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Should we up grade from this SD2100 🤣 I like the depth comparison.

What I'm wasting my time fiddling with the controls. as ML knows more that I can get out of it.😀

I am not sure what is the best feature in the photo the smile or the find.✨

I use a small pick most of the time. I do not have access to welding equipment but when my pick got too short I went to a car muffler shop and got the guy to tig weld a a small handy man jackhammer changeable tip to my pick. It was a great mod. I noted that a super magnet is attached to the pick. I moldered some epoxy putty around the magnet so no edges  are on the back of the pick which allows me to remove all steel and hot rocks with one swipe of the hand. 

Quote.......Problem is I can't find any place where legally you are allowed to go prospect. I checked Papua New Guinea, which I think has an amazing potential for nuggety gold based on the geology I've read. It's incredibly dangerous too. But sadly foreigners aren't really allowed to prospect and every square inch is privately owned.

I took a job in PNG way back in 1973 for 6½ years at the final construction stage and initial copper/gold mine (the largest in the world. I packed my gold pan to do some prospecting as there was a remote gold mine at the mine site. At that stage PNG was under Australian care and control and finally self government. Law and order as we knew it was far removed, and the advice I took was to donate gold pan to the locals. I have been considering writing an article about a hike to the 1930s gold mine when I get time. The job set me up for life by the way.

National parks should be to preserve vegetation and native animals at the same time let the owners (Australian citizens ) to enjoy their environment. I have been in these places many times in the last half century, the damage is non existent from bushwalkers, hunters and hobby prospector. However big mining as been allowed in national parks ( for example Ranger mine lease in Kakadu for one.) The rules that are enforced have at times been ridicules like the times times I have been informed you can not detect on the dry sand (below the high tide line) and dig a small hole that was half the size of the hole a small child was digging within 10 feet of me because it was a national park. The problem is once it is reassign it will not be returned to simple crown land like it used to be.😢

I had not heard of a trime till found this site. Is it a slang name for 3 cents. I see it is smaller than out 3 pence  (slang ... thruppence) our smallest sterling coin. 3d --16.22mm compared to 3c -- 14mm. The 3d was my most common silver coin find but the hardest to detect but it helped that a lot of people missed them. 😂 

GB_Amateur can't name the source but it was major gold information site but could of been Australian dollars. USA gold price was locked until the early 1970's that is correct and after that silver followed gold up till the Hunt brothers

"Silver manipulation
In the last nine months of 1979, the brothers profited by an estimated US$2-4 billion in silver speculation, with estimated silver holdings of 100 million troy ounces (3,100 t). "

Quote........Historic ratios for comparison
The average gold/silver price ratio during the 20th century, however, was 47:1. Over the past 20 years, the ratio has averaged right around 60:1. Thus, the current ratio of 85 is very high historically and nearly 60% above the 20-year average.10 Sept 2018

I have updated my files for historical goldmines in Google Earth and have put them in PDF file that makes it simple to get the type and state that you want.

Historical Gold Mines in Google Earth.pdf

Good question does the 6000 decide a "default" for the coils features (size and type) and how long does it take for the GeoSense-PI™ to sense that a coil has been changed and make the required adjustment.

Norm I have been in a lot of forum, and have seen a lot of good people some have now gone but you are still here, and are one of the top people that I have enjoyed following. Don't get too upset with the bad news there is always some hope to enjoy what time you have left.

 I had a good health record except some bad accidents that were considered very bad head injuries. That changed 6 years ago with AF that they could not control even with drugs, pacemaker, Catheter ablation and Cryoablation. That worked for awhile (1 year) three weeks after getting an A plus from the specialist I had a Cardiac Arrest at home on the lawn. The pacemaker recorded that I had no heart beat for over 22 minutes. Luckily with 30 minutes of rapid CPR and a helicopter trip to Melb. 100 miles away the medical staff saved me Not forgetting them telling the Wife that chances of making it would be highly unlikely and if I did there would be lot of brain damage. Now the electric of my heart are totally reliant  on an auto ICD with a defibrillator. Well  I beat the odds now it is your time to do the same.

 Stephen Hawking had ALS. The average life expectancy after diagnosis is two to five years, but some patients may live for years or even decades. (The famous physicist Stephen Hawking, for example, lived for more than 50 years after he was diagnosed.) so the odds are different for every one.

Let hear some more of your gold expeditions and other enjoyable memories, and don't let the bad news ruin the time that you have.

Regards Geof.

Mate you still got more coins than junk articles and that's the aim.

How far will the electric drive and metal bit have to be above the coil?????

Just remember a lot of things are dangerous in Oz even coffee.😈

They say get the best detector and the best trainer it will save you a lot of time and frustration. However any training is better than none, I know how much I could of saved if there were courses available. A limit amount books were around back then and they help a lot. Now you are retired you will think you have plenty time to detect but you would be wrong. It is very additive and you are growing older every day.😁

Eucalypts reveal their veins of gold.pdf

 I hate hype.

Now every ML detector has had a 20% increase in performance in their hype. If they mean for a nugget that the SD2000 could get at 6" deep (the norm for VLF detectors.) Then  SD2000 gets 100% so SD2100 gets 120% and the  SD2200 gets 144% and the GP extreme gets 173% and the GP3000 gets 207% and the GPX4000 gets 248% and the GPX 4500 gets and the GPX5000 298%  and the GPZ7000 358%  in depth over 3½ times deeper than the SD2000. This is not the fact as I got a 5 oz specimen 19+ inches deep (with an old VLF 1980) if this was the case the GPZ7000 would have to detect it at 66½ inches or over 5½ feet deep most wimps today would quit at 3 ft and the power required to achieve this would exceed 2000 times that of the SD2000 and it battery would be dead flat in a few minutes. However ML would not lie so the thing is that they are using a yard stick that is different than most people think. MY way of thinking is that they are comparing the worst case scenario of the previous detector with that which the new model excels in. So when you look at advertising details keep this in mine.  There appears to be some excellent improvements  in the GPX6000 that would be of high advantage for me that I would consider but not yet.

The only Cemetery Hunt  that I have done was in the early days of gold prospecting in Maryborough Vic.  as it was built in the middle of a gold lead. Others had done better than me but I was rewarded with a small amount of gold.

9 hours ago, kac said:

Those little weeds scare ya? My neck of the woods they are knee high, luckily I am barely allergic. Buddy mine catches it if I send him a pick haha

You yank guys are wimps.😁 You try what us  Aussies have to put up with. ( just kidding)

What is the most painful plant in the world?

Dendrocnide moroides

The most commonly known (and most painful) species is Dendrocnide moroides (Family Urticaceae), first named “gympie bush” by gold miners near the town of Gympie in the 1860s.

Gympie gympie (Dendrocnide moroides), a potentially lethal species of Australian stinging tree. ... The sting can cause excruciating, debilitating pain for months; people have variously described it as feeling like they are being burned by acid, electrocuted, or squashed by giant hands.28 Sept 2018

I love tokens they are very rare to coin (mintage numbers) and have a story that coins do not have. Finding an old token is very rare and most don't find them.

20 hours ago, rvpopeye said:

You're probably right about needing Wheaties (or spinach ) but , I'm sure all I'd need is a minute or two......I have a new invention , I call it a Levitation Whistle , I only have to blow it and all the targets come up to within 2" of the surface ...It's true I tell ya !😁

Don't tell anybody , OK ?

Keep it to your self or there will be no target left for you.😁

As most detectorists go to the most likely spots to find gold, I can see the GPX6000 to be the detector to go to. I am sure JP and not forgetting other experts will be looking in other locations even if it is deeper to get some deceit weight close to hot spots due to their expertise. In old posts JP got attacked from a trip for saying that he had got over a thousand nuggets. One thousand nuggets as Jason said"But 1000 0.03 gram dinks is only 30 grams, not even a troy oz." Looking at a very limited UTube videos 1000 times many minutes in getting them, with my experience I will be continuing using my old GP-3000 looking for untapped new ground for new patches or an extra depth that can be gotten with later detectors/coils design that concentrate on acheaving deaper /large nuggets in known ground. To back up my thoughts, In my first double ounce patch we hand dug down up to 18 inches to bed rock. Yes we got a few nuggets that were out of range but the total weight was not worth the effort less than ¼% of the total. When we get a detector that goes very deep I will go over the deeper ground and hope it pays for the cost of a new detector. JP and other pros are still using their GPZ as their main deep searching gold detector to earn their income. Now lets be realist there are prospector and fossickers most start off as fossickers and realy enjoy finding gold no matter how small in size (skill in metal detecting) and value however some are more interested in prospecting that is finding new locations (hard to do but sometimes very rewarding) as their challenge after their lust for gold move to the next level. Considering all of the above I thing that the GPX might be a good patch finder.

I once got a 2 oz bit out of an erosion control trench about 50 meters below a mined quartz vein. This was back in the early 1980s and I was using the wife's detector. The nugget was visible in the trench and looked like an 1½ inch steel nut. Her Whites 6000 had motion discrimination my detector did not. I tried the discrimination from min to max and it did not reject. When I pick it up I knew I had a good piece of gold. Back at caravan park I show it to a few professional prospector that I know. All of them said iron junk till I dropped it in their hand. Prior to it acid bath it could be dragged across the table with a super magnet but was unable to lift it up from the table. The gold looked pitted when cleaned and that is it in the photo below bottom right.  

The chart is to sell GPX6000 and not harm the GPZ7000. So if I was selling the 6000 I would show it best features (getting 1.0 to 0.05 gram bits at depth.) and show the 7000  best features (getting 1.0 to 100 gram lumps at depth.) This would be done by putting the bits as deep as the 6000 can get them, of cause at that depth the others detectors are out of range.