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Did anyone make one of these way back when.

1955 Two Metal Detector Schematics_s_vs5.0_001.pdf

3 hours ago, GhostMiner said:

Old warrants never die nor do they fade away with time. 

Adult witness to the event would be hard to find as they would be at a minimum of 84 years old and most likely have poor memory, died or moved away. So I'm got high hopes for Jacob. 😀

3 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

Get well soon Ghostlight ! 👍

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It is good to see historical photos. 👏

I have no idea what my records is for number of coins found  in a day / week as my main interest was gold nuggets. However the value of the coins is secondary as they are stored away only to be looked at or being left for the Grandkids. I got a copy of Aus. coin albums for the silver coins I found and spent some time trying to fill all the holes a feat that would take more than a life time.

The first link is showing the ones that were excess. The second is the link to an old post here that contains the albums.

Excess Silver Coins.

Old DetectorProspector post on silver coins

On 2/20/2024 at 3:45 AM, Skate said:

some of these can companies are making their pull tabs gold in color which should be a crime. I dig, see the gold edge and of course I'm thinking we got a bingo only to find out it's from a rockstar can pull tab. There is a special place in hell for these people. 

You can always say you found a heap of GOLD tabs 🤩

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When I bought a detector price was not factor in choice, however when I upgraded the existing one would be given away as it value  was always too low to considering selling it.

At the moment our current detector have not moved in to digital/processor type yet but the old analog have found plenty of gold and coins. As they say location and knowing how to use what you got is the best way to go. 

VL if you catch up with Eric tell him it is OK for him to take you to my beach to detect. 😃 But you can't use those glasses there. 😒 

Due to currency a 100$ US will buy you $150 AUD meal here. 😁

This method works for other source of emi like GPS, phones and other detectors and reduces the interferences.

I had to buy the first one for Carol which I inherited due to the fact that it was the top Garret at the time and she was very Bias to Whites. The first was cash the rest were from selling my beloved nuggets (only the ugly ones 😄) with much delay and stalling. 😭 

1980 in Wedderburn at the Australian Detector Rush most people were using discrimination. Not the best back then, however I put a 5 cent bit on the ground not one detector could pick it up at their settings. Two full time prospecting brothers and another were in a spot were one of the brothers go a large signal and said junk. The other one went and dug up the target which was a 36 oz bit. Note the Aus. 5 cent piece was a good test target latter on for PI detectors to gauge their effectiveness on gold.  

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11 hours ago, Redz said:

I'm with Norvic, the better finds are always in the patches nobody has found, including the oldtimers. They are not near mines and old placer patches. The only way to find them is put in a lot of miles, and be lucky. A lightweight detector makes that a lot easier...it doesnt have to be the deepest as you can bring in big guns after you have found it.

That's the method to find patches, but some skill needs to be acquired first. I spent 10 hours a day for ten weeks with out a speck from detecting. I was about 50 years younger then, and had found over 4 ounces from panning and dredging. In the end I found one good patch in Victoria that yield a bit under 30 oz and one in West Aust. 30 odd Oz and another about 60 Oz  All of these would of been found with most Gold Detectors except for a few deep nuggets. I will try flogged ground in a new field, with a small coil and good detector. To get an idea how well the area was done and then walk, walk, walk and only stop when I find a new patch. I forgot to say gold prospecting was only a hobby for me and the wife.  

Maybe he is waiting for very low tide time.

That device won't work, because he has copied my unit but does not have my secret code and software.   😒

Don't forget the large NZ targets.

Found in NZ look at the date.

After spending a lot of time digging through some cap rock at a depth of 2 foot plus I found this dingo trap. It was in a goanna hole that was later found burring in a few meters away. 🤢

5 hours ago, Ndplumr said:

Honestly, I was hoping someone would just spot a nugget in my video and tell me where it is, but then there's always your way too. 😂

I ran my long-range detector over your photos, send me $100 and I will give you the marked spots.   😇

8 hours ago, Taz said:

Here you go mate, sink your teeth into these ones...

You can send a bag to Gerry too.  😀

20 minutes ago, Taz said:

I was happy to have the go ahead on the gold but was bewildered as to the return everything else to the ground bit. I said "thanks for that but I dont get the logic of returning a relic that is rotting in the ground to the ground again rather than taking it out of it and preserving it."

His reply was that's the rules. 

Crazy rules indeed.

It is to slow us guys down........I wonder how many times it ( the so called relic ) gets dug up and damaged. 🧐

10 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Added the E1500 to the Detector Database and noticed that due to the company name starting with an A they will be first in alphabetical lists. Smart move that even if it was not planned. It is why you see so many triple A company names.

 

Is that why Whites went under. 😀

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

Anything to help sales.  I've stewed on this chart for a long time as it's well, a lot of garbage mainly as they didn't give any indication of things like coils used and ground type, the idea of this chart I think was with the standard main coil in the package, so for the GPZ it's obviously the 14" DOD, the GPX 6000 is the 11" semi-spiral coil, the 5000 is the 11" Mono Commander and so on, then you have to take soil into account, then who knows what soil they tested them in.  The GPZ with 14" DOD standard coil on the 0.05 gram nugget is the most unrealistic of them all to me, to say it's the same as a 5000 with a 11" Commander is a joke.

And a 6000 being more sensitive than a Gold Monster, biggest load of garbage I've ever seen, but then, with their undeclared soil conditions perhaps they can manipulate it to fit the chart with the right soil type.

So, what Minelab are indicating there, is the 6000 with its 11 semi-spiral is deeper on a 1-gram nugget than the 5000 with the 11"  Commander Mono coil, and if they're going on averages across all types of gold such as the porous type the 5000 is weak on then they're very likely correct.   If the GPX had a 15" EVO on it for example, then we likely would see different results as the gold its good on it will hit deeper than the 6000.

The biggest problem with the chart is the lack of information given with it, but that lack of information was intentional, as it helps sales of the 6000 that the chart came out to market, and as we all know the new detector on the market has the most potential for sales so it's no problem for them to encourage sales to that rather than the others and they wanted people to "upgrade", they're only competing against themselves anyway with the chart, the chart was without a doubt to encourage GPX 6000 purchases.

What the chart doesn't take into account is when people swap their standard coil to another coil, and then the results can dramatically change and a little disclaimer at the bottom of the chart saying something like this would have gone a long way to giving them some credibility, to me the chart is pushing the boundaries and becoming false advertising.  They just needed to say something like "Tested using standard supplied coils with the package in highly mineralised ground in Western Australia, results may vary with other coils and ground conditions" 

The one thing I learnt when their first "Goldseeker 15,000 detector" came out. Was their hype or it manipulated ability was real come in sucker advertising crap.

5 hours ago, klunker said:

 

  Oh My God! I'm an artifact! If any of you should find me keeled over while out detecting, remove the coins from my pocket and buy a beer, give my detector to a deserving youngster, but DO NOT disturb my remains lest you be fined and imprisoned. You may also want to send a brief note to inform the Smithsonian.

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