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  1. "It weighs 4.6 kilograms and that includes 2.6 kilograms of gold."

    It must of been riddled with gold. My 3½ Kilos bit only had 16+ oz and it was 3.5 kilos and he got nearly 84 oz  😢

    It remines me of the early days when big nuggets were released to the media near public holidays (School, Easter and Xmas or New detector release.) those were the days.   

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  2. Steve Quote from the link above sums it up from my experience too.  .............

    "I do know one thing. If you are using normal size coils, going to smaller coils almost always gets more gold. Going to bigger coils? Not so much. No matter how you slice it big nuggets are very rare."  ...........

    But it could be a nugget of a lifetime.

     

     

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    GC your not wrong about Garmin manuals, I started out in GPSs with the Magellans back in late 80s, early 90s. They were more user (read mug😉) orientated manuals and operation. But the Garmin Rino like Strick has found are magic for knowing where your mates are, anyway was the Rino that swung me over to Garmin. 

     

    Those words are the same as mine. I got their first 2 channel multiplex Magellan's (very limited back then till they went to 8 channels version) and upgraded till they ceased manufacture of their platinum model. When the Garmin Rhino first came out, I got 4 in a two for one deal for Carol and Me with one spare and one for my oldest son. Their features covered all my prospecting, bushwalking and kayaking needs and as you say it bonus of seeing were your partner is located and not having to carry an additional two-way radio. I even got a RV GPS for my 4WD and Van since then. 

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  4. The super magnet is a time save, but they will not work on gold😀. The nugget I had disappear was never found. The situation was a signal about 5 gm strength in a large conglomerate bolder about 8 ft high. The target was at about eye level. After trying to remove it with a geo hammer it went flying. Spent 2 hours gridding the area around the rock, no non ferrous target was found even though very little rubbish in the area.

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  5. 10 hours ago, Doc said:

    How many of you when you were new to this got caught up digging a really deep hole under a bush because of a good target signal?  

    After getting down 18 inches you realize the target is the same as when you started.  That's when you realize some one snookered you by putting a bent rusty piece of wire on one of the branches of the bush.

    When I was first getting started someone told me yeah other detectorists will do that.  I said, "Why?"  Because they waste 30 minutes of your time and that's 30 minutes less time you get to spend looking for gold.

    Doc

    In a spot that my mate got a 2 oz nugget near a tree root. I got a good signal near a tree. I was getting a good signal all round the tree. After a bit of digging things did not add up. going nearly 2 foot up the trunk of the tree I zoomed in on the location. The tree had grown over a horseshoe and completely covered it with bark.

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  6.          Most of the time it is not a matter of how deep a PI or VLF goes or how small a nugget it can see. It is more about the ground you are detecting. You have VLF experience so to get or beat a small nugget a PI can match or exceed a VLF with a change of coil even if has to be smaller than a VLF coil. For medium coin size target a PI coil the same size will exceed the VLF in depth by ¼ to a ½ in most cases. 

             The ground (location, mineralisation, depth, other rubbish targets (junk and hot rocks) and terrain will determine the best type of detector to use. As I mostly hunted for new patches in shallow ground in Victoria Aus. high mineral soils I found the Minlab SD series features were not worth changing from my VLF's it was not till I detected West Aus. gold fields that I changed to the Minlab GP series as the false hot rock signals there in 2003 onwards. So select a detector that suits the gold size in the location you will be in.

          By the way every new detector from some manufactures claim 20 to 50% more depth than the previous model but beware the are not using the same target as the previous model best size target. So it's a different ball game, but in a worked out spot/patch it may find nuggets that previous model was not good at.   

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  7. Doc said.....

    In gold country over here we are always searching out Old Timer diggings and looking for missed gold.  Those sites are almost always productive but they are so trashy.  The old timers threw all their scrap iron, cans, nails, everywhere.  And some of those things are amazingly deep.

    Yes we all want discrimination. The old timer's junk won and I had to quit. 😭 It was not the large rubbish, they can be kick away but those millions of small bits with every swing.

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  8. The Nugget Finder Sadie was a great coil I could not get it off of Carol even though I won it.

    Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:47:03 +1000

    Hi Geoff

                Thank you for entering our “Name The Coil” competition.  Unfortunately your entry was not the winner however it was one of 5 finalists.  As a finalist you have won yourself an 8 x 6 mono.  Please supply a mailing address and your coil will be sent out within 2 weeks.

    Thank again for your entry

    Regards

     Rohan Johnson

     

     

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