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Jasong post is very interesting Simon.

New for 2020 Nuggetfinder Z-Search Coils Release delayed until September 2020 Our new 12" Round Z-Search DOD Coil is coming, however the Covid-19 situation has resulted in some delays with production. The 12" Round will be the first of several coil sizes we will be producing for the Minelab GPZ7000. The 12" Round Coil pictured below weighs in at approximately 1000 grams (Weight Excludes Lower Shaft) The 12" Round Z-Search DOD has been designed to at least match the standard 14"x13" for depth and sensitivity across a broad range of target sizes. The 12" Round will suit any prospector looking to reduce the weight of the GPZ7000 without compromising performance and coil stability. Water Resistant to 1m Supplied with Lower Shaft The standard 14 inch MineLab GPZ7000 weight in at 1500 gm this works out to a 33% reduction in weight and is of the DOD design that the GPZ7000. That Minelab made because it was the most suited for it.

A post on FINDERS. AraratGold wrote: I can confirm that the new N/F GPZ coil will NOT require a patch lead, so that is a distinct advantage. Weight for the 12 inch version is quoted as weighing 990 grams without the lower shaft. In comparison my 12 inch X coil weighs 1120 grams, so the N/F equivalent would appear to be lighter as well. One would think that with the usual quality and performance of Rohan's coils, combined with the lighter weight, and no doubt cheaper price, that X coils will struggle to compete once the N/F coils hit the market. In the meantime, I will continue to hoover with my X coils, that are working just fine ! Cheers, Rick

GB_Amateur I had many of those incidences over the years. The worst was on a farm that was an old Horse Race Course. This other person was detecting down near the entrance and I was a hundred meters away on a hill which I thought would be a good spectators spot. I was getting heaps of silver coins from 1860 to 1920's. The other person came over to me and 10 ft in front of me stopped and dug up a gold sovereign. That meant my wife had got her second gold coin and was now TWO in front of me.😪

My detector does not go quite that deep😀

My uncle used to work in the timber industry back in the 1960's they had a camp for the worker back then. Been through your town many times, and have stayed at your great Caravan Park at least 5 times. Welcome to the Forum.

How did the Aussy coins go on your coin ID against your US coins. You know that you will have to come to Australia to spend them but you may not take our nuggets. ☺️

Simon do you have one of these? or have you set up the QED on a Drone already

Sure can Peg going by my grand kids they are a quarter his age. I am heading towards his age and hope to fit enough to chase gold at 80. 😀

What a great (or should I say LARGE) find. A .....LINK.....to its history.

I don't contest Jim find he "WINS". Since you mention huge nugget, the large specimen in the photo I had to get the Bathroom scales to weight it. The weight was 3.2+ kilo over 7 lb. I smash it and put in the dolly pot and got 16 plus ounces from it alone.

I wanted to go to Alaska and chase gold, when I was a teenager but never got there. It was the 1960 film "North to Alaska" and the landscape that got me really started in gold. It is a little different than here in Australia.😀

I just had a look at this UTube they were in my type of ground.

That is not what happens with my wife, if she finds one we are not going home till I have got one.😬

The balance is a big factor in comfort and endurance. A lighter coil weight is the most effective way to go. Consider what you want, depth or coverage. For depth go for a round coil and a elliptical for covering more area. If you are cleaning up a patch select a round coil suitable for the size and depth of the found gold. Remember a bigger coil (say double size) does not increase the depth by the same rate but the weight nearly does. As for curly cord, HipStick and harness are all a pain in the neck (shoulder.. back.. elbow.. etc) but they are needed some times but lets hope its not because of wrong choice of coil for the job.

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That sounds very similar to Victoria Aust. back in January this year. Now it is August and the worms are drowning in my lawn and suicide on the paths, due to all the rain we have got this winter. The farmers are happy now the drought has broken

Lanny you make it sound hard over there in USA 😉 Over in WA Australia I found about 40 nuggets one afternoon, about half were sitting in the sun having a tan.😎 Most were about 2 or 3 grams in weight.....LINK...... I guess us Ozzie's are a bit blessed or maybe lazy. 😁 Thanks again for your detailed description of your adventure. 👍

Back when I was doing secondary school we had two anvils they were 1 hundred weight and a 2 hundred weight (112 pound and 224 pound) most of us 16 year old could life the 1 Hundredweight but only my mate and I could lift up the 2 cwt. the guys said who was he strongest so we put the 112 lb on top of the 224 lb anvil and tried to lift it my mate dropped it and I won. It was hard to keep the small one on top of the other but I did it 336 pound with no handles.All this came in handy when I notice a anvil in a farmers shed. He was a tough old guy and said if I could lift it, the wife and could detect his property I found out latter that he would not let anyone else on his farm. The second largest fine is this Dingo trap. The largest was a Air Magnetic Aluminium survey marker in the middle of nowhere, but I have no photo. The dingo trap was a Metre (>3 ft) deep, under some hard calcite in virgin ground between two good gold spots. You can imagination my disappointment when I finally got through the calcite to find that a goanna had been caught by it and dragged it 10 ft in to his burrow under the calcite.

I guess it was sun baking. 😉

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Will the 6000 be twice as good for depth than my old trusty 3000? By the way MineLab are as good as you can get, but I don't like the way they push their promotions. JANUARY 2021 UPDATE - Minelab GPX 6000 Revealed!

Here in Victoria Aus. we are in a second wave lock down (COVID-19) for 6 weeks. So did some more tidying up the garage and found some old finds in a jar that I had left unsorted. One was a gold field token from Castlemaine 1859. Another was what I wanted to fill a blank in my shilling collection it was a 1910 I had one for the obverse with a poor date side. The last was a King George lV (4) 1824 shilling it was just about worn out and hard to identify.

Lanny I wish I could express myself like you. Language is the only thing that has disappointed me in life, or should I say spelling and grammar. I have a lot of story that people miss out on because of it, but at least they can enjoy yours.👍

If you are searching for GOLD and you let a large signal go by, it may have been gold in the kilo plus range. Madfish has sum it up to a tee.