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Relic Ray as Chase Goldman said deciding what is the find of a life time varies for every one. The thrill can be a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure or beating your best. I find it hard to say what mine was. Could it be the 4 0z that got me in the ounce club, or 26+ Oz from a patch that I got most of it out in a day, 19 Oz before lunch and the rest after I got the wife and friends out after lunch. Or was it the one of the Kilo+ Patches that I found in West Australia, and I nearly forgot my first nugget ( I must be getting old can not remember were, because the wife beat me by months for the first.😭 ) They all have their good points but the others have some better points. I always thought it would be the 26+ Oz find in one day but it was over in 12 hours, The kilo+ patches although more gold took many weeks to expire, but it was great getting dozens of nuggets a day week in and week out, one of them produced my largest Specimen that yielded over 16 Oz. The best was probably the 4 Oz I found it close to town early in the morning while waiting for my prospecting mate to finish his last night shift before we hit a new patch together that day. It maybe my next, lets hope so the pleasure of detecting. At the moment yours is the ½ cent that may or may not turn into a nickel so enjoy it. The worst that can happen is original value will be worth 10 time more. Keep up the good work and keep us up to date with your progress.

Joe my friends said I would be wasting my money on that shirt as no more than obversion is required to determine that when I am detecting.

I am more than impressed with your finds in photo N°1 and N°3 what a haul. I guess when the GPX 6500 comes out with discrimination that rivals a good VLF detector, coins and jewellery will have no chance at all of hiding. More than well done and thanks for your report.

It depends on what you do or want to do. If you fossick ( fossicking) is prospecting especially when carried out as a recreational activity in abandoned or flogged mining areas, then you will be best getting a detector that can get very small nuggets. This requires a very careful and skilled efforts to get worth while amount in dollars but pleasure in the numbers that you can get, and less skunk days. If you prospect (prospecting) involves roaming likely areas on foot looking for direct indications of ore mineralization in outcrops, sediments, and soils and other attempts that have been done by others(old- timers) . It involves swinging a detector over large area of ground trying to get a target that is easy for the detector to pick up. This requires a persistent effort with an eye for the soil and terrain and knowledge of the area. A light weight detector that can find nugget with little swinging effort as a large area and varying ground condition have to be covered and a lot of days with no nuggets. Personally I have specked many nuggets while swinging the detector, some were noticed first by the detector up to 5 ounces. You gain knowledge of prospecting by fossicking in the area that you go to. This will save a lot time of learning the ground and you have somewhere to go when the skunk days get massive. Best of luck with your selection below are two one ounce plus nuggets found sitting on top of the ground note that the left one has moss on it so it was not a sunbaker 😄

It would not be needed if the public could read. 😊

We can't grow more shallow nuggets, but if they ran some Mr T shows on TV we could grow some lost heavy gold jewellery. 🤤

Both are correct but you spelt it wrong. 😁

Great beach but the other one on the aerial map is my favourite one guess why.

Looking at the other links on your link I found ....Silver Collection Hallmarks.... the range of hallmarks is massive.

I am not too slow at learning😁 but I have been bitten by the yellow face jumping jack ants too many times. To me they are the worst sting I have had. We have Bull ants over an inch long and they need to be avoided but I would prefer a bit from them than the Jumping Jacks that are less than half an inch but jump a good six inches to get me.

The 4 posts sums it up. I had success with both but as a prospector my answer would be bias but in the case of rings they are marketable but nuggets are hard to part with.

Great day mate, nice to see the small 2$ coins beat the 1$ which was my experience even though they are smaller. The top and bottom 50 cents must of been too deep for the competition to get that amount of crud on them.

They are bad. My brother in law while chasing gold near Warick, nearly lost his leg from a tick but the same can happen with a Crocodile but you know when they bite you.😁

If you selected Mono on the Older MineLab with a DD coil you will see what happens. The detector will pick up smaller nuggets easier switching back to DD if you lost the signal it was shallow but if you got a good signal it was at a good depth for the size of the nugget however if you swapped to a the same size Mono you would get deeper nuggets (in most ground) than the DD if the Mode switch can be used in that location. As I have said in my above post the rule of thumb is, the area of the same style coil will have the same amount of current driven by the same amount voltage (FET discharge). If the area is half the field is doubled. For a 14" coil (Area 196 sq inches) half that area is equivalent to a 10" coil (Area 100 sq inches) so if the target is close it will have twice the signal generated. If the signal received is small then the larger coil will not register on the detector. If the target is deep and large then the half strength field will generate a large enough signal for the detector to pick up the target. Another rule of thumb is for the size of target the coil is design for is related to the width of the coil of the same design. In the early days of PI detectors Coiltek made a very small small 8" by 6" DD Elliptical coil. As the smaller coils are harder to use in hot ground the DD was very capable of finding Flysh!t nuggets that most coils had no hope of finding. Later on Nuggetfinder made a similar size coil in mono ( Sadie) that was also deadly on small gold. The wife found the size and weight of both these coils was the best coils for her. In the worst ground the DD was best but in most grounds the mono was better for depth. So to compare coils remember who (you) is using it, the nature of the nugget size, depth of ground and size and weight of the coil. I was going to say the manufacture and reliability, but this post was started by "COILTEK" and they are looking at alternative coils for your detector so give them a fair go when deciding your choice. Remember these guys make coil for a living and should be able to answer what is best for you if you work out what your requirements are. I forgot to mention the speed that the coil is used at. The faster covers more area but slower gets more depth so go slow if using a large coil to get extreme depth on larger nuggets and the reverse if it has shallow gold spread wide and sparse.

I will not say what I and other Aussy have put up with in Aust. but if you are worried about that list DO NOT COME TO AUST and steal our GOLD😄 ☠️😁

What is the best Coil. When will people know that that it depends on the job that it has been selected for. (ie size of nugget targeted, the depth of that size nugget, the amount of ground that has to be covered to be payable (value or satisfaction), the amount of time being used, the person using it (ie Skill, strength or size of user), the shielding needed or type used. Most know that the smaller the coil the smaller or shallower the nuggets can be detected. The larger the coil the bigger and deeper the nuggets can be detected. Small coils can find big nuggets and large coils can find small nuggets it all depends on the depth and size of them at the location being used. The comparison of coils are more the about Area of the coil not the diameter of the coil for a given design (ie mono,DD,DOD and Concentric). So what does all this mean to Coiltek , Nuggetfinder, X-Coil and for that matter MineLab. is that a different coil is required for Me in Victoria and West Aust. a different one for Steve in different states in USA, a different one for JP in Queensland and WA and not leaving out NZ Phunt will require different ones too. To sign off I use a coil in the Mono type elliptical about 14" by 8" the most and found the most gold with that range, however my larger Mono and DD coils have found more gold than "the normal coil" per hour but the hours used are very low and they are used for cleaning up not finding the gold locations.

Remember the Big Foot Coil. It covered a wide sweep but shallow depth (larger deeper nuggets not the best) With today nuggets that have not had steroids pumped into them (flysh!t size) this design would give good coverage and could access tight spots. By the way smaller nuggets spread out a lot more than those above a pennyweight. What is Your's and Coiltek view. I think this add was made by some of the former ML marketing guys. 😜

17 oz that is nearly a pound and a half troy. That is a solid centre piece for any display.

Felt it here in Latrobe Valley, it was a good shake. I had one in PNG that I could not walk down the hallway to the kids bedroom without being bounced from one wall to the other. About 1977 had another in Guam that knockout the Island TV receptions. The Old Power Stations Transformers in my Area used a Gas/Oil surge protection that would of tripped with todays shake. 50 years ago I inspect the high voltage electrical equipment after an Earthquake in Morwell and found damage to the the cables exiting the 11,000 V Generator that had to be shutdown till repaired.

No Aluminum Aussie coins 92.5% or 50% silver with the kings head most likely 92.5% but 50% from 1946 to 1966.

I once saw a Garrett wrapped around a tree on the gold field. Here was a chance to get some spare parts for my Garrett how ever he must of been upset as nothing was salvable. 😭

I am sure that is not right, wait till the new generation of Minelab detectors come out that go 40% deeper and does it all for you.😁

You was too quick, don't every thing grows faster in the sun.😀

I have the best support bushwalking boots here in aust. that I use when off-track. The main reason I have them is while detecting during the 80's I did a small jump across a loaming trench and hear a load shot like sound. It was my Achilles heel tendon snap. I took 6 weeks to be able to walk normal. luckily it was still connected, but over 30 years later I can feel that scare that it caused. SO WATCH OUT for your footwear choice.