Redz

1 hour ago, ChuckScrivener said:

I think the better finds for the future may come from better discrimination being able to search through old home sites or trashy tailings

I'm with Norvic, the better finds are always in the patches nobody has found, including the oldtimers. They are not near mines and old placer patches. The only way to find them is put in a lot of miles, and be lucky. A lightweight detector makes that a lot easier...it doesnt have to be the deepest as you can bring in big guns after you have found it.

Look, if your sensor is not labelled sensor in big letters it simply is not going to work

19 minutes ago, fourtyniner said:

It would be great if someone came up with a coil top cover to protect it from scratches from the scoop. Does anyone have any ideas on what to use to protect the coil top?

Glue on a thin piece of polycarbonate sheet in the area of interest

It sounds readily tweakable. I wonder if a "depth" timing or a "depth" version could also be requested.

That is marginally better than hiking a couple miles up a large hill to find you left your battery in the car

8 hours ago, DSMITH said:

Redz stating what you just did but I was just trying to let him know that currently those are FS and SBC just in case he was wondering

Thanks. I was aware from the post.

I would use the earbuds. I use headphones typically so the earbuds would be more convenient.

All I would need is the LE transmitter

4 hours ago, Detecting with CM said:

I own a GPX 6000, but if I were to get a GPX 5000, what coils should I get so as to pull away from the 6000 on two to five gram nuggets? 

If you are talking depth, a 15" evo, or an 18" evo, change to lithium battery and get signal amplifier to run higher gain.

West oz adventures

And their pals

12 hours ago, phrunt said:

I might give one a go one of these days, the new generation of mods seem far superior to the early ones.

Yey. I will be waiting for your review

1 hour ago, Gold Dust Ernie Jr said:

To get the metal out of the rocks in the photo display they will have to all be crushed to powder (which is very expensive), then the metal will have to be chemically extracted from the powder.

All beyond the scope and ability of the weekend miner. 

Not true. See all the posts on crushers people have made. There are also a range of them commercially available. It is not expensive to crush the rock even in reasonable quantity, just depends on whether the values are good

Iron from a can, or a tiny grain of iron nickel from a meteorite

8 hours ago, chrisski said:

How do these keep you from mining if not being in use?

A claim is property, not a lease.

1. They create large monuments like the recent sand to snow, which withdraws the land from mineral entry. There is a new proposal to close almost all of the southern deserts in the proposed Chuckwalla national monument. Same goes for wilderness areas

2. They create large wind or solar leases and close access such as those areas near the El Paso mountains

Having claims prevents that happening

9 hours ago, Ndplumr said:

At least after she realizes I lied about lead being worth $100/oz, I'll have someone to blame

It is a long road to perdition, that we are all following faithfully

Before you buy a claim, do your due diligence in checking that there is gold in the form you want in enough quantity to make it worthwhile. If you dont have the experience to do this, get the experience first.

There are differing opinions on claims, but I hold claims because the ground here is rapidly being shut off to mining, and I want to keep some areas open where I can go.

Others friends feel that you should only keep a claim if you will mine it.

23 hours ago, dig4gold said:

Not all people are equipped or have the ability to do that. Guess that is why we go buy stuff from shops.

D4G 

See the earlier response to the same comment

54 minutes ago, DSMITH said:

yeah that would be great if everyone had the ability to build their own stuff like Picks and things like that, but some times the cost to build stuff is much more expensive than just purchasing already made items, a lot of times its just cheaper to purchase already made items.

Sounds like the original poster already invested a bunch in picks that were unsatisfactory. If you make your own you get what you want, and it really does not require much ability.

54 minutes ago, DSMITH said:

yeah that would be great if everyone had the ability to build their own stuff like Picks and things like that, but some times the cost to build stuff is much more expensive than just purchasing already made items, a lot of times its just cheaper to purchase already made items.

Sounds like the original poster already invested a bunch in picks that were unsatisfactory. If you make your own you get what you want, and it really does not require much ability.

Get a piece of AR 600 or a boron harrow disc and make your own.

The advantage is you have a 15 inch mono spiral coil, and if you hike over very bad ground, hot ground or emi gets really bad you can switch to concentric. No carrying extra coil separately. Of course there will be extra weight, which will be the real tradeoff.

Sorry, not what I meant. I meant was that retail cost or your price for shipping that one to you. But you answered it. Thanks

10 hours ago, phrunt said:

It's looking like the 15" GPX Concentric will be $490 USD delivered express.

Is that the coil retail cost, or your cost?

Looks like the gpx 5000 is only coming with one coil too. Gone are the days of receiving both mono and DD?

3d printers for polycarbonate and a variety of plastics are quite reasonable now. I purchased one recently for some other projects. It also should not cost much to ask someone to print a few if prototyping for the smaller sized coils you want.

Beautiful gold. Treasure your spot, they are hard to find. Even better it is just outside your dad's house. What is the story behind the hand xrays?