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I could weigh my dog on them, not my gold YET.😆

Been there done that mate, but it was a 3.2 kilogram specimen. Luckily if memory good I got 16+ ounces when crushed and panned.

In the latest Miners Den News letter. It might not be suitable for most countries ( partially NZ Simon 😅) as it only goes down to 0.1 grams it could be used with the 6000 if you get a heap of little bits 😁. My only fault is it's upper limit is just over 96 troy ounces which in Australia means it can't not weigh any found above 100 ounces. 😭

The third photo really shows it features. WOW.

Great find. Any date older than your own is a good win. As you get older the date of a good find gets harder.😭

Please please Steve don't shut them down I am trying to legitimize them with my new technology break thru. related to electron magnetic field that occurs 79 times a second when they align in a particular pattern. I know my price is high so the offer is not for sale but hire/rent of $7000 a week but it will need less time than ML GPX6000 to find both small and larger particles of gold. I have a built in chip that will only allow rental time before it shutdown requiring renewable rent to reset it. You may get an idea how it works by looking at the difference in the two diagrams of the electron below caught at different positions. Together, intelligent coding assistance and ergonomic design. The new G_J Model of Gold and Junk detector. Please do not rent or hire, with out checking it's write up on Detector Prospector about it's tuning and effectiveness by S.H. .......... 🤑

Well that means you got a silver penny ..................😂

I noticed a ...3...or...8... or...B... above the first one in 1911 on the edge of the neck. I have not seen that before !!

I was a Garrett's Man but the wife who is always right disagreed and said Whites is better. Now Garrett's has taken over, ha ha ha Carol.

It is nearly a year ago, but what a great specimen and find.

Look what I found in the garage. My old boss died of cancer as are result of Asbestos exposes in power stations and left me his Eagle years ago. What a break through this was. He was able to pull out some great targets in our coin patches that was full of junk. However the gold fields that we dug every signal he had no success. This was the first detector that could beat most operator with technological. Worth a look (...Link....) Lets hope Garrets use the tech. and improve it. ).

How true.

Will this do Rob. 217.78-gram piece of gold (7 plus ounces), roughly the size of a golf ball. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2600204/The-1-5m-golden-nugget-Worlds-largest-single-crystal-gold-discovered.html

What a great photo. You are welcome to dig in my lawn, but between my wife and my self it would be a waste of time. 😄

The last 2 years have been very disappointed. I got to Singapore for a cruise to celebrate your GOLDEN anniversary. It was canceled due to Covid back in 14 Feb 2020. This year they cancelled our Nov 2021 cruise to NZ where we were going to remove all of Simon itchy bitchy teeny weeny nuggets and they canceled that trip due to Covid, which means SIMON has another 12 months to get what remains. I was looking at upgrading my old ML 3000's (analogue detectors to maybe a 6000 or 7000 to go over my old patches ( https://www.detectorprospector.com/forums/topic/11689-nugget-spread) that have no shot gun pellets and the new light weight coils that may somehow overcome my age deterioration due to the lack of freedom in this covid crisis. Well that is the way the cookie crumbles. 😭

I prefer the minimum box, but an upgrade package ( battery, eyephones, wifi/Blue tooth and coils )at discount price has it place for some people.

Their are people with driving licences and those with racing licences. Those with a general licence in the majority can not utilize the ability of the race car. I'm with you Norvic 100%.

As most nuggets (If you can call today's specks nuggets) are smaller than coins, my experience would lead me to an elliptical coil in the 10 by 5 to 8 by 14 inch for general gold hunting. Lets hope the other manufactures bring something in this range.😂

Jim said ...........Some of these new-fangled automobile electronics were NOT designed for outdoorsmen...LOL In 2003 I went to WA and was way out in the desert when I got my first flat in my new Toyota Prado Grande. When I unlock the tyre cover one of the studs had a chrome cylinder lock. Panic I was 40 odd Km from help and the salesman had not given me additional key for it. Carol said try the ignition key which was still in the ignition. It worked. 😂

That is what I did when I started to do churches and needed a smaller plug it work well. I got another tool it was blue and know what I did it did not break but It did get lost. Most tools that need a bit of force like crowbars tend to bend when I put them under strain.

Since Nuggetfinder, Coiltek and other came on the scene I have not used the standard coils that was forced to come with the detector. This is not because they are second rate for the new guy off the street, it because other coil makers make their coils for specific advantages like weight and sizes that fit my requirements.

Generally if you are using a detector for it's designed purpose, the standard size coil is the best all rounded size to use, however maybe not the manufactures model. For specific use in water a low volume coil (ie smaller ,spoked or fiberglass solid ones ) note that coils can be made water proof your self. Water will come in through the wire entrance, pressure relief valve, poor joints of top and bottom casing and any cracks but remember if fully sealed don't leave the coil in the sun as it will blow up like a balloon and cool the coil down before totally submersing it. For depth use a mono round coil that is large enough to be able to see the type of target at the possible depth in those condition. For coverage an elliptical spoked coil in open ground with a width no larger than that can get the depth needed. Finally spoked coils are to be avoided, where they can be fowled by sticks etc.

This gives the detector more time over the ground which should be constant sound/volume output which it adjust to, and the sudden signal from the target is high-lighted when it goes back over the target.

Let just say the way you see it glitter in movies, is as far as you can get away from real gold nuggets and flakes. More so in the case of natural gold still in the environment where they were found.

As phrunt said with more information below. I always lift the coil to a height that still give a definite but low audible volume when using a VLF detector. This give a signal a much more readable signal that is not over-load by size, depth and mineralize ground. I have been doing this since hitting the gold fields since the late 1970s and it helped me find good targets that people have walked a way from or wasted time and effort digging rubbish.