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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.

If only we could go back in time.

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.

That is why they are still around. Got my first detector from them 1979. and they sold dredging equipment to me before then.

Us Aussies lost our 1¢ and 2¢ back in 1992 but they we copper/bronze. I quess this is why. Australian one-cent coin - Wikipedia They were introduced on 14 February 1966 in the decimalisation of Australian currency and was withdrawn from circulation in 1992 (along with the two-cent coin) A 1¢ in 1966 would have a purchasing power equal to about 15c in 2022 values.

Hope I am not too far of topic. Some remains of the 1930 mining on Bougainville (Crocodile gold). Photos taken 50 years ago. The machinery was carried from sea level to about 2000 meters above, on the backs of the local natives. Not an easy route back then. By foot. The crew.By Bike The easy way I hope those photos get you back on the journal soon.

"100th's of a gram" that a very tiny $1 Aus at today gold price. Do you have to buy a magnifying glass with the scales. 😉

50 years ago in PNG I imported this Ossa explorer 250 for riding off track in the "Island of Crocodile gold" Bougainville. It did go up vertical climbs all the time.

Now that is a way to go. Another way is use the reverse method, that is were would you not think to look for it. I would say you have a chance of finding it as the size of your cache limits the location that you would chose to place it. BEST OF LUCK.

Simon it is a lot better when it gives a error on the dial due to the nugget being too heavy. 😉 As far as which coil to take to W.A. and Tib. NSW it is not the size of the coil it is the size of the gold and the depth of the gold. W.A. from my experience the gold is mostly under a few grams and shallow due to the fact that most of the light soil has weathered away. I would be lucky if I have found a dozen or so nuggets there over and ounce, but a few thousand under 5gm. Only 1 large nugget was deeper than a foot, it was a large specimen with well over a pound of gold in it. So the best coil is the one that will get the size of nuggets that you are chasing and depth, that you can use for the full duration of your day, with no over exertion by you.

Been away for a month in sunny QLD Aus. and missed most of this. Both you and Steve put a lot of time in entertaining us all on this forum, so I hope your BREAK is a lot less than the one I just had. 🙈 🙉🙊 ........... 🙌

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The 2023 of Queen Elizabeth 11 and 100 years of VEGMITTE

Hope you enjoy these two YouTube Video

I like the green pull tab it really stands out

The pin in the third photo make me think it is to hold a wooden pole/handle in your find. Very interesting piece.

To me it looks like the gold has not moved very far. I personally would be expecting that it has came down the slope above or very close up stream on the slope. A good locking piece of gold and would be great on a gold chain for your loved one.

There is an art in discriminating, but I have seen a lot of failures with it. Most of my spots are virgin areas and not much junk and when it is fully of junk I conserve my time walking away from it. In the photo below got gold right up to the junk (It is not the junk you can see that is the problem it is the small bits) and I walked ½ a mile away I got my largest specimen 3.5 kilos with 16+ gold in the second photo.

An I thought is was one of these. Butt (no pun intended) it would hurt. 🤣

At least Simon the GPZ coils can be sold to make a patch coil, if they don't trust damaging their own coil.😜