geof_junk

Any coin works so long as it is known what it is. This a photo of my first Token found compared to a USA Doller that I found.

Now I know why I need a25" NF coil to find coin here in Gippsland ,Vic Australia.😃 Giant_Gippsland_Earthworm

Simon the size of the dollar coin is a lot large than 2 dollar coin not like the Kiwi coins we have to work harder to get the larger denomination coin than you Kiwi's 😉

No it worth a bit more. 🤣

Lunk you cracked the magic twenty penny weight well done.

The Walco if I remember were made in Maryborough Vic in the early 1980s and were great I saw "Mallee Boy" pick when he made it for himself and show me it to me in Leonora WA in the late 2000s. Mike was a real man of the land and made it from spare parts off his property. The picks of 1979 - 83 were hopeless and many of us made own on pick as nothing worthwile was available at that time. The right pick varies from person to person. Mine is made from a truck leaf spring with a small jackhammer tool piece Mig welded to the pick pointy end as I kept wearing out the tip of the pick.

Glad to be of help. Wish you all the luck you need and have fun. Regards Geof.

Around 2002 I looked up every states mining data and filtered out every historic non gold mines and set up a site were they can be accessed. ..................Link.............. Read the first post and select the state you want and see if your area has any historic gold mines. Hope this gets you started.

As the area looks shallow to me. I would do what I said before but I would use a coil of the elliptical type for coverage as the good size pieces will come up with little problems but the smaller bits will be easier to hear with the narrower width of a elliptical than round coil of the same size. Wish you luck, from what you have said it looks like the previous prospectors were chasing scattered gold. So cover a lot of ground around the workings.

I would be in cruise mode around the edges of that area.

I like coins/tokens with the centre cut out.

I wish I could lift a nugget that big. 😵

Lacky you should be able to just click on the link without a onedrive account.

All the cold weather and the rain is hitting us here in the Latrobe Valley. (it must be because of all the Lignite (Brown Coal) Power generation being shut down 😀 )

This looks versatile and compact. https://www.gerbergear.com/en-us/activity/explore/explore-collection/folding-spade-30-000075

You are not allowed to do anything these days here in Australia now I know why. https://1drv.ms/v/s!AqiKyrTQ2zQ3rAYN5Y7CSS8YkNVd?e=7Dj8Yp

For something that GOOD it has to be US $ as the value of the Aus$ is too low surely.🤑

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Quote.........Trip 4 I decided to go back to an area where I had noticed dig holes on an early trip and slowly and methodically cover every inch of the ground around them. I find it hard to crawl and do virgin ground. I fill in my holes to prevent other from finding them and Crawling all over my PATCHES. 🤐

Quote......... My favourite finds are the chunky copper pre-1860 Victoria pennies and 1850's trader's tokens, I think they even edge out big silver for me... When it comes to coin hunting I agree with you. Those Trader Token are very rare I have few my-self and short of gold they are my favourite finds. There are a few tokens that are priceless in the 5 digits mark. Welcome, good to see you get of the fence and join in.😀

If it was me I would go for the ML4800 a great detector, and get a cheap VLF. machine for playing with coin and chase the gold with the ML4800. If you are after deep coins then use the ML4800 and dig every thing, even leaving known junk will mask good deep signals. You don't have to use ID to get good finds but it does prevent you from walking away from junk infested areas.

Just save your google file of the 40E as a gpx file in google earth and open it in basecamp and then import it to your GPS.

Not sure of your Question. All I did was copy the Birdseye map files from the PC to the SD card that I use in the GPS. I use " .GPX" file format files on the PC and with the Free Garmin Basecamp program I could import and Export between the GPS & PC. Peter have you seen my "Historical Gold Mines in Google Earth" ..........LINK ....... The locations for all Aust Old GOLD Mines in many formats that can be used in most Map programs.

I went for 16 gig as it was the largest available when I got my rhinos. I had no problems with storage and some of the areas I had on it was larger than a lot of USA states. So if you are doing your gold hunting area I see no problems, remember the maps can be stored on your PC with no limit.

When I did mine of west Australia around Leonora it was about 2006 and internet was slow then but it took many over night downloads to cover many 100 mile square areas of deserts . Once done you could select an area of any size you wanted in high detail. I have got 3 Rhino 650. 1 is a spare and the other is the wife. They are great units and very reliable with many functions.