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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?

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.

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.

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 🤐

Jasong you have taken the word out of my mouth, the only thing left to say is ensure it does not pick up a nearby Garrett in action. Lets hope other manufactures take note of your requirements.

Great photos.

It good to see a real prospector's hand.😀 It shows that you deserve what you got and a lot more. 🤣

The original Whites eagle 1991 is great If you like the White's XLT Spectrum. What do you think of my 1991 Eagle it still in the garage and I bet it still works with my battery mod's. You "prefer to get something "not so advanced" where owner has to set many manual settings". I'm sure the Eagle is not as advance as the XLT. 😁

"Dog gone it" I have not found one of those, not even 9 Carat that is a keeper. Well done.

I brought a Garrett ADS Deepseeker one of the top detectors for my wife. I was a gold dredger at the time and was not keen on detecting. As females know more than us mortal men, I was converted. Carol was not impressed with the Garrett so I got her a Whites Coinmaster 6000 the ease of use and the discrimination (for coins etc) she was as happy as a girl in a jeweller shop with a credit card. I inherited the Garrett and I recon that it went deeper than the Whites though Carol disagreed. The Garretts was difficult detector for most people but I had confidence in it and found much gold. Back in those days the top detectors cost 4 ounces of gold each (That is 8 oz to get in front with gold). Since then all my upgrade have been with scrap gold, less than a gram nuggets and crappy gold rings. About 4 years after the first detector I brought the first Aust. version of their Whites GoldMaster which I think Jimmy Sierra had a copy later of it. It was a great detector as I did not use the Garretts much after this I gave it to a work mate that was interested in detecting. In the late 1980s before MineLab came out with the early 1990s Pulse Induction detector I made a PI detector from an Electronic Magazine that I up-graded the components and adjustability including a coil that I made with Teflon coated Silver wire.. It would detect deaper than our gold detectors however the speed of the swing was too slow for me and the Audible was of the old Geiger clicking system which was not to my liking. My brother in law got one of the early ML PI detectors I was not impressed on it performance on the size of gold we were getting at the time. Due to it price and the amount of time and gold that I would use it for, was limited I did not buy a ML detector till the GP series was release and I had retired early and decided to hit West Australia. The gold finds did elevate with the detectors (2 detector at a cost of 8 oz total early 2000s ... 20+ years after the first detector purchased ) and location that suited my detecting style. The point of this post is way back then USA made Garretts and Whites were the top detectors. They are now combine and have the ability to produce one of the best detector today. Lets hope they have learnt their lesson and get on track, and use the combined Garretts and Whites technology and make an acceptable PI at a non ripoff price for most Hobby Enthusiasts. Well we can only dream. 🥺