!! I love this country....

It worked for me. Nice video. Made me want to go get myself a metal detector....wait, I already have one.

You know we can't do that without lying.. It is the honorable thing to do amongst prospectors and fishermen. 2300

A sifter is a far better option...for house fires, 3/8 inch mesh..... Terrible tragedy.... fred

One thing that really irritates me on the majority of other forums is the censorship when it comes to linking to other forums. As if people are too stupid to figure out that other forums exist, which is insulting. More to the point it severely limits the ability to give people good information wherever it exists, which is my main goal on this forum. With this in mind I do actually request that if forum members see anything anywhere that may be of genuine interest to other forum members then please post about it and link to it. Do not copy from other websites and post here unless you are pretty sure that is ok. When in doubt I post a good excerpt and then reference the complete original, as is customary on the internet with news sites. The only real limitation is please stay on topic. Anyway, if you see a thread on another forum (or anywhere else for that matter) and think it is of exceptionally high quality as far as hard information goes then please let me and everyone else know. Thanks! P.S. Do remember that some forums cannot be seen unless a person is a member. No problem linking to them but you probably should do your best to describe what you are linking to and if it really is good enough for people to have to join to see it.

Plenty of these, Some curious Bungarra's, Some amorous Bungarra's Hundreds of horses, Some are just too cute, Way too many camels, The occasional wild pig,

Fabulous ring!

This was a nice zincer. 1897 20Kt wedding band