Goldseeker5000

It is always a sad day when a great mind in our gold hunting community has passed away. It is a loss to all across the globe. You are very right Chris about a loss of knowledge and secrets with each one of these legends passing. I never met him, but it's a loss. I felt this loss when my two old timer miner friends, George Kornec  and Clay Lewis passed.

May your streak continue! Good luck.

Very nice nuggets indeed. Makes it all worth while and feeds the hunger to find more .

Me too I hate ticks. I got one dug into the middle of my back and had to have a friend burn it  outwith a cigarette while detecting on the Scott River in Northern California. Instant pain relief when it backed out. Way to go Scott, your skunk is broken. Glad to see you found some gold in another spot  I mentioned to you.

Glad to see Ronnie finally got things straightened out and got these headphones to shops to sell.

That is a beautiful nugget. Congrats on your awsome find.

I guess I was wrong. I haven't heard about these ones.

I still have a few secret spots over by you Steve, but the pass isn't open yet. This place I just went to also has produced large nuggets. The largest nugget found in Montana was found in the next gulch over. It was 27 troy pounds. The gold bearing gravels cover a 20 square mile area. I'm doing my research to get further up drainage into better nugget territory. I found a fault zone and will be heading back to investigate that spot on a gold bearing creek.

One Guy and myself went on the first detecting trip of the year this past Thursday and we were gone til Sunday. I got to the location and headed up the road only to find the road was snowed in for the last 2 miles and was unpassable. I turned around and drove back to the highway to wait for One Guy to show up. When he did, I told him we were out of luck and too early so we decided to go in thru the lower road. We got close to the placer working and knocked on a door of a house closeby to ask who owns the property the tailings were on and low and behold this was the lucky house. We got permission to hunt and camp on 130 acres of dry land dredged ground on a hillside and the next day the  nice gentleman got us permission on another landowners property bordering his. So now we had 1030 acres of gold placer ground to hunt on. It was tuff ground to find any nuggets on as I believed it was too far down the drainage to find many nuggets but on Saturday at 1:00 I found the first one of the year and it was the second one with my new 5000. I was using the Sadie  coil. I love that little coil. I got plenty of shots for the cover of my book. I did not find any more nuggets the rest of the trip and One Guy got skunked. We even had to detect thru a couple snow squalls and the night time temps got down to 19 and 20 degrees which made for cold sleeping conditions in the back of our trucks. All in all it was a good trip that started out bad but turned out good for the first trip of the year.

I really like the 35. It is slightly more sensitive than the 25 and is considerably more sensative than any of the garretts. I use mine every time I go nugget detecting. I have even found a tiny dink of a nugget with it all on it's own in a tight hole on bedrock without using the metal detector to locate it before hand. I will be using it in this manner  time and time again.

Post away with the pics kiwi !

Thanks Lunk. How goes the gold hunting in  Arizona?

Hey Steve do you have any ajustable rods for the Gold Monster?

I believe it is working for the purpose you are stating but it will not have any current up to date info on registered claims, which sucks.

With OnXhunt you can take a picture of a section you have pulled up on your phone screen and save it. When you get there you can pull it up and use it to navigate to given spot and find your way back with gps even if you have no cell service in that area.

What exactly are you trying to prove? If it is trying to categorize  your total amount of gold into a neat little pigeon hole governed by size =  common consistant weight, then that is not possible. Determining how much gold someone has or the size it can be detect, is not ruled by size. It is ruled by weight because gold is so malible. It can be expanded or condensed by forces of nature. You can take 4 different nuggets each weighing 1 gram  but all four are different screen sizes because of each nuggets shape. But they are each still 1 gram. This is common sense as gold  has always been  as long as man has used gold as a commodity that weight not size accurately determines its volume and value.

I just spoke with Ronnie today and asked him if they were going to be made or not. He said he is having a problem with his business partner and that it may be a long time before the issue gets resolved.  When he gets the business dispute settled with his business partner, he will let me know if they will be going ahead with the production of the headphones or not. When I hear back from him, I will let everyone know on this forum and Bill southern's forum. However, it may be a long time.

Hey devilsrenegade, where are you in Montana? Im in kalispell. I may know the person who sold it to you if he hunts Libby Creek. Whats his name?

Detector Pro made a model for the gold monster. Very nice well made headphones with a 1/8" jack. Givve Ronnie a call at Detector Pro.

Steve, that is some very nice gold congrats. Your comment about a single lone nugget in a given area makes me smile and shake my head as there are areas like that in Montana. The largest gold nugget ever found in Montana was unearthed by Ed Rissen in the 1800's in Deadwood Gulch. He was digging a ditch to carry water to Snowshoe Gulch when he dugit up. It was a 27 pound solid gold nugget. Everyone abandoned what they were doing to focus on Deadwood Gulch but no other gold was ever found there. It really makes one wonder how in the world did it get there and not have any golden friends with it.

Great gold Lanny! What was the total weight? I wish I could get my Son interested in gold detecting. Heck, even my wife for that matter. Neither one of them understand all of the benefits those of us who hunt nuggets receives from gold detecting. Especially the memories and family bonding.

I bought a GPX 5000 and a profind 35. I used to have a 4000 but had to sell it. I loved that detector. The 5000 is impressing me. Ilike the versatility of the 5000. It will compliment the monster completely. Discrimination works flawlessly. Have no interest in ever upgrading to the 7000. It has no smaller coils, no discrimination and in open ground it might be great but the places I hunt it is worthless. The 5000 will excel in these locations. Had to send in my profind 35, no sound. Got my replacement and it works great with no issues.

Yah i found a tiny 1.4 gn piece at another undisclosed location and Andy found a little dink in an old timers pile in the middle of a thick grove of saplings at top of a mountain. All three pieces were found in different locations about 4.5 miles away from each other.

I went to a new spot with a buddy of mine and decided to try a couple new locations I have been to once before. Wow what a great location. Top secret for sure. I missed this nugget by roughly a foot and my buddy Andy hit on it. We were both using Gold Monsters. It was only a couple inches down under an ancient cobble.

I don't know if you know how to test if it is lesser jade or the good stuff but in that area there are both. Take a knife and scratch the rock with the tip of the knife. If it scratches the rock and leaves a white line then it is jadite (lesser jade). If when you scratch the rock and it leaves metal on the rock, which will look like you wrote on it with a #2 pencil then it is the good stuff. It leaves metal on the rock because it is harder than the knife blade. I was there for a month prospecting in febuary of 2009 and detected around indian creek. I will take some pics of the jade I found this weekend but I  had one around 10 -15 lbs and was dark green with much darker green inclusions and I found another on the klamath river which is about the same size and weight but is sea foam green with dark green inclusions. Both specimens left the metal on the rock all around the boulders.