mlgdave

Yesterday which was Sunday November 24th while everyone else was watching football I was underground detecting for pockets of crystallized gold 🙂

7 hours ago, phrunt said:

You're just feeding my addiction, thanks ?

Can you elaborate more on the journey? 140 feet underground? you went down an old mining shaft? Hit us with the details! 
 

I own and operate a mine in California. I live here full time. :-) 

Mlgdave 

All from 1 pocket actually 140 feet underground

Mlgdave

On 3/6/2018 at 6:54 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

I can tell you what Minelab would say because here is what they say regarding the GPX at https://www.minelab.com/knowledge-base/frequently-asked-questions

I Would Like To Extend My Coil Cable, Can This Be Done? No, cable characteristics are matched to coil windings at manufacture, so extending the cable will reduce the performance of the coil.

But as you say people have done it.

And if you look at the cable ends it looks like a proprietary connector, 4 fat pins, 3 skinny pins. However I still wanna give it a go, I am in some stopes that are only about 30" wide and to use the GPZ as its designed is pretty tough and all of a sudden taking its toll on my left shoulder (rotator cuff), I am detecting the old mine workings and a lot of its overhead. Its for sure giving us an advantage and we are finding gold that was missed and am willing to do a bench test (well actually its a REAL test) as I have left some gold in place in the mine with a cable extension

mlgdave

I'm just curious if anyone has created an extension cable for the GPZ 7000 coil. I am working in some narrow spots inside my gold mine and I would love to have the control unit in a backpack on my back and just use the coil without the bulk of the detector. 

Mlgdave

I'l have them in Monroe this weekend 

Nope. The GPZ was in the shop when we drilled and blasted and used the SDC :-) 

8 hours ago, Lunk said:

Spectacular pieces, Dave!

Thanks lunk. Very easily the most stunning gold I have ever found and pictures do not begin to do justice to how beautiful they are in person. It's still going to take a while to prepare the big specimen and we also want up getting about 50 smaller chunks and a few other nice pieces that I haven't photographed yet

27 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I would think that beauty will fetch a premium price. And good on Minelab for replacing your detector!

 I agree on both accounts Steve it was very exemplary customer service. And yes this piece will fetch a very good premium. We are probably going to stockpile everything we get until the Denver show in September.

I posted about 6 weeks ago that my GPZ 7000 lost its threshold I sent it in and they replace the control box and that didn't fix it so I sent it back in and they replace the whole thing now. In the meantime I thought why don't I use the SDC 2300 and I found some gold with the backup

On 11/19/2017 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Porter said:

 

I'd say there's a component fault in the Pod or your WM12 is on the fritz, either way I'd say it needs to go back to Minelab.

Yea its going back, its the machine itself since headphones do not work either

mlgdave

well dang, then the slightest "bump" and its off.

I hope that reset to original firmware fixes it if I can do  that?

mlgdave

And then I thought ok, lets see....so I started scrolling through the settings and when I got to "more" the sound came back on.......

mlgdave

and then I turn it on today and NFG. Is there a way to revert back to the firmaware update before the july update and see if that helps? Or "original factory settings"?

mlgdave

35 minutes ago, Jonathan Porter said:

Keep us informed on how things go,  this fault can show up when going from Normal to Difficult or Difficult to Normal.  

JP

Will do JP,  thanks! 

Turned it on this AM and its working 100% normal.........I guess thats how good this forum is! :-)

mlgdave

ps..........now to go find some stuff for you all to look at!

and Oh yea, when I go to "reset audio and detection settings" it does NOT go through the cycle (the spinny wheel thing) it just goes directly to the check mark and asks me to put the ferrite on the ground

mlgdave

I updated to the latest firmware in september, sunday when I was detecting I would lose my sound through the wireless, I plugged in headphones and no sound from the machine through them either EXCEPT for turning it on, and also when the WM wireless connects I hear that (but probably from the unit not the headphones)

Anyone else have issues, I do see 2 other threads but have tried both fixes including updating again. No dice, need the GPZ!

mlgdave

I let Ben use his gold monster where I knew for 100% positive we had small crystals fall of the bigger one.

WARNING - foul language and MUST SEE

Mlgdave

1 minute ago, Lunk said:

Amazing speci, Dave. Can’t wait to get down there!

Ditto Lunk, we re gonna light up the DetectorProspector guys!

Mlgdave

Hi all, some of you have known me for many years as Mlgdave, owner of Goldbay.com and now I also own The Colorado Quartz Gold mine in California and ramping back up to run and mine 140 and 180 feet underground. This week me and my partner worked an old stope and found and extracted a killer piece! (more to come) 

I am living at the mine full time and should have some good stories and finds for you guys over the next few months/years

Mlgdave