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The price increase can be due to the dollar rate comparison. Since Cov-19  the AUD against the US has had a range of less than 60 cents to over 77 cents. That means a $100 Aust made coil would of been $60 US is now $77 US which is well over 25% increase in the last 12 months. You all are lucky the MineLab GPX6000 and others are no longer made in Australia unlike NuggetFinders and Coiltex are made in Aus. So I think there will be some price changes or reduced margin for the manufactures. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.

2 hours ago, vanursepaul said:

Put some of the seats in the shed!

You could use them around the campfire after a hard day's work but you will have to take your thongs of first to keep the seats clean. 😁

46 minutes ago, Cascade Steven said:

a small plastic bottle for nuggets. 

A big plastic bottle, just kidding but have a visible container that can be found easy if you drop it. White is not the best in quartz areas. Use one  like this one with a different cap.

I think the big thing to watch out for is the belief that you need it now or someone else will get the nuggets that the other detectors missed. The good spots would of been tested by the tester anyway. The only thing that you might get is small, like the 400 odd nuggets in the photo below that I got on a trip a few years ago.

10 hours ago, normmcq said:

 i have found several one or two nugget finds that didn't turn out to be more than that, a one or two nugget patch.

                                                Norm 

Ditto

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Expand Quote.... and just zoom out on the photo till you get the coin to the correct size on your screen and you will see the true size of the nuggets/specks. You may need your glasses.😁

Do you think the use of sticks/rods in your hands to find hidden/unseen gold in the ground, helped in the idea of developing the metal detector and the uptake of using them. 

I found a 51/2 oz nugget with my eyes once and I am sure if I was dowsing at the time the wires would of been spinning like helicopter blades.

Sometimes while swinging my Minelab divining rod it amazes me how it suddenly turns me  off at 90° and find a nugget up to 100 meters away😉. But have had no success with the bought or homemade ones.😭 

It was a great article Eric.

It will not be long before you can not even walk into a National Park to see the trees and that will include Greenies too etc.

Some have history. My Great Aunty back in the 1901 onwards use to collect the mail for the family group at Sheffield Tas for the village in the sticks.

The old rule you need 64 times the power to double the depth so a little power reductions will not reduce the depth much at all, but will get rid of the noise.

Jason I found on the initial EMI tune I make sure all electronic devices a switch on. That includes GPS, Radios, CB and most all my companion Metal Detector. This procedure has solved a lot of interference from other devices for both my self and others. 

Some like poaching eggs but don't fry your egg mate.😁

That saddle reminds me of a reef in Vic. that crossed a saddle like that. My mate found a number of bits of gold heading down the slope. While he was working down hill I went up hill to have a look of the area for more reefs running parallel to it. I only walked a few feet and hit a multi gram bit. We found out that the incline of the reef was against the slope and found a few more bits on each side of the visible reef quartz up hill of it where it was eroded away. So if you are looking for reefs it pays to see the direction and incline of it on the map first.

I can see that in US$ due to the AUD$ rise against it, but that should drop the price in AUD$ due to it's value gain. But I guess profit is the only name in the game for investors.😭

As JR said. Here is a link to plug.

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I would set up a solar system to the Car/4WD battery and use the cigarette plug to charge you detector battery with the regulated ML charger. This will not work if you are going on foot for a few days, a second battery or two is require and if a light weight ones are used they can be used for half day trips. 

On 1/26/2021 at 1:18 PM, jrbeatty said:

One of the Garrett Deepseekers better finds- with its discoverer:

Kevin found that 1980. The million dollar nugget. I think most prospector dream of. I was sitting around the camp fire with a few full timer in Leonora 25 years later. Kevin turn-up and joined us. He got his $1,000,000 house on millionaire hill in Perth but here he was roughing it  out in the desert with his wife just to go detecting for enjoyment. At this stage he was using a ML detector. 

This photo was taken in the early stages of development. It looks very light and robust. The face has been distorted to protect tester the grey hair does not match JP but it was taken in Leonora Caravan park way back. 😉

I ended up with a new Garretts DeepSeeker because she was more at home with the Whites 6000d. I had one problem with it and went and saw Arnold Muller the victorian dealer (The Aust importer was WA based). As I needed it for a prospecting holiday he said mail it or drop in at Kilmore over a 100 miles away, which I did. He looked at it as soon as I got there and said it major problem. The next thing he did was got a new mother board and replace it within minute. What a difference that made, I found gold and coins every where I went.

The DeepSeeker  was a big success in Vic and WA and followed up with the 15000Hz A2B that cleaned up Beggary Hills (considered very hot ground) till the PI came out and was very successful in WA.  

One of the first places in West Aust. were gold was found is Marble Bar. I saw some Jasper it is a beautiful rock but was to big to take home.😀

Most snakes are defensive but try to avoid people. However the ones we have to avoid is the Brown and Tiger Snake it will attack you at certain times mainly the Brown. My kids used to scare people with the legless lizards that mimic the Young Brown Snakes on the Vic gold fields as they could tell the difference and catch them.

The rings I got that were broken, were due to the cutting and re-sizing for smaller fingers. Most were 9 karat and were gold soldered together. However I maybe wrong.

It's the finding that really counts, I know a lot of people put them in jar and forget about them like me. Finding them the second time in the jar brings back some good memories.

Eric the locations I gave you are the official ones but they can be wrong due to the source. David did a lots of study of other records to I would check them out if it was me.