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Simon I feel sorry for you. After I get to NZ on my cruise in Nov. there will not be any gold left, but the buckshot I will leave for you😀. So book a detecting trip to the Old Country to find your just deserves. 🤩

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Simon the size of your coil 10" by 5" is the largest coil I would use chasing your NZ bits. NB: I did not say nuggets mate 🤣 as some of those shotgun pellets are larger. Good write up and to me I would say you will get a replacement 11" coil from ML.

A great job you are doing Steve, but I'm glad it not me doing it for you.🤪

I hope that many more young people get interested in the game. When my boys were about 10 they are now in their 50s. I showed some gold to the kids in their Primary School grades. I hope they are detecting now but not on my patch 😁. I told them that I have counted them so I will know if there any missing 😄

JP does that me if you don't have the ferric ring available switching from Semi-Auto to Auto for a few minutes and back to Semi-Auto when out of whack (or every now an then) should do just as good of job as using the ferric ring?

As you can see there is a lot of specimens with different impurities, so "dolly pot" is worth while if the specimen does not win the beauty contest. That is what I did to these ones and most others. If you want to calculate your gold you can use my 1980 calc formula from my old book. You will have to find the Specific Gravity of a sample of the Quartz & Gold and Modify my calc. Note:- The Quartz sg can be done on a sample of the specimen with no gold or similar bit looking the same from the location. The Gold sg can be got from known sg of gold in that area. My calc were done 95.5% purity typical for the area I was working in the golden triangle Vic Aust. I found that my Formula was accurate for specimens that showed a fair amount of Gold " Weight of Gold" = 3.0717718 * (Weight in Water) - 1.9126176 * (Weight in Air) Hope this help you decide what to do your specimen. Sg of Gold = Sg Sg of Quartz = Sq Weight_in_Water = Ww Weight_in_Air = Ww Weight Gold = Sg * Sq * Ww / (Sg - Sq) + Sg * Wa *(1-Sq)/ (Sg - Sq)

The gold varies in size (no two are the same shape or size), content of other metals in it, the change of ground, moister in ground, and most of all how the operator uses the detector. Such as speed, attention, consistency of coil height and over lapping. A big job for humans (risk assessment of leaving gold behind) bigger job for AI.

I hope you spelt "+ too" correct and not "+ two" that would make it 3 months😀

The one and 2 golden dollars are the cream on the beach dry sand. If you buy something with a paper/plastic not you have more chance of getting more $2 coins than $1. The $1 and $2 get spent straight away but the fake silver ones get thrown in a bucket. As most coins we find these days are found on the dry sand and are in good condition. All of these coins are post 1966 when Aus. changed to decimal currency and are not collected by me. Back to the fake $1 and $2 coins I used to hit the main holiday spot about 200 miles east of Melbourne. There was a boy (from an unfortunate family) that would see my car and race over and dig all the targets for me. After the first time I came to the agreement that $1, $2 and jewellery were mine and for his effort he got all the other coins and toys that he dug up. I think he was always checking to see if I was there because he never missed when I was detecting.😁

The wife decided to get rid of some of our coins and cash them in nearly $400 The metals are a mixture of copper and nickel . 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c coins are 75 per cent copper and 25 per cent nickel.

Deepseeker I dealt with Victorian Garrett distributor Arnold Muller way back in 1980 the service was fantastic. What a difference these day. ....Early post about it....

🤑 The want of money is the root of all manufacture's prices. Can Garrett get back to this level again.

Some gold in Quartz. 16+ Oz in big one 4+ in middle one, gold yielded. Noted quartz is over 7 times larger. That should show the different Quartz.

Thanks for the information. I hope it only refers to your area and not Aus. I know the Life Guard here have restricted channels as well as Commercial Shipping do. I will have to look up the restriction on the other channels that I use. The range of my Radios is limited but were brought for waterproof and floatation for my Kayaking. So thanks for the warning JEN.

The less the slope the more time for the smaller gold to remain. Try any area with a change in slope. The crown of a hill and where it goes flat at the bottom is also worth a try.

You don't have to make a video to have that problem. If you want to show your finds only do it when you are going home at the end of prospecting and only if no one saw you at the location.

GotAU? I got similar equipment for use when Kayaking, it should be used by all remote hobbies. The personal locator beacon is well worth the money even when you have to replace it after 10 years with no activation, as the battery price was to high and justified buying a new PLB. I all so have a Marine 5 watt radio which is good to use in the desert miles away for the sea for private conversation with the wife when prospecting. The backups are the three Garmin Rhino which has GPS, Radio and a Location tie with one another so that you can go straight to the other Rhinos.

GB_Amateur I think you "nailed" it in your last photo. 😀

I learnt that most of them don't know how to "swing a coil", "dig a hole" and "locate the target" 🙈

Hard to get under MAP price but a lot of the shop's other products can be sold to you for less than cost to make the deal. 🤑

1 nugget about ½ of the gold found. 359 nuggets for the other ½ of gold. 1 day about ½ of the gold found. 29 to 30 days for the other ½ of gold. Interesting statistics what do you do chase f!ySh!t or get a big coil? That is the ground that I like.

Really enjoyed the reject targets in you photos. By the way those zinc coins should of been included in the junk collection 😁

Goldseeker5000 when I worked my claim back in the early 1980s I dropped the dirt etc on a heavy tarp (Ground Sheet) and dragged is out from the face, spread it out and detected it and repeated it many times. The dirt was hard packed clay and broken bedrock, a lot of effort was put in. I hope you get well rewarded.

Tony I hope you mean EFI and not 🤐