Goldseeker5000

I will be at the Quartzite Gold Show selling books. I didn't want to say anything until now because I wanted to make sure I had the funds to get there when the time came. Getting this ounce of gold sold came just in time. Looking forward to meeting any of y'all there that is able to make it. I guess I will be giving a talk there as well. Feb 10-12.

I got three small nuggets today for the first outing swinging the 12x7 coil. They were all shallow. Loud signal. Very rich and smooth in sound. I knew they were going to be gold. Four targets. First Three were gold, fourth was a tiny bit of iron. All were very shallow. I will get pictures tomorrow night. Two are still sitting in CLR. I like it so far. 

Hey phrunt the next few days of hunting with the 12x7 I will show performance on the videos. If it can hit on these nuggets at the depth the caliche is at,  of a foot to 14" then I will be very impressed. Im talking 3/4 gram to 1 gram at 14" .

Aureous and Nenod, great reports of the 12x7. Mine will be here in the morning and I will be taking it to my area I found the crystalline nugget. I got 10 from there so far with the 11". This area had been pounded with a couple 7000's. I got one today. Maybe . 3 or . 4 g. The 12x7 should be very interesting in my area. 

Thanks again Rob. I will look into the comb. Im looking forward to the 7x12 coil. I'll send you pics and feedback on the coil and gold.

Geof_junk, I will try again and leave it in there much longer. 

There was a thin bit of gold connecting two large crystalline blobs. It broke in half when it was wrapped up in paper towel and sitting in a large bottle. I am going to go ahead and desolve the rest of the iron away. 

Yeppers it sure is. I'm happy either way. 😁

I have the gold finished dissolving and I am thinking it may be a specimen. Maybe a nugget. Im kinda unsure if I should take it further to get this irony clay off of it. I only lost a microscopic amout of gold. It sure is coarse. Crystalline in fact. I'm not sure it is one solid piece or maybe so crystalline and fragile that it comes apart in two or more pieces. What do y'all think? Take it further or leave it alone the way it is? 

Tom, I had the same thing happen to me several years ago. It exploded and I caught shrapnel of rock on my upper cheek bone, very near my eye. I think it was because there was Pritchard mud stone encasing the nugget. It might react differently than quartz. I've had small shards fly off specimens, but not like the Pritchard rock with the nugget inside. Infact that very nugget is in my nugget raffle to be given away when my book is purchased. Taking place at this very time. 

It's still soaking in Muriatic acid, but here is a pic of how it is doing so far 

Video isn't edited yet. Maybe Monday. I'm going to one of my patches tomorrow. 

Today was an amazing day. I only hunted for about 2.5-3 hrs. I got one nail, second target I never retrieved, but I think it was a chunk of a square nail. Third target was my nugget. It came out of the ground encased in caliche and weighed 23 grams. It is still sitting in muriatic acid, and is down to 14.88 grams. It is getting close. Should end up with at least 12-14 gram nugget. 

No. This one was in the open. Half way up the side slope of a wash. Not hitting anything down in the washes. The nuggets are only being hit on, on the slopes. 

So I had a good day today in my area where that Cholla got me. I've pulled 6 nuggets from here now and this one is the best one so far. A video of it will be done perhaps tomorrow. I have a Gold Seeker Adventures store front up with shirts sweatshirts, mugs and a bunch of other gear with the Gold Seeker Adventures logos. Also got some slogan shirts for detecting that will be available soon. Go to my description on my next video or the video of beware the cholla to check it out. Now this nugget I got today was 13.6" down. I used the 11" coil and was hunting in Auto 2. Even at 13.6" down it was loud. 

A friend here told me about an old guy who was out detecting and he wouldn't go within 3 feet of any Cholla. Well, he was riding his quad down a slope of a wash and wiped out, sending him into a large cholla cactus. He called my friend and a friend of his to come out to help him get his ATV upright and help him with the Cholla. He was completely covered in cholla. All over his head and face, throat and the rest of his body. Landing in it would be very bad when lauched with force. Ouch 😳🤕

DSmith, the hornet incident on Bedrock gulch was not filmed. Oneguy saw it happen in person. It was fricking hilarious. There will be more mishaps happen to me I will end up putting on YouTube. That stuff has a way of happening to me😆.

KneePro lll . Just type this name in Amazon and they will show up. I think they come in three colors. I've tried all kinds of knee pads and I like these the most so far. Very comfortable. They stay put where you want them. 

I got them from Amazon. They are hinged. I like them. 

Why not give it a go Chuck! You will know at what point to leave it alone. Just remember one thing with it. Less is more. It is easy to take it too far. No going backwards with it. Lol. 

I understand your concern to monitor and restrict spam. That is a given. I got on Prospecting Australia a few years ago and quickly saw that that forum is highly policed for any wrong doing even to the point that members have to go through the gauntlet to even be worthy to put up something they want to share. It is highly annoying and I stopped going to the forum. There is a reason your forum is desired above all other forums. I hope you won't go down that path that other forums have chosen to restrict new members. Perhaps there is another way without restricting new members and or making them earn their dues. For many it might just turn them away. But at the end of the day Steve, it's your forum do as you wish. 

I just uploaded a video detailing Hydro-Shocking the gold/quartz specimen from my last video. If you have any questions either drop them here or on the comments in the video and I will answer them. The next video will be showcasing the specimen after Hydro-Shocking and conducting a continuity test on the specimen to determine what visible gold is connected throughout the specimen.

That is a very nice nugget. Congrats 👏🎉

Jasong, I know guys that have sent their detectors in to be fixed and some that have a particular model of the first few months of production and the same model a couple years later or more and they claim there is a difference between the sensitivity. I can't afford to take a chance on it being better than it was before sending it in. I will wait to see how everyone else on here feels about the results on theirs after sending them in.