Lunk

Nice!

Excellent. WTG!

Sweet looking yellow!

Nice work Lunk.  Just curious, did you have to modify your audio settings any for the Quartzsite ground from those you presented after working N. Nevada?

Hawkeye, my audio settings on the Zed remain unchanged, however I'm running High Yield Gold Mode, Normal Ground Type and Sensitivity at 12.

Hey Lunk,

Ya we are probably ZEDI Apprentices compared to JP. JP had shared some great knowledge about the GPZ since the introduction of the unit.

How long are you staying around Quartzsite? I still remember our last hunt with the SDC out that direction. We did quite the clean up on smaller gold over some hammered patches.

Hopefully we can meet up again for a camp over soon.

Sounds good Rob; I'll be in the area until at least mid March. We did have a blast with those SDC's and I've been wanting to take the Zed to the same locale...let me know when you're ready.

I've benefited greatly in the past from JP's instructional DVD's, and was disappointed to learn he won't be making one on the GPZ 7000 because of piracy issues. But between his Minelab blogs, Facebook page and forum posts, he is still making his wisdom available to the masses...thanks JP!

Dammit Jim, I'm a prospector, not a nuclear physicist!

Hey Lunk (good buddie),

 

   Congrats on your recent success with the ZED (or Minelab Jedi Detector) 

 

It wouldn't matter where you went, the nuggets would pop up.  You're dedication and time in the field contributes to your success.  Your willing to help others has also inspired many that gold nuggets are still out there to be found.  

 

Wishing you many more handfuls of nuggets and Happy Holidays! 

 

Your friend and "Zedi" Knight,

Thanks for the kind words Rob, and they apply equally well to you, too; I've enjoyed the video posts of your nugget digs with the Zed. I've also learned alot from our Zedi Master, Jonathan Porter. The GPZ 7000 continues to amaze me every time I use it. Give me a holler if you're going to be in the Quartzsite area and we will go for a hunt. Happy Holidays to you and yours, my friend, and may the gold be with you!

Thanks everyone! Tortuga, I'm not planning on visiting Greaterville, although I've heard that the area has "sponge" type gold that doesn't respond too well to PI machines and should really light up with the Zed.

Thanks for the info, Steve, but your photo background gives me the chills...brrr!⛄

Congrats JP!

They don't call it the elusive yellow metal for nothing...wtg Rick!

Good eye, Lucky!

Congrats Paul, and wtg Steve for the feel good post of the year!

But it wasn't as sharp as some I have heard, it was more of a broad signal, until I scratched it a bit...then it started acting more like a nugget... I changed the settings and tried it with normal ground and it was just crazy ...acting like everything was a target..

I jacked up the sensitivity too...bad idea I list it in the noise..

So it was a good learning day for me....

I will tell you I had a hard time putting audio smoothing on high..... Lolol

A good lesson indeed, and the best way to learn...by trying different settings on an undisturbed target...as you did. Even a mellow signal is far more distinct and easy to hear when the ground response is compensated for, than a sharp signal that is lost in the cacophony of ground noise produced by running hotter settings.

Sweet nugget, Paul. I'm glad those settings worked for you in the damp salt environment. Was it a fairly obvious target response when you first hit it?

Always #2, and external speaker unless the environment is extremely noisy...next to a traffic laden freeway, for example...in which case I will resort to headphones.

On December 4, 2015 at 0:27 PM, Jonathan Porter said:

Most people don't realise they need to adjust the detector to run smoothly over the chosen terrain not adjust the detector to produce the loudest response on a target in the chosen terrain. There is no point having a great target response on a known signal if you miss that target whilst walking around blind. The level of ground signal in your chosen Gold Mode/Ground Type mode will determine your success, I modified the detectors settings to compensate for the ground signal to allow me to take advantage of Steve's insane settings and it worked really well.

All in all I learnt a lot about the interplay of Volume, Audio Smoothing, Sensitivity and Threshold. I also learnt that Steve is genuinely insane.

JP

Great post, JP!

I also discovered the benefits of exploiting the interplay of the Zed's audio functions early on to produce the most distinct (not loudest) target response relative to ground response; coincidentally, JP's modified audio settings are nearly identical to my go-to settings, as detailed here: http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/830-lunks-zed-settings/

WTG guys, there's lots of GPZ nuggets left in these old patches for the skilled operator.

Will do, Steve. Now that's an impressive photo!

Thanks for the video link, Steve. Gerry, Spencer, myself and a couple of others from Team Nugget Busters were all getting a feel for our brand new, just out of the box GPZ 7000's on an old hammered nugget patch that day...talk about kids in a candy store...lots of fun! I have seen lots of distorted octahedron gold crystals, but the one Spencer found is totally unique and different.

"There seem to be days that you hear stuff that you normally do not hear."

I know exactly what you mean, Ray. I call it being in the zone...well rested, no distracting thoughts, totally focused and ears poised to capture the faintest disturbance of the threshold. And it very well could be that the machine, for whatever reasons, is operating at optimum performance; perhaps it's a combination of both operator and machine being in their respective zones at the same time. Whatever it is, when it does happen, I can't help but marvel at the apparent magic of the gold nuggets that seem to effortlessly appear out of ground that was devoid of any more targets the last time through. Oh, and congrats on your Zed nuggets!

Here is a scientific paper detailing how it happens:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.tnmsc.cn/down/20130203/37-p0276.pdf&ved=0CCoQFjADahUKEwiJvPbp9-fIAhVX6GMKHdCHA_M&usg=AFQjCNGIWQ-4lxncsPAgSe7z46wwhkQ2Iw&sig2=n6PYcf9xnZz8kZnZB15Vsg

Very nice! The real gold is the fun you have chasing it.

Thanks for the kind words, guys. Over a half ounce total now...the Zed is smoking it!