Lunk

Xtra awesome!

Sorry Kac, but the crystalline structure of your rock pretty much rules out a meteorite. I'm with you  - it appears to be some sort of a granite. Better luck next time!

Yep, let's take a peek inside.

Good stuff, Nenad! I like the thin, cornflake nugget in Part 2.

This technique will get rid of any yard pests!

28 minutes ago, Randy Lunn said:

Thanks Lunk, I visited Geoffrey Notkin's booth last fall at the Denver gem and mineral show. He has a nice collection of meteorites, and I got two small ones for my grandkids. I also got them Geffrey's book, How to Find Treasure from Space, The Expert Guide to Meteorite Hunting and Identification. They both now want to go meteorite detecting.

That's awesome, Randy! I talked with Geoff a year ago at the Aerolite Meteorites booth at the Tucson show and bought a signed copy of the book. Great read.

Nice nuggets, well done!

Onya JP!

Great finds and story, thanks for sharing.

Yes, I agree...looks to me like you've got one there, congrats!

56 minutes ago, normmcq said:

Lunk

 I didn't mention it, but that nugget with the black matrix came from Gold Basin.

 

Sorry about my assumption that it came from Q. That's a nice winter harvest of golden goodies; well done!

All of your window photos are out of focus. The Gold Basin meteorite is an ordinary chondrite, so if you see any bright, silvery flecks of nickel-iron metal in your windows, you've got the real deal.

Example:

I'm not sure what the black mineral is either, but years ago, my dad detected a specimen that was very similar; yours is only the second with a black matrix that I've ever seen come out of Q.

Way to go Norm! Sounds like you had a good winter season. Is your specimen attracted to a magnet at all?

Just goes to show what a detector can find when wielded with proper technique. And as already noted, the desert tortoise anecdote is priceless. A wise man once said, "Compassion towards all creatures is the greatest virtue." Well done, Flak and son!

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That's a good day of detecting, Rob. Be well, amigo!

2 hours ago, mn90403 said:

What would you say the speed of the Zed is on the Nox scale?  What would it be with Locate Patch On?

The only way to get a definitive answer is to do a side by side comparison between the Zed and the Nox with buried targets. Sounds like there is a video post in your future?

27 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

How do YOU tease the good targets out of trash like the 800?

Mitchel, to me the question is moot, since the Zed has no discrimination. However, in high trash areas, I usually default to the old standard of only going after the deep, mellow sounding targets, and avoiding the screaming surface trash. As to your thread title, the Zed's Locate Patch option of the Ground Smoothing feature allows for a faster swing speed akin to the motion filter of the GPX 5000, providing a shorter, sharper signal response than Ground Smoothing Off. But even at that, I'm sure it couldn't hold a candle to the target separation abilities of the Nox.

WTG Chris!

Mighty fine prospecting, Flak, congrats!

What a whopper! Made me nervous, though, when chipping so close to the nugget with the pick, thought it would get marked for sure. Congrats to the lucky prospectors!

Knowlledge + technology = Au

Congrats MH!

WTG Walker, that's a whopper! I'm glad that the inspiration paid off so well for you.