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If only we could go back in time.

MCS make sure you have the handle wood grain orientated correctly when it goes in the pick. 

The best brand is dependent on what it is used for, how it is used, and who it is used by.  AND COST.

More posts could be because you get more complaints than complements these days. So why is ML at the top is it because more variations of detectors.

Good to see another member born in the first half of last century 🤣 so lets hope we all have a lot more years of fun. 

Best of luck. My little brother had one of them well over 30 years ago and is still active on his 10 acres doing all the work needed.

That is why they are still around. Got my first detector from them 1979. and they sold dredging equipment to me before then. 

Us Aussies lost our 1¢ and 2¢ back in 1992 but they we copper/bronze. I quess this is why.

Australian one-cent coin - Wikipedia 

Hope I am not too far of topic. Some remains of the 1930 mining on Bougainville (Crocodile gold). Photos taken 50 years ago. The machinery was carried from sea level to about 2000 meters above, on the backs of the local natives. Not an easy route back then.

By foot.

The crew.By Bike

The easy way

I hope those photos get you back on the journal soon.

On 7/6/2023 at 4:50 PM, dig4gold said:

Have to agree with that flakmagnet. I can't believe how people can make such an issue of scales that don't measure down to 100th's of a gram & how inaccurate they are. What's the world coming to? It is like the end goal here is who can find the smallest gold. WTF. That is pretty sad.

D4G 

 

"100th's of a gram" that a very tiny $1 Aus at today gold price. Do you have to buy a magnifying glass with the scales.  😉 

50 years ago in PNG I imported this Ossa explorer 250 for riding off track in the "Island of Crocodile gold" Bougainville. It did go up vertical climbs all the time.

1 hour ago, Valens Legacy said:

My grandmother used to be a hypnotist, and was able to help a lot of people remember where they had placed some items.

That is the only suggestion that I have and it does work if you want it to.

Good luck.

Now that is a way to go. Another way is use the reverse method, that is were would you not think to look for it. I would say you have a chance of finding it as the size of your cache limits the location that you would chose to place it.   BEST OF LUCK.    

32 minutes ago, phrunt said:

yep, when people say they found gold so small it shows up as 0's on their scales I tell them to buy some decent scales 🙂

 

Simon it is a lot better when it gives a error on the dial due to the nugget being too heavy.  😉 As far as which coil to take to W.A. and Tib. NSW it is not the size of the coil it is the size of the gold and the depth of the gold.  W.A. from my experience the gold is mostly under a few grams and shallow due to the fact that most of the light soil has weathered away. I would be lucky if I have found a dozen or so nuggets there over and ounce, but a few thousand under 5gm. Only 1 large nugget was deeper than a foot, it was a large specimen with well over a pound of gold in it. So the best coil is the one that will get the size of nuggets that you are chasing and depth, that you can use for the full duration of your day, with no over exertion by you.

15 hours ago, GhostMiner said:

All is fine. Just taking a break. 

Been away for a month in sunny QLD Aus. and missed most of this. Both you and Steve put a lot of time in entertaining us all on this forum, so I hope your BREAK is a lot less than the one I just had.

  🙈 🙉🙊  ...........  🙌    

So Simon are you only half a REAL Oz 🤣 

marmite vs vegemite   .....     Google Link  

The 2023 of Queen Elizabeth 11 and 100 years of VEGMITTE  

Hope you enjoy these two YouTube Video

5 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

 

Excellent pull tab to nickel ratio !

 

I like the green pull tab it really stands out

The pin in the third photo make me think it is to hold a wooden pole/handle in your find. Very interesting piece.

To me it looks like the gold has not moved very far. I personally would be expecting that it has came down the slope above or very close up stream on the slope. A good locking piece of gold and would be great on a gold chain for your loved one.

There is an art in discriminating, but I have seen a lot of failures with it. Most of my spots are virgin areas and not much junk and when it is fully of junk I conserve my  time walking away from it. In the photo below got gold right up to the junk (It is not the junk you can see that is the problem it is the small bits)  and I walked  ½ a mile away I got my largest specimen 3.5 kilos with 16+ gold in the second photo.

An I thought is was one of these. Butt (no pun intended) it would hurt. 🤣

2 minutes ago, phrunt said:

Too true, I don't ever use my GPZ Minelab coils, both my 19" and 14" coils are basically new just used them to test if I wanted to use them, My GPX 4500/5000 Minelab coils are still basically brand new and as found out quickly I didn't want to use them 🙂  My 6000 coils are now closet queens, except the DD as I need it for it's EMI handling sometimes, If I had an option to buy my detectors with no coils I'd certainly do it.

At least Simon the GPZ coils can be sold to make a patch coil, if they don't trust damaging their own coil.😜

1 hour ago, phrunt said:

I've only had mine replaced once but I've basically stopped using it and went with aftermarket coils instead

What makes me mad with Minelab coils is I have to buy their coils with each detector even when I know it will remain unused, as my choice of detecting does not favour the most general ML size coil. Most of the committed prospectors over the "Minelab era" that I have known had to pay for a ML coil that they did not want and the resale of them is very low as most customers have one also sitting unused. 

This YouTube shows the work done, the effort put in by the gold diggers and the change to the environment that occurred during the 1850 - 1890 

......LINK....  for video below.