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I wonder if that was the owner birth year, if so it would be sterling silver coin / pin if owner was was born prior to 1946 instead of 50% silver. Great and unusual find. 🤩

That is what i like to see. Blisters or Callus on the hands is proof that they were well earned. 🙂

As for my 'progress'....I'm now at 24.8gm, 156 bits of gold. 125 hours detecting. Pic is of last 4 grams found.. That is a tenth of a penny weight per target average. That's an excellent result 200 bits to make an ounce it won't take long to reach your goal.

Valens Legacy the only draw back is the metal in the shoes and Helmet. 😉

Red back soft toe is the best bet for wear, comfort, and detecting. NB ½ sizes are a wide fit. https://threadandink.com.au/products/redback-soft-toe-slip-on-elastic-side-boot-ubok?variant=31283000213602&currency=AUD&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=google+shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhKecxdKx-AIVUilyCh2sOwXoEAYYASABEgIZSfD_BwE

From an old news paper. HOW TO RECOGNISE BEDROCK. A very brief inspection of old workings will toon enable the "new-chum" to recognise the bedrock of a river when he reaches it in sinking a shaft. It Is usually soft and decomposed just where the alluvial deposits rest on it, and in that condition is often known as "pipeclay" on account of its whiteness. A few feet further down, however, the slaty structure become visible, the rock gets harder, and the colour changes to yellow, grey, and other darker tints. Down to this bottom the prospector sinks and takes up the stuff immediately resting on it with a few inches of the bottom Itself, as gold often lodges down in the crevices. In very shallow ground open trenches in various directions, or a number of holes at short intervals, are sufficient to enable the ground to be tested, but in deeper ground it is necessary to open drives from the bottom of the prospecting hole so as to try the stuff along the bottom in any direction desired. The object is to test the gravel resting on bedrock, as that is the most likely to contain gold. In some ground not a foot should be passed over without panning it, as it is not at all uncommon for gold to occur in certain narrow "runs," while promising looking stuff on either side is valueless. While the Importance of working the gravel on the river bottom is greatly stressed, It is always advisable to pan any layer of gravel passed through In sinking a hole. Old, abandoned ground, If it has not been too often reworked, will frequently be found to afford a living, or an occasional patch or nugget, if again carefully worked. The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 28 February 1931 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/

Most of us know that it is fiction but let pretend. 👌

With Jed and one for Whiskey Jack looking over the team I'm sure some great glory holes will be found.

So long as it is not your DOG coil Reg. 🤣

How true for most people, but you can be fooled till it gets in your hand. I remember during the early VLF days I got a signal in a contour channel that was done to stop erosion. At this stage of detecting I had found over 50 ounces of gold. That day I was using my wife's Whites Detector when I got the target. I looked down and saw what look like an inch sized rusty nut. I decided to see how well her detector discriminated. It did not reject it like my Garretts would of done (if Iron), so decided to take it back to the Van and show her. It was a real surprise when I got it in my hand it felt heavier than if it was made out of lead, then I knew it was a good nugget. The nugget was a 2 ounce bit once soaked in full strength HCl acid. Before I cleaned it I asked a couple of full time prospectors what they though it was. They all said junk till I dropped in their hand. By the way, in it original form/state I could drag it along the table top with a super magnet much to everybody's surprize.

One of my GP3000 had a replacement board under warranty when 2000 miles from home in West Australia. Lost a week detecting with it, but good service. All of my ML coils have had no faults or for that matter nearly no use.

How much gold was recovered.

It is not gold but if you only want to prove it is gold, put it in some strong spirit of salt (HCl acid) for a while it will remove/ dissolve the none gold coating and maybe the lot of your find.

Just being out there getting any targets is all that matters, with the exception of flip tops and I see none in your photos, so that must of been more than rewarding for you. 😄

klunker You bring up a good point, here in Australia and some other countries the rules are so tight to get one legally it is a real effort that most of us find it is better to forget it and do without a gun. Outside the USA the public owning or wanting a military multi/auto shot gun is a laughing matter. If you need a gun, a single shot should be more than required and would ensure that the owner learns how to uses it with one shot to get his target (not multiple innocent public.) Klunker post is in my opinion very appropriate at the moment.👏

It does show NZ 💯. Parker Schnabel, his early episodes are great with his Grand Father helping him find gold. It must be hard to do the shows which helps build the interest in prospection, when he is the drawcard and still try to be true to real prospecting and not media demands.

My main complaint about MineLab coils is that I have to buy one. I can't buy a ML detector without the extra cost of their expensive coils, that I have only used for testing the detector against coils that are made elsewhere that fit my special requirements. So many ML coils sitting in the shed, that cost a large fortune because I had to buy them to get a ML detector. This money could of been used to buy another ML detector without a coil or other detecting equipment. Who is in the same boat wasting resources paying for coils that are not used. 😢

Why is everyone surprised when ML is involved.

Has anyone seen this "combined-pinpointer and digger or something similar. https://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t27544-combined-pinpointer-and-digging-tool

Over 2½ Tonne of quartz to crush up by hand from low level gold ore. If they are lucky they might get a gram of gold. 🤢

Sorry MATE, but how much concrete re-enforcement mesh did you use. I hope it worked, or poor old PAUL will have to spend all of his time in the pub without his stolen detector equipment that he left with you. 🤣

Glad you are back. I needed this daily dose of this medicine. 👻 I am sure other were suffering withdrawal pains too.

Perth is a great city well laid out and the Perth Mint is worth seeing. Meekatharra had more iron bars and house anti-break in equipment than we had when I lived in Bougainville (Croc Gold Island) Papua New Guinea. I had a quick look around Meeka got a one bit of gold but moved on the next day.

I have advised Australian Border Force that a gold smuggler is trying to get into Australia wearing thongs (flipflops), shorts, singlet and the real giver away he has a Yank Accent. I think that will slow you down Paul. 😊

There is more gold in that statement that has been said for a long time. Doing this will also let you know what works and does not work as well. Other people setting are only a starting point. I would add that you go back a yard\meter or so and detect at your normal speed and over lap and see how the signal responds as you go past it.