Gold Catcher

That looks good, Norvic. Perhaps I will do something similar. Most of the time my GM sits idle in the garage, I may as well make better use of it.

I mainly have two applications for pinpointers: (1) target location in deep holes where the big 14 inch coil can't tell me where the source is (2) for crevices, i.e. underneath bedrock, where the GPZ gives me a target ID but above bedrock with no way to check underneath in small cracks. I am pretty good (at least I think...) in small target recovery under normal circumstances in the open field even with the big coil (often BB's unfortunately...), so I won't use my pinpointer for that at all.

I agree that there is a long way to go for pinpointers. I like how some folks use the GM with ultrashort shaft, for me this is unfortunately not practical. BTW, I keep the GPZ on at all times, so no rebooting. I just place the coil on the ground and all the way away from the hole and turn the pinpointer on and off as needed.

I don't use my pinpointer and detector at the same time, so there is not issue with interference. When I am done with the pinpointer I turn it off before picking up the detector again. Not sure why you want to keep it on while using the detector. Also, the GPZ is so sensitive to whatever creates an electromagnetic field that I am not sure you could even make a pinpointer that is completely stealth to it. Let alone the metal inside the pinpointer.

I have the ML ProFind 35 and it works well for me. Sometimes it goes off on it's on when at high sensitivity and in the air. What I then usually do is reduce sensitivity, point it back to the spot of interest on the ground and then increase sensitivity again. In highly mineralized ground it sometimes does not work well though, i.e. if magnetite or iron rich basalt is around. But I guess all pinpointers would struggle in these conditions. I have no problem with any GPZ interference. I don't use both at the same time anyhow, and when I use the pinpointer after I dug a hole I put the GPZ on the ground with the coil pointing away from me in the other direction. No problem.

Personally, I am fine with the 11"mono and 14DD for the US/Au package. I have the least use for the 17" mono although I would of course like to have one. But for larger open fields I think the GPZ 14/19 will remain my to go machine, also because of the excellent ground handling. I am not sure if the 17" mono would be superior in challenging ground. My guess is it would not be. But I do want the second battery for sure. Perhaps there is a way to buy it from Africa.

Thanks. Your videos are inspirational and a pleasure to watch. Looking forward to see one from a gold hunt in the swiss alps!

Well done. Looking forward to the next parts! Where in Sierra county did he find it?

I think we all look different after a long day prospecting than those guys in the pic. And it won't be so pretty....But hey, it's all good. They want to sell their machines after all and it's just advertisement. If they would show me after 8 hours detecting, nobody would buy the 6000...🤣

Also, the "easy expert" should tighten his cable (top pic).

Thanks for posting. I had not seen that one yet. MMMM.. that's a had scratcher now. Was that more speculation about what the 6000 could potentially have before any official info was released? The video shows discrimination ability and also advanced display features such as mineralization type and target location in the ground. I don't think that these features are confirmed to be available from all that we know. I also noticed in the video that the price was assumed to be around 4k US. We now know for a while that it will be 6k US. So, that makes me believe that most of what was said was before details about the 6000 started to emerge.

Thanks guys. Fully assembled with collapsed shaft the bag would need the following measurements: 54 inch L ,14 inch W and 15 inch H. The snowboard bags usually only have sufficient length, but lack sufficient width and height. But you can of course disassemble it.

Good idea. Can you provide a link? I looked up snowboard bags but none of them would fit.

Don't say these horrible things......I am just in the process of filing a claim at RP 😉

Nothing beats California in placer gold recovery, that is long known. But Arizona being so far behind is a surprise. That being said, Arizona lacks water for the most part, so the recovery won't be that easy compared to the big Sierra Nevada rivers. But the unique gold vein deposits of the Motherlode are also pretty much unmatched anywhere else.

It's odd that only the Africa package comes with 2 batteries. Perhaps the 14DD coil is more expensive and hence they omit one battery then?

Let me guess. K ABLE 6WPD? 😉

That's a great question. Probably not at all. Look at the Cryptos, just a pure numbers game without any underlying asset. If it weren't because of the Bitcoins in the world, gold would be >10,000 by now.

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Agreed Norvic. Gold is hoarded by countries and all major banks for one reason alone: insurance against the cyclic downturn of high flying assets and against fiat currency devaluation. Also, that fact that it is a physical asset with limited supply, rather than just an encoded crypto value-play, is almost a guarantee for wealth preservation, doesn't matter what happens to the markets or mankind for that matter...Unless of course the definition changes and gold is deemed worthless. Highly unlikely in my view!

It depends on what the objective of the investment is. Gold is an excellent asset for wealth preservation, not for aggressive growth.

Keep it Gerry. You will soon be selling lots of 6000's, so no need for the money 😜

Very nice, congrats! It might be worthwile to recheck with HY/difficult and general/difficult, to see what else shows up. 😜 GC

Thanks for following up Dave. I thought he meant the bucket lines. I once was at the South Yuba and indeed the metal trash was mind blowing. But good to know that the regular dredge fields appear less trashy. I need to find the dried out ones then 😁

Just tell me the GPS coordinates. And don't worry, I won't tell anyone 😉