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Try its big brother; it will hold bigger nuggets when you do find them.

We all know Minelab are always working on their next generation detectors, be they coin/relic/gold or dedicated gold, as Gerry mentioned elsewhere. I'm guessing that the next GPZ detector will be revealed at the upcoming Minelab dealer conference in Oz, May of 2025. I believe that to be a reasonable prediction, as the 7000 is so long in the tooth now, and Minelab's next flagship gold detector is long overdue.

Great round-up of the training, Gerry. Always happy to help out getting your customers up and running with their gold nugget detectors; it was a really good class with great students, lots of fun and fantastic weather to boot.

It's always a pleasure to see a student unearth their first gold; congrats again, Dave.

From a previous post: “A hopper crystal is a form of crystal, the shape of which resembles that of a pyramidal hopper container. The edges of hopper crystals are fully developed, but the interior spaces are not filled in. This results in what appears to be a hollowed out step lattice formation, as if someone had removed interior sections of the individual crystals. In fact, the "removed" sections never filled in, because the crystal was growing so rapidly that there was not enough time (or material) to fill in the gaps. The interior edges of a hopper crystal still show the crystal form characteristic to the specific mineral, and so appear to be a series of smaller and smaller stepped down miniature versions of the original crystal."

I've only ever found one small gold-quartz specimen at Rye Patch; definitely a mystery as to why the vast majority of Rye Patch nuggets found are free of quartz. Looking forward to helping out at the upcoming detector training class, Gerry. The weather forecast for the 3 days looks fantastic - sunny and 70+ degrees!😎

If it doesn’t scratch glass, it looks like it could be aventurine.

Looks like you’ll need to get the new GPZ 8000 to find enough gold to pay for your Storm.

Howdy Arky, this is the extended forecast from the Weather Bug app: We are getting quite a bit of rain today, but it looks like we will be good to go after this weekend.

WTG!

Bravo!

Ditto on speakers; no earbuds for me either.

Heckuva trip, amigo…WTG!

Good job conquering cabin fever by getting out, braving the elements and quenching your gold fever to boot!

WTG on the B-day gold!

One bit is better than none, so good onya for breaking the 2024 ice.

Speaking of speakers, it would be nice to see a small (no larger than 3”x3”x1”), rugged, clip-on, wearable type speaker with adjustable volume and a mute button, 10-hour minimum battery life, with IPX7 dustproof and waterproof rating…something like this.

Great saves south of the border once again, Gerry…WTG!

Way to go, Simon!

Awesome save, amigo!

Yeah, maybe an octopus sucked up that ring and pooped it out at some point.🤷‍♂️💩

I had the same thought when I read Jeff's post.

Jason, from what I'm seeing running the DOD X-coil prototype for the Axiom, I have to say it's the latter case; it seems to have about the same sensitivity as the stock Axiom 11”x7” mono coil in all modes except for the Fine mode, where it won’t ground balance at all in moderately mineralized soil. I've decided not to waste any more time with the coil, so I won’t be posting a separate thread about it after all, since this prototype coil has no performance advantage over the stock coil…sorry guys.

Nice chompers, amigo! 🤣

Hey Reese, those look thick enough to keep the “teddy bear” cactus from punching through. Is that the case?