Old Iron

Thank you all for the recommendation.

Thanks for the advice. I probably should have mentioned that I'm mainly only interested in +gram nuggets. I'm mining upper gravels off a flood plain below a sheer rock walled canyon/waterfall. Gold is mostly 30 mesh or finer with a few pickers so I run 1/2" screens in the plant trying to maximize fine gold recovery. I've yet to catch anything approaching that size screen but one never knows. Like to put a kid on duty checking tailings to make sure. Above the falls in the canyon and including some old historic workings up above the gold is mainly coarse flake, pickers and nuggets up to 1/4-1/2 oz. We send friends and family up in the canyon hand planning and they always do really well. I want to detect the nooks and crannies up on the sides looking for a big score more than anything.

I'm a newbie here thinking about buying a detector for some seriously high iron content ground. Little background. I run a commercial placer mine in the Yukon. Thinking about getting a good quality detector to check some old historic workings next to me. Also my own tailings piles. Figured it would be a good pass time for me and the family on days off. I've watched a thousand videos but the only hands on experience was with a $20 special trying to find a lost excavator tooth. Lol My ground has a extremely high iron content. It is glacial ground so it varies a lot but I get rocks that are solid iron and literally rusted together at times. The amounts of black sand is multiple times any other Creek I've seen. I know many years ago others have tried and gave up detecting do to the iron. I also know metal detectors have really come a long way since then. If you guys was coming out for a weekend of beer drinking and gold mining what machine would you bring? Thanks.