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If that happens Gerry you will have to LITERARY give up the detector and go back to PANNING 🤐

Simon let us know how it performs in your locations.

It is the black tape holding on the scrub plate on the bottom of the coil.

Simon i meant this type of tape. Self fusing silicon tape

I have used both PVC and CLOTH tape over the years, and found it OK, but I went to the "Self-adhesive Silicone Tape", Waterproof Silicone Rubber Adhesive Repair Tape, Bonding Rescue Wire Hose Silicone Self Fusing Tape. I found by wrapping it around twice it even provided protection against my rough swings against side hits on the outside of the coil.

I retired at 55 but was planning to do it a bit sooner but redundance entitlements and tax yearly period made me go pass my 55 birthday by a few months. So get into the best financial period required to leave and go for it. Note old age and death is a lot closer than what you might think. If you make a century (100yr) you are already past half way. 😊😊😊😊😊😊😁 😊😊😊😊😊😊

The manufactures use very experience operators to set the defaults for the best setting for most conditions that their buyers will use them in. When you have hunted out your spots, that is the time to find better setting for your locations by playing with different settings. Best of luck on the way to becoming an expert but a lot of detecting hours whoops I meant days or years is required to get to that level.

All I can say sell high $ keep when low $. Work hard when yield is high and make desideration when yield is low. So emotions over ruled reasons.

I must say he is one of the top prospectors that I enjoy following. OneGuy had some really good input to this forum and I'm sure I am not the only one that will miss his input even through we did not know him personally. ONEGUY I hope you see all the gold that the members here find while you watch over us all, as you have shown it the finding..... not the keeping that keeps us going..

Sh!t I have been followed to my secret patch. 😬

You should show both sides of the coin and note it issue date, face value and country of origin. The value of the gold is the minimum you will get for it but rareness and condition can push the value up to extreme figures so do a good search on the internet on it.

A good group of finds, keep giving us an update of your finds with Manticore.

The hoover program is doing very good, if you send me a few $$$ i will send you my Dyson program. 🤣

Simon are those readings for Aus real Gold coins or UK gold coins.

There is a section in this ....LINK....click here.... about Mosfet in metal detectors. https://www.lammertbies.nl/electronics/pi-metal-detector

Within the 50 Km of Leonora. I found a 5½ oz nugget and a 1 oz nugget the area was undetected and the closest nugget that i found near them was 2 Km away in a large patch I had found.. Both of them had moss on them. So my thoughts were that the heavy ones get left behind on large flat areas that many people have only walk across due their vastness. However letting people know where I'm with "dig4gold" view.

The largest polar bear ever recorded was hunted in Alaska and weighed 2,209 pounds! That’s over three times the size of the average grizzly! The largest wild Kodiak bear ever recorded was found in Alaska and weighed 1,656 pounds! The largest American black bear was a male shot in New Brunswick, Canada that weighed 902 pounds.

And have a camera with film in them.

So that where you stash your gold. 😉

Gold Catcher as most areas here in Victoria have been hit hard my many detectorist and the only areas left are mainly heavily polluted with junk, I have passed your post on to my 25 year-old grandson. He has got a Manitor and gets to his other grandparents area in the golden triangle and your information will help him a lot as the ground is very hot and will give him a good starting point to tune his detector.

18 ct is 75% or ¾ gold. "? ct is ?/24" ie 9 ct is 37.5% gold 22ct is 91.7% gold

To separate the two, I used to pan it first and reduce the amount then dry it. With a magnet above bit of cardboard or plastic sheet the dry concentrate was separated out with a couple of repeats. I also found the magnet method was more effective if the sample was heated to a high temp. without melting the gold first, then when cooled using the magnet method. The remaining black sand can be further removed by blowing it with straw

Sorry but most of my suction dredging was done on the far side of major river that was feed by a very rich creek during major floods. Most of the gold was picker that a 4" coil could pick up. I used a home made suction dredging of 3" suction and the sluice box on it was less than a foot long. Pan testing the spot yield no fines or dust. If you go the sluice box way the main thing is how you set it up ie: flow rate, angle and screening the larger material.

My wife had a good laugh at the production but really enjoy it. BUT she make me watch every Horror film that comes out so maybe some of you should be careful 🤣 and🫣 for those that have not seen "Sisu" it is not a documentary or factual. 😁

Australian release 27/7/2023 Both Carol and I enjoyed this movie but beware of the blood etc and carnage. His find is what dreams are made of, and remines me of the "spaghetti western movies" During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word “sisu”, this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.