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  1. Thanks for sending, great article and videos. Tertiary channels are plentiful here in the Sierra's. The problem is that some are rather deep with hundreds of feet of alluvial gravel covering the heavies. The trick when metal detecting is to find shallow channels. But those have practically all been mined already.
  2. The county recorder is of course the best option, assuming you have an interest in a particular area already established and you take the time to do a deeper dive, i.e. before staking a claim. However, for rapid screening of larger areas that are potentially open for prospecting, for instance before going on a weekend trip, this is not really a practical method IMO.
  3. Never worked well for me with Google Earth, but I will give it another try
  4. I use Minecache, overlaid on Google Earth, to see all mines and claims (active and inactive). I think it is the best research tool out there. I use Google Earth because you can also display USGS maps at the same time as you see all active and passive claims and mines. Unfortunately, BLM does not have a good Google Earth map feature so I go and check the land status on the BLM site separately. https://minecache.com/
  5. I have to admit I am envious of the life style you are describing. Things are so different here as you know. Yes, we have vast deserts and other landscapes here to explore as well, but the gold rich areas are much more centered around smaller areas, at least those that produce good size nuggets, and we lack the access to vast goldfields like you are having in Au. Also, the gold is generally much smaller and getting anything bigger than an ounce is extremely rare. Once the stupid pandemic is over I will plan an extended Au-trip with a few friends, just like many other DP members have done before. Who knows, perhaps one day we will have some good coffee together. 😁
  6. mmmmm....you mean Mojave desert but the part that is in AZ? Or Mohave County, AZ?
  7. That's a great attitude and mentality norvic. Unfortunately, here in the US there are not many of these undiscovered countries left. As off the grid, I prefer truck campers. There you have high clearance with full off-road capbilities, but no trailer. Earthroamers are cool. About 1 Million. I bet they throw-in a high-end espresso machine.
  8. Since lady's won't be around (at least I am guessing they aren't), shower is just optional, espresso isn't 😅
  9. I understand the reasoning. But it would break my heart having to melt such a wonderful nugget. Unless of course I would find them all the time....
  10. I start to wonder if they have serious production issues. That could explain why they are so muted.
  11. What a good and productive discussion this has been. Thanks afreakofnature for having started this thread. There are clearly differences in opinions, but I note how much better our discussions have become, void of any personal attacks or nasty comments like we had back in the "X-coil days".
  12. Thanks for your valuable comments, JP, as always! I find your comment regarding the history of the smoothing feature on GPZ interesting (that it is some sort of relict from the past from operators who are afraid of loosing control). When the info about the 6000 started to appear, I wondered why there is no smoothing anymore, now I understand why. I have always advocated to use sensitivity wisely and control ground/target response conservatively via volume and threshold function in Normal, or eventually going to difficult but leaving smoothing off. For me personally, this means that I can go only so high with gain, perhaps to about 10 in Normal and 14 in difficult without loosing my mind after 8 hours detecting, or without compromising to hear faint targets (a more serious matter than just loosing my mind...). At least in the grounds I hunt these gain numbers are about as high as I can go-on good days. But IMHO, this is enough power to hear just every target the GPZ is able to find as long as no filters/processing is applied.
  13. Thanks for sharing, Nenad. This is a very nice demonstration. I usually shy away from high smoothing but I agree in your case this was a nice and clear target ID. A good example of how the Zed can operate in high EMI conditions and still be productive.
  14. What a great motivation and attitude. The more you know about your detector the better you will use all available settings to your advantage! I find the GPZ to be an incredible versatile machine. Although each of us have their own to go settings, no settings are universally applicable for all situations. Knowing the underlying principles for each function and how they relate to each other will make you an expert. Alot of gold is waiting for you 🙂
  15. I suggest to go into JP's posts and read what he has written over the years on this topic. There is such a wealth of information in his posts and I highly recommend to read it. I don't think many questions will remain about GPZ settings after reading through his posts. He is by far the most qualified to speak on this topic. 🙂
  16. This is a matter of opinion. I prefer to run sensitivity in more conservative ranges but keep all filtering off, whenever possible, and make adjustments to volume/treshold if needed. Works great for me. An to quote the "man with the ring": " High Yield Normal has oodles of sensitivity even with sensitivity set to 9. Do not be afraid to lower the Volume right down to 4 or 5." (JP)
  17. I have the Eco Flow Delta. I can highly recommend it. It has about 1200 Wh and 1800/3000 W surge. The good thing, it only takes about 90 min to get to a full charge from empty with the generator, for a 80% charge it only takes 1h. So, you get a lot of storage for little fuel. It also runs with 400W solar panels and it takes about 6-8 hours for a full charge. A bit expensive, but very efficient! I have two of them and that gives me total off grid freedom. https://www.amazon.com/EF-ECOFLOW-Portable-Station-Generator/dp/B083FR3762
  18. JP has written about the settings extensively and I recommend to look into the previous threads on this topic. Some really good info there. My bottom line, everybody runs the GPZ somewhat differently. The general consensus is (with some few exceptions...) that HY/Normal/ Smoothing off/ semi-auto GB gives the biggest bang for the buck, assuming the ground allows it. Some of the main differences come from how you prefer to ID your target. Some crank the sensitivity all the way up and tolerate a very noisy threshold with alot of ground/EMI signals mixed in, some others (like me) prefer to reduce the gain to make the target stand out clearer, but the response might also be fainter. However, gain up or down does not matter that much in Normal as you will always hear your target, it just depends how you want to hear it. Normal offers alot more tolerance to parameter changes than Difficult which filters out alot. Here, you need to make up for it by increasing gain and volume. HY/difficult/smoothing is very much reducing the power of the GPZ, but seems necessary for many Au soils to ID targets. My starting settings are HY/Normal/smoothing off, GB: semi-auto, gain 6, threshold 25, volume 9. Then I adjust from there. Threshold-volume is incredible sensitive and reducing it from the default 27 to 26 or 25 has already a big impact. At sensitivity 6 I usually also never have the problem to do GB with the ferrite. In contrast, at sensitivity 12 or 13 in mineralized/conductive grounds I often can't get the ferrite quiet during GB. Cheers GC
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