5 hours ago, kiwijw said:

Davsgold's picks are absolute top notch. I have been through two Walco picks & a CC pick, both also from Aussie, But Dave's pick leaves them for dead. I must have had his pick for two years now & I use it a lot, smashing into schist bedrock, sometimes unbelievably deep peeling out the schist to unearth those little gold beauties. I haven't even put a dent in it yet.

JW 🤠   

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. 

On 11/11/2019 at 9:09 AM, geof_junk said:

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

 

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. 😵

41 minutes ago, Lacky said:

😥 I'm the uncool kid without a onedrive account

 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

20 hours ago, mn90403 said:

I'm ready!  (I hope they're not sold out.)

Is that a US dollar account I need or Australian?

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

An add for the lack of experience, wisdom, or judgement prospector.

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"   

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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.  

The baking soda works on lot of silver coins. I found after washing off the baking soda a soft rub with a pencil rubber is all I use on most silver coins eg 92.5%, 80% and 50% Australian silver coins.

Quote.... just think of Karate Kid and Wax On, Wax Off. lol. What's even funnier is she found a hot rock with excitement thinking it was gold, she takes the dirty hot rock hands it to me and said its gold! 

My wife and I was out one day with another couple when we heard on one the CB in code, that my mate wife was broadcasting that she had one and then another and so on past a dozen nuggets. When we met up later, it was very hard to tell her that they were some extremely HOT hot-rocks. She had seen some of my iron covered nuggets before this. She should of known better as we had taken her to some spots were she had found a few nuggets and knew gold was heavy.

When I was playing around with GPS in the late 1990's it was hard to get anyone who knew anything about the subject and our friend MR GOOGLE was very limited. If I remember right there was a section in google earth were you can select the input data. Anyway I glad you are getting where you want to.  

The first # is the Zone "Number&Letter" Joined onto the "Easting"  followed by the "Northing"     The Zone  "Number&Letter" are not always used as they are considering you are using a map of that zone.   The main benefit of UTM is the maps are made with Metric measurement and form a square grid of the area. This allows a two points on a map to be measured with a straight line and not a curved one.   If you use Google you must put in the Zone identification to see where your coordinates are. 

 This link might help.

https://www.latlong.net/lat-long-utm.html

I knew they would release the 5500 in USA but in Oz they will see how the 6000 going before they release any information