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No problems with the unit I have.

Nice video Jim!

Thanks Steve for cleverly circumventing a specific dollar amount. 🙂

Again... Please, nobody say they would be willing to pay as much as the GPZ 7000!!!😅 I remember when the GPZ 7000 was but a rumor, one or more posted that they would be willing to pay $10,000 U.S. for the next Minelab flagship gold detector if it had the features they wanted. And then the GPZ 7000 was released at the exact same phenomenal price! Coincidence perhaps, but I think not.

Please, nobody say they would be willing to pay as much as the GPZ 7000!!!😅

Very exciting, Alexandre!

Agreed Steve, and I'm convinced that Minelabs' next flagship gold detector will be lighter weight than the GPZ 7000.

I guess you could see it two different ways: on the one hand, the lighter weight alone could be perceived as added performance and would justify an increased price point. How well that would fly would depend on how many people would actually view it that way. The other perception that I think would be more common is that a lighter weight, equal performance detector Is not worth an increase in price because you’re paying more for less physical detector with no real technological performance advantage. Now if it was a lighter weight AND improved technology than the GPZ 7000 with X-coils, a higher price would be justified to most. And I don’t recall Minelab ever NOT improving their tech on each new flagship gold detector anyway, so I feel the lighter weight, same performance detector scenario is extremely unlikely. That's what I think. Of course, a lighter weight, improved performance detector at a LOWER price is what we all want, but that scenario has never happened with Minelab either; maybe they will make history this time?

A couple of my favorite 2019 gold finds was this 5.6 gram piece at nearly a foot and a half with the GPZ 7000: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zzmm1pgdrpaswe7/Nugget dig.mov?dl=0 And the recent 3-way specimen with White's GM 24K:

Here's mine: my first ever gold ring, found with the Minelab Equinox 800, a collection of silver firsts, also with the Equinox, and my recent triple-mineral gold specimen, found with the White's Goldmaster 24k.

Guess nobody got the humor; perhaps they would if the email was titled “Gold Prospectors Bum...”? 😅

Not to be an alarmist, but I received an email today about an affliction that affects gold prospectors and is apparently related to athletes foot. Has any one else heard of this or been unfortunate enough to contract it? 😱

https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2019-12-25---the-meteorite-that-fell-on-christmas-eve-.r1wJLAlJL.html https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=Spain&sfor=places&ants=&nwas=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&strewn=&snew=0&pnt=Normal table&code=16715

Congrats on the hard -won gold, amigo!

Here it is:

It's in my collection...a great resource.

These bits were found several years ago with the GP-3500, and are typical of what I dig up in my neck of the Idaho outback; nothing big or particularly impressive, but keepers nonetheless. The hand-stacked rocks and iron trash from the 1860's gold rush era clued me in to the gold.

Holy schist!

I’ve actually used the Nox and the GM 1000 at this locale, both with their small coils. Must have just missed this particular spot before, as the speci was right on the surface. Happy Holidays to you. As Geof noted, I didn’t want to use any kind of acid on the limonite, so I just used a gentle scrub with a toothbrush in soapy water.

On my first trip to the desert southwest 20+ years ago armed with my trusty Fisher Gold Bug 2, I looked up a nugget shooter by the name of Glen “Griz” Anderson in the Arizona outback town of Quartzsite, who was gracious enough to take me out to an old nugget patch that he and some other locals had hammered. He said if I hunted it thoroughly that I should be able to turn up a bit or two. Sure enough, careful searching with the six-inch elliptical concentric coil of my GB2 did coax a couple of crumbs out of the old patch, but other than that I wasn’t having much luck. So I decided to be adventurous and started detecting up slope away from the patch, towards the crest of a small hill. That’s where I started encountering the bird shot pellets...LOTS of them. After recovering about a dozen of them, I dug what sounded just like another, but it turned out to be a very small bit of purple quartz laced with thin stringers of gold instead.🙂 It seemed nobody had bothered to detect this area for long because of all the bird shot, but I stuck with it and for every dozen or so of the tiny lead pellets, I would find another bit of the beautiful purple quartz laced with gold, until I had a couple dozen pieces. I hunted the spot for a few days until it dried up, and I’ve been back again every time I have acquired a new detector over the intervening years, which has found me a few nuggets off of the patch, but never another bit of the purple quartz. So I was hoping to find more the other day with my White’s Goldmaster 24k, outfitted with the 6-inch round concentric coil. I was finding birdshot, but alas, no purple quartz and gold. As I pushed the coil under a very small palo verde tree, the 24k let out a healthy ZIP! declaring something definitely larger than a bird shot; I was fully expecting to see a 22 bullet or casing sitting on the surface, but could see nothing. So I raked a bit of the loose surface material into my nugget scoop, waved it over the coil and ZIP! got it! It turned out to be a small 4-gram speci with a limonite crystal, quartz crystals, and gold! I’ve never seen anything quite like it - a very unique piece.

Oooh...I like the bit about the “realistic price”.

That is some hard won gold!

Super awesome, Dave...you make it look easy! Can’t wait to see them all cleaned up.

JW, I’ll have to borrow a 10-inch X-coil next time I see someone swinging one and give it a go on an old patch or two.