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Ok, have to ask a stupid question. did they just dig a 24 mile trench? The flumes I have seen in north Georgia gold mining area were elevated wooden structures maybe going 1/2 mile or so. I wonder if there is color in this trench since it cut through 24 miles of gold bearing areas.

On 3/22/2022 at 8:22 AM, NCtoad said:

Sorry to quote my own post but in the second pic, right upper corner are two copper washers.  I dig these quite often. Does anyone know what they were used for?

to me they look like the small washers used on spark plugs.

On 3/5/2022 at 12:29 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

A huge ruckus developed recently over the new Nokta Legend, and a debate over the desirability of an iron bias control. One main argument against such a control came up repeatedly. It’s too dangerous to include. The thought is it could be misadjusted by people who don’t know what they are doing, so it’s best left off.

Really? 

The sensitivity/gain, if set incorrectly, can cause lost targets.

Disc settings when set wrong, can cost lost targets.

Recovery speed, if set wrong, can cost lost targets.

Set the volume too loud, you can damage your hearing! 

That was my huge mistake moving from the AT Pro to the Nox 800. I thought I could use every advanced control without really, I mean really understanding what that control did and what it was designed for depending on hunt site conditions.

That cause me waste lots and lots of hours hunting with a very much detuned Nox 800. It ain't hard to detune and Nox 800 through ignorance. If you don't know what you are doing with these advanced controls use the standard modes that the minelab created with their vast knowledge of metal detecting engineering.

That has confused a lot of new Nox 800 users. I think that is why the advice to newbies (and most others) using the 800 is to pick their mode and don't try to roll your own unless you really, really know what you are doing. Speaking from 3 years experience with the 800, I tried to roll my own with advanced features way before I knew what I was doing. Thus looking back, I was often hunting with a badly tuned 800 that really degraded my ability to find any good targets. Sad, but true for me. I now use a CTX3030 that makes it much easier for the user to select a few options that are crystal clear, like ferrous ground or ferrous coin or high trash, low trash. These modes are even described accurately.

Imagine hunting in your very good secret spot and they show up?

Just when you think the story is getting routine, it gets more exciting. I just cannot imagine working on a crew like that. Now I see why the gold fever struck so many people. In Dahlonega, GA the gold and silver strikes out west caused most of the Dahlonega, gold miners to leave Dahlonega and head west. The mayor or some other Dahlonega official told the miners to stay in Dahlonega because "There is gold in them thar hills" which later became a famous saying.

Jed sure has been making some good decisions. Especially bringing in two guards with war experience and weapons. Bullies only understand one thing and that is they cannot bully guys with war experience and who are willing to kill the bullies.

This thread is probably the most interesting and fun I have followed on any forum. There are many, many treasure stories  on some other MD forum, but not as good as this one based on a real journal. That makes the difference.

great nugget. That is why I say that best place to get real $$$ metal detecting is the western desert of the US or Southern and Calif beaches. Why Southern and Calif beaches? Warm all year round mostly.  Choice places to retire and metal detect.

Jed would have never made it alone working his claims. He would have been shot.

Love this cliff hanger. Reminds me of the Saturday movies cowboy or space serials they showed before the main feature. Not a kid in our small town every missed the Saturday movies at our local movie theater unless they were sick, being punished or out of town with their parents. 

I used to know this, but am not sure I remember it correctly. I now hunt civil war relics and plan to look for bullets in creeks and smaller branches. These creeks and branches are slap dab in the middle of a major Civil War battle in metro Atlanta. All the other areas around I mostly cannot hunt but the creeks and branches are fair game.

Where in the creek would you expect civil war bullets from July 1864 to now be located. In the areas of the creek that are built up by the water flow in the curves or in the deeper curve that is cutting into the bank. I know they could probably be in both places since the walls of the creek and branches have eroded quit a bit since 1864.

So I am asking which sides of the creeks/branches would most likely yield the most civil war bullets. I know that lead like gold moves in a creek until it is stopped by something like a crevice or clay or boulder.

Even today, most police arrive after the crime is committed. This is not to criticize the police, but rather that is the nature of our modern policing techniques. I hope they all were able to find their cached gold in the end.

I wonder if it is realistic to work a productive area like they did in the same manner they did just four guys &  picks and shovels. If so think of finding 3-7 oz of gold each day. Especially at today's gold prices. Or would you be tempted to bring in the heavy machinery? I guess that is what ghost miner is doing or something close, meaning not bringing in the heavy machinery.

38 minutes ago, GhostMiner said:

The crew had a great leader with a plan & there was no quit in them. They mined out gold the old boys missed in the 1800's. And they missed a lot.

It happens. In the 1840's there were more than 10,000 old boys in Dahlonega, GA area. And yet in the 1970's a Canadian found a pothole (glory hole) and found enough gold with his dredge to cover a full sized bed. Nobody gets it all. Mother earth is still hiding her secrets for others to discover.

I also found this video on filters vs depth. You may already know this, but others might not.

Basically the more you add in discrim and other filters, you lower the processing power available for depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufosya8GhEk

Now if minelab would come out with a CTX9090 with the processing power of the Nox 800 that would really be a machine. And Minelab engineers please don't monkey with anything else on the basic CTX design and mess it up. Well maybe make the sucker about 1.5 lbs.

On 2/27/2022 at 2:18 PM, phrunt said:

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On 2/27/2022 at 2:18 PM, phrunt said:

I stumbled across this which is the exact information I've been looking for.

https://www.dankowskidetectors.com/discussions/read.php?2,37325,37325#msg-37325

Over 90 gold ring jewellery numbers.

Indeed the 12 row is the one you should get excited about.  I think from now on I'll dig anything in the 12's, possibly the 11's too. 

I did a frequency graph of the CO numbers on that data. Left hand data is qty found of the bottom data CO numbers.

As you can see rings are all over the place, but in this sample you can see what the most frequent CO number are.

Would make a good movie. Better than Oak Island.

Take your time and get well. This is a real cliff hanger, we are not going anywhere.

You will dig way less junk on the CTX than the 800. I had the 800 for 3 years, and the CTX now for 3 months. Finding a lot more silver coins with digging fewer holes. If the CTX3030 says it is a deep silver, they it is very likely a deep silver coin.

this is when you know a prospector has hit a good glory hole.

fantastic journal read. One thing is clear to be a gold miner or detectorists you have to ever be the optimist or you will never make it as either.

On 2/5/2022 at 12:23 AM, RobNC said:

The arrogance is strong within them. Always has been. Price increase = enhanced greed on their part. Gasoline price went up over 10 cents in 24hrs around here.

Getting downright difficult for a man to afford anything other than working and sleeping.

In Atlanta the tactic of gas stations (quicktrip & racetrack) is to raise it 10 cents at one time and then gradually lower it over two weeks back down at 1 cent every day or two. Kinda favors the gas companies. What else is news.

I lucked out. I got a brand new (was in box for 4 years in a guys closet) CTX3030 with full warranty for $1,400.00. The guy had passed away and the dealer was selling it for his widow. He indicated that she would probably negotiate on the price, but I told him $1,400 was fair and I did not feel right offering anything less. Very happy with my new CTX. It has some good features that should have been in the 800. Or they could have offered the 600, 800 and 1000 with the good CTX features. Had they done that they might have a better chance in fighting off the XP Deus 2.