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Interstellar grains found in Australian meteorite: https://www.livescience.com/oldest-material-on-earth.html

Didn't anybody notice the asteroid of pure gold in the teaser video?! Forget the new detector; I'm saving my money to buy a seat on the next SpaceX passenger rocket to Mars, then hopping on a shuttle to the asteroid belt! Now where did I put that rock hammer? 🤩🤪

Got a link from Minelab in my email inbox a little while ago:

EL NINIO77, can you please post a link to this information? Enquiring minds want to know! 🙂

Spectacular find, congrats!

That beauty is even more unfreakinbelievable in person; thanks Travis for letting me hold that bad boy, and congrats again...you earned that puppy!

Crikey Paul, which word is giving you trouble here? Logical = makes sense in the reader's brain. Progression = the order of things. 🤣Just messing with you, mate.🤣 Perhaps I was being presumptuous by assuming that ML are logical.🤔

As we all know, appearances can be deceiving. Looking at it from a logical progression point of view, the GPX range had made many functions that were preset and hidden in the GP series, e.g., the motion and audio filters, stabilizer and tracking speed, etc., fully user adjustable beginning with the GPX 4000. So the next logical progression of this for the more automatic and user-friendly platform of the GPX 6000 would be to have the detector automatically and continuously adjusting these parameters according to the ground conditions, the coil sweep speed and other variables. Perhaps this is in part what the Geo Sense tech is all about.

I bought my first gold detector from Harry and Lucile at Bowens Hideout. They had one of the replicas of the Hand of Faith nugget on display in their shop...talk about a whopper!

Must be within a wildlife refuge area or something similar?

To rule out iron, see if they are attracted to a magnet.

Forget the rock hounding and get to swinging!

“Rocks from Space” by O. Richard Norton will bring you up to speed.

Thanks for the replies everyone, and best of luck to all in the gold fields this year.

What better way to ring in the new year than going nugget shooting in the sunny desert southwest. 😎 In my wanderings through an area heavily worked by the old-time placer miners, I spied an old raked and drywashed nugget patch on a hillside that sloped down to a gravel bench deposit high above the dry creek bed. Back in the VLF gold detector era, the surface rocks were raked away in order to get the detector coil right on the ground, to make up for their limited depth capabilities. Detecting these types of environments with the newer PI and ZVT tech can reveal deeper nuggets that were beyond the reach of VLF detector operators. Slow and methodical coverage of the old patch with the GPZ 7000 yielded two small nuggets for the poke today.

Only if I get my stapler back...

Nice bush button JP!

I just saw the same method on the internet: the volume of the specie is the dry weight minus the submerged weight, which equals 25.5 grams per cubic centimeter. If the specie was made entirely of quartz, it would weigh 25.5x2.65=67.575 grams. Subtracting this from the weight of the specie, 125.8-65.57, leaves us with the weight of the gold...58.2 grams.

In that case, using a purity of 96.5%, my estimate is 68.1 grams of gold. I believe the formula that you are using assumes a purity of 85%.

JP, can you give us what you think is the average purity of the gold in your area?

Great finds, Travis! What detector(s) do you swing?

Merry Christmas, Gerry!

Sweet find!

Gerry, even though I'm ineligible to win the hat, I'm posting some ornaments that I like to deck the halls with anyway. Merry Xmas all!