9 minutes ago, Norvic said:

Wow, that Wofram/gold specimen would certainly be a favourite specie, just wondering if it`s no imposition, is it from Victoria?

It might give away one of my spots, but here goes. I was in the area near a Wolfram mine within a 100 km from Leonora West Aust. Note if anyone find the spot I don't want to know how much gold I left behind.  🤐

4 hours ago, GhostMiner said:

We had small nuggets and pickers along with plenty of coarse gold and a little fine for good measure. All told there were 26 ounces.

That's a good day. My best day was also 26+ ounces but I did not have to share it with any crew. I had to spend some of it on the wife.😉

It all depends on what get thrown at you on the health side and if you are strong enough to carry all of those pills. ☠️

8 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Duh, I’m stupid. It would not need to be a $1 a year because all I really care about is filtering new memberships. So you all get grandfathered in, and new members have to pay $1 for a lifetime membership, as long as account is in good standing. That just may be the ticket, and anyone not willing to pay a one time fee of $1 can just lurk anyway. 

And SCAMMERS know money transaction can be traced. 

Simon tell them to use a smaller coil if they want to pick up your small NZ nuggets. I am sure they are casing you residence, so keep your doors locked.  

 Christmas is near.

3 hours ago, Calarms said:

Steve

Have you considered all new members from this point on pay a $5 annual fee

Steve would earn more than the scammer, for each of their posts🤑

Garrett, Send Me An Axiom And I Will make sure that Minelab will not take away your record of the largest nugget ever found with a detector. You  may have to throw in a few extras to get me, but the largest nuggets were mainly found here in Victoria so you will be on a good chance of not losing your record to Minelab when they send me my free GPZ-8000.

Your sincerly Mr Geof. JUNK

19 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

What did you do with that one on top?

I have it in the kid's inherence. Most of our nuggets above a dwt are still in the collection with the exception of specimens. Most of which have been crushed, refined and sold.    

They were a very common find on Victorian Aus. gold fields in the early 1980s

When I found a sunbaker over 5½ ounces I got on the 2way and said "Chicken to-night" Carol answered "I'm coming over to see how well you cooked it". That was one of our codes when detecting because a lot of EARS out there. It was hard to keep the WOW in.😂

For fun any speck is a win, but 0.3 gm means I would have to get 7 plus nuggets every day for 2 weeks to make minimum wages. When on the gold 0.3 or less is bread and butter but when on gold there is a few pieces a ¼ ounce or more to make it worth while. 

In new patches depth is not a major factor in finding them.

A 19 minute UTube.

1¼ Troy Pounds (16 Oz) in Carol's hand all from separate patches. I was lucky I got it back off her. 😁

My rule of thumb since 1979 is four ounces of gold for the best GOLD Detector available. The question is what is the best for your skill, endurance, size and depth of the gold where you will detect. If you intend to pay for your new TOY a lot of work or play is required to come out in front.   

Nice display of your WORK and a good total of  gold. Your last photo shows the amount of WORK that had to be done well done.

It is normal for some nuggets.

klunker  How much did MineLab pay you to write their Patent's 

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5 hours ago, phrunt said:

That's awesome Jason, your impression of the fix mirrors mine so far, I think it improves a lot more than just the speaker as overall stability seems better even without using the speaker, and a number of people are now reporting that.  I'm puzzled why they're specifically saying it only fixes the speaker, perhaps not to get flooded with warranty claims.  I'm happy your problems are now under control and you can use it again.    I like you think everyone should get it done, regardless of if they use the speaker.

Jason report should make GPX6000 owner a lot happier. Garrett Australia now has a big problem trying to sell the AXIOM at an unreasonable price in Aus and NZ as ML has up their game. 

🤣 I think this might be help those that can't afford lithium batteries for their detectors  🤣

                                  .............LINK...........

2 hours ago, Geotech said:

For those who forego headphones in order to hear snakes and such, I use "transparent" Koss UR40 headphones. They are "transparent" because they don't block outside ambient sound so you can still hear everything around you but the detector response is right in your ear.

Back in 1980 at Wedderburn Vic. Aus. most of us hated the built in speaker there was so much beep, beep, beeping going on, even the birds were mimicking the the beeps. I can see the benefit of the UR40. I made my own Earphone setup to do the same with the best earphone that were available for stereo that I could get, and made a cage (like in a safety helmet) that allowed ventilation and keep the Earphones very close to my ear.   

55 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

On this location in 1980 the Hand of Faith was found, perhaps the spiritual start of the “Electronic Gold Rush”

It's good to see the Monument photo. When I saw the location back in 1980 there was not much to see. I never detected more than 2 days in Kingower but one of my mates got a 2½" flat square nugget about an ¼ " thick that weighed 11 Oz on the other side of the sealed road from the spot about ½ mile in.

9 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

Fishing bobber in one of his bags.  Appears to be someone on a vacation/holiday to me.  On second thought, looks a lot like geof_junk....  Hmmm.  🤔

Erik an I have an understanding he keeps of my beach *GEOFFREY BAY" and I keep of his. November I will be taking all of Phrunt gold in NZ so Erik will have full access to my beach during that time. 

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