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.

Join the club. 💀

Copy of updated info.

RECENT UPDATE. 22-1-2024

Luke Phillips

Australia

JAN 22, 2024 — 

1 hour ago, Aureous said:

'Public Servants', giving the public a serve. Trying to justify their paycheck and existence. 🙄

Some times it is not only the lawmakers but the stupid enforcement by some 'Public Servants'.  I was once at a beach where the shell fish were a popular food source for free, to the influx of new Australians back then. The area was cleaned out and they made the beach a shell fish reserve to save what was left. All the shell fish were rocked based. The beach was open to the public but they were not allowed to get shell fish. Way back in the early 1980 my boys were digging in the sand quiet deep to make a sand castle, while I was detecting close to them. This official public servant (idiot)said I could not detect here. I asked why . His answer was this is a shell fish reserve. Does that mean my boys can't dig here making their castle. No that's OK was his reply. When I said my holes were not any where as deep, as the boys. The answer was you can't dig here. Many years have past and I have seen many detectorist doing that beach (not I ) and the are not told by the later official beach inspectors. I guess the idiot did not last long. 

The way it was (photos) and the gold won In a DEEP LEAD.

THE WORLD’S RICHEST DEEP ALLUVIAL GOLDFIELD 

                  https://www.buriedriversofgold.org/

Note a lot of info in their tabs and links

As well as above there is a lot of standard coils that people have been forced to buy that are not used so the coil price for it will be low.

1 hour ago, VicR said:

Just remember to add the price of coil, battery & headphones - still a good price , especially if you already have these items in your kit.

 

NOTE: Coil & Powerbank are not included.

The choice can be made by the buyer so his existing coils and powerpack or just buy the the size that fits his requirement.  That alone wins my vote. 

If someone went to court from digging up a coin dated before 1949 it would be hard to prove that the detectorist did not lose it, way back when he was younger.

Most laws are needed because there is a lot people with substantial low IQ, and I am sure some get were they can pass such laws.

Comsonic Metrotec 220. Primarily used by utilities to find buried pipes to 2.5 feet in depth.....Made in 1970s, costing around $750 back then.

Good to see how such a excellent specimen.  🤣 

What vintage was it.

Nice finds.

I wonder how many overseas detectorist are now cancelling their trip to Aus.  😀

I bet most of post here are by those over 60  🫣

 I have made most of those stupid mistakes but the funnies was digging at a tree root. My prospecting mate was filling in a hole at tree root. I said that hole was fairly deep do you mind if see what it sound like, thing  like him it was a tree root. It was a soft broad signal. I said I would have a go at it. I pulled out a two ounce nugget and said that is your, no way and gave to his wife to keep.........Well that sets up the mood for the spot. I got a signal 20 yards away at the base of a tree similar to his nugget. Of cause I went deep but it got softer so I went on the other side of the tree and got the same volume signal after I had dug a deep hole the signal got softer as the coil went in the hole, BUT as I pulled the coil out in disgust the signal got louder as I raised it above ground level. Why, well the tree had grown over a house shoe and was over 2 feet high and was completely invisible and covered with bark. All my hopes up for a bloody horse shoe.  🤣

1 hour ago, phrunt said:

or in mild ground they enhance performance.  Nothing is more exciting here than hitting a gold area after fresh rain, rains pretty infrequent in my gold areas however once a good dumping has taken place the ground lights up.

Simon I found that the moist ground because of salt signal tended to partly neutralize the negative ground that was very hot when the ground was extremely dry in Victoria.  Anyway whether I a'm right or wrong I still did better in moist ground than in bone dry ground.

Although ML makes the best gold detecting machine, I don't like being forced to buy a coil or coil size that I don't want. Because when I buy a new detector I get two, one for the wife and one for myself if I'm in the good book. That means I have two high priced coils that neither of us use. Because I have had great service from Rohan I spend my money with him in preference but the coils that I have made from Coiltex have given me no complaints also.

A good write up Simon....The only place to find more about QED is at  https://www.qedmetaldetectors.com.au/ but note this site is QED Metal Detector manufactured by Interfacion Pty Ltd   "official site"  and most poster are owners of QED so they may be bias.

On 1/18/2022 at 4:34 AM, wltdwiz said:

cold is why i moved to AZ heres me hunting lake Michigan back in the day brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr thats ice in the background & im in a survival suit lol

I have watch enough USA crime shows to know they also wear ORANGE suits, yours look similar. 😜

 

For a while the Aus. 5 cent was the most common test sample used for MineLab detectors. The advantage of using a known coins is that they are consistent in size and metal contents. They can be used for comparing coils, detectors, and depth with others. The 50 cent bit is closer to the size of nuggets I like🤑 4 ounce or greater.  

1 hour ago, Drellim said:

Has anyone ever used silver wire in a coil  being the most conductive  metal  it would be expensive  could it be beneficial  to even use it 

Yes. Made a PI detector in the mid 1980's and made the coil out some left over Main Frame Computer Teflon coated silver connection wire. The whole unit worked very well on test (Known targets) nuggets getting great depth, but was hopeless when searching for targets due to its clicking audio being its down fall.   

Back before I retired in 2003 while at work I decided to make a good database for Historical Mines in Google Earth. I spent a lot of time mining West Aust. Queensland, NSW, Tasmania, Sth Aust. and had already did Victoria (my home state) and used them with great success in W.A. In 2010 I post them on the current Forum "https://golddetecting.forumotion.net/t2273-historical-gold-mines-in-google-earth" after my favourite forum closed down. The GPS value are still available at golddetecting.forumotion ........ One thing that I found that there were a few people selling my free information for $100 a state and advertising them. There has been nearly 20,000 views on this last forum.

8 minutes ago, Valens Legacy said:

Don't be silly, everyone knows that silver bullets are for werewolf's not vampires.

 

😉

Traditional ways to kill a vampire.

1. Stake through the heart. (This actually goes back to keeping people in their graves. Somehow it made it to vampires.)
2. Immerse in sunlight.
3. Chop off the head ideally with an axe. (put a lemon or coin in the mouth and boil the head in vinegar.
4. Immerse in running water.
5. Shoot with a silver bullet (not just any silver bullet, it has to be a silver bullet that a crucifix was melted down to create, and not just any crucifix. it has to have been blessed by the pope - apparently vampires are Catholic) (ordinary silver bullets are good for werewolves.)
6. Throw vampire into a hawthorn bush. So long as said vampire is pricked enough this will supposedly kill it. (Hawthorn is supposed to be holy because the crown of thorns worn by Christ was supposedly made from Hawthorn.)

Do you retrieve the silver bullet after shotting a vampire. 😀 We have similar size gold coins coins here in Australia. The one-tenth ounce coin, $5 face value, is 0.650 inch (16.50 mm) in diameter, contains 0.1000 gold troy ounce and weighs 0.1091 troy ounce (3.393 g). 

Just look for the shallow ground in the area.

A ¼ of an ounce plus for the day. Keep that rate up and you will been in the top income range. 🤑 

6 minutes ago, Aureous said:

Blackmans Lead at Maryborough. Ive got gold quite close to that. According to Dunn's nugget book, it was found at a depth of 6ft on 15th Jan 1858. I also first saw the monument back in the 80's. Brings back memories....

Got a few there also but they were not quite the same size as the one on the Monument. 🤩