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  1. Go out shed hunting on the ranch i trade them for rock to flint knapp and give some to a friend who makes lighting fixtures from them . These were all found in the last week or so only no real big ones yet . some blades from blue obsidian from lassen creek california also these i knapp when i have down time . that i k
    9 points
  2. Went to a new park today to dirt fish while my son went fish fishing. He was happy catching 3 fish in 3 hours, and I was happy finding a park that has not been hit too hard. I can't remember the last time I found over $12 in change in 3 hours of detecting, except for after when a carnival packed up and left. There were 36 quarters, 23 dimes, 11 nickels, and about 25 pennies. The 15" coil on the Equinox is no slouch at finding coins. Next time I will have to slow down and dig lots of trash to start pulling the gold rings out. If there are that many coins, it stands to reason there will be rings. Park 1, 7 recovery speed, 0 iron bias, 18 sensitivity, ground balanced, and all metal.
    7 points
  3. After sheltering in place for over a week, my son and I escaped to the desert to refine our social distancing. Instead of playing with settings on the 7000, I decided to work on my personal hunting technique concentrating on swing speed, 'range of motion' as JP calls it, coil control and listening for faint, vague changes in a steady threshold. My son took off to hike while I clambered down a boulder strewn and treacherous hillside with all my gear. I tuned up at the bottom and began to slowly cover ground I had already gone over in a previous post. Almost immediately I got what sounded like a small EMI tone-change in the threshold. But as I made my first boot scrape I saw my son waving from the top of the hillside and motioning for me to come up. I took off my headphones and heard him calling to me to come and help him. Now I am advancing in years and that hill is not for sissy's but he was insistent. A few minutes later I stood beside him out of breath and slightly put out, but when he pointed at a near-by prospect hole and said "can you help me get him out?" I was honored that he had asked me to come and help. Somehow a desert tortoise had fallen into the excavation. My son clambered down, lifted him out and handed him to me. We put him in the shade for awhile to let him calm down after being lifted and carried around. After awhile, refreshed and emboldened, he took off, snacking on Spring flowers and grass shoots as he went. My son continued his hike as I made my way back down through the rocks and resumed my hunting. My first faint change in the threshold produced a flake so small that, if it didn't go off on the detector, I would not have believed it was gold, it looked more like a slice of silica, but it was gold. (0.01g). The next flake was beside a basalt rock and I made out the signal in the midst of the sound the basalt was making. That's where swing speed (slow), and coil control makes the difference between finding a bit of gold or passing it up and moving on. Anyway, all in all, 5 stupidly small flakes - but all of them were found because I had decided to focus on what I was doing rather than what the detector was doing. Best to everyone in this strangest of times.
    6 points
  4. I just got back home yesterday from wintering in Arizona and am now seemingly a prisoner in my own home due to the virus. I was able to go out detecting many times with only a few skunk days. The last day out, I found this specimen that is quite different from anything I had found before. Norm
    5 points
  5. First antlers of the season! If you’re not a finder then you are a weeper! In my back yard in Colorado. No one for miles. Do you see both sides?
    5 points
  6. The 105 series landcruiser is the last real 4x4 that toyota built. It has a heavy chassis that flexes and the live axle coil spring front and rear suspension setup handles heavy 4x4 in rough terrain way better than any of the IFS models. And the leaf sprung live axle utes have way too limited suspension flex in the rear as they are trapped by the springs. And it has the bulletproof 1hz disel motor in it. No electronic fuel injector pump to stuff up in the middle of nowhere. But I still needed a ute to carry the bike or quad bike as there is no way I'd get a trailer into anywhere I work. So I decided that if I wanted my dream prospecting rig I'd have to build it as I couldn't buy one and I didn't want to compromise on the way it handled 4x4 but I still wanted a ute and I still wanted to be comfortable.
    4 points
  7. I'm getting the bush basher serviced and ready for action. Last year in the off season I bought a 100 series landcruiser and cut it into an extra cab ute and built heavy scrub bars and side steps and a heavy roof rack out of 3mm wall chromemolly tube that acts as a exo roll cage. Then added a 4in lift, adjustable shocks, 33in tires, lockers front and rear, 270L diesel capacity, 180L of water, ect ect. Side steps fabricated. Bash plates Cut off back Fabricated new back and doors Fabricated tray support and chassis strengthening Build tray and roofrack Cab finished with tray skeleton installed Install battery carrier, water tank, recovery gear drawer. Now I'm about to start building a prospecting specific 4x4 quad bike. I recently purchased a Polaris 570 sportsman that I'm currently stripping off all of the plastics and non essentials like indicators, brake lights, ect. And replacing them with custom front and rear trays, scrub bars, bash/skid plates, storage, roll protection, larger battery system, solar charging system, extra fuel, water and winch front and rear. All designed for extended prospecting trips in remote locations and safety in rough terrain on my own. Should keep me busy until the wet is over
    4 points
  8. We all know why so let’s not go there. Here are a few ideas of prospecting and metal detecting related activities you can do at home. 1. Research. This is the key to all truly successful prospecting and metal detecting. You need good locations to do well, and they are getting harder to find every year. Time spent researching is never time wasted. 2. Take those detectors apart and give them the best cleaning ever. Make them look brand new! Are there spare parts you don’t have and maybe should have? Extra coil bolt and washers for instance. Think about this while cleaning the detector and get them ordered. 3. Check all those old batteries and discard the ones that need to go away. If you have detectors that have been sitting for too long, take the batteries out if they are going to keep sitting. Charge everything up that can be charged. 4. Time to clean house. Get that stuff you are never really ever going to use again up for sale or give it away. 5. Go though all those finds and get them in order. Maybe some need to go in the trash. The best may need a display case. Good time to take photos and post a story! 6. You know those bench test experiments you always meant to do but never get around to? Time for that and maybe a test garden or test tub to answer some of those questions for yourself that have been nagging you. 7. Change the oil in that ATV or generator. Service all your support gear and vehicles. Please add your own suggestions to the list......
    3 points
  9. Welcome, Bashin! You're off to a great start, both with your detector and also posting your finds here. Very few new members show photos in their very first post. I've done pretty well searching outside the back door. Even better under the clotheslines -- never failed to turn up old coins (plural!) under clotheslines.
    3 points
  10. If you are brand new to detecting, you are detecting in a ton of modern trash, AND you are using default Park 2........you are asking for trouble. Park 2 at sensitivity 20 (hopefully you are not using 50 tones!) is going to hear absolutely every iron or aluminum particle the size of a pin head that is within 3 " or your coil and will also detect any coin sized or bigger metal target down to around 12 " I would be using default multi Park 1, sensitivity at 10 to 15 or until your Nox 800 is quiet, and use 5 tones or even 2 tones in your backyard or better yet in an area that doesn't have so much trash. That way, only fairly shallow 6" or less, quality targets will sound off and hopefully they will have the same beautiful two-way swing tones and only slightly jumpy numbers. Galvanized nails and other fairly modern steel have a zinc coating and other types of metal alloys mixed in. The Nox is accurately responding to those different metals in the steel and you will get numbers in the mid teens, 20s and even high 30s depending on the size and orientation to the coil. Anytime numbers and tones jump a lot on the Nox across tone breaks the target is usually trash, a corroded zinc penny or a coin spill. Using the horseshoe button like you described will let you know if the target has iron in it by giving very low tones and negative numbers like you experienced. Practice in a low EMI area on gold and silver jewelry, every US coin you have, aluminum pull tabs, aluminum trash, bullets and shell casings, screw on and crown bottle caps, crushed aluminum cans and any type of iron targets you are likely to find, using Park 1 default and learn the tones and numbers. For the most part they will be the same numbers and tones for the other modes (except the Gold modes which are 1 tone). good luck, Jeff
    3 points
  11. Quit drinking, quit smoking cigars, lost 40 lbs.... but those sure were the days!! Moore Creek will go down as my all time best adventure, incredible obstacles faced and overcome, and lots of gold found. Equinox would be fabulous at Ganes... not so much at Moore.
    3 points
  12. Just goes to show what a detector can find when wielded with proper technique. And as already noted, the desert tortoise anecdote is priceless. A wise man once said, "Compassion towards all creatures is the greatest virtue." Well done, Flak and son!
    3 points
  13. Seems to to me that you have raised a very respectable young man, You should be quite proud. I think the find of the day might be that tortoise and how great your son is.
    3 points
  14. What’s actually happening, from a scientific point of view, is as you sweep you are hearing ‘something’, that something is enough for you to continue passing the coil over the zone trying to get the target signal to manifest, incrementally without realising it you minutely adjust and refine the sweep speed, the range of motion (two very different things), centering of the coil relative to the potential target and finally gradually changing the height of the coil relative to the target and bingo the signal pops out of the ether. This sub-conscience incremental adjustment is a big part of the whole gamut of visual, tactile and audio sensory input associated with metal detecting. Sometimes the sweet spot is so tight that you ‘pop’ the target only every so often as you pass the coil in through the epicentre of the target zone, this happens a lot in saturable ground as the target signal can get blended in with saturation noise so you only have a few millimetres to play with between the saturation signal affecting the threshold and loudest target signal point, this is one of the reasons why I am not a fan of coils that saturate badly!! A trick to try, when the saturation signal is messing with proximity to ground, is to scrape a wide area over the range of motion target zone because saturable magnetic particles tend to concentrate in the surface soils, scraping them away can give you a few millimetres more room to play with allowing the coil to almost couple to the ground. This method is effective on small shallow targets especially but also beneficial on the larger deep gold that does not increase very much in signal, in fact the lack of signal increase when I clear the saturable materials always brings a smile to my dial because deeper often means bigger. JP
    3 points
  15. Not giving up here, It going to be delayed with all that is going on but You really have to stay focused on what you have in hand. It's not all the machine...........Spots are opening...and closing in the water. Don't let those open spots get away because you don't have the "AQ"... Right now we have a stay at home order in Maryland, once that has passed I'll be in the water.......... with or without the "AQ"!! Be Safe and Stay Healthy!
    3 points
  16. I have yet to find a scale weight, but many years ago I and my wife dug out the inside of this cabin and we found in pieces of a old gold scale. I eventually restored it and now I display it our finds cabinet.
    3 points
  17. Greetings everyone! Newly minted detectorist here. I live in Moscow, ID, but spend a great deal of time in the Helena, MT area. I started prospecting for gold a little over a year ago, and decided I would add a metal detector to my toolset, not only for gold, but also for relics and coins. I’m currently hunkered down in Helena, socially distancing, watching a lot of YouTube, and Netflix. I’m also learning to use the new Equinox 800 I received a mere four days ago! This forum/website is mostly responsible for my Equinox purchase. I wanted a machine I could use for gold AND relic and coin hunting, and the info I was able to glean from all the posts and articles here helped me to make an informed decision. Thanks for that! The learning curve of the machine and the hobby is a bit steep, but very manageable, and again the forums and website make it all a damn sight easier! I’m currently staying with a friend in an 1890’s house, and have been detecting her yard the last couple of days. And I’ve found my first two non-trash pieces. A small enameled piece of jewelry, and an old chinese coin! I’m very excited to explore more of the yard when the recent snow disappears, and it warms up again! I’m sure I’ll have some questions along the way, but so far I’ve been able to get a lot of answers just exploring the site. If anybody is in the Helena, MT, or Moscow, ID area, and wants to share some knowledge and detecting time, I’d totally be up for it! Best luck to everyone, and stay safe out there! Mark
    2 points
  18. I certainly did not mean to stir up talk of death knells. I'll perk up when the official release finally happens, but with FT shut down we are now on indefinite hold. Hopefully before end of year for AQ, and maybe next year for Terra. Or maybe the delay will allow Terra development to catch up with AQ, but no matter what we are looking at yet another delay, and obviously no fault of FTs. All I'm saying is I'm not wasting any more energy watching this pot not boil.
    2 points
  19. Nice sheds beatup!!! Brought back memories of my avid shed hunting days. Cancer slowed me down so hiking the steep stuff for sheds has stopped except for some detecting. Horn buyer was just setting up chair and Buying Antlers sign in town a few yrs back so I asked him to follow me home cause I wanted to sell my sheds. I kept a few of the best ones and here's what he drove off with. Averaged $9.30lb for these which was 7-8 yrs worth of shed hunting....
    2 points
  20. Steve, I have been as amazed and shocked as you, if not more-so. ALL of the Nokta and Makro devices came with, or very quickly had, plenty of accessory search coils, and I always make use of smaller-size to mid-size coils for the very trashy places I hunt. I keep the small 'OOR' DD on my original (first) FORS CoRe and the excellent 5X9½ DD on my 2nd (your former) FORS CoRe, a 5" DD on my FORS Relic, a 7" Concentric on the Impact .... but my Simplex +, which I really enjoy using, sits back to watch all the fun I have in trashier places because it only has the stock 11" DD. Way too big or most of the sites a lot of the avid detectorists like to hunt. I would have lost good $$$ if I would have wagered on how soon we would get smaller and useful search coils for the Simplex+. It really needs to have a round 5" DD and round 7" Concentric available, and about the only other coil that I feel would be welcomed is the open-frame 5X9½ elliptical DD. We don't need any over-size coils to make it nose-heavy, and certainly not the 9" Concentric like they had with the rod-mount back toward the rear to make it 'floppy' and nose-heavy and, in my opinion, kind of ugly or awkward-looking. The 11" DD is fine for beach hunting or working a plowed field, etc., but smaller-size coils? We need them, and we need them soon! It's detecting season and so many littered sites await our arrival. Monte
    2 points
  21. Simon has it correct, you have to crawl before you can walk. factory reset and find a nice quiet chunk of ground and learn what the nox is telling you. This means digging a lot of unwanted targets. Doing this will force you to learn that sometimes the numbers aren't always correct, it's a combination of numbers and sounds that you will learn over time. Most metals have many different alloys and will produce all kinds of numbers and tones. Over time you'll get the hang of it, and soon will be on your way to a very rewarding hobby. Don't get discouraged, and ask questions from the many more skilled people than me on this forum. You'll find your way in a few months, Good Luck
    2 points
  22. My opinion on this is that the nox800 is a little too complex for a beginner. There are too many settings and you can spend your life trying the hundreds of combinations between, reactivity , iron bias, the 4 modes and so on … It took me several months to master this detector and I have been detecting since 1998 … Then I agree with the posts above , use the factory settings. Park1 is the best mode for starting with the Nox with only 5 tones and an high iron bias that filters the ferrous . So use Park1 and reduce the sensitivity , thats all ( and do not modify the other settings ) … Never use your machine near your home because there is too much trash , this is too difficult for a beginner . Rather go in a field / wood away from the houses , then your machine will be much quieter and you will be able to start to learn your detector … Happy Hunting ...
    2 points
  23. The box is a 900mm wide, its only temporary until I custom make one. The side steps are made out of 4mm chromemolly box section and 6mm wall molly tube connected to the chasis with custolm made u bolts made out of spring steel...extra bloody strong! Strong enough to drag or drop onto a pointy rock or jack off any point along them. Way stronger than any you can buy. I have 2x 120ah agm deep cycles under the tray for camping and fridge use and an e xtra duel purpose agm under the hood that runs the winch and accessories but can also start the car if need be.
    2 points
  24. The size, quality, shape and depth of the aluminum will definitely cause larger, crumpled or wadded up aluminum to act like a mid to high conductor. If it read max depth, the Nox got that right. I have dug 12 to 14" deep, 2" square or so aluminum siding fragments, crumpled up into a blob aluminum cans and tightly balled up quarter sized aluminum foil that came in at 25 to 35. Did you check for iron before digging it? Were the high tone or tones a little fractured and crackly? If you didn't hear any iron and the tones sounded fluty and nice well, that could have easily been a silver quarter, half or dollar or a really large silver ring. I know it sucks but you gotta dig those. You and the Nox did good!!!!!! Jeff
    2 points
  25. From https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/5990-what-are-the-steps/?do=findComment&comment=62787 "The very first thing I would not do is go to the very worst place you can think of for the maiden voyage."
    2 points
  26. So I guess during the quarantine I’ll work on the science fiction novel I’m writing. It’s called Coronus! 3rd planet from the Sun....“Captain! Coronus is in view..Thank you Commander! Put her up on the view screen.Aye, aye Captain.Holy crap! What happened to this planet?”Viral wipe Sir! Only animals survived and it’s like a zoo down there.The gentle thrum and whir of the retros were slowing the behemoth, hospital/Explorer ship “Deus” down to orbital status.First Officer Somat! Scan the surface for human life forms.Ay, aye Captain came First Officer Somat’s response.I detect no Human life forms Captain....Wait! Shouted the First Officer. I’m detecting two human life forms on the coast near the sea!Can we get a closer look First Officer?Yes Sir. Bringing it up on the View Screen Captain.As the Garrett Scanners, on the Deus, focused on the two Carbon Units, what the Captain and flight deck crew saw next was simply mind blowing!There were two old guys metal detecting the white sands of Coronus!
    2 points
  27. Time to shine your nozzle. I know there are many ways to do it. I used to like to buff the crap out one with my hands, but that took to long and my hands would get tired. So know I use a tumbler and they come out shiny...but sometimes takes more attempts. This collection has taken me a few years of detecting old yards. Most houses had one in the front and one in the back. In the winter time I use the tumbler and fish aquarium gravel to clean up many of my old brass items.
    2 points
  28. Nice to hear it will be a full product information release. The endless tease thing is very old with me at least. And hopefully the information will be followed by an actual detector in a very short time, not next year. Please let it be a top end unit of some sort and not another low to mid-range offering!
    2 points
  29. A bit further down and the other end of the contact. Virgin area, outside of known districts. poundage 🙂
    2 points
  30. Bored to tears and holed up like everyone else, but I can't bitch too much as I got a nice warm place to hole up in and enjoy looking out the dirty kitchen window at our local elk all bedded down in the yard. Pic taken today...… We worry about corona and the elk worry about CWD....
    1 point
  31. Welcome to the forums, plenty of good brains to pick here.
    1 point
  32. Jamie, great job with the vanquish!! You are proof that lower cost machines can find a whole bunch of goodies. I've come to realize over the years is confidence in your machine will definitely allow you to find more stuff. I'm thinking of getting a vanquish for my wife, so please keep us updated on this great little machine and your finds. Thanks for the great post.
    1 point
  33. Flak No telling how long that tortoise had been in the hole. The immediate eating indicates thirst. Good save no matter what because it was a goner in the pit. Mitchel
    1 point
  34. Bad joke, but as it happened we were both wearing gloves.
    1 point
  35. Hahahahaa.. I 'm doing like the boss says and researching my little island in Alaska that evidently put out some pretty good gold bacl in the day, but the bigger strikes up north Alaska made all th eminers pack up and leave for greener pastures... going to be an interesting read. Hey i need a 15 inch Equinox coil,,, can you send me one?????
    1 point
  36. Hey Dale, Would you mind explaining to the group why you decided to cut the 100 series down instead of using the commercially produced Extra cab? I know you have already explained it to me , but i think others here may enjoy the story of how you came to this decision. It is obviously a lot of work, but you will end up with a masterful bush rig.
    1 point
  37. She's turning out to be a beaut mate.------ Is that the same size box on the back we put on mine??? 700mm? Side steps??? Look more like rockers to me--- I know how you drive haahahaha--- I think they will be strong enough to let you slide into those places you are going. How many batteries in the back for the fridges etc? we had 2--- Are you going with 4? Wouldnt hurt to have the extra capacity the way you roll for weeks. I LIKE IT!!
    1 point
  38. like I suspected plenty of idle hands in need of of mystery to pass some time, not that this new information will do anything but add to the confusion as it points in a slightly different direction. The unanimous consensus was not Chinese the snake and boats looked more Egyptian inspired everyone thought for what that’s worth and I guess the boat construction does resemble bundled reeds, the snake in that form, fan shape objects, infinity... it’s easy to see a lot of different connections to a lot of different styles so who knows? Most everybody though you’d find a dragon form represented for luck someplace if it was Chinese?
    1 point
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    1 point
  40. Great finds for the both of you, keep it up and best of luck in the future.
    1 point
  41. Another project earlier in wet, made this display up of bits and pieces I`d picked up over the years whilst detecting. I`d made this early before social distancing from seeing one a mate had made and had displayed in his lounge room. I noted as a conversation piece for non-detector users it was sort of "yeah" and move on quick if you get my drift, but for detector users visiting is like a magnet, they sort through and examine bits and pieces basically like a "kid in a candy store". Can you see the gold specimen?????? Good fun
    1 point
  42. Hi Steve, I gave it up for lost, between the pandemic and the confinement it has given me time to see the tdi beach to entertain myself in something! I understand that some pre-privileged ll will have this summer to do tests, not even think about acquiring one for the common users. I have been locked up at home for 15 days, my wife looks at shoes and clothes, I look at detectors and underwater breathing equipment
    1 point
  43. Missed this one sorry...... Channel flipping is when a target is hitting the High/Low and Low/High response all at the same time. The GPZ does it a lot especially on solid small nuggets at depth. The audio can have a slight amount of it present in certain ground types, usually saturable ground or salty ground (quite often its a combination of the two). Channel flipping is also called a “confused signal” when it happens on a target. There are varying degrees of channel flipping, it can happen in one direction of the swing only, it can happen when the coil is held further away, one channel can be more dominant that another and can even swap about as the coil is moved in relation to the target. JP
    1 point
  44. The problem with speeding up the Motion filter on a gold nugget machine is it kills depth and makes the threshold a lot more jittery to listen to. It helps smooth out salt signals but so does slowing your sweep speed. The GPZ Motion Filter at Ground Smoothing OFF is set to the equivalent to Very Slow on a GPX 5000. JP
    1 point
  45. Just posted on Yourube- Not posting here because there is F-bombs🥵 at the end of the video...put the above title in search to find! BEAUTY" Happy 2020 Enjoy! Ig Steve H added....
    1 point
  46. OK, Steve has very kindly split the thread up so now I can focus on showing off my gold finds in this thread and doing interesting audio/visual material in the other. Yesterday was jolly good fun.😇 I returned to my “Sunbaker” patch and initially with a slow start kicked into a much higher gear pinging gold all over the place. I approached it with a different mind set gear wise this time but basically the main advantage was going steady and digging everything. First cab off the rank...deep deep deep. 🙂 For the next hour I just continued on working the area and being more thorough, some of the targets were shallow and sounded like trash so it required what I call an “Emu Parade” approach where your constantly squatting down retrieving tiny lead shot and bits of other trash. I’m pretty good at picking the buried non-ferrous targets over shallow ferrous, here’s a little tip to help you get better at it yourself. Non-Ferrous only reacts to one aspect of the detector Rx creating an Eddie current which when the detector coils Rx passes over causes a signal to be created. Ferrous does this too but ferrous is attracted to a magnet and seeing how the detector is magnetic in nature there is a bit of extra signal created on ferrous items that blends in with the Eddie current signal. This causes two things, one is a brighter harsher more aggressive signal on ferrous objects (Especially tiny ferrous stuff) and secondly due to the over exaggerated discordant signal it makes it very hard to pinpoint the target when your trying to retrieve it. If you find yourself flapping around in the dirt swearing a lot it’s more than likely going to be a ferrous object that is refusing to be where it sounds in relation to the coil. Non-ferrous on the other hand will almost always sound nice and mellow relative to distance from the coil until the coil is coupled right into the loudest response right on the winding. Almost always non-ferrous will provide a nice smooth sounding mellow response especially if it has a bit of depth to it. I will post up an audio video on the other thread at some stage to demonstrate the non-ferrous signal aspect when I have time. Also just as an aside in-situ gold has a halo that adds an extra layer of smoothness to the target signal, there is a distinctive mellowness to a long buried piece of gold. Using conservative settings is the key here with the audio, too much volume and too much sensitivity kills this information due to the subtle nature of the tonal/volume variation in relation to coil proximity. Pics of a lot of the pieces found during the session. I always try to think about why gold is present in the environment, there is always a clue if you look, unfortunately it is often after the fact and not so noticeable when you are walking the area trying to get onto the gold in the first place. But occasionally you see a clue then target the area and bingo gold, I find this incredibly rewarding when this happens. Trying to piece together the gold story in an extremely altered environment is often hard but essentially its all about alteration, gold fluids, depth, iron rich rocks, heat and pressure and metamorphosis. Gold zones have a story but unwrapping that story is the challenge and sometimes due to weathering and alteration and tectonic plate movement things get jumbled up into a coagulated mess that is hard to unravel. In this instance the clue is really obvious and goes to show how gold is in the environment, especially the length of time it is in the environment compared to erosion and weathering of the present day surface. In this instance gold is moving slowly down slope, gold is also weathering out of parallel structures upslope but the majority of the weathering of the gold is happening in a vertical fashion In combination with downslope movement. The next pic is of a section of iron rich indicator country rock. You can clearly see it is very iron rich and has weathered accordingly, it is also very hot to detect and is extremely magnetic and high in X signal. A GPZ coil that does not X balance well will sound very noisy here and also get lots of loud hot rocks that do not sound usually off on a correctly X balancing coil. Downslope the ground is quite noisy and variable due to the material that has weathered out of the contact. Iron rich indicator The next picture is of some shear associated with the contact and is a sure sign of gold being present, this is quite different to regular slate that has been upended. In this case you can see it is quite localised and mainly associated with the indicator. It is these contacts that produce the nuggety gold but they are quite often hidden by overburden and vegetation. Rest assured they will be present though. Shear The sticky-up-rock that is twisted and tortured is caused by compression and folding along the fault line, at great depth and under extreme heat and pressure they provide prefect channels for gold fluids to flow along. The contact with the iron rich indicator is a perfect spot for gold to drop out of solution causing the formation of nuggety gold. It’s been theorised that gold drops out of solution when there is a pressure change like during an earthquake, even mild ones, whether it happens all at once or little bits at a time over long periods is the interesting question. Finally near the end of the session I was rewarded by a deep mellow sounding low/high and a bit of cream came my way in the form of a 6 gram chunk, happy days😎. Watch this space there is more work to be done.😇 JP Pics of the big boy and the days total
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  47. Chuck (RR), you asked a great question and one that I get from people quite often. You have som e good replies so far, and Dick Stout gave you the best and most direct answer ...No. That's a very simple answer, and when it comes to detectors (and other things) I like 'Simple', blend that with 'Functional' for a decent detector that provides 'Performance' to satisfy my needs. Not sure how old you are, but I am inching my way up the scale, and while my health stinks and mobility is limiting, I still devote as must time as possible to detecting. I've been trimming my Detector Outfit to thin out excess detectors I don't use (other than oldies I have for seminars and demonstrations) to limit the number of versatile, useful detectors that are also lighter in weight and well balanced. I have one left to part with and that will have me down to nine detectors with the most-used search coils mounted so they are 'ready-to-go' at first grab. I have 3 detectors assigned to my 'get-serious' Relic Hunting activity, and those are a Nokta CoRe w/ 'OOR' DD and another CoRe w/5X9½ DD and my FORS Relic w/5" DD. I also have my two favorite Tesoro's, a Bandido II µMAX w/6" Concentric and Silver Sabre µMAX w/6" Concentric. In my 'Daily-Carry team are one of the Tesoro's, my Nokta Impact w/7" Concentric, a Minelab Vanquish 540 w/5X8 DD and my Nokta / Makro Simplex + w/11" (until they eventually get some smaller coils out!!). I do, on occasion, include my final detector, another Vanquish 540 w/9X12 DD mounted for time when I anticipate hunting a more open and sparse-target area like a wide-open grassy park, a plowed field and so forth. In short, I am using 5 detectors that are either discontinued or from a now-defunct manufacturer. The other 4 are a new Impact, two new Vanquish 540's and the Simplex+. Only my new Impact, a very versatile detector as well, is just a bit over $500, because I also bought the 5" DD and 7" Concentric coils with it. Loaded up for today's detecting, while weather is decent, are the Impact, a Vanquish 540, my Simplex + and a Tesoro. As for performance on lower-priced detectors, it can be very good .... if you buy a decent quality, well engineered lower-cost detector. Note that there are NO "lower-priced" or "entry level" models from other manufacturers in my Detector Outfit, and that's because thy don't work well for my hunting applications and site selection ... or just don't work well at all, in my personal opinion. Sorry for the long answer with examples just to end up saying what Dick said ... and the answer is 'No.' Monte
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  48. I keep getting requests for at least one forum with a looser format and in particular a place where people can make "that first post" and introduce themselves. So here it is. Meeting people and getting to know them often means general chit chat and such. Anything is pretty much ok here but more than ever it is important people abide by the forum Prime Directive - treat others with decency and respect. Past history and baggage from other forums is not allowed here so just leave it at the door, or do not enter. This is the forum most likely to see new members and so all "Forum Info" posts are also archived here for those who want to know more about how the forum software works, etc. Other than that - enjoy! Now a little history for those totally new to the forum. I used to hang out on all the other forums. The problem over time is I kept bumping into rules. No mentioning certain brands or dealers for fear of offending sponsoring dealers. That will never happen here as the forum members come first. The one that really irritated me was no links to all sorts of things, like other forums. Here, if the subject matter is relevant, please link to it! No silly "Google it" games etc. And then there are the trolls. People who just like to stir things up. Childish and rude people. Tons of off topic garbage to wade through to find decent information. Etc. I just got tired of it all because over time it all got worse as forums became more commercial. I started these forums to escape all that and with the goal of attracting like minded people who are also tired of all the nonsense. So the main thing here is very, very simple. With the possible exception of this forum, keep discussions on the particular forum subject matter. Be a decent person and better yet, try to help others. On topic, be good - it really is that simple here. New Member Signup - Click Here! Lost Password - Click Here! Forum Tips & Tricks Advanced Search Tag List/Index
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