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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.

5 hours ago, Jim McCulloch said:

Easy. Piles of grizzly dung will smell like pepper spray. 

 

 

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.

5 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

Extremely brutal, dark and bloody movie. Not for the faint hearted. Watch without wife.😉

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.

For those not in Australia these links show a bit about Walhalla

https://housewifedownunder.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/walhalla-an-australian-gold-mining-town/

https://www.visitwalhalla.com/index.php?EXP=2563

Your best bet  is to look at the  Minelab Manticore Forum in the other forum here on Detectorprospector.com just click on the orange text above. 

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Australian TV show to-night @ 20:00hr on Channel 2,21 & 22 for Aust members "Back Roads"

Walhalla, Vic

 Victorian mountainside town of Walhalla, on the historic Goldfields Railway. Frozen in time, with movie-set looks, a cricket pitch that defies logic, and nearby creatures straight from the Dreamtime.

It looks like the innards of a mechanical counter that I pulled apart "many many many" years ago.

The coil supply for the earlier ML detectors is mainly due to Nuggetfinder, Coiltec, and others. I wanted to get a third ML detector as a spare and alternative setup for Carol and myself. ML missed out on the sale because I did not want their compulsory standard coil as we already had 2 of them that were never used.     I guess if they had a chip in them I could of sold them for it. 😉 

Well done. A nice bunch of gold and photos. 

MCS make sure you have the handle wood grain orientated correctly when it goes in the pick. 

The best brand is dependent on what it is used for, how it is used, and who it is used by.  AND COST.

More posts could be because you get more complaints than complements these days. So why is ML at the top is it because more variations of detectors.

Good to see another member born in the first half of last century 🤣 so lets hope we all have a lot more years of fun. 

Best of luck. My little brother had one of them well over 30 years ago and is still active on his 10 acres doing all the work needed.