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I took a ride to a local beach and saw this hole that was never there before. Some one had a machine and moved the sand around and left a hole. I have detected this area Quiet with my TDI BH in the past. Today I dug for 3.5 hours non stop all targets were deep as it looks like there was about 6 inches or more of sand removed. I was amazed at what was below. The best of it 3 Buffalos a silver dime a 1956 class ring and a ring like I have never seen, it has the head of a wolf with its mouth open.

Found this about 2-4 inches deep in my front yard. It was in an area recently churned up from a storm water pipe install. Found a circa 1890-1904 aluminum token in this area too. Bet there's more silver and 100+ year old stuff buried in my yard, but they'll be deep...

The last couple of days we've had a hard wind blowing in the afternoon. It is not deep energy like swells but it does stir up the bottom a bit depending upon the tide. The first trip I didn't find much but the knife and a couple of cheap rings. At least that is what I thought. These are the finds from the first day. This was the 'cheap' ring upon closer examination. This was the depth of the knife. It was right at 20 inches. These were today's finds in nearly the same area. At the beginning of the hunt was this better knife. It was open when I found it. Then the remainder of the finds. This was a cheap ring. Two day total of 3 rings and 2 knives. Mitchel

> Mathematics:> This is a strictly ..... mathematical viewpoint... and it goes like this:>> What Makes 100%? (for that matter small and deeper as well as bigger and deeper)>> What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?>> Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%.>> How about achieving 103%?>> What makes up 100% in life?>> Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:>> If:> A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z>> Is represented as:> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.>> Then:>> H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K> 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%>> And>> K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E> 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%>> But ,>> A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E> 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%>> And,>> B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T> 2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%>> AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.>> A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G> 1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%>> So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty, that while Hard work and latest detector get you close, and Attitude will get you there.> Its the bull* and Ass Kissing that will put you over the top.> Now you know why some people are where they are!>

Covid Stress Relief Read... Warning, There is some DUMB sarcasm in this post. When it comes to metal detecting, I have no issues with any country and or how dumb/smart we/they/you/me be. If I offend you, no worries, it won't be the last time either. We need to go back a few years for some to realize, some dumb facts.... I figured it out. Gold Monster 1000 - Remember when Africa was sent the Gold Monster 1000 and nobody else. We in USA were told it was designed for them people and it even came with an adaptor for the broom stick (I'm not joking). Yea that detector, the one with Arabic writing on it. The one that's so simple and dummy proof that anyone could use it. But America and Aussies were left out? Well what happened? Australia gold hunters cried like little babies and said "we just as dumb as Africa" and want that detector. Poof and a few months later it happened. Then USA gold hunters cried like little spoiled brats we are and said, "we just as dumb as Africa and Australia" and we want a turn on & go machine. Poof and a few months later it happened. You see, even though this (now the #1 selling gold detector in the world) was never meant for USA or Aussie land, it has earned the respect and accolades as the most STUPID PROOF VLF gold detector out that that actually works quite well for ALL DUMMIES including myself. And that is the #1 reason I prefer selling it. Minelab struck it rich with this detector even when it was never intended for other markets. Hats off to the dummy Minelab Engineer (do they even have dumb Engineers?) who thought of it, but spill your beer to the marketing person who said it's for Africa Only, so I was told. I strongly feel this does make since, after all who in America reads Arabic and who has put a broom handle on the adaptor (would love to see pics). Heck I was going to do a video of just that, but then realized I wasn't smart enough to figure out the adaptor part's usage. GPX-6000 - Now we are coming to the most sensitive DUMMY PROOF Pulse Induction detector to ever be released and almost everyone seems to realize USER FRIENDLY (Dumb Operators) and ERGONOMICS is a MUST. Hats off to the Minelab team who realized this. Spill your beer to the team who thinks USA/Australia don't want the 17" MONO coil. After all we want what Africa gets...is what I hear us spoiled brats are calling. Well, well it's not so simple Mr. Scrooge. COILS -1st off, everyone is getting a MONO coil (yippie), but many of are not happy with DD coil we are getting. I feel it seems to do with the amount of EMI we run into the US, amount of transmitters/receivers, cell towers and airports/military across our land. I know for a fact there are good gold areas I had issues with EMI on my current detectors and MONO coils. Australia is probably close to the same issues I mentioned for USA, but I do know they have vast openness, but much more mineralized soils and salt as well. I tried detecting the salt flats there and even my old DD was not very productive, the MONO was useless and the best coil was the CoilTek Anti interference/salt. So I'm sure that's why we are getting the DD to begin with. The good thing is...after time and when Covid might be over, we'll be able to order the larger, deeper 17" MONO down the road. YIPPIE...Down the road!!! Batteries - Africa gets 2 and we get 1. Heck no, I can easily count two to two one...heck you know what I mean. Why is this Gerry? I thought this hard through and through (bout gave myself a headache), I thought so hard. And a lightbulb across the street came on... I realized to the conclusion, if we are just as Dumb as Africa and forget to charge our GPX-6000 battery that night (I've seen it happen on my 5000 and 7000), then we deserve 2 batteries as well, cause we just as dumb and forgetful (speaking for myself or am I?). Anyway, The best way to fix the not charged battery, is to get up before your hunting buddy and take his battery, put it on your machine and then put your dead battery on his charger. A bit later, everyone gets up, grabs their gear and heads out for the day's hunt. About 2 to 3 hours and 6 miles from the truck, he realizes his detector is down for the day and you get to keep digging gold. That's not dumb on my part, but being impromptu..until your buddies realizes anyway. Back to batteries and a strong thoughtful reason of why we (Australia & US) are only getting 1 battery in each box? Could it be because of the restrictions on shipping batteries in US and Australia is different than Africa? Heck, if you go online and try to decipher the allowance of a metal detector on a plane, you'll get quite confused and want to call their Help Line. Please don't do that, you'll get a dummy at the other end, that owns a Gold Monster 1000, and is afraid to tell you anything. Heck they won't even tell you if they take their detector on the plane. Does anyone know if Africa rules are much more allowable for electronics and battery devices coming into their country is different? I'm too DUMB to know, but I sure would like a 2nd battery. I will say this with pretty much certainty though. After time and when Minelab is caught up with GPX-6000's, I do feel we'll get the option to purchase a 2nd battery. Lets just hope its nothing pricewise like the GPX-5000 battery ($441 US), That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Can anyone shed some light to my dumb thinking? BTW. You know what that Arabic writing says on the GM-1000 as I'm to dumb to know? I heard through the tomato vine, it meant "Dummy Proof Detector". Heck, sign me up.

Here's mine. Snap on what ever size socket you want. The socket pictured weighs 16 oz. I don't use it as I like the way my "S" rod mod. swings.

I still love my 4500, but I'll be the first to admit that the GPZ7000 gets the most swing time these days. However, nearly every time I pull out the 4500, it rewards me.

Just the other day, I reached my goal of digging 100 Arizona gold nuggets with the GPZ 7000 this winter. Nothing of much size - the largest weighing in at only 5 grams - but even the tiniest bits are a thrill to find. As usual, I was targeting well known and flogged placer areas, working in and around the old dry-blow diggings. All up, 1.78 ounces troy. It will be interesting to see how much the GPX 6000 increases the number of nuggets found in this size range next season...only time will tell. Good luck out there!

Got a couple gold rings this week. One small 10k, .8 grams in black sand 1 scoop down using volcanic mode. Ring was broken on one side and I finished the break while cleaning. The other 14k, 5.6 grams in beach cobble about 8” down using all metal.

Targets were still plentiful 6 wheats 4 silver coins a silver ring and a silver religious metal. It looks like they pushed the sand out in to the water. Cant forget this.

A few months ago I suggested I was keen to get a copy of Reese's 'Nugget Shooter's Field Guide' but the shipping to Australia was a killer. Fellow forum member Chuck (aka Ridge Runner) took it upon himself to purchase a copy, reached out for my address and posted it to me. What followed was a comical travel itinerary of Chicago to Japan to Chicago to Sydney (actually in Australia!! 🤣) to Chicago to San Antonio to Chicago to Japan...and then for about the last 3 weeks...nothing 😳 I was starting to think that maybe it had travelled one leg too far and it had really lost its way. Until today, when it just turned up in the letterbox without any tracking notifications from within Australia. Who cares, it's here!! 🥳 🎉 So, thank you Chuck. Your kind gesture is truly appreciated. And thank you for providing your return address. I know you have asked nothing in return but my friend, when the right thing comes along that is commensurate to my appreciation it will most certainly be making its way to you. And thank you for the hand written note 😊 This is the second time in the past few months that several forum members (Chuck and a few from the Prospecting Australia site) have been very kind and giving. Information, helping and kindness are the great components of these forums and is something we can all aim for. Thanks again Chuck 🙏 Now, I've got some reading to do!!

A true test for any detector. Yesterday, took the Tar to my favorite HS football stadium. Gave the side lines and other areas around the field a good going over with a couple different machines last year. As expected I was hunting down targets that I just flat out missed. The real test for the Standard coil came around the edges of the home grand stands. It gets hunted, but I mean No Body even trys to clear out 30 years of aluminum , iron bolts etc, accumulated. Got to admit this coil with it's spot on pinpointing surprised me on its ability to pry out coins between and sometimes in the same hole. So the coins I managed out of this mess helped with the days hunt. Ended up with 33 coins for $5.02. No bling but 8 of those coins were nickels. That were coming in on a solid 06. Not too bad for batting clean up. To be fair I've hunted 3 sites this year by the Tar and another favorite machine, and couldn't break a buck. It just wasn't there. I blame it on the competition and lack of use due to the Covid. I guy got to have a excuse, can't he.

Not a very experienced beach guy, relics are my thing, but I have picked up a thing or two... First of all, don't use beach 2 unless you have to in order to keep the the machine stable due to salt and/or black sand in the water or saturated sand because beach 2 has a lower transmit power. You may also want to use tracking GB too due to shifting salinity levels in the surf. Use beach 1 if you can in wet sand. If you are working dry sand, use any mode that will run stable because it will be deeper than the beach modes in general. If you are focused on gold jewelry on dry sand use Park 2 or Field 2 for small targets and gold, which can ring up just about anywhere from 0 to 20+, but will mainly cluster around 7 to 15. Bottlecaps will give a spurious high tone in 50 tones but will be jumpy and will typically iron grunt if you wiggle off the edge. A small coin spill, though, can mimic a bottlecap with several unstable numbers, but the individual targets will reveal themselves with wiggle coil action or pinpoint mode. Juice bottle freshness caps ring up a solid 7 and sound like a ring with a nuanced slightly hollower sound, so have fun with those...lol Most bling is lost in the water when rings slip off suddenly cold fingers or jewelry gets torn off by wave action. You can choose to either hunt in the active surf past the break or after the break (exhausting with the wave action and hydrodynamic coil drag, look out for holes and tether all your gear to you) or follow the tide out to sea (in other words start your session an hour or two before morning or evening low tide and move out with the tide line). Look for erosion cuts and low spots in the wet sand. Gold and heavier coins sink to the hard pan/shell gravel layer, so the less loose sand, the better. Zig zag and look for target patterns.. If you start hitting a line or cluster of deep quarters (or actual rings) you know you are in the right spot, grid or spiral out from that clstur spot or follow the line until it peter's out and double back. If you are banging on deep nickels, you know your machine is tuned to hit deep gold too. Use pinpoint target footprint tracing to rule out shallow, large junk targets such as beer cans or aluminum tent stakes that can ring high. On dry sand, work the "towel line", pedestrian access area (where people drop stuff jostling with their belongings or footwear or beach concession areas for more recent drops, especially clad, that tend to get vacuumed up quicker by the local regular detectorists. Different experience from your paradise relic farm fields, but just as fun, though I prefer a rare button to a modern gold ring, but that's just me. Most of all, have fun, relax, and enjoy your trip. See you when you get back! HTH

Good rant Rick, but if Minelab comes up with the goods again tis hard to knock them, they are without even a tiny doubt the best thing that happened to us gold chasers. Russia maybe where a competitive detector may come from judging by X coils innovations and ability, now that`d put the cat amongst the pigeons and bring competition back.

It’s crazy stuff, but all due to lack of genuine competition. Aggressive competition keeps nutty stuff like this from happening, but Minelab has reached monopoly status in some ways, especially as regards gold prospecting. Imagine if every Minelab detector disappeared tomorrow, just how far we’d all be set back. ATX, TDI, and QED would rule. Yikes! With competition like Minelab has, they can pretty much do what they want.

I have one of the first runs of the equinox. Got on a wait list with a dealer and got mine in April or May of 2018 (please correct me if I’m wrong on this, but I think I’ve had my nox for 3 years now). I had a slight case of the shaft wobble issue and ended up getting an Anderson carbon fiber upper and lower rods. When Steve first came out with his rods I inquired about getting just the upper from him mostly for the cam lock, but also for the balance pod. We sent some messages back and forth and realized that the Anderson lower rod was a slightly larger diameter and wasn’t compatible with Steve’s upper rod. Since I had just shelled out $150 on the Anderson I decided I would make my own balance pod. I had some 6/6 nylon rod and had this big piece of aluminum left over from another project. You can see from the pic how it works. The aluminum counter weight can be slid closer or farther from the fulcrum point (the equinox control box grip) to fine tune the balance. I forget what the nylon rod and counter weight weighs, but even with the counter weight slid all the way to the end, it still doesn’t perfectly balance the 11” coil, however it’s nearly perfect for the 6” coil. I wanted the overall weight of the detector as light as possible, but still help significantly with the balance. I think I got it at a fairly sweet spot between balance and overall weight.

Northeast I can’t express how happy I am that finally received that book. I’m surprised it’s still in tact .That book has got more air miles than you and I will ever have. It was all my pleasure to do that for you. You must admit it was interesting to see that book travel around the world more than one time before it landed at your door. I wish you the best in what life has to offer you in this coming year . Chuck

GJ, bit like the peacock and the bull joke, the peacock was getting on and couldn`t fly to the top of the tree anymore, the bull told it to try eating its "waste" for a bit, it worked suddenly the peacock got to the top of the tree again but along came the farmer with the 12 gauge and boom the peacock was dinner for the farmer and family. Moral of the story BS will get you to the top but wont keep you there. Crikey Gerry you`ve opened a can of worms.................. good stuff take the starch out of everybody..............

I don’t know but some people wouldn’t be happy if you hung them with a new rope. Gerry if that chap stick is not helping it could be your using it on the wrong end . Chuck

So, that four quintillion grams of gold on Earth, divided by 7.7 billion people means that our shares are over 518 million grams each?! Well come’on, lets go!! 🤪

Here is a good video of a detectorist using a 15" Concentric X coil. He finds 15 bits each day for about a 7 gram total. Simon mentions JW in this video. If you want to contact him send him a message Simon's on YouTube.

So many people upset and in their writing I can feel their pain . Could it be they have the same problem this woman had. Every time it rains she would hurt in her private area. It got so bad she just couldn’t take it anymore. She told herself I’ve got to go to a doctor. Well she made appointment with one. She was talking to the Doc telling him she had bad bad pain in her private area only when it would rain. He ask her are you hurting now and she said no . Well next time this pain starts you come in right away and I’ll see if maybe I can do something for you. It wasn’t no time again on a rainy day she started hunting again. So here she goes straight to the doctor. He told she to lay down on this table so I can see what may be your problem. He did work on her for about 20 minutes and then told her to get up . Asking her how do you feel now? Oh Doc I feel wonderful I don’t hurt anymore. Thanks Doc but what did you do? Oh it was nothing I just cut about 6 inches off the top of your rubber boots. Chuck

Personally, I am sick and tired of the slow drip feed of bullshit 25 second clips from Minelab that tell you almost nothing ! Whoever in marketing thinks that this is smart has lost the plot. I am more inclined now not to buy one, just on principle. Minelab are taking us for granted and treating us like mugs ! And I'm sorry JP, but no amount of defending Minelab will put this right. They are just taking the piss ! A once great small Australian company, that produced the goods in Australia, is now run by corporate bean counters and built overseas, where cheap labour will maximise profits. The Australian ( and seemingly US ) market are now being treated as second class citizens, where we don't even have the choice of what coil pack we get, and only one battery supplied ! This is the trouble when you have NO competition ! Rant over ! Rick

Ace! Proof that the older models can still hold their own.

Tom_in_CA, you beat me to 1787 !. but no matter. Hunting an old site on lunch break today. Since the original log cabin was torn down in about 1807, everything here is pretty old, and deep. I had sens at 24, all metal. any high tones get mixed with grunts because of the depth...and tons of nails. got this about halfway through my break. I got to cross another coin off the bucket list today, rough shape though it is. Annyway, here is the New Jersey Copper....although the date isnt readable for sure...it"looks" like two tops of 7s where the date should be, so I'm gonna go with that.

Love it, our spoilt Detecting Worlds being screwed by an OZ Company, might be near OZ`s last International Company but tis our Ozies homebrew Company.................. Meanwhile the savy ones are out there killing it with Minelabs Flagship Gold Detector with a Russian Superior Coil on it. On ya Gerry dunno about shedding light on your dumb arse theory but tis on the money, love ya style your good enough to be an OZ maybe even a QLDer, tis said satire is the lowest form of wit but maybe that`s in upover not downunder. Buy the Worlds first Idiot proof detector come on down suckers.

Ouch I do see all of the points, but DO NOT fully agree with most of them (that’s the fully part not some of the perfectly understandable aspects of the arguments) but realise that’s how it must seem and because there is NEVER any sort of communication being delivered back through regular channels find myself feeling like I have to defend the ‘dummies’ I have interactions with on a nearly daily basis. ML is a big corporate and the Minions who I consider friends tend to disappear inside the corporate machinery, so I will accept the frustrations written here because they are perfectly legitimate and let ML the corporate machine suffer the chagrin directed its way because of the frustrations caused by ‘ML the obelisk’ chumming the market over long time frames. I too had an issue with the signage etc on the worlds simplest little “Monster” metal detector, the reality though was it was primarily designed for a specific market, so even though the signage jarred at first (for obvious reasons due to political sensitivities), the reality is if anything the signage has actually endeared itself to me, this also includes the name which also jarred my senses when I first got exposed to it. I love the little Gold Monster now. 💕 The 17” mono is going to be a bug bear for me, I want access to them from the get go and am fielding a LOT of enquiries about it for my Aussie customers, but you have to think about the manufacture and supply chain relative to the pack out, our markets get the small mono and the DD and believe me there will be times you will need the DD, that because we live in so called 1st world countries and as such urbanisation has encroached on a lot of ‘popular’ recreational detecting areas, plus both our goldfields have quite big areas of conductive ground (notice how I use the word recreational and popular). Our markets are driven by a hobby mindset not an artisanal mindset. Taking our conditions into consideration you should be then able to correlate an understanding of the GPX 6000 relative to the way it is going to behave in some environs, as such in time the pack-out for our markets will make sense but not right now because of the emotive nature of the frustration at hand. We want it all and we want it at the exact same time as everyone else at the exact moment or as close to the exact moment as we first found out about it. So the issue of the 17” will continue because the vast majority of stock being manufactured and then being sent around the world will be swallowed up by the afore-derogatorily mentioned larger markets because our combined respective markets might just scrape through at 20% of the overall market pie. Logic very quickly indicates that percentage wise our smaller markets will therefore not gain access to some parts due to manufacturing going flat out trying to supply coils to the bigger market. I would say those larger markets might feel some frustration at some stage due to not having access to the DD for the very same reasons. Something to ponder anyway. 🤔 Like I said above I understand the reasons for the rant and can fully relate to the frustrations but the complexities created by such a large and extremely diverse market area and the instantaneous nature of information dissemination can bite any company in the backside, so from my vantage point I can see a feeling-less big corporate sticking to its marketing/release plan and just deal with the millions of little daily hiccups that can easily derail the manufacturing supply chain process, those little annoyances always cause a ripple effect further down the line which is the ever shifting sands of the release date. I feel for some of the guys at ML but from a corporate perspective “I say suck it up cupcake” and throw the dog a bone. Lastly please ignore my words above I know this is not what people want to hear right now so would prefer to avoid argument about something so feeling-less as a big corporate who would in a heart-beat throw me away or any of the many other hard working people behind the facade trying to do their best. 😞

Gold can be a real bugger to find sometimes🤣

A week or so ago I had ordered a 3D printed battery pack for whites machines, obviously including my V3i. It uses 3 of the large lithium rechargeable 18650 batteries. I received it already even though it was shipped from Ukraine. It has a rugged, premium feel to it. This is my first 3D printed anything, and the quality surprised me. Definitely not a flimsy piece of kit. It fits in my V3i perfectly. Right now I’m using 2,500 to 3,000. I’ll let you know how these hold up and how higher MAH versions hold up once they arrive. I’m pretty excited about these in comparison to competing packs that top out at 3100 mah. It’s an inconvenience to not be able to charge the pack itself without removing the batteries, but an open holder also has its advantages. I may even attempt to make a charging cradle. The pack seems to only be available on eBay, with one remaining at this moment. I’m sure he will fire up the printer for another batch soon though. He likes to sell one batch before making more.

Hello detector-prospector friends, I had the honor to interview the finder-family of the legendary "Ambrosha-Nugget", found 1983 in Sierra County, California. Enjoy!

Was trying out high gain, single Frequency on the Nox 600 on one of my spots; got a very deep high tone signal that didn't even register a VDI. 10 minutes of hard digging through wet clay yielded a nice assortment of silver coins. This machine is amazing!

There are quite a few hardcore beach hunters here. I'm not looking for Equinox settings, I'll probably use one of the beach modes on my 600. Most likely I will use Beach 2 because of the 50 tones, as I'm used to 50 tones hunting in Farm 2. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I have a few places I'll be hunting on Tybee island east of Savannah GA, maybe the local Sheriff's office can give me others. 😀 What I am looking for is approach, what part of the beach or tide gives the most bang for the hour. I use maps and stuff to find farmhouses, but a beach is a beach. There are a few forts there but I'm sure they are off limits. Any advice would be appreciated! I have a nice beach/river scoop rig, even a floating sifter for deeper water. I can't hunt the river here until I get a permit for anything beyond low tide, I've been saving that for when the farmers have planted.

Sounds to me that if you want to get the latest from Minelab, simple, just move to Africa.....😃

Beaches in the wet sand are about the energy that was there in the previous 12 hours or so. Try to look at a site that will tell you if there were big waves or frequent smaller waves before you get there. Hunt beaches that have had a big parking lot in the past or now. Chase did a good job with his post. I pretty much went 'all in' on this thread and don't have any more to add without learning a specific beach which takes feet on the sand. There is no substitute.

That page (and site) have fantastic graphics. A few clarifications: 1) the gold depicted in the photo Steve posted is what governments hold. According a later graphic on that page it's only between 17% an 18% of all the gold in possession. 2a) although it's true that in 1933 it was made illegal to own gold bullion (kept in the USA, see below) and each person was limited to $100 face value in gold coins, the possession of gold in jewelry form was allowed, and jewelers were excepted (presumably within limits) on owning bullion for the purposes of making jewelry. 2b) a loophole(?) was stepped through by owning gold kept offshore (mostly housed in Europe, especially Switzerland). Recently much of that gold which was in the form of USA coins (especially $20 gold pieces) has been returning to the USA and is being sold to numismatic collectors. If you've ever watched Rick Tomaska's cable TV show (on Rare Collectibles TV) you'll have seen many presentations where he discusses acquiring some of that and subsequently sells cherry picked high grade specimens to viewers. 2c) the USA government kept close records on how much gold (in the form of coins) they melted, broken down by denomination. A graphic shown occasionally on the above mentioned show indicates that less than half of any single denomination ever minted by USA was melted, before and after the 1933 buyback. (I think they melted all coins in their possession, including recovered from the so-called 'confiscation' buyback.) So there is still quite a bit out there, somewhere.... A big question for detectorists is "how much has been lost/hidden awaiting our detectors to sound off over them?" (That's not explcitly shown in the graphics Steve linked to. 😁)

Thank you for the comment, I appreciate! Part 2 is ready in short time. They'll talk more detailed about the nugget and how it was found in part 2. Price: It was in fact a quarz-gold nugget, i.e. not solid gold. This has to be taken into account, when calculation price per oz. On the other hand I also think, such a incredible piece should make a way higher price, because it is an extremely rare collectors piece. I think at that time it was difficult to find a buyer for something like that and who was willing to pay a collector price. They had about two years to find a buyer. Today with all the worldwide networks it would be way easier to find buyers, I guess. Anyway, the DeRaps are such a great family, they didn't talk much about money, the story and the family ranks much higher for them. You will understand, what I mean, after watching part 2 😉

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Let's take the lower bound of GotAU's calculation since the 4-27 mircrograms of gold per cubic meter of seawater appears to be a range of measurements and we don't know the world average -- somewhere in that range presumably. Now, divide that by the amount of gold recovered to date (estimate in Geof's post) and we find that there is at least 30 times as much gold in the Earth's oceans as has ever been recovered (from the land). However, that's still a drop in the bucket compared to what is still deep in the earth -- at least 4x10^18 g, 4 followed by 18 zeroes or four quintillion grams. That's 100,000 to a million times what GotAU's calculation says is in the oceans. (Calculated based on the mass of the earth's mantle times the [conservative] fraction of gold in the earth's crust; thus I'm assuming mantle and crust have similar compositions which might not be true.)

So , a pirate walked into a bar carrying a GPX 6000....................

Thanks Joe! Again spot on. First thing I'm going to do is visit the island Sheriff's department. They are close by, and I've found in the past that they are very nice people. They may even know of a few places I haven't considered! I imagine it would be a good idea to get the ground rules from the enforcers. If I can even get "near" one of the forts... 🤔 I am an avid beach fisherman so I know what to watch for but you bring up a very good point. I got some water shoes. 😀 I've seen some pretty nasty jellyfish, anemones, small sharks and rays in my time, even water snakes. Something spiked my foot once in OBX that caused a nasty infection.

Chase, You pretty much said everything I would say! Not bad for an occasional beach hunter!!👌 Thanks for saving my thumb energy!👍 F350, All I will add to what Chase said is, as long as you define where it's legal to hunt, you should be in good shape! Here, we are mostly restricted to between the dune line/high tide line, and the low tide line! Beware of hazardous sealife in the water, if you are able to hunt there! Water hunting is very time intensive, so if you are limited, stay dry, or very shallow! That will let you cover the most area! Good hunting!!👍👍

What a great collection of really good finds. I'm wondering what they were doing, since you said that cut was machine made. I guess there are tracks from it? If you find out who//why that was done, please post back what you find out.

Well she made it! So looking forward to trying it out this weekend!

This impartial, honest, battery test website is well worth a look: https://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Common18650IndividualTest UK.html Notice how tragically bad the 'xxxxx-Fire' ones, with ridiculous stated capacities perform: https://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/UltraFire CN18650 9800mAh (Yellow) UK.html ... they must be full of air or cardboard or something equally inert. Two informative battery-related websites/forums are the CandlePower one for flashlight junkies, and SecondLifeStorage for recycling enthusiasts and off-grid / prepper types: https://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/forum.php and https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php

The fact is that you sell where you can make the most profit. Africa and other emerging markets like Brazil, Mongolia, and SE Asia have little mining regulations, and lots of undiscovered gold. Think of taking a GPZ to the Sierras in 1840. Yes, that level of gold rush is happening in these areas of the world. I got to see it first hand when I worked for White's. So if it was your company, would you ship dozens of 40 foot conex containers to Africa and Brazil, where the detectors will sell for 2x retail, or send 100 units to the US for retail? It's an easy choice. Maybe even a SMART choice if making money is your goal. The US and AUS prospecting markets are crumbs compared to the rest of the world. It's a hobby, and the easy gold is gone. Compare that to Africa where you can make a living by panning with your bare hands, and nuggets in the kg range are easier to find.

That's exactly what pisses me off about the American detector manufactures. Fisher (an American company) patented the 1st MD'er in 1931 and still in business today (but slowly bleeding). Garrett, the next best thing is their dumbbell weight ATX Deep Seeker (which needed redesigned 3 yrs ago). Tesoro and White's have died off. I'm coming to the conclusion in my 45 yrs of detecting, the American Engineers are not as bright (I won't use STUDIP), but give me a break. What does the future of Fisher and Garrett hold? I'm starting to read the bathroom wall writings and it's not looking good and it's certainly not in Arabic either. But maybe it should?

Reality is Minelab has been producing machines like clockwork, that, once the dust settles, deliver performance comparable to their position in the Minelab lineup. The question generally is not whether you will be using a Minelab to prospect for gold, but which Minelab you will be using. The GPX 6000 is positioned above the GPX 5000, but below the GPZ 7000. That should tell anyone who knows how the game works with Minelab all they need to know. Those people know this detector does not replace the GPZ 7000, but that Minelab considers it to be the next best thing to having a GPZ 7000. Anyone like me is already lined up to get a GPX 6000 based purely on that equation, along with weight and price. Others can stick with the 7000, safe in the knowledge that it’s still Minelab’s top offering. Minelab knows all this, and they also know they can’t make these fast enough to satisfy demand in Africa for at least the next year, let alone any for us. If you accept any of this as near reality, then you will see that, in general, every dollar spent promoting the GPX 6000, is a dollar wasted. It does not matter what Minelab does, and in fact they need do nothing else. No testers need to report, no more information. Nothing. The machine will still sell, early buyers will give it a thumbs up (that’s all that matters), so instead Minelab is making efforts to actually produce and deliver the machine. Marketing can blow it completely, and still come up smelling like a rose. That’s the problem. They do whatever, machines sell.... why change? That’s reality. Another is that I’m angling for a production model of the GPX 6000 as soon as I can lay hands on one. I think it’s safe to say the units seen so far are not production models, but hand assembled preproduction units shipped out for promotional purposes. The real deal is yet to come. Minelab GPX 6000 Data & Reviews

Unfailingly, this is Lunks default post; finding gold where others have looked. No matter how flogged the area, it seems to make no difference. You are always an inspiration, continued good hunting.

I simply couldn't stand seeing CVIS-Chris post all his escapades. And he's so rude (even though he's within 3 hrs. of me) that he won't invite me and Elbert along. 😂 So I had to go out and plunder some of my own sites 🤣 Got this 1787 2 reale, and this 1834 Large Cent. My buddy got a small cuff #27 on this trek. This was from a site that had previously given up some other reales, PB's, early seateds, etc.... I know I can't steal the celebrity status from Chris, but it was Fun fun fun !