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He was brutally honest with himself and his followers and detractors in his final farewell video. He totally understood the dynamic, recognized the haters were never going away and never going to embrace him, and he was very self aware of how evolved in a positive manner during his YouTube journey. It just became to much of a time sink and he fully recognized when it was time to walk away before completely burning out. Some great nuggets in his farewell for budding YouTubers. This video convinced me once and for all that I am probably not cut out to be content provider in that medium. I'll stick to the written word.8 points
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You need a thick skin to put yourself out there, especially if you like to stir the pot. I fully sympathize as this forum is largely set up the way it is to protect my own peace of mind. The open internet can be vicious and genuinely harmful if not managed properly. Sometimes it’s just not worth it and the best solution is to step away. He has my best wishes.8 points
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These two websites have a variety of different types of gold nuggets, specimens and paydirt. You can get a idea of what different types of gold nuggets and specimens are going for: https://goldnuggetsforsale.com/ https://goldnuggetsales.com/3 points
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I was able to get away for a couple days this week. Shipped my detector and scoop to a friend who lives in Charleston and flew down on Thursday night. I was able to hunt on Friday and Saturday and fly home Sunday, (today). Targets were few and far between, with the beach seemed to be upside down. Most of the bottle tops and pull tabs being at low tide line and sinkers and gold about mid beach. The larger ring is 14k and the smaller ring is 10k. Nothing toward the towel line. The iPhone was about 10 inches down mid beach and charged up nicely. Also with the phone was a driver's license and a debit card. I will mail those back to the owner tomorrow. For me the Tarsacci is just a great beach detector.3 points
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Just depends on the individual piece. Some small specimen gold can bring 10X market price or more but most will be market price or less, since true gold content is less. So like maybe 80% of spot price. Have to figure time and effort also. I'll sell you a small nugget for more per ounce than I will sell you an ounce of the same stuff since my time is worth something. If it's a boring round nugget no big deal. Wire and crystalline gold - sky is the limit. Collectors will pay top dollar for extremely unique gold..... https://www.irocks.com/search?mode=quick&_token=uvGIBnI4Tah8IbSxEEL4ix9s8UmfKzwdIutQglhq&query=gold Basic advice to nugget hunters - it is not the quantity you find, but the quality of what you find. You'd be better off finding one super primo specimen than a jar full of low quality gold. I have sold quite a bit of gold a piece at a time at premium prices and other stuff I just take to a refiner. Note that for collectors an exact location of the find is very important. Generic finds where the finder does not want to reveal where it was found are not going to command nearly as high a premium to a true mineral collector or museum. The provenance is as important as everything else. Some locations are so famous that the gold just being from them will add a premium. Think of mineral collectors as being like coin collectors trying for a full set of proof quality coins.3 points
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September 7 2002 Part One Uncle Sam Pays Another Visit I was actually up an hour before sunrise and had breakfast and coffee ready for the crew when they rolled out of their sleeping bags. It was a cold but clear morning with temps around 40 degrees but we all knew that as soon as the sun rose they came up quickly. The high temperatures lately have been in the mid 70’s to maybe 80 degrees. Perfect for working and a much needed change from the Summer of brutal heat. The crew got to work hauling pay gravel and I headed for the ranger station. I was at the door when they opened and actually caught our minerals agent before he headed to his office. He was quite surprised to learn that we had completed the reclamation process where required. With some kind words just short of begging I plead my case to him and asked if he could possibly head out to our mine for the inspection first thing before he got caught up in other paperwork. To my relief he agreed, saying that since we had an active permit and he was only tending to a few late applications that wouldn’t start operating until next season he could do it for us. I thanked him and told him I’d be waiting when he got to our property. I actually didn’t have to wait very long before he arrived. My crew were all up on the mountain working. The agent walked through the reclaimed sections taking some notes and also some pictures. He seemed quite pleased and told me he would take his report to the ranger for his signature. He told me to come back to the ranger station at 4:00 PM and our new permit should be approved. I shook hands with him and he drove away. This was great news and I could hardly wait to tell the others so I jumped in my truck and drove up the mountain to the dig site. When the crew heard the news they were hooting and hollering like we just won first prize at the county fair. We were hopefully back on the road to mining gold once again. TO BE CONTINUED ...................3 points
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I was hunting one of the original Denver area parks that was built in the late 1880s. Shovel digging is not allowed at these parks so recovery is with a screw driver or probe. I have found plenty of wheat pennies, a couple of Indian head pennies, several Barber, Mercury and Roosevelt silver dimes and two silver Washington quarters at this park in the last four years after first getting the Equinox 600 and 800. I was deliberately hunting an area that I knew would not be too wet or frozen under some trees at the edge of a popular sledding hill. I have hunted this exact spot many times with the Nox 600/800 with 11" coil and Deus 1 and Deus 2 with their 9" coils. I am guessing I have hunted this area at least 10 times since it is near the top of the sledding hill and fresh dropped jewelry and coins happen in that area every year. I was actually looking for gold jewelry but I was also interested in deep high conductors. I had my Manticore in All Terrain General Multi, sensitivity 23, recovery speed 5, iron bias 0, and I had the horseshoe button engaged so that I would hear all target responses including iron. Ground balance was 4. This ground has plenty of magnetite, square nails, modern nails and is loaded with many years of aluminum and steel trash. There are very few places to ground balance. I heard a deep iron signal, saw red numbers and decided to turn on it and I was able to hear some faint, very short intermittent high conductor tones along with lots of iron tones. I pinpointed the target area with the Manticore's onboard pinpoint function and was able to isolate two separate targets and saw them clearly on the 2D screen with one upper area iron and the other at the high conductor far right edge of the non ferrous line. Depth was 8" on the depth meter. I dug the high conductor farthest right target first and it turned out to be the silver Washington quarter laying half way on edge at the center of the dig hole about 7" deep. My handheld pinpointer was still picking up a target on the left edge of the hole which turned out to be the business end of that iron skeleton key in the photo. It was laying horizontally. I recovered it, filled the hole and rescanned. I got a coin sized high conductor target response plain as day with target IDs ranging from 90 to 99 with very few intermittent iron responses about 6" to the left of the hole that contained the Washington quarter and skeleton key. Depth was again 8" on the depth meter and only one solid target trace was at the far right of the non-ferrous line on the 2D screen. Basically, I was starting to freak out. I certainly had not heard any target responses like that with the other detectors that I had used at this spot. The Walking Liberty half dollar was about 8" deep standing straight up on edge at the center of the dig hole. Basically, the Walking Liberty half and the silver Washington quarter were in a spill at the same depth with the skeleton key laying roughly horizontally between them and they were all under the Manticore's 11" coil at the same time. They were situated sort of like this but buried under about 7" of iron mineralized dirt.3 points
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This thread also supports this concept.......Don't give up on "hunted out" sites. More silver and gold found by the Manticore at a site that I have hunted at least a dozen times with Deus 1 and the Equinox 800. The silver plated watch was a full 12" deep. 3 gram 14K gold ring was 8". Those two targets had excellent target IDs even at those depths=pocket watch was a 93/94 with just a bit of iron audio responses and the ring was a solid 20/21 with a few red numbers. 1961 D Roosevelt silver dime was also about 8" on edge and target IDs were from 68 to 99 with plenty of iron responses.3 points
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Loaded the tekkna program last week and used it on two separate hunts at the same site. I have pounded this site with the nox (6” and 11” coils) and when I got my first D2 I frequented it again many times. Last week after work I thought it would be a good place to try out tekkna. This area is public land where a house used to sit. It’s approximately 70’ x 120’. I’ve pulled many coins and a silver ring out of there in past hunts. Some areas of it are loaded with iron which consists mostly of nails and other areas of this site are fairly clean. So on the trial run with tekkna (exact settings as Gary listed), I hit three wheats and an indian head penny! I only have a pic of the ihp from that day, but I do have pics of all of yesterday’s non-ferrous finds. This all with the 13x11 coil! Now I did dig some nails because of this place being hit so many times, I dig questionable signals, however the coins were pretty decent signals.3 points
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I'm not Gary (😎😁) - and I'm sure he can/will speak for himself(!) - but I think it's interesting that if you look at PaystreakSuperfreaks recent YT videos he shows his 'VCO' program which he uses with Disc at 44. Paystreak has clay soil with a lot of iron mineralisation in it - probably a lot more than in most of our soils here in southern England, he also seems to hunt in parks with loads of modern trash and a fair amount of EMI (you could imagine he would want to give his ears an easier time!). He says he uses it as a way to ignore most of the foil and other nuisance signals as a first pass - he then goes back using more 'conventional' Disc settings to find the stuff he missed the first time (ie 'cherrypicking' as I said upthread). Basically, I don't think there's any magic in a specific Disc number - just a choice based on experience and local conditions (just like everything else in detecting!).2 points
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Man I haven't posted a hunt in a long time...been doing lots of projects and just haven't been going out at all. I was able to secure a M8 coil the other day and that amped me up to go out and see how it performed. This morning I hunted two different basket ball courts in two different parks. It was raining and hardly anyone was out... I got wet and muddy but I had a good hunt and I'm happy about the M8 coil it performs really well. The gold ring is 10k and rang up a solid 31 which is where some pull tabs tid...so dig those tabs! I was hunting in all terrain general sensitivity below 20 most of the time , all tones 5 bin. with disk on most of the time...nice easy digging and back home by 11AM strick2 points
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15 °C/59.0 °F was what it was today. (probably even hotter in the valley, south facing slope) I got out this morning and had some serious gold getting in mind. I drove to an area which sometimes opens up early in the spring. Good karma today! I brought along my climbing rope along. I work healing people with broken bones at a hospital for a living. I don't want to be a patient on my unit. It's nice to have a unit that runs on a 12 volt battery. The highbanker is ABS plastic, strong and light. No gas pump, heavy hoses or gasoline to tag along. My unit runs quiet all day, and allows me to hear all the bird's sounds with spring mating in mind. I safely made it to the river's edge. A thick layer of ice was still intact in most places on the banks. I did manage to find a small open, exposed area. Hacked another 10 feet more with my shovel to expose some more gravel. The gravel had a lot of sticky silt mixed with it and little gold, so I dug up a lot of dead vegetation and washed the roots in my hopper. That got me more gold then just the gravel. Here's the flour gold after my final clean-up. I might head down again tomorrow if the weather is suitable.2 points
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“I was going to do a post on it as a coin detector, but perhaps it's not worth it as clearly giving information can be unappreciated.“ Trust me, we appreciate your efforts and info..... keep ‘em coming. 👍2 points
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Yesterday, JW and I went for a bit of a hike to a remote spot in the mountains, I hadn't been here at all since my GPX 4500 a few years ago, and JW had been a small few times since trying out his GPX 6000 and found a few bits. The hike in is what puts it on the backburner all the time 🙂 It's a close drive from JW's house, but a big steep uphill hike, and from my house it's about an hour's drive so by the time I get home I'm stuck to the car seat, man it's hard to stand up after a massive hike and an hour's drive home after a day's detecting with the hike back to the car, at least the hike back is downhill all the way. I ran the car's seat heater the whole drive home to help the muscles recover! JW has a few years of age over me, but he is certainly fitter. It's a really cool place to go though, with great views of the surrounding mountains, unfortunately I can't put up scenery photos for fear of revealing the location to prying eyes, as you can work out the basic location by using the bigger mountains to get an idea of where I was. There has been a bit of mining in the area, and reworked in the depression years, but the earlier mining was done with a lot of work and water monitors (canons) blasting water at the hillsides to recover the gold. The Chinese hit it pretty hard too, staying longer than the other miners going over it again. It's interesting how they get somewhere, then just stop. The soils an interesting colour, almost white. Quite the drop off here down to the ground below, but oddly at least I think you'd be crazy not not to detect these high areas, as gold often pops up in the most unusual of places. My first bit of gold for the day was a bit of a surprise to me, it was a fairly faint signal, yet it was very shallow, I thought it is more likely a pellet although this area barely has any pellets at all, in fact it barely has any targets, if you get a target the chances are high its gold, aside from the occasional old bit of miner's junk like cans and a few nails most targets are gold so it's certainly a dig it all location. I took a little video of the target, so weak of a signal for the size of the gold I thought, although I'm more used to using the 10x5" Coiltek which is more sensitive but still, I was pretty disappointed. This is the little scrape of a hole it came from. The piece of gold. And its weight, quite a reasonable size piece for me, anything over .1 is pretty decent size for me 😛 I was so taken back by how weak the signal on it was I tested it this morning with the Algoforce to see how well it would do, even though it has the larger 10" round coil on it, I thought the Algoforce gave a better signal response on this particular piece. It's a bit of rough looking piece. The other interesting thing is it was right next to someone's previous dig hole, probably JW or I, we were likely using older technology at the time, as I'd only been here with my 4500 which no doubt would miss this piece of gold. It's very unlikely this person didn't go over the nugget and they missed it. The joys of newer technology. Next piece was in the path you walk on to hike to this area, there are tracks all over the place, mostly from old miners I guess however now they're hiking trails and go all through the area, you can even walk from one of my favourite ski fields to this area on tracks. This is it's dig hole, another very shallow target, an OK signal. This is the little guy Smaller than the last bit, but a much better signal. Just ignore the shaft twist in this photo, it's a feature of the 6000 🙂 After that I was walking along detecting the path, but no other gold to be found in that particular area, I did find old boot tacks though which is pretty cool, one spot had a bunch of them in one hole so I gave up recovering them, that miners boots must have fallen apart at that spot 🙂 The gold spot is the dig hole just above the pick in this photo. Here is a little video of it, I haven't watched the videos back yet but it likely shows this one had a better target signal than the previous bigger bit I found. It was pretty easy to film gold finds here as there is so little junk about, so filming bits of digs is worthwhile knowing they're likely gold. Next piece was on top of a little ridge It was my biggest bit of the day, had trouble carrying it for the hike back to the car. Deepest of the holes too. A smooth bit. This is its spot. And a little video of it, the second target next to it was one of 2 pellets I found all day. That was my last bit for the day, the day felt like it went really quick though, we finished up detecting about 7pm, but both of us didn't realize the time and thought it was about 5pm I guess. A benefit or a negative depending on how you look at it coming from the GPZ and GPX 5000 is the 6000 can have the pick so close to the coil it's not funny, it always surprises me how close the pick can go, even when you lay it down recovering targets so while using it I have a belt attached pick holder and in this location I am glad I did, as sometimes its half an hour between targets so nice to holster your pick. The super strong magnet I've got in my pick handle makes life easy too, if I'm using it more regularly, I can just attach it to my pick holder using the magnet to save the effort. It stays there when walking around as long as the pick doesn't bottom out on the ground. So other notable things from the day, this piece of quartz was so weird, it doesn't show up as well in the photo but its flat smoothed off and much like a tile or bench top, and really glossy, so weird. You can see the shine on that one side, but the entire flat surface of it is like that, and its smooth and flat although the photo doesn't show that well. It's like someone's cut it smooth and painted it with polyurethane. And my junk for the day, there was also a nail which I left behind and you can see why I say it's a dig it all location. I'm used to digging hundreds of pellets on the farm land locations, this spot, 2 🙂 Both big pellets too. And last but not least, some old miners' tins I found, I left them where they were, a bit of history. I think this tin can was never opened. This one looked like a giant sardine tin. I think I'll get a bit fitter so the hike and day of swinging a detector around going up and over hills and mounds of soils doesn't wear me down so much and go back to this spot more often, I do really like going there, it just takes it out of me. It's very difficult to E-Bike there too as much of the path is on a cliff side with a big drop and very skinny path no more than 40cm wide in many spots, I've done it before but ended up walking the bike much of the way as I wasn't crazy enough to ride it through the steep drop off areas. Today I'm completely jelly legs and walking is a challenge 🙂 JW doubled my gold count, he came away with 6 pieces, pretty small ones too, he was using the GPX 6000 and 10x5" Coiltek coil, a better choice of coil for the day, I think. I only had the NF coil on as it was left on there from a previous time. It was good to take the 6000 out though, leave it much longer and the old motor may seize from lack of use.2 points
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Patch hunting these days takes strong legs and/or special equipment. Much like the old days!2 points
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Too bad he pulled it all down. Could have just left it be and would still pull in some revenue just coasting on the existing content. Just lock it and walk away. A lot of it genuinely good stuff and a shame to lose. Those great nuggets to budding Tubers will never be seen now.2 points
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This forum is not private, anyone can read it. I don't force people to join just to lurk and to find information if that is what they are looking for. If they want to block spammers then require registration to post but let people look. That's what we do here and that is what can also be done on Facebook. Blocking viewing unless registered - that is what they mean when they say private.2 points
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Today Chase came down for a "do your own thing" sort of hunt, we went to a permission of mine that almost guarantees at least something old. It was pretty cloudy today but exceptionally warm for mid March, there was a threat of rain all day but it never did, thankfully. The ground is still wet from the last storm under the surface, but the high winds blew the surface dry. I always fear Chase will come all the way down and not find much, but he did ok, just about the same as me but more buttons. It ended up being a good day despite the heat and the gnats that were everywhere. I only got 4 buttons today, one may be a small boss, but the biggest one is a silvered Dandy button. The smallest one has backmarks, and the top left one has some gold flowers on the front. I have no idea what the extremely figured piece of metal is top center. I even got a 1996 dime, my pay for the day 🤣 Of course the feature item I found today was the complete spectacle buckle, my book says pre-1650, so it's pushing 400 years old. 😎 This might be the first complete one I've ever found, I usually find them in pieces. Overall it was a great day to get out there, it won't be long now until the fields are planted. Only a handful of junk, this place isn't too trashy.2 points
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I did try it after watching the video again. I got the settings as best as I could, one thing I didn't understand at all is the threshold expert setting at 603khz. 🤔 He probably explained it but no captions. I'm lucky enough to have an old 1850-1900s home site right in front of my house, probably one of the nastiest demolition sites I have in my portfolio. Tekkna managed to squeak a few things out of all the junk there previously, but at the cost of digging a lot of trash. Lifting the coil was the only thing that saved me from deleting it. I can see JTTFast as a very specialized tool, but just for the heck of it as I was leaving my yard, I ran the coil over some steel rebar that marks property lines here, and it hit it hard as a good non-ferrous target. 🤬 Quite frankly this continued at the house site, and with iron volume at 0 there was no way to know when I was there, so I had to use Tekkna to find the spot. I also often switch between Relic and the other two, Relic was way more accurate and hit targets much deeper. Probably the 24kHz max setting. I found the fast program sounded off great on all really deep iron, some that both Tekkna and Relic (my main hunting program) also did. Worse, it couldn't "see" targets more than about 4" deep with sensitivity at 75, again something I don't get. 🤔 Lifting the coil to get the target to disappear is also a waste, sensitivity is too low. Here's the result after an hour of hunting this nightmare: Nothing but roof steel. Lots of early houses in the Southern USA are covered by steel roofing, some think it romantic, but when cut small, twisted and broken it's horrible. I noticed one interesting thing in the video, he has a probably tough coin to find with a nail directly ahead of it, and never really passes the coil over the nail. Honestly I know there are coins out there, but unless they can overwhelm the iron above them like the group of coins with nails on them, this is not "unmasking" either, again merely reactivity playing its part. I can turn it up with just about any program, and it will separate better, but higher than 3 without high sensitivity means loss of deep targets. These are my impressions from a real site, not a test garden or wood blocks. The patterns he was sweeping over would almost never be something you would find in the real world. So, my conclusion is "meh". 🫤2 points
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No regrets at all. The Manticore is a great machine and I have gelled with it which is what makes a detector for me. I had the D2 and it's a great machine as well but I just never connected with it. Fun to date but not a long time relationship. Best of luck to you2 points
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Yes, I have been to the Gold Hill Pocket! They just stumbled accross it while hunting. It was large slabby pocket gold, inches thick. No placer directly below it though, which is strange. But small multi-pockets in the entire area, as well as placer on the other side of the ridge which feeds the Rogue river. Every peice of quartz that I collected and took home and crushed from that area had gold in it.2 points
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Recently Gary Blackwell put up two videos informing us about a program someone else introduced to him - "Tekkna". It has a whizzy name for sure, and some really odd parameters. Here's the first video: The idea is that it's supposed to help you find small coins in iron infested areas. Let me first mention that no program or set of parameters for the D2 is "magic", although @Rattlehead's "Silver Slayer" was as close as one could get on V0.71 in my opinion. 🙂 That was for coin shooting. Today I went back to continue my grid search of the place I was yesterday, but I quickly found out there was really nothing else, I believe it was a spot that was used a few times for a gathering in the early 1800s, there were oyster shells everywhere and occasional big iron hits, I dug a couple of them and they were all kettle fragments. I then switched to random hunting, located another really trashy spot further away, put the 9" on and tried Tekkna. Purely by coincidence I swung the detector a few times and got an 87 in all the trash, Tekkna really sounds off clear when you have a non-Ferrous target. Between a few odd bits of heavily squelched iron, I dug this: Yet another Spanish coin, #5 this year. 😎 I believe it to be a Half Reale cob. The reverse is this: Not much to go by other than the cross size, it would be much larger if it were clipped. Cobs are oddly shaped and cut. I searched around for two more hours using this program, made a couple of tweaks to it, first iron volume which I reduced to 8, and then Audio Response which I increased to 5. I also lowered Reactivity to 2 rather than 3 and heard a lot more targets, but from then on the only stuff I got was bits of lead. I also put bottle caps at 3 because the first time I used it here I dug a bottle cap. I might change that to 5 if I get another, it really doesn't mess things up, I've found gold in the beach with it at 5. Here's his second video posted today that gives clear instructions on how to set it up on the WS6: And here, in a nutshell are my notes for setting it up on the RC unit if watching the first video doesn't help: Tekkna Program Based on Sensitive Full Tones Disc 42 95 sensitivity Frequency Max 40 Iron volume 10 Reactivity 3 Audio Response 4 Frequency offset 10 Bottle Caps 0 Notch off Silencer 0 My impression of this program is that it is "interesting", it's not for the 13" coil for sure. You're going to be using it in machine gun iron hoping to squeeze one more target out. 😅 You don't need the bigger coils grabbing stuff on edge that might overwhelm the center. I lowered iron volume because it really hammers you, 8 is rather comfortable. I raised Audio Response because I wanted targets to jump out slightly more, and lowered Reactivity because I felt I wasn't hearing enough. I don't think the program is really "unmasking" anything, it's just giving you a better chance to find good stuff in the bad stuff. From other tests I've done live in the field I have yet to see any D2 mode "unmask", that seems to be a myth to me. If you're like Gary (I am) and want to feel like you're hearing everything, albeit a whisper until you catch a diggable target, it works rather well for that. It did find a small desirable coin in a bed of crap. Understand though, my area of the country has a lot of Spanish silver, you're not gonna just go out and have it appear. 🤣 I'm pretty sure the UK is a lot different than my mild soil here in Virginia, but Tekkna might be another tool to add. I did not dig any iron, and had no instance where I might have. Check it out. I'll be testing it a lot more very soon, and will update this with any other observations I make. GL, HH 🍀1 point
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I seriously wouldn't put it past those guys. 😁 I wonder what I win? 🤔1 point
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The meaning of life - because beer was 42 pence a pint at that time. It's about six hundred pence a pint (in a pub anyway) these days....1 point
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There's a big difference between falsing and (un)masking. 1) Falsing = iron sounding better than it should (usually because of size/shape/holes/corners/rust). 2) Masking = iron making an adjacent nonferrous target sound worse than it should. Increasing Silencer will move the decision-point towards iron in both the above types of situation. Silencer will help to reduce falsing but effectively increase masking (a trade-off as per usual). I nearly always use Silencer=0 and use other methods to spot falsing.1 point
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Hey Bootscrape i'm from southern vic. Just on the topic of coils/depth, being a ex avionics and controls techie we need to remember that our detectors are fundamentaly transievers, that is they transmit a rf signal then recieve the bounce back. This means that another factor that influences depth is how much power is avaliable to be transmitted. The electronics and batteries of our detectors are relatively small which will limit available power if you want the battery to last most of the day, also they are sublet to the Inverse Square Law of Physics as well there are restrictions and limits placed by the Radio and Communications Act. I see depth as being controlled by power transmitted, coil size and construction, frequency of the transmitted signal and the type of soil mineralisation. At the end of the what seems to really count is what works for you, experience and actually walking over the stuff. Sorry for the techie stuff.1 point
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That's a great question and wondered myself the same thing. I've seen where guys give me this elaborate sales pitch like it's some piece of art. People will only pay what it's worth to them , but Idk as fact. All I'm thinking is melt value when it comes down to it.1 point
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The E1500 has good depth on 0.5gram nuggets and up with the 12"Rnd Evo, like all detectors before it since year one the coil size determines its depth as much or more than the detectors technology, large coils for depth applies to all. Now if I was a younger fellow and could swing monster coils (anvils) I`d forget the claim the E1500. the 6K, the Axiom or any other detector are only for shallow small gold because that attitude just does not stack up out in the field. So if all you can afford is an E1500 and a small coil and a large coil plus you swing out on prospective fringe ground persistently, shallow or deep applying the above good sense positive attitude, chances are you`ll find enough to upgrade to say a ZVT.1 point
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If I'm not mistaken that was one of the areas he was looking to mine for his past show that he quit. The guys name was Jason Sanchez or something like that. He was digging with the excavator and pulling some nice nuggets but to actually mine they needed water which wasn't available. I might be able to find one of the scenes on the internet & post it here for you. I will look.1 point
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Yes, I found exactly what you said, but after reading it a lightbulb came on, in that, maybe my tones/profile/volume is set all wrong for my worst trash situations.1 point
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Nice lookin' spot . If I could drive my rig there I'd probably just park it for good ! 🤔1 point
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I have a 15" prototype X-coil Concentric and while it doesn't calibrate it appears to work fine. These coils were designed for detectors with DD Coil support which they need to run as a Concentric. They can run as a Mono in mono mode on the GPX 5000, in my case the 15" CC X-coil runs in mono mode on the Algoforce, although it won't calibrate it seems to work pretty good. The naming of the coils like 18x18 is more for your benefit to know which coil, it makes no difference to the detector, you could do a 1x1 on a 20x20, makes no difference. I would wait and see what happens with firmware updates to the Algoforce, they may improve coil support for unusual coils, but really, the detector was designed around mono coils.1 point
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Yes, there are massive lakes in the area, I drive half an hour at about 62 mph along the side of one to get to this spot, and that's not even half the lake length, it's called the Lakes district 🙂 It had glaciers all over the place, still does have some but much smaller ones now, this area we were detecting in was a big glacier at one point. From Bing search. "An inventory of South Island glaciers compiled in the 1980s indicated there are about 3,155 glaciers with an area of at least one hectare (2.5 acres). Approximately one sixth of these glaciers covered more than 10 hectares." It does indeed have little lines all going the same direction through the smooth surface, it looks like it's wet it's that shiny but it's not. I can't get a good photo of it, well one that shows how it really looks. Tilt it on an angle to show the sheen of it and it gets too glossy to see, and straight on doesn't show the shine. We aren't called the Shaky Isles for nothing, no shortage of earthquakes and faulting here. The 10x5" would be a better choice in the area due to it being deeper on smaller gold, which seems to be the gold we are finding in the area. I don't like to use the term more sensitive as much with the 6000 as the 11" will hit gold as small as the 10x5", so it's not so much sensitivity, it's depth on the sizes of gold and the smaller coils seem to hit the tiny bits deeper, which you would expect. I'm betting the 10x5" would give a better response to the piece of gold I was quite disappointed in the performance of the 6000 with, something I'd like to see, I can't do like I did with the Algoforce and just turn it on in my house and try it out though as the GPX just makes all crazy sounds 😛 Only the Algo can be tested in a house like that.1 point
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Yep, it's very unrealistic, the shows' primary purpose is going to be selling prospecting equipment to new comers that think they'll strike it rich. They were using Minelab detectors, one guy the GPZ and Dave Turin had a brand spanking new Gold Monster, so white was its coil it near blinded me, that things never touched the soil and no doubt at the end of the episode they could put it back in the box and sell it as new. Notice something missing? Dave doesn't even have anything to dig a hole, no digging equipment at all, just some gloves in his pocket so maybe he's going to dig by hand. Like all of these shows they're for entertainment purposes, and very unrealistic. They make it all sound so easy and if you spend a few bucks and get a detector you'll have fistfuls of gold in no time. Nothing in the credits about thanks to Minelab or anything though, and Dave does wear a Garrett hat later in the episode, and the hat looks like it's been around for a while, so not handed to him for the show like the Gold Monster was 🙂 It was quite good to watch to see a bit of America, it seems strange pulling nuggets out of that grass paddock like that though, wish we could have nice flat grass paddocks like that here to detect 🙂1 point
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I also remember when, in 2012, I posted a 1.9oz nugget I had found that two weeks later a one-ouncer certificate arrived in the mail. One of the nicest things I've ever been given.1 point
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First, Gary Blackwell is a member of this forum and even though he does not post a lot, he is still a member and may have time to read comments that are directed at him especially about programs like Tekkna. I believe his main point was to just try it and see what you think. 1. If you did and you like it great. 2. If you did and you don't care for it and have given constructive criticism, fine. 3. If you haven't tried it and you are negatively speculating .......why? I have only experimented with it myself indoors so I have no opinion....(making myself learn the Manticore at the moment since I have a good idea about what Deus 2 can and can't do). I have just about stopped giving tips and tricks on any forums whether they are my own or someone else's. I am tired of having some people try to shoot down, overly critique and interrogate me about things I have offered as possible aids for gaining more information about targets when detecting. Most of those people fall under #3 above.1 point
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FWIW - XP did finally fix how the discrimination algorithms work with Full Tones and Iron Volume for all base programs and added an alternative "silencer" filter (a form of iron bias filtering on the Deus) in Update 1.0. Update 1.1 enabled the user to select either the legacy or updated silencer filter dependent on selecting the appropriate base program. The Tekkna program as demonstrated by Gary Black uses the updated silencer filter (although at its minimum setting) by utilizing Factory Program 3 as the base program. If users want to use Tekkna with less aggressive silencer filtering they can use Base Program 2 and set the Silencer accordingly as well as also selecting full tones audio. XP did not make any obvious adjustments to the discrimination or silencer algorithms with the latest 2.0 updates. Honestly, it's not clear to me that anything really needs to be addressed or fixed with respect to discrimination beyond what XP has already done. I don't think Tekkna is expoiting a flaw in D2 discrimination processong. The poke above at XP regarding their sloppy software configuration control processes is warranted. They never seem to internalize lessons learned from prior update snafus. The following is not directed at anyone who I quoted earlier in this post...it's just a separate reflection on some of the responses in this thread... People commenting/complaining in this thread about the Gary Black Tekkna custom program because it uses the Program 3 silencer or because disc is set too high for your local desirable target IDs have me scratching my head. If you think that silencer filter is too aggressive, you can then just simply build Tekkna around Program 2 or similar. In fact it makes sense to experiment to make the program work for your specific situation instead of simply condemning it as "useless". If you think the disc is too high for some of your desirable targets, then lower it. There are plenty of options. And frankly, because of the dynamic audio, I can see where it may not be a good fit for some people - not everyone's cup of tea. Full disclosure, I have tried it, but Relic really just works best for me, personally. I have ot programmed in as a "target interrogation" program option to ID falsing iron if my other Relic iron tells are inconclusive. I get the distinct feeling people go out of their way to shoot down something that has been objectively demonstrated to work well for some users, like the OP. There is nothing about Tekkna that tells me that discrimination implementation on the Deus 2 is flawed. I will make this final observation, it is really easy to throw stones and say something doesn't work because there is no burden of proof for such criticism. You simply have to show up and proclaim it as fact and state you couldn't find anything. It's a whole different matter to put yourself out there to be subjected to such criticism by sharing your positive experience with a custom program or group of settings and back it up with actual finds. I don't understand the negativity displayed against people trying to share tips with the forum. I have found that those who consistently criticize such posts, the manufacturers, or specific detectors or who constantly bring negative energy to the forum often have a track record of NOT contributing or sharing useful information to the community. Just an observation.1 point
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I have a buddy that is absolutely killing it with his Nox 600 for silver and wheat pennies at this same park that we and our entire club have been hunting for who knows how long. I personally don't remember finding anything of interest or removing a lot of surface trash at the exact spot where this spill was recovered, but another hunter may have removed something recently that changed the combination of targets just enough to make this find scenario happen.......or the Manticore with 11" coil really is that good. Had I gone over it with Deus 2 using my 13X11" coil, I think I would have heard these targets. Equinox 900 or Legend with 11"......maybe.1 point
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Very nice finds Jeff, congrats. I had a very similar experience a few years ago. Got two silver quarters, then some nails, then a '42 Walker, all in the same hole. The 34 on my Equinox 600 was unmistakeable, so much so I called it before I dug it. Only half I've found so far. Returned to that spot later and dug a silver ring from the same spot with more nails. I think by then I had the Coiltek 10x5. It's great to go over a place you've been before with a new machine or even different settings, I think I focus more.1 point
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yea, I'm glad they fixed those early cables in later coils, it's a few years now since the coils had those cables on them, my 12x6" GPX coil has a similar type of cable although due to not having curls it makes no difference really just a bit more difficult to wrap. Sounds like you may have a solution Jin, Chet's idea of replacing the cable is a good one too and the path I'd take if your trick doesn't last, you can buy the cables here If you're not confident to do it give David Gibb a call and get him to do it for you, won't cost much it's only joining 5 wires and you'd supply the cable which costs you something like $40. I'd be lucky if that happened to me thinking about it, as I could just cut the curls off and put a plug there, as I have a Chet style adapter too which uses the original curls. Some ready to be turned into Chet style adapters. You guys may find this interesting, it's an original GPZ 14" coil that the security chip had a soldering problem, and would come up coil error. It was able to be repaired by pulling the plug end apart and resoldering the chip. It shows the tiny little chip that has caused everyone so much grief by limiting coils.1 point
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Here is the next piece in my posts about the geology of and prospecting for pocket gold in the Klamath Mountains of California. If this sort of thing interest you, let me know. You might use this geological info to locate pocket deposits without using the standard method of following a pocket's trace (the debris trail of small gold and associated minerals)leading uphill to the pocket itself.* Trace the contact between black shale in contact with greenstone looking for quartz veins. Here is how to recognize a prospect of this sort. Look at this photo. It shows Bragden black shale on the left with Copley Greenstone out of view to the left, and off to the right is more black shale. I took the small outcrop in the center of the photo be be black shale, as well, until I put my hand on it. It's a wide quartz vein extending beneath the soil to the left and right. Here is a photo of a piece of this vein. The black is manganese oxide (see my first post). Many of the holes once contained pyrite as shown by the rust-colored stain and perhaps calcite (again see my first post). It is highly likely that the pyrite once contained gold, and that gold is located somewhere downhill and close-by. The coin is a US quarter. The quartz of the oxidized zone within the Bragden formation in the well-known pocket deposit at the Mad Mule Mine has been described this way: "The quartz is honeycombed with cavities, many of witch are partially filled with sooty manganese oxide."(Pocket Deposits of the Klamath Mountains California, Ferguson, 1915) I'm currently looking for that gold using two possible models: hosted within streaks and pockets of calcite; and plating the bottom of a nearby stream or dry water course. Calcite-hosted gold in pocket deposits can "...consist of calcite covered with fine-sized gold and manganese oxides often in cracks and fissures in the calcite." (Canadian Gold Prospector: http://gpex.ca/smf/index.php?topic=11152.20). I carry a small sniffer bottle containing weak hydrochloric acid to test whitish streaks. If they fizz, it is calcite. Downhill from this site is a small stream. I'll probably have to dig to the bottom of the center of the stream looking for the gold. Here is a photo posted by Creekboy here: https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/7359-odd-gold/?tab=comments#comment-74991. of black sand encrusted by gold. It's probably from such a deposit. Alternatively 100 feet away I have found stream gravels exposed near the edge of a small plateau. This is probably a paleo-stream bed (geologically old and now dry). At one time the gold-bearing fluids may have made their way here and formed a pocket in or below the bed. I may dig some of this looking for the gold. The recent fire here has made the area inaccessible. So, I sit here twiddling my thumbs. If folks are interested it this sort of thing, I'll report later on any progress. I plan to use my Gold Racer to help in the search. * Jack London's short story The All Gold Canyon http://livros01.livrosgratis.com.br/ln000422.pdf describes the standard method well. Useful modifications and extension of this technique have been published by many people including [trinityAU https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/7359-odd-gold/?tab=comments#comment-74991, and by EMF http://gpex.ca/smf/index.php?topic=12499.0, but the basic technique is the same. Tom Bohmker describes a similar metal detecting approach here Elusive Pocket Gold of Southwest Oregon. Oldmancoyote1 point
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Great thread. Yesterday and today I and about 40 other people, of all flavors, attended a metal detecting outing for hillside pocket/placer gold on a side hill side above the Klamath River just downstream of Happy Camp, Ca. The outing was a combined effort of Whites Electronics (metal detectors), Armadillo Mining Supply, Tom and Josh Bohmker, and The New49ers, on whose claim we were detecting. Although rainy, it was good fun and great lessons in metal detecting for gold. All who put this outing on are very good at what they do. As the topic of this thread is pocket gold hunting, I'd like to give a big shout out to Tom Bohmker and his son Josh as truly knowledgeable people on pocket gold and finding it. It was a pleasure to meet and learn from them. Tom does have quite a few good publications on the subject. All I found was a lot of old square nails. Mike1 point
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For those curious, I flew my drone over the Gold Hill Pocket gold mine in Oregon and filmed it. The same we are discussing in this thread:1 point