Gold Catcher
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1 hour ago, Jonathan Porter said:
Achieving 100 000 views does not automatically insert someone into “detextspurt” category it just means they managaed to create something that was entertaining to a whole heap of clueless people!!
The detectexperts of the future. Will get you 100k views in no time. Hey, at least looks more appealing than Klunkers bird.
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23 minutes ago, VicR said:
Wonder why a threshold would give you more depth rather than no threshold?
IMO faint treshold variations are the most sensitive way to detect deep targets. You don't need a real audible signal response like you would need if the treshold were off.
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Large portions in this general area are claimed up by small mining companies, some of them without any active operations, all at risk and speculative. This appears to be one of them. A market cap of only 10 M means they could easily be gone by tomorrow. The coarse gold producing sections are sporadic in the general area that the map shows, hard to track with few exceptions.
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30 minutes ago, VicR said:
The threshold tone can be turned off or on in both the manual and automatic sensitivity modes.
Thank god for that! Personally, I want it on. All my detecting life I have been focusing on listening to threshold variations. It would be odd to just turn it off. This also bothers me on the GM, but since the GM only detects shallow stuff anyhow I have accepted and got used to it.
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You will need the DD in California at many locations, trust me....
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They must have read our thread. Now, the guy in the first pic actually has a pick and his cable is tightened 😄
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Great video, thanks for sharing. The story at the end with the magazine is awesome. Also, how funny the swiss guy with the beard who says "It's cool man". You show him briefly for 2 seconds or so in between the story. This was one of my favorite chocolate commercials and was hugely popular when I was a young man, and we all would say in college to virtually everything: "it's cool man". I completely forgot about it. Until now 😁 Thanks for making my day!
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18 minutes ago, Norvic said:
Used a few handheld pinpointers over the years, above one for last few years is the best by far for me. Shown in backpack mounted where tis out of way for most digs but when required for deep digs is handy and saves a lot of digging big wide holes for the big coil digs.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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4 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:
COILS -1st off, everyone is getting a MONO coil (yippie), but many of are not happy with DD coil we are getting. I feel it seems to do with the amount of EMI we run into the US, amount of transmitters/receivers, cell towers and airports/military across our land. I know for a fact there are good gold areas I had issues with EMI on my current detectors and MONO coils. Australia is probably close to the same issues I mentioned for USA, but I do know they have vast openness, but much more mineralized soils and salt as well. I tried detecting the salt flats there and even my old DD was not very productive, the MONO was useless and the best coil was the CoilTek Anti interference/salt. So I'm sure that's why we are getting the DD to begin with. The good thing is...after time and when Covid might be over, we'll be able to order the larger, deeper 17" MONO down the road. YIPPIE...Down the road!!!
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.
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Thanks. Your videos are inspirational and a pleasure to watch. Looking forward to see one from a gold hunt in the swiss alps!
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Well done. Looking forward to the next parts! Where in Sierra county did he find it?
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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...🤣
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Also, the "easy expert" should tighten his cable (top pic).
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30 minutes ago, oneguy said:
Not sure if this has already been posted or not??? Delete if necessary.......
MINELAB GPX 6000 , Gold, Metal Detecting, sneak Peek - YouTube
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.
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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.
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28 minutes ago, Condor said:
It's a double snowboard bag,
Good idea. Can you provide a link? I looked up snowboard bags but none of them would fit.
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2 hours ago, mn90403 said:
Hurry folks ... the final cleanup of Rye Patch is upon us.
Don't say these horrible things......I am just in the process of filing a claim at RP 😉
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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.
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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?
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30 minutes ago, Swifty said:
Was up on a seldom used gpaa claim in the El Paso mountains and managed to drop my scoop while looking at an abandoned drywasher that had fallen over the side of a deep canyon. Went back 2 years later and there was the drywasher still, and my scoop. Some of these claims are not that hard hit after all or the drywasher and my scoop would have been gone.
For as many scoops as I lose and wear out digging they should sell them as a 5 pack
Let me guess. K ABLE 6WPD? 😉
Official Minelab GPX 6000 Page
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I am sure that for the initiated (like us) the 6000 will be a blessing. But beginners who get the 6000 as their first machine might get hooked on the automation. But perhaps this will be the new ML vision going forward: Don't worry about settings too much and let the machine do most (all) for you. Who knows, the new 7000 successor could equally have much more automation, and machines like the current 7000 and the 5000, with all their settings, would then disappear over time. IMHO this would be a pity. The current 7000 has just the right balance between automation and settings, the 5000 was overkill. But a new 7000 with just auto 1 and auto 2 and not much more, I just can't imagine that!