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  1. Well Khaled, where to start? Firstly, deciding to post your questions here was probably a good decision, as some of the most experienced prospectors in the business post here. ( I do not include myself however ) Steve, J Porter, and a number of others have extensive experience in prospecting and the use of detectors. I shall attempt to answer your questions in order, and hopefully others may add.

    1 Boyle's book on gold and genesis of deposits is a great way to understand how and where gold was deposited, and covers African fields.

    2 If you are using a GPX4500, then you are arguably using the best technology you can get.

    3 You are using a gold detecting pulse induction detector, so the basic rule is to dig everything that gives a signal. Only time and experience will tell you what is worth digging and what is not. Until then, obey the rule. 'When in doubt, dig it out'.

    4 Geological maps should be your guide here, plus any maps that note gold mining areas. You need to learn the importance of granite and the metamorphic zones in your hunt for auriferous country. Research, and more research.

    5 This question in covered mostly in no 4.

    6 Yes, they are fakes. Don't waste your time. Long range prospecting is a different thing, and can be accomplished with computer mapping systems.

    7 Your GPX4500 will only fail to find gold if it is out of range or is badly out of tune, or the gold is too fine to register a signal.

    8 The Nile? Sorry Khaled, but that question is way beyond my field of experience. Hope someone else can be of help.

    A very exciting area of the world to be prospecting, and I wish you luck, and please be careful. Keep your finds secret.

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  2. When using an auto ground tracking detector such as the GPX or GPZ  just sweeping back and forth continually in auto over the target noise will cause the suspected target signal to deteriorate noticeably if it is only a ground noise. The GPZ requires quite a few more sweeps than the GPX. It seems the GPZ is slower to ground balance, but the effect is still the same. Some people maintain that this action will actually tune out gold, but I have not found this to be so, but 'when in doubt, dig it out'.

     A most useful feature of the QED PI detector is that it has a numerical ground balance readout. When a suspect sound is heard, one simply checks and adjusts the ground balance in the vicinity, and then takes note of the GB reading .

    Example.    GB reading 125   take GB up to 130 and note any difference in target response. Now lower GB to 120 and again note target response. If there is a noticeable difference in the readings, walk away. If there appears to be no noticeable difference you will most likely have a real target under your coil and not just a ground noise. I have put this to the test numerous times, and so far it has always been right.

    Other manufacturers should consider this feature, as it is a great time saver.

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  3. Recently my wife and daughter gave me a drone for my birthday. Being a bit of a technical dinosaur, I am still getting the hang of it. These things seem to be rapidly advancing, and it occurred to me that it may provide a way of seeing what is over the next hill without all the footwork. Seeing how America seems to be leading the way with this technology, this seemed to be the ideal place to pose this Question. Any ideas?

  4. DDs how do you know that 1000s of square miles are not gold bearing? There are easily 1000s of square miles of Ordovician country that has not proven to be auriferous, or non auriferous. Just reading geo maps of Victoria reveals possibilities everywhere. Earlier this year JR Beatty and myself proved up over a thousand acres of previously unproven, virgin ground. Quite a bit of very nice gold that your SD 2000 would have no trouble picking up, and we are a long way from finding the extent of that run.

     I find it a bit presumptive on your part to state percentages of gold found to gold that is as yet unfound, and I am mystified as to where you have accrued such knowledge.

    I could give you a few tips on how to improve the performance of your 2000, but you probably know already.

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  5. Clay Diggins, I feel there must be some mistake regarding a 300 oz nugget at Kingower on that date. Captain John G. Meschock, who also discovered the Maldon goldfield was awarded the sum of 1000 pounds for the discovery of the Kingower field in August 1853.

    1801 was way too early for a discovery of that size at Kingower. The earliest reward of 476 pounds and 4 shillings, for a major gold discovery was made to William Campell in March 1850 for the finding of the Clunes goldfield. Whether a nugget (over 20 ozs) was found there is not recorded, but in 1851 the Ballarat and Castlemaine (Mt. Alexander and Forrest Creek) gold fields were discovered, and yielded huge nuggets. My guess would be that the first nuggets of any size would have come from Ballarat. Maybe Canadian Gully or Black Hill.

    Small finds of gold were reported before 1850 in many places, but the major rushes took place after that date.

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  6. DDs, you ask me if there is anywhere on public land that has not had a coil on it. For goodness sake , there are thousands of square miles here in Victoria that have never seen a detector. You need to learn how to prospect and not just fossick. Hovering over ground that some self proclaimed expert has produced a map of is not necessarily a recipe for success. On a number of occasions I have detected gold within ten minutes drive of where I live, and some pretty impressive gold at that. But it is not on old diggings, and is not on any map. Research. Learn how to read geo maps and understand them. Learn how to prospect.

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  7. goldenoldie, since Howard increased the mode range, there are few nasty ground situations that the QED cannot handle, and very little in sensitivity has been sacrificed to achieve that. Howard thought it best that I should have the latest production model, so that anyone wanting to try the QED should have the available one to test rather than my old prototype. My prototype looks perhaps a little rough the way I have set it up, but I like it that way, and I guess I am used to it, and have become fond of it the way it is.

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  8. The QED has had a few changes since I first tested a prototype back at the beginning of this year. The collaboration of Howard as inventor and designer and Pete now providing the Detech coils and the super light weight handle and collapsing stem arrangement, it is a much more professional looking piece of equipment. Gone are the much criticized wing nuts and Whites 'goose neck' stem.                                      I am not sure if one still has the option of just purchasing the control box and custom building the machine to suit ones self, but I kind of liked that idea. I have a feeling my good prospecting buddy JR Beatty, being the inventive 'wizz' that he is,  would possibly feel the same way. For them that like a machine already set up, the new configuration is definitely well balanced with the control box further back, and just a readout on the top of the handle. Running an 8" Commander coil with this setup is a super small gold sniper, and in my opinion equal or better than any small gold specialist detector on the market. The target response is fast, sharp, and unmissable.                         When using larger coils, with perhaps the exception of the three spoke Nuggetfinder Litz coil ( the four spoke coil is quite a bit heavier) the Detech setup is a bit too flexible for my liking. In this situation I prefer the X Terra handle and stem, as it is a little more rigid.

    I now have a production model as well as my prototype which has had an extended mode, and auto ground balance added, but still runs the model airplane style lipo battery and X Terra handle and stem. Howard offered to update it to current specs, but "over my dead body". I like it just fine the way it is.

    I should add, that contrary to speculation, I have no vested interest, financial or otherwise in the QED.

     

     

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  9. Mike, mate, you have set me a bit of a task, as the list starts with the biggest nugget, and works it way down.

    'Found in alluvial. Gross weight 2,520 ozs Net weight 2,284 ozs 16 dwt 22 grains. Found at Black lead Moliagul at a depth of 1". "The Welcome Stranger'. 5.2.1869 By john Deason and Richard Oates, witnessed by F. Knox Orme, Warden, Nugget Book. The site of discovery is marked by a stone obelisk. The gold in this nugget was associated with 68 lbs of quartz.

    Down to

    Alluvial 20 ozs from Back Creek diggings, Talbot, Amherst. No name or finder recorded, Feb. 1859 authenticated by W. E. Adcock. 

    Somewhere in between will be the earliest nugget recorded. I will find it for you.

    PS there is a list of 31 nuggets found after the turn of the century, (1900) and some of these are interesting as they were found in odd cases by accident. eg. Being turned up by a plow.

  10. You are right Steve, not everything in life is a scam, but the gold business has more than its share, and as I stated, this mob has form. They threatened me and called me a con man, until it was proven beyond dispute that they were the con men, and then they blamed each other. No one was ever charged over that fraud. You can't blame me for being suspicious.

     

    mn, information as follows.        1912  Victoria  Department of mines
                                                             Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria

                                                             (  E. J. Dunn,  F.G.S., Director ):

                                                             No. 12.

                                                              List of nuggets found in Victoria

                                                                       Issued By W. Dickson, Secretary for Mines, under the authority of the Hon. 

                                Peter McBride, M.P., Minister of Mines

    Reprinted 1979 with the permission of the Department of Minerals and Energy, Vitoria.

    By Hisperian Press P.O. Box 317, Victoria Park Western Australia.

    For Garret Metal Detectors of Victoria 40 Albert St. Kilmore, Victoria, 3601. Tel (057) 821166.

     

    This 67 page list describes 1327 nuggets ( pieces over 20 troy ounces ) listing weight, depth, name of nugget, date found, finders, where recorded and by whom, and finally remarks, which includes description of nugget, and situation of finding. This is one of my most prized references, and has proved invaluable over the years. Mind you, a great number of nuggets obtained by the Chinese were never documented.

    To the best of my knowledge, nowhere in the world has produced more nuggets than Victoria.

                                                          

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