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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 🤣

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...........

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.

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.

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. 😜

Lynk well done thanks for the effort. It would be great if you can post a copy of your work in an excel file. I am sure there is other data that can be extracted from yours's and Jeff McClendon detail project. Got Au suggestion was a great idea.

1940 was over 80 years ago a penny could buy a lot more then. "From the early part of 1940 to the middle of 1943, average weekly wages in manufacturing establishments covered by State unemployment compensation laws increased 71 percent, from $26 to $45" I would of taken more care of my COINS if I had any back then. 🤑

Steves picture of the Granite outcrop is a real "postcard quality".

I like my threshold as low as I can but still be able to hear a null in it when prospecting.

Simon as you only got 10 days before I head over your way to remove all of that heavy metal in your area. I will post you some Vegemite lids to fortify your plastic coil ears it should do the trick as it withstands exposure to Vegemite. 😁

Well by the looks of the top of the 11" coil you have been going under a lot of scrub or is it proof that the plastic is not suitable for rough treatment. 😁

Old school also (well old anyway) When I discriminated for coins in the 1980 I found that I got a much more relievable reading by lifting the coil as far as I could and still have a soft signal that was definite. I think that doing this reduced the ground an other target masking effect. As coin hunting is secondary to gold prospecting my detectors don't have ID facilities, so I can't say that this will help with the junk targets but might be worth trying.

It has a classic look, a great find.

Good to see you around again Mike last time we spoke you were in a bad drought but I guess you must be unwater at the moment. I wish you all the luck you need. Your suggestions is an old and well used way to help find detector, coil and location problems which I have used many times and should be used more often. Jason have you tried seeing if the EMI is directional by having a horizontal shaft position with a vertical coil (90° to the shaft) and doing a slow 360° turn. If it is directional it direction it will be 90° from where the noise goes a lot quieter and will also occur at 180° further on. If you have no success it might be your GPX6000.

OK we will try to entice you "YANKS and any one else that want to spend their $ " out here with a new travel advertisement with our cute Kangaroo from tomorrow onwards. 🤑

Note the date of this patent for ML coil shielding. United States Patent Candy ( 10 ) Patent No .: US 11,454,736 B2 ( 45 ) Date of Patent : Sep. 27 9 ,2022 ......Patent Link.....

An Aust Passport, Residence or proficient in thong use (NursePaul would pass) removes the Exam Requirement. 😀

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In my opinion if the unit is taken to the "point of purchase", then it should be Minelab responsibility to get to their repair centre and back to their Agent.

Phrunt and Oneguy ....... A great post both of you have said what I have heard and it does show that gold will be detected in all types of ground and conditions. That's what makes it hard to recommend a detector for someone that is not detecting in your area. The differences between Victoria, West Aust, Australia, New Zealand and of course USA vary immensely. It was great to see your posts with out the .......*&*^!*...... that goes on some forums. 👋

In the areas that I detected in WA with a VLF detector it was not the hot ground it was the hot rocks 3 or 4 target signal per swing from them in some spots. At the time I had 25 years experience with VLF detector at the time. Using Minlab detectors post 2003 I had no problems with the PI detector in the same area. As for depth the hot ground of Vic was a lot worse for the VLF but hot rocks were only a mild problems.