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What is your style of chasing gold and have you changed? Throughout my yrs of nugget hunting with a detector, I have changed my style of detecting. When I first started I found every little bit/crumb of gold and was happy as could be. I NEVER wanted to go home without gold, so the VLF was my king of not going home empty handed. Now I use the VLF tools for their fantastic ID system and hunt trash areas for bigger gold. I used to love finding 20 dink days and did it so often I never even took pics. Heck I've done 50 dinks a day a few times and hit a place in Oregon that I pulled 100+, but for some reason, it was to worthy of a photo? Guess I realized it was big gold everyone wanted to see. Heck, I probably could have had more big gold if I changed my hunt style, but who wants to argue with Success...it just did not weigh much. When the PI's came out and it took me a while to learn them, the 1 grammers were bigger gold and 1/4 oz'ers on up was consider big to this Idaho boy. I then started realzing the PI would find less pieces, but I usually ended up with 2 to 3X the weight. Boy did I flip from VLF to PI....and my gold count went down, but my take home weight went up. Then I was introduced to Ganes Creek, AK (thank you so much Steve H, for the suggestion of me to go up there). I learned the VLF's had another aspect of their capabilities that put a few ounces more into my Cache. What I did with this new learned knowledge was take it back down to the lower 48 states and man, it really started me a gold rush. So many old mining areas are full of trash, but yet so few people with spend the time to hunt them, or they do hunt them, but with the wrong technology. Deeper trash is not a friend of the powerful PI detectors and we've proven that many times. Yes I still love my trips to Rye Patch and desire to pull another oz of NNV gold out with a GPZ-7000, but it's getting tougher each year and in the reality of things, I can spend a week trying to find an ounce of NNV gold nuggets around Rye Patch, or I can spend a week in trashy workings and most certainly will go home with more weight of gold. Today, I would just as soon grab an EQ-800 with stock coil (sometimes larger) and spend hours at a time trying to find 1 piece of gold. Yes there are quick trips I come home with no gold on occasion, but that's my choice, as I could easily put a small coil on the (any VLF gold detector) and knock out a few pickers. But when I do, is it worth taking pics and or sharing? I think it all depends on your interest of gold and experience level. Most newer MD'ers of gold would rather go home with any gold no matter the size, but some of you will progress to the point, the little pickers are fun and cool to find, but not what you really want to take home. So are you a big gold hunter who does not mind going home empty or one who just like digging gold no matter what the size and would be just as happy to find 20 pickers = 2 grams? I'm sure you Aussie mates have a different take on things than us Americans. Would love to get everyone's take and see some of your Success.

I went out to what may be my last visit to my silver beach before opening day. It is a lot busier with preparations going on for Memorial Day, but If I am lucky, I may sneak in one more visit. I only need a couple more silvers to make 200. Lucky my wife went along as the heat was starting to get to me. It was nice to have someone be able to go back to the car and take some of the heavy targets and bring me back drinks. Hunted from around 8:30 to 3:30. I was toast after that. I started out again looking for low conductors and on my second hole I found the 10K Class ring. Hopefully, an easy return since the full name was engraved in the ring. Because of that I ended up digging a lot more iron than I wanted to. I was not planning on clearing areas of iron, but finding the ring made me change my plans. I did not get a lot of good targets this time around by clearing iron. Almost all of the silver found was not near any iron. Weather definitely played a part in how fast I dug targets. Full sun all day and hotter than they said it would be, probably around 70, with almost no breeze. So that beach still has good targets for me, but much harder to get in quantity. I guess I will be doing parks or cellar holes on my days off from now on. Time to put away the GPX and pull out the Equinox and learn some new tricks for the parks.

Took almost 3 years of swinging to get my first, bought mountains of books, geology, history. then in 81 I fluked a virgin patch, in those days there was very few revealed patches the country was mainly detecting virgin country. That first patch taught me I had to get to know how to use these new fangled electronic devices, Bounty Hunter RB7, I got a wee consistent considering I had the answers now and then I finally scored a dealer that had a Garret A2B in stock, in those days the demand was many times the supply, and dealers were 1000s of ks away. The A2B was the beginning for small gold which then and today is the bread and butter, regardless what you hear about OZ to me the great majority of weight in gold is those 3gram down to what you call dinks, subgrammers. Through VLF to ML PIs that as Gerry found got us back to the large deeper pieces, big mean picks/bars. Through all that to the GPS/moving map become almost as important a tool as the detector, geology and history, the patches that knowledge/research lead to have mostly been found through to today. We are the first generations to have the most efficient method man has had of loaming for gold, the importance of knowing how to use this and GPS/moving map software out in the field cannot be overstated eg. I have this piece of ground for 40 years I considered had to have surface gold, no mines within ks, no alluvial workings for 10s of ks, no faults shown on a succession of geo maps over those years, but some surface "salt" & "pepper" where the depth was little, run all detectors over it whenever a new more sensitive detector was in hand over those 40 plus years until the 6000 a couple of weeks ago. Well it got amongst those dinks at depth the Z couldn`t on a nearby virgin Z patch, and again I headed to that 40 year old "no gold" patch, the 6000 has proven that there is gold there, only subgrammers but at depth over a now proven flat that has gold in an area 500m x 100m and maybe more. Only two pieces have been close the rest have all been spread roughly 10m apart, tis as though it was mother natures chook yard and she just spread the feed/gold out by hand. As I name patches for recording, this patch I`ve called Placebo tis about 2ks from Hope Ridge a virgin patch the Z found but left deep dinks for the 6000. The GPS waypoints saved over the years has shown there is a line of patches some ks apart running along the same bearing. Placebo and Hope Ridge has perhaps removed the last set of blinkers I wore through my gold evolution, maybe and hopefully there are more surprises. Gold truly tis where tis, a lesson I fully appreciate now as I`ve stumbled onto these virgin patches well away from workings, way out in the fringes. Very few signals that aren`t gold, and yes I have had many missions that I returned from without gold and am continually getting more patience to accept these missions. Way back as stated in the first paragraph I reckoned I had the answers to this game now I know I don`t and that is why the challenge keeps us motivated keenly with this fever we have.

Gerry I am very selective. I only take the ones that I dig up and leave the other ones undug for others to find.😭

Even more so in areas you already have gotten gold out of 🙂 This is where I think the 6000 shines....So I pinged a small small bit....it makes you slow down. Slowed down, dug each signal, ended up with a few more...slowed down again, found 3g sunbaker :).... Then back to chain area....28 bits and counting, still havent finished chaining with the 6000....every time I move further up, I get more bits....And then i have to put the 19" GPZ coil over the ground that looks deeper!! I always like to break the monotony of chaining by just having a wander around before I go home....bam!...large speccie 230 metres away.... If I had not found the first tiny bit, I would not have gone back to the area again and again 🙂

well. its dried 🙂 I am over the moon. Love the 6000. 49.63g of the good stuff! 230 metres or so from a small patch i have been working. This machine is amazing. I am in love 🙂

crushed and panned 🙂 Currently sitting outside drying in the sun before weigh in. I reckon about 25g. Now...Just on the 6000, I cant say i am noticing any double blips on gold...or hi/low...so far literally everything has just sounded loud!...Even those small lead shot...The only thing that has sounded a bit different is very small squiggly bits of wire...They sound hollow'ish like gold on the 7000... maybe I need hearing aides...

Gold is gold to me. I'm more about the finding than anything else. If you fish with kids you may know that digging worms is almost as fun as catching the fish. Guess I'm a kid at heart.

Really liking the audio information of this detector. If anyone wants to look around there's a great video on the reactivity that shows what it will do. Seeing this showed me how differently the machine is responding well to elongated targets if you change your sweep direction, "feel" around and listen for the double tone or anything that is not centered. For a pulse I dig very little with this detector. While there are certainly hoop earrings, crosses and other targets that would probably sound similar, overall the potential is there to really develop some accuracy. I also like how it "discriminates" between non ferrous and anything that's blending into the ground--including caps (wide / narrow). My beach is very sanded in now but the potential for getting 20" gold with this machine is very exciting. The video shows that its a detector that learning and using your basics with will pay off. cjc

Thought I'd share this cool little inverter I just got. Some of you may already have it but I thought it would be good for those that have not seen this yet. It's really small and hopefully will work for field applications. I already charged my CTX battery and module with it with. IIf you have lots of Milwaukee tools like I do already it's a no brainer to get one of these as I have about five different batteries that I could bring along on a extended trip. I dont know how well it's going to work so I'll have to up date later on. If you have one already then let us know.

Its just a hobby and the hunt for me-Listen for the small ones and the big ones take care of themselves As long as its gold Im happy with what ever I find

I'm still in the piece count phase? The itty bitties keep my interest up while waiting to stumble onto a bigger piece? I've got a couple nice chunks in my 3 seasons tecting gold (biggest 3.55ozt) and will patiently enjoy the dinkers until another nice one turns up? Beautiful gold Gerry (including the dinks!!!!)..... PS....a guy also just has to deal with the cards dealt and make the best of it....imo Keep on the grind.... 3 dinks today is all but happy to come home with something

In Africa at the moment there is quite a massive number of GPX detectors going up for sale and trade in possibly with anticipation of the GPX 6000, it seems the African prospectors are very interested in the newer easier to use detector than their GPX 4500's and 5000's. A guy in NZ who is friends with a dealer in Africa has been importing trade in GPX's to sell on the NZ second hand market. Even with including the crazy expensive price of shipping them from Africa they've largely been selling for well under $2000 NZD at auction (around $1400 USD). I was able to secure a GPX 5000 for much less than that and it even went into the NZ Minelab service agent to get a new case on it to replace it's worn case from it's life in Africa as part of the price I paid. This is a story about the particular area the GPX's are coming from. It's really worth the watch, quite an interesting insight into the African gold rush. And this is another must read about the particular gold rush in the area and a side perk of it. It demonstrates just how many GPX's are over there in use and why Minelab focus on Africa so much, this is just one small area with gold rushes like this happening all over the place. https://observers.france24.com/en/20200127-gold-rush-mauritania-sparks-illegal-trade-archeological-objects So in Africa, in the middle of their gold rush it's not a good time to sell a detector, the market is flooded with them and they're selling very cheap. A lot might be to do with the GPX 6000 coming out which is primarily marketed towards them or it might be the large numbers who bought into the gold rush and invested in a GPX 5000 and found they couldn't make much of a living. The Africans use these things as a tool, they're not well looked after and protected in a fancy canvas pouch like we tend to do in our part of the world. They hold up to the abuse well though. Here are photos of one I was going to get taken by the dealer in Africa. See the switches 🙂 Note how they mark on the housing the settings to use (switch positions) in the first photo. This is why the GPX 6000 is great for them, I'm told most don't understand or use the settings, they get told where to put it and leave it there. This is the one I ended up getting. This is after it went into the NZ service center for a checkup and a new housing. No pen marks on it now to show where the switches go 🙂 Pretty good condition now. The service agent did a good job restoring it And what it did look like So while It might be a good time to sell in some parts of the world, it's certainly not a good time to sell in Africa. Based off the price I paid for mine, minus about $100 for shipping and then the African dealers cut, along with the NZ importers cut they must be getting paid around $500 USD for their used GPX 5000's, there are just so many available over there flooding the market.

Well the 6000 in auto bangs hard on ironstone speccies 🙂 This one today about 300-350mm down. Loud!! I tried Sg test which I suck at so I discovered 😉 Will dolly and pan tomorrow....gold on all sides so may be decent...I hope!

I long ago realized that the gold most of us are seeking is all around us when we are out doing what we love. I have been lucky enough to have found my 2oz piece, I have dredged literally pounds of gold in mother lode rivers, and over the five decades I have looked for gold, I have realized that for me it is the impulse to search that is the real gold. Great write-up Gerry, thanks for taking the time. Good hunting.

Great finds NorthEast! Well done! Got to love bonus hot rock gold 🙂 have you noticed any particular warbles?? Every target has sounded the same to me, except thin wire... With the 7, there was a kinda "gold warble"...the 6000 so far (to me) sounds pretty much the same on everything, just volume is different. dig everything I guess, like i generally do anyway. The specimen is a case in point...loud initial signal, 2 boot scrapes and it was overloading....almost was thinking big steel bolt.

Well done - that’s a great result. I’ve got to say, I’m loving it too! Not quite the result you had but a good couple of hours picking the bones of a spot where the SDC and Gold Monster had stopped giving. The more I use it the more I think people who regularly find specimens are going to love it also. It’s finding lots of disseminated small pieces through quartz - and smacking on them. Steve H mentioned in a different thread re: people potentially using the GPX6 underground on vein gold - not my cup of tea generally but it seems like there would be very successful application in that scenario. All today’s gold except for the 2 pieces in the top right. 1 from a few days ago and the other was a kinder surprise from a few weeks ago. I was going to get my cousins daughters to crack it open but forgot about it. Today we cleaned out the shed and I had a bucket of hot rocks I’d saved from the QED and a few other bits and pieces. Ran them all over the DD (quiet enough in the suburban back yard) and this particular one screamed! Realised it wasn’t a rock and called the good lady over. Haven’t weighed it but would be about half a gram! Had almost threw the lot out 😳

I've never encountered signals from tree roots with a PI detector, only the GPZ ZVT tech. That's not to say it doesn't happen in some areas but it appears more of an issue with ZVT. To date I've dug several targets from around or under tree roots with the GPX6000 & in all cases recovered a metal target. As a side note a lot of people have complained that the GPX6000 picks up a lot of "hotrocks". I've had it in 2 x areas where previous GPX's & the SDC pick up a few of the ironstone hotrocks most times there. To date with the GPX6000 I haven't picked up any in these areas. There are a couple of other areas where basalt has been an issue with every detector I've used there VLF's, QED, SD, GP, GPX, SDC, GPZ - unfortunately the GPX6000 is not immune to these basaltic rocks either.

Certain terms or phrases relating to gold mining have become commonly used idioms today. For instance, "How much can you raise in a pinch", dates to the California Gold Rush, and refers to the practice of using pinchs of gold dust drawn from a pouch to pay for something. Obviously, the larger the thumb and forefinger of the one doing the pinching, the more gold removed. Likewise when an endeavor is successful, it is said to have "panned out," and if very successful, "you struck the mother lode". When an endeavor was not successful, it was just a "flash in the pan." And remember, "all that Glitters Is Not Gold."

Hey Gerry, I think the key is to use what you can afford and maximize it's potential the best you can. If you can only use a VLF to start with, learn it's pro's/con's, where it works best and hunt those locations. If you can get a PI, so the same thing, being as productive and hunting as methodically as you can. If you're a "Trophy" hunter, you're going to cross a lot of the smaller guys for sure. If you're hunting for everything like you mentioned, you're surely going to cross a "Trophy" at some point - hopefully. I don't think there is any real way to just hunt for big gold, or Trophies, beyond researching area that have historically produced big gold nuggets or large free milling gold in the past. That all being said, the biggest gold nugget on Earth might not have been found, so maybe it's on a hillside, outside of a little known gold district! Gold is where you find it, big or small. Good luck. Rob

Will do Gerry. My truck has to have the accessory on or running in order to charge stuff and then the accessory will shut off after 20 min or so...Its nice to have another option. I think it will work fine and it seems to charge the CTX battery fast. I have never ran the CTX battery to empty yet so I dont know how long it will take to charge a dead battery. And I love my CTX that you sold me (2nd one) the first one I practically wore out and sold it. It still brings home the bacon and is my go to machine for bottle cap infested parks and a couple trashy beaches..It has the uncanny ability to ignore bottle caps and I can be confident that I'm not missing any gold rings while running in disc. Gold chains thats another story... I'll be calling when the CTX 4040 comes available ! Last weekend water hunt with the CTX strick

I like my gold in all of it sizes small to big it makes no difference to me , i will admit the bigger pieces will make me do the happy dance when they come out of the ground.

Gerry, thanks for a great write-up, always enjoy your posts. I and my wife enjoy the hunt and if we come home with a few nuggets big or small all the better. It's great if friends or family can join you too. Here are some specimens that we found using a VLF detectors between 1990 and 1995.

0.66 of a gram. As of today it is pretty much $50 worth of gold I never knew I had. Bonus! 😁

Have definitely noticed almost the same sound as the 7000 with lead shot. A very consistent, round sound. I used to get a ‘crackle’ with small gold on the 7000 which differentiated it from lead. The bigger pieces I found with the 7000 sounded just like a square nail. And today I twice got the ‘warbles’ on the 6000 - both bloody nails 😖 Dig everything.

The hat I wore in N. Sudan Africa to protect myself from the intense sun and unrelenting heat. Attractive? Not exactly the adjective that I would use to describe this hat. Functional? You bet. This hat, is completely size adjustable via an elastic band that secures in the back with a Velcro® type hook and loop closure. The hat is made of very soft t-shirt like material that absorbs moisture while it protects you from direct sunlight because of a SPF rating of 50. Do you know how your ears get so sweaty and damp when wearing a pair of headphones in the summer? Well this hat really helps. Wearing your headphones over the material does not interfere with the sound at all. But what it does do is it wicks the moisture away from your ears. The cloth, covering your ears, directs the moisture out of the headphone cup. It seeps under the headphone cup to the exterior where it evaporates. This actually helps keep your ears dry and comfortable. The Detector Protector hat also has numerous Velcro® type tabs stitched at strategic locations so you can close the neck protector portion around the front of your neck, place part of it over your nose and mouth. Or you can tab it in the back on those over cast days where you don’t need so much protection. Or gather it in the back and pull it through the elastic loop in the back to get it completely off of your neck. Obviously this “DP” hat was not designed to make a fashion statement. But it will protect you from the sun and allow you to detect in more comfort than you have ever experienced with any other hat. https://docsdetecting.com/product/protector-detector-hat-protect-your-skin-extremely-comfortable-with-headphones/

That big one was a total lottery ticket, gold is where you find it, complete fluke, just got lucky thing. Hunted that area before many times and wasted many hrs digging nothing but crap and no gold. Only reason I even went there was to test out the new to me sdc because imo the area is cleaner than most that trash riddled area...then it happened!...lol This is my 4th season and starting off slow so far.....but having fun!

To me every gold is precious and worth a dig, so I don't discriminate to just go for larger stuff. Sure, when I mount the GPZ 19 I don't look for sub-grammers, but by the end of the day when my jar rattles it gives me a feeling of satisfaction. Do I have fun recovering a 0.08 g flake with the 14in coil, no! But it is the challenge to get it right as often as possible, not so much what it will weigh at the end. Most of the nuggets I find are in the 0.2-5.0 g range, only occasionally bigger when I am lucky, so my ears are tuned to the small stuff. But that's fine with me, I prefer consistency over the lottery ticket . I welcome every golden piece of eternity that has my name on it 🙂

I've always said gold miners are some of the smartest and most ingenuitive people to make their way into the wild west. Just seeing the old workings, mills, flumes, ditches, ect that they built in order to find their fortunes never ceases to amaze me. I believe in order to be successful still today takes a bit of this same smarts. This story starts last fall. While out detecting a small ravine with previous working for the better part of a day, I found myself missing the plastic bolt and nut to my coil on my GB2. I searched for about 15 min, but the grass and pine needles made it impossible to find the little black pieces. It was close to the end of the day anyway so I called it early went home cracked a cold one and ordered myself 3 sets of bolts and nuts to make sure i had extras for when this happens to me again. Now flash forward into last weekend, I found myself in the same predicament. Thinking, AHA! im prepared! I found myself tearing my backpack apart, but alas, they were not to be found there. Since this was the beginning of my day, and I had hiked 2 miles over two ridges 500' high through a maze of fallen tress to get to this spot on a drizzling day, I started brainstorming. Reaching into my inner MacGyver, I start looking at the ground around me, I figure there must be a twig that could fit just right. After attempting several different twigs, I found one that fits just right. Its snug to get in. I believe its gonna work. My partner with me shakes his head and goes off detecting as the previous two twigs were too small and my coil was just floppy. I pick up my detector and go off and start swinging. Seams to be working, in fact, because the twig is snug, the coil is not floppy and is working great! Several hours pass, my partner gets the first piece, ~0.25g piece. Cool now we know there is detectable gold here. another hour passes and my twig is holding in there, I hear a good sounding signal. Babam! my piece for the day! and its a bit bigger (bragging rights! 😁) We finish the day out not finding any more pieces as the rain was starting to wear on us. We hiked our way out happy that we proved gold in another location. I have since been out twice for a couple hours and my twig is still holding on in there. I could just put the new bolt and nut on but im curious to see if the twig last longer 😆. Maybe it can be the stock inventory item for the Gold Bug 2! This just shows you, even though its no engineering feat like an 18 mile long flume or a mine shaft that sinks 1000's of feet, it pays to not give up and to use your smarts! Just another story from one happy prospector

A small piece I cut off of a bar of ivory soap, whittled down to a wedge, stopped the gas leak on my truck when the tank was punctured. Fuel and oil wont dissolve soap, so it makes for a good emergency plug. Saved the day for some more fun out there!

I used to keep a 30 caliber pistol ball hidden beneath the counter. I would squeeze it real hard between my thumb and finger while I negotiated the number of pinches. due to inflation I have gone to a 50 caliber musket ball.

This beach has been awesome to me, not just this season but for 3 or 4 other seasons. Hopefully I can get one more hunt in this Thursday and then I'll do a final count for this season and a total count for all seasons at that beach (with pictures). I think it's given me about 450 silvers in all. Most of it comes from 3 smaller sections of a pretty large beach. The rest is scattered in area of opportunity. It's weird, once you get to an area that starts producing the deep stuff, you don't move very much. I could spend 6 hours in a 20x40 foot patch. My wife moved her blanket over next to me, cause she says you haven't moved in hours 😄 I bury my holes well, but it still looks like a bombing run. The tides definitely move a lot of sand during storms and I think the result of over 50 years of surges, made most of those completely disintegrated, paper thin coins. The rest of the solid coins were there probably from the 40's and up. It's an old beach and a popular one, so just the fact that it's been around from at least the 30's is the reason for all the coins. This beach gets detected a lot!!! I can just imagine what others have pulled from here.

You have killed that beach and it keeps giving. Do you think it was there because of tidal action at some point or was it there because of a commercial enterprise? That silver is really nice and getting on to 200! Fantastic.

I have a tacoma and it was the same way No Power to 12 volt plugs when turned off-its because of a relay that is only on when the ignition is on-so your battery wont be drained-so what I did was close the relay with a piece of tape and now my 12 volt plugs are always on

You need rare earth magnets at least 20 lb pull. They will be much smaller with less weight. With what you have there is too much weight. If you have to, glue them to the rake with JB weld to reduce weight.

Gerry, I very much agree with you! I admire your energy and passion and your posts are an inspiration for us all!

Thanks. If it works out that they respond back to me on the ring, I will let you know. I'm not one for getting their pictures or a video of the return. I would be happy with a quiet return. Just glad she gets her ring back. More and more beaches here are restricting detecting during operational hours. Same with pets on the beach. That's what the off season is reserved for. Usually they turn a blind eye after the life guards go home for the day. They probably won't bother the water guys either. But for me, not in the water, going there late afternoon is not worth it because of the travel time. I'm have zero time doing parks with the Equinox, so I will be sticking with the 11" coil until I find a decent program for it. I'll switch to the big coil once I get the hang of it. The 6" coil will probably be reserved for cellar holes and not parks, at least for now. My wife is a Saint 😄

Great stuff. 👍 It will be really interesting to read the story of the rings' return should you decide to write it. Glad you found all types of metal, sad you have to wrap it up. They don't allow metal detecting after Memorial Day? Can't wait to see what you do with the Equinox! What coil will you use for the most part? Kudos to your wife for helping out.

If the coil is "on" the ground how would you move it side to side? It has to be elevated somewhat in order to move it side to side unless you scrub the coil against the ground without ever lifting it. By keeping a constant distance between the bottom of the coil and the ground you achieve optimum results.

That sounds like a double downer, “not today honey, check back maybe in another week...”😆

Yes. In a past life. I was such a bad person that I have been reincarnated among the lowest of the low. - A prospector.

I remember reading that in the during the Alaska Gold Rush in the Klondike, that the miners would just hand their poke to the bartender, and the bartender would take out the needed pinches. You were supposed to turn your back to the bartender when they did the actually pinching, as otherwise you were showing them disrespect. It was the honor system. There were tricky bartenders though who would run their hands thru their hair after every transaction, and then wash their hair at home to collect the gold dust.

Not a great time to be stuck with $14,000 worth of detectors when I get a 6000. Man, the used market for Minelab used to be gangbusters and dead on reliable... Meanwhile I just sold a dump trailer and car hauler used and well beaten up for more than I paid for them brand new 5 years ago, and had a line of people waiting to pay me that much. Markets are all over the place these days. I think I am going to Ebay my 4500 and coils off while I can, lucky serial #0000007 as a premium collectors item. 😄 If we see big jump in gold over $3000 or something, I bet there will be a big demand for all those 4500's and 5000's.

Wasn't a shot of whiskey often paid for with a pinch? As the night wore on, I can imagine the actual quantity of gold per pinch might have gone up if the bartender were unscrupulous.

Klunker...Now i have to go and test that gold i bought lol I would think that other factors besides the size of the thumb and forefinger come into play...soft fingers for instance would be more likely to pinch more gold and hold onto it longer then hardened fingers...thus there would be more per pinch...also fingers that have calluses and crevices (older miners like Klunker) will catch and retain some gold...I think they knew about and used these tricks at times. 🙂 strick

I drive in reverse on dusty road🙃😂

I do want to make sure everyone does know, my original post of this gold coming from WY is 100% true as they were just found this month by my customer with a GPZ-7000. Sorry if I confused anyone a I was having fun with a few of you. It's 100% WY Gold and looks damn nice. We enjoy this forum, the people and sharing finds as it just goes to show some of the opportunities are still out there. On a rare occasion (for the customers who allow me) I get to share some amazing new discoveries. No WY gold is not new, but how often do we really hear of it, let alone get to see it. The customer was very specific about me not dropping any location or name and I totally understand why. Hopefully they will allow me to share more down the road as I really do think this WY Au is quite the treat.

That's a really nice speci Kingswood and one to be proud of early on for the GPX-6000. Hoping more come your way.

Can’t wait for the results 🤑