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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? 

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.  

2 hours ago, Norvic said:

Yeah AU I have been told be a month + too

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....  

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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.

4 minutes ago, deathray said:

Hey brother, never seen your vids until this thread started, now I watched them all this weekend. Fantastic vids, and the lifestyle I'm envious of man. I hear ya on.people doing wierd crap. My friends that did the vids here in Cali, went through it too, after they posted a video of a 4 ouncer found. My buddy Ron, tried to throw people off the track by doing things like adding a train sound in the background of one, taking different vehicles, etc. People get nuts man. 

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.

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53 minutes ago, phrunt said:

  360 nuggets for 30 days, 645grams. The biggest nugget was 320 grams.

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.

42 minutes ago, Tony said:

I don’t have a problem with a “wife detector” so long as it has an effective “noise cancel”…….🤔

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.

43 minutes ago, Goldseeker5000 said:

Had a good day today lost track of how many nuggets I found. That's always a good thing, I suppose. 5.1 g. New hole is paying off.

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

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