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  1. 2 hours ago, Dave63 said:

    What you found is the detectable gold. Dry washing those concentrated areas could pay well.

    Those areas are the remains of dry blowing locations in West Australia that have been graded by full time prospectors. The only available reliable water source, is only from wind mills for many miles in WA.

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  2. I like to detect in virgin ground. When I goto a new gold field-town I test the known spots to see what the ground is like.The screen shots below show that it has been bladed and detected. The first one is a  200 metre circle and the second is 150 metre across. Both spots are in a 2 km area. As these have been detected before it does not show the natural spread of gold, but shows the spread that I got. 

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  3. This is a patch already detected by a guy that sent us there to see if there was any thing left. We had ML 3000 the same as him. We got 40 nuggets most over a gram and a 8 gram bit. The scale is shown on the bottom for 100 metre. The circle is 400 metre across with an area of about 125,000 square metres. The smallest distance between nuggets is approx 6 metre and some nuggets were over 100 metres apart. As luck (bad) goes I got the first on the right hand side of the road/track and only got one more, on that side before I got to the left side of the road. For the sake of clarity of the screen capture I did not include one more nugget 100 metre SouthWest of the circle. This patch showed how you can miss nugget if you don't chain/grid a large area when you find or shown a spot

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  4. Thanks for the comments guys. I only just had a chance to go on line today. 

    Kiwijw the guy in the 4wd looked like an Aussie with his detecting thongs on, but the "gooday mate " in a yankee accent gave him away.🤐

    I see no-one else has put up a map of their gold spread in a similar map so I guess I will have to put another one or two when I get time. At the moment I am getting setup for our 50th Wedding Anniversary on Valentine day (14/2/2020). Flying to Singapore to get on a cruise to Kelang(Kuala Lumpur),  Peneng, Phuket, Bali and back to Singapore. I will see what I can do with another map if time permits.

    The small circle has an area as large as 3 Football playing grounds even though it is in the rich area a lot of time was needed to get those nuggets just try mowing that much lawn with a hand pushed "lawn mower". 

    If you have found 2,3 or more nuggets anywhere please post a map/google screen shot of them with a scale to show how far they are apart. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, mn90403 said:

    I have thought about my original posting and the replies and have 'modified' the 'have you paid for it' measure.  I would say now ... how much more would you budget if the detector you are currently using is still finding treasure and nuggets?  Why get a new detector?

    Many of us could 'justify' getting an Equinox based upon known information and hype.  The same can not be said for the Vanquish.  I didn't say the same thing for a Monster.  (I'd rather miss Monster gold while using a Zed!)  I've had dealers tell me that what I have now is better than that model for what I do which is spend a lot more time at this detecting business than a two or three times a year type of family.

    There were two factors that made me buy the Zed.  I thought it was a better machine and technology than my 5000 and I didn't want you hitting my patches with one before I did!  I just thought if I spent enough time at it with a Zed it would pay for itself.  I've found a lot of gold with it and some of it was unseen gold with other detectors but I've spent too much time on old patches rather than find new.

    One fact working in my favor which may pay off the detector without finding another gram is that the price of gold is going up and I've not sold any of my finds.  I already have 'enough' gold to pay off the detector when gold hits $2000 per ounce.

    Mitchel

    You might need a GPZ-7000 to go over done patches, but not for finding a new patch, and I know new patches pay exceptionally well far better than getting missed gold on flogged patches. 

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  6. A guy I got to know in 1980 told me the story of the 36 oz nugget he used as a door stop in his "trash and treasure" shop. He and two other Pro gold detectorist were out one day when he got a large signal his bother saw him and shouted out that's a large bit of JUNK the other guy said I hit that too. George said he dug it up and the other two could not believe what he got.

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  7. My wife and I have paid all our detectors off with Gold but have also paid them off with coins and jewelery from park,schools and sea side. On one lucky holiday trip to a beach in Queensland I got over 50 gold rings and the wife got a share too. But all up, the bad part is the hourly rate was less than a dollar an hour. At least we did not run out of having fun.

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  8. Just my view.   

    1  You would of got most of the gold in the area that you went over if discrimination was not used.

    2   The time spent digging those target might be better spent getting more on the fringes of the junky area.

    You have been a member for awhile so I am sure you knew this any way, but it may help some one else.

    So let us know how you killed the Skunk, make it quick ☺️

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  9. 1 hour ago, kiwijw said:

    Me too flakmagnet. Bloody lead 🤬

    JW 🤠

     

     I made a point of taking all my lead home from all trips when I weight some of the lead that I melted.It just exceeded 5 stone a bit more than the "Hand of Faith" but it was worth a very small fraction of the  "Hand of Faith"  so I stopped digging it up taking it all home. 🤣

  10. If you use the Whink which has Hydrofuoric acid, don't use a glass container.Use a plastic or a mild steel or stainless steel container as the Whink will be diluted/wasted as it attack the silica in glass. By the way it does take a lot of time to dissolve quartz. It is very effective on mill scale and rust. Beware very dangerous acid even at low concentration. 

  11. What I do now (not at the start) is check it against my best date/mintage of my collection after a quick blast under a tap and then put in an ultrasonic cleaning device (this removes most abrasive particles).  If the newly found coin is better then it gets a pampered dip in the warm spar-bath (bowl of warm water and a touch of detergent) and a gentle massage with my caressing fingers😊. If my coin in my collection is better then I don't care much what method I use. The transparent soft pencil eraser does a good job, I have even punished copper coin with a fine brass wire brush both methods make them prettier to most people but not collectors.  

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