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"each time you power cycle your detector you have to turn the threshold on again"

For someone like myself who hunts mostly in auto plus, that's got to be the most annoying feature on the 6000!!!  Wishing Minelab could give us a reprogram update to change that option.

Have to agree with Jason, that a repackaged, revamped machine on old tech, does not sound very appealing.

I like some of the ideas of more control, lighter weight, coil options...  but unless something is fundamentally improved, the actual gains on old ground probably wouldn't be too exciting.

The process looks spot on, and I really digg the hand made one-off tools and craftsmanship,  but it looks like a staged set, too clean, like it was built to demonstrate the old village ways for school kids, tourists, or just to make videos.  Super cool otherwise!

If you preview/ download the maps on a wifi connection from your home  you can use them out in the woods with gps tracking.  I only load small areas onto the map prior to heading out, so I dont know how much internal memory it will allow, or how long they stay loaded on the app, but it works good and no connection required out in the field.

They could probably make some good money off this thing if they were targeting the 5 -10 year old age group, in the children's toy aisle  😀

The water silica solution under extreme temps and pressure was driven upwards into the shale, and where temps or pressure dropped, the gold was precipitated and grew into crystals. There were probably many little thermal seams out there where the gold formed.  I myself am a biblical flood type theorist, because the official narrative is too boring for me 🙂  but it obviously took a massive amount of water to then rip these mother load veins apart and concentrate them into the large placer deposits we see today. 

I believe those are just fracture lines that formed when the shale was being compressed, some of which were filled with the hydrothermal quartz solutions.  Ive seen those out there too, and  they can be pretty cool looking, but it would be a different process in the formation of gold crystals. Now the plumbing system in that shale may have been a definite contributing factor in creating the right conditions for Chevron formation. 

Anyway the "chevron nugget" technical name is a Hopper Crystal, and hopefully theres one out there with your name on it!

"A hopper crystal is a form of crystal, the shape of which resembles that of a pyramidal hopper container.

The edges of hopper crystals are fully developed, but the interior spaces are not filled in. This results in what appears to be a hollowed out step lattice formation, as if someone had removed interior sections of the individual crystals. In fact, the "removed" sections never filled in, because the crystal was growing so rapidly that there was not enough time (or material) to fill in the gaps. The interior edges of a hopper crystal still show the crystal form characteristic to the specific mineral, and so appear to be a series of smaller and smaller stepped down miniature versions of the original crystal."

Thanks for the vid phrunt. Awesome to see another new Pi out there! The little dogs are starting to nip at the big dogs heals. Maybe Minelab will get the message we dont want to pay their premium prices anymore when we can get a comparable machine for half the cost.

Red dirt in a gold town? HA, thats what gave you away, Klunker.

Otherwise you would have had me! 😄

Landmatters is as good as it gets for claims.  Cross reference it with OnX and a topo app with some other map layers, and you're pretty well covered.

I saw a large Dug Fir once that was just hit and the lightning path where the bark peeled looked similar. The sap water exploded violently and blew a line of bark right off. 

 Maybe I dont know something but BLM data seems to simplify the process.  Im sure stuff gets goofed up here and there but BLM/Land Matters is pretty slick for quickly researching areas.

Probably wouldnt be a bad idea to follow the old saying, go west young man...  Nevada territory is proven big gold country!

2 hours ago, Rob Allison said:

For the creative type, you can always build your own.  Picks due to the cost of wood and metal have really increased in price over the years.  A good prospecting pick anymore is probably $60-$130.  

Hope this helps a bit,

Rob

This is true!  Parts alone are around $50 for a DIY fab. Handles really got expensive, then you need tubing, epoxy, rivet pin, cutting disc.. It all adds up

Ive had good luck with these. Nice and light and get 13-15 heads cut from one:  24" Plow Disc

Maybe they got hopes that gold is rocketing to $3000 next year and all the dreamers will be wanting detectors. Or what Scott said, haha

Thats some good crack rock right there!  :))

Thanks Clay!

Yep, you wont get a full day on these batteries. Think I got about 6 hours also, with the speaker on.

12x7 is a sweet coil to have for a smoother threshold, and like others said for max sensitivity, you will find the 5x10 will average out smaller targets dug over time.  

Linda,  This is a comforting verse for you and Jim:

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 2 Timothy 4:7-8

Good tips Steve! Cant argue with the dig and detect method.  A lot of the guys in the CA Motherload caught onto that to chase gold up small drainages and dry creeks where its concentrated on bedrock. 

Awesome, Thank You, Clay!

My buddy in Australia always called the stuff Axle grease, referring to Marmite. And Im sure it could be substituted as such in an emergency, as it sure looks the same!  Better tasting of course 🙂