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Well Reg, there may not be much more activity on the Dunolly site. https://www.change.org/p/the-people-land-owners-rights?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_21024437_en-AU%3Av4&recruiter=422163042&recruited_by_id=c113b200-ef3f-4aa9-b90a-f6d0aa12e54e&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=share_petition Of course, this Petition fails to mention, that this land was sold with Caveat’s in place, both the heritage Overlay (German Gully) and some of aboriginal significance overlays on the site, were in place long before the land was purchased by Perry. I know, as I placed bids on some of those blocks myself, and have the S32 documents.

Aussie Gold Hunters Is Back Well you can't help bad luck

If the small NF coil could not be in DOD format, it will almost certainly be a concentric. Can’t run Mono’s on a Non-PI, CW machine like the Z.

From the same doc referenced by Dave above "Another disadvantage of PI is its capability at detecting very large nuggets compared to CW metal detectors, such as ZVT. CW means Continuous Wave and includes all technologies that do not have zero transmit periods (almost all technologies other than PI). Zero Voltage Transmission (ZVT) – ZVT has the same major advantage as PI for ground balancing in not detecting the major soil component X, but has the same advantage of CW metal detector technologies compared to PI for detecting very large nuggets because ZVT is CW (unlike PI that is not CW ), and also the same advantage as PI for being relatively insensitive to saline soils compared to VLF.

Many years ago, I was detecting the edge of a local park with a friend. An elderly lady bailed him up, and asked if he could come and do her place, I’ll pay you she said. Perplexed, he asked her what she actually wanted done, oh just the weeds along the edges of the path she said. She thought we were Council workers, and our Detectors were some new kind of silent weed whacker. 😖

Thanks flackmagnet and others, happy I could help out. The 5000 menus are not that intuitive, that’s for sure. Mal

Hi, Just after some clarification re the Soil/Timings switch please. Should I be able to access the Special menu on the rear LCD panel from all three Soil/Timings switch positions (Special, Normal and Enhance)? Yes that is quite normal I was under the impression that access to the Special menu is, or should normally be, locked out when the front Soil/Timing switch is set to Normal or Enhance and only opens when the front switch is set to Special. No, the special menu is not locked out I only noticed after returning from my last prospecting trip that I have access to the Special menu from all 3 front switch settings. That gives me 3 versions of Sensitive Smooth, and 3 of each of all the rest. 18 different choices that are distinctly different in sensitivity, tone loudness and target response (hi/low, low/hi) No it does not give you three versions of Sensitive smooth or Fine Gold or any of the special timings The Special Timings only work when the Front switch is in the Special position. Reassurance please. Thanks! Hope that sorts it out for you Mal

Concentric coils work like a Double D coil, one RX and one TX winding, and not like a Mono that has only one winding, If your TDI can run a GPX DD then it may work.

Just another thought on the concentric, it should be able to utilise the Iron Reject feature on the 5000, as it’s really just a DD coil in another configuration. Have you tested Iron reject with it JR? If it works well then, I’m interested.

Concentric coils do have a lead in and lead out sound, but it does not show up well in the vid, maybe because of the sweep speed? The best target response is directly under the centre of the inner coil, giving concentric's the best pinpointing ability of any coil design. They do normally require a slow sweep speed, but not having used that coil, Reg or Jr may be able to elaborate on the sweep speed.

Hi Chuck, The round looking coil in the center is a coil, it's the receive coil (RX), the outer coil is the transmit coil, (TX)

I don’t normally offer advice on the net, but I’ve had a long association with the Beechworth area And done quite nicely around the place over the years. For good sized gold, get up to Yac, then smaller coils on the top of hills and on the steeper slopes, save the big coil for the lower flats.

Hi Jonathan , Re your statement below "I see comments about justifications for side slipping Minelabs IP, anyone looking at the GPZ very quickly knows the chip in the coil connector is there to protect Minelabs IP, modifying or circumventing that chip is in essence interfering with that prevention, yes it can be done but ethically it is wrong" I don’t see anywhere in Minelab’s documentation supplied with the GPZ that mentions any installed security device that hobbles/disables the use of 3rd party coils. There is mention that only Minelab coils can be used on the GPZ. I guess its now buyer beware, and any potential customer should now be asking the question, does this machine have any such security devices fitted and what do these devices do, to limit my rights as an end user. As far as I’m concerned, if the device has not been disclosed or even mentioned then it’s tough luck Minelab.

The fact is a GPS is a receive only device, it can't transmit one's position or anything else for that matter. The GPZ would need some sort of transmitter to send any GPS data to ML Now if you sent your GPZ into to ML for repair, without deleting all your saved data, well that could be a different matter.

Funny I bought whole heap of Punnets @ 50c a punnet, and checked them with my ML pin pointer.

I have one of those Noco units, purchased from Supercheap Auto here in Australia. They are a great thing Steve, and do the job very well, highly recommended bit of kit. Cheers, Mal

Yeah that coin would be a mystery to our American friends It depicts a Platypus, one of only five mammals that lays eggs.

Nice Find Northeast Some finds just have no business being found where you find them, Take this one, dug out of a very early colonial cottage site on the Shoalhaven River in NSW. This cottage was burnt down in the late 1880's and this was found in the burnt rubble, and is it self burnt Yet this symbol should not appear until the 1900's how it got to be where it was found is a mystery.

It was an interesting run of gold JR, that's for sure, I do have a photo of the 7oz and a few others found on day 1, and I still have the 1oz bit picked up with the 3500. I will bring them to Reg's Thanks for your input JR, interesting info. Ha that money's long gone JR, YF got involved with a sheila and bought a 1 bedroom apartment (Nest) in Double Bay with his share, he paid around $127k for it, and complained bitterly about how expensive and what a rip off it was. I think gold was around $600 an oz at the time, but I'm not sure. He's not complaining now though, She's gone and he still owns the place.Qed is doing well JR, but I've not been out for a good while, how are you guys doing with it, have you been out?

They would have been harvesting the hardwood gum trees, most were sawn leaving a stump a few feet high, the gold they would have first discovered would have been in the roots of trees, fallen over during storms

That's a very good question mn90403, this particular area the original gold was discovered by timber cutters, where gold was seen among the roots of fallen trees. I've not dug any deep gold in this area, in fact many of my finds were on the surface only covered by leaves. The run of gold we found was all very shallow, and was not on any kind of hard bottom, or red clay that I've become accustomed to. One could quite easily have dug past the gold, it was all contained in a greyish coloured very fine gravel and not very worn or rounded. The only outstanding feature, was the band of ground was very noisy, I don't recall it being overly noisy with the SD or 3500 though. Like most prospector's, I've returned to the scene of the crime many time's, when pickings have become slim or I've purchased the latest and greatest detector. Hint: if you see Reg's or JR's dial out bush, they ain't there for nothing The 5000 struggled on that band of dirt as did the SDC, the SDC surprised me as I was sure it would pick up the odd small. The 5000 with a detech 15” DD worked reasonably well last year when I tried it out on the spot, but no gold, although I did find a very deep musket ball. JR or Reg are better with the geology than I, so I’ve tried to describe the area as best I can, maybe they will offer an opinion. The old timers diggings are in completely different dirt, Pipe clay and are only about 50 meters away from where we found are last bit in the band. In a straight line from the Old timers diggings across a hill, there are more old diggings in pipe clay, we did get some very good gold up to an oz off the heaps and off the wall's of the holes. The old timers had pushed through a false bottom here.

Location, 2 hrs drive outside the Golden Triangle Victoria Yellowfin and myself were visiting a non detecting friend, who was into making bush furniture, he wanted to go out bush and collect wood for this hobby, He was an old guy, so we offered to help out, jumped in his old land rover and off we went, down this track, up another, after a bumpy drive that lasted around 20 mins, we arrived at a place where he wanted to get this huge bulge off the side of a very large tree, we assisted cutting this lump off the tree and loaded into the box trailer. On the way out he slowed, said you boys play with those detector things, a mate of a mate found a bit of gold over there near that tree, was as big as his thumb nail, just sitting in the grass. The ground looked unremarkable, but we did notice some old timers holes down the track where it joined another larger track, and along it we passed a dozed area of about an acre in area. Some years later we decided to visit the place with our SD 2000's, arriving late in the afternoon, parked the car right at the tree where our old mate had cut the bulge off. Set up my SD walked 10 meters and picked up a 7oz bit at 3", next a flat bit on the surface that looked like something had squashed it, Picked up several more, from 10 grams to around an oz before the light had gone for the day. Between the two of us we picked up 600 odd oz out of the place, largest was the 7oz bit from day 1 and the smallest the 10 gram bit also from day 1, all the gold was very shallow from the surface down to 3" and ran in a band of really noisy ground about 3 meters wide, that ran down to the old timers holes down the track. Picked up one i missed some years later with a 3500 that went an oz, it was hard up against an old tree stump.

Thinking back Reg, I recall talking to you on the Phone about that very nugget around Christmas last year. We were going to Catch up at my place near Dunolly, but the weather was very very hot and we gave it a miss, I hear that you have good reason to celebrate in December, so I will finally catch up with you then.