Lunk

1 hour ago, afreakofnature said:

Nuclear ☢️ fall out saftey spot.

🤣Nope, guess again!

8 hours ago, Valens Legacy said:

Looks as though everyone had a good hunt, did anyone use the outhouse by any chance.

Good luck on your next hunt.

Good guess VL, but it's not a concrete outhouse; someone on here should know what it is…🤔

Fun trip with excellent saves and a great detector training class as always, Gerry! Looking forward to the 1 on 1 gold and space rock training down here in the warm and sunny Arizona desert.😎🌵

On 7/29/2022 at 2:46 AM, Tony said:

Just copied this from Garrett Australia Facebook……..trust me, that is some very spicy ground 🌶 

This is some very good preliminary results if its pinging gold in this ground as you need an effective GB to hear any targets.

Good boots are a must on our hot ground 😳

 

Two seconds later…

Tony, is that ground uniformly hot, or is it variable?

13 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

Axiom Pulse Induction...  I'm liking it.

Found someones gold nugget container and YES it even had gold in it.

And he even gave it back to its rightful owner (thanks again, amigo); what a swell guy! 🤘

Good on you, GC; just a simple matter of having the right tool for the job. That  General/Difficult combo even works great against magnetite hot rocks too.

27 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I admit I read this thread with a degree of satisfaction, and a feeling of being vindicated. As a prototype tester I put out a very early report on the GPX 6000 trying to tell U.S. operators only (not Australian users or X Coil users) exactly what is now becoming accepted as fact. And that is, for the average U.S. user, especially new buyers, the GPX 6000 is a better value than the GPZ 7000. Despite my clearly stated caveats, however, I got enough blowback from the very people I was exempting from my commentary, that I pulled all my reviews and information on the 6000. I did finally post them again about three months ago, once the heat died down.

I must say that the quality control, and therefore all the problems people have had with the GPX 6000, have been very disappointing. The fact is most people do not have issues, but so many do, including quite a few people that I know and respect, that it has taken some shine off what should have been a truly excellent release by Minelab. Were it not for the issues that plagued some people, a lot of the pushback would not have existed. We hear "yes, it does find gold, but the problems......" far too often.

Still, the Minelab GPX 6000 for me is a joy to swing, and literally paid for mine in two days last fall, on the kind of gold the GPZ 7000 is weak on, and that I had been over and missed with the 7000. Again, because of the grief I was given, I did not post about any of my GPX 6000 finds last year, but it has left me with a hole in my Steve's Mining Journal last year, that needs to be filled. So I will finally get around to writing that up and posting about it soon. Thanks Gerry, and everyone else posting on their GPX 6000 success, for making me feel more like saying something now, than I have this last year.

A few ounces of GPX 6000 finds from the Mother Lode country.....

Steve, I know pictures don’t do justice when it comes to gold, but those look like some really spectacular specimens, WTG! Looking forward to your GPX 6000 journal entry.

A stellar training session, Gerry, thanks for sharing!

1 hour ago, Randy Lunn said:

I just love getting out into nature. The thrill of being in a beautiful area with the sense of adventure and the chance to find stuff is exhilarating.

Couldn’t have said it better, Randy. Congrats on the nuggets and other finds. That’s a beaut of a chondrite, they don’t get more perfect than that.

GC, just wondering if you tried the 6k with the DD coil in that environment? I had great success running the older GPX machines with a DD coil in cancel mode (just like the 6k DD in EMI cancel) in the volcanics of the El Paso Mountains. The conductive ground cancel may work as well.  
 

22 hours ago, BMc said:

 

549 Australian Dollar equals

385.10 United States Dollars 

(Google format) insert amounts)

Due to supply and demand, all the traffic will bear, etc etc, I would expect the price to be at least slightly higher in the US. (presently advertised on internet at $401.00 (MSRP: $439.00)

 

 

 

14 hours ago, GotAU? said:

The 6k 17” Minelab elliptical is sensitive and not bad to handle, I like using that to cover ground quickly in the flats. Not bad for $360 US either.

So we’re expected to pay more for a small 10x5 than a large 17 ellip ??? 😳

Great blow-by-blow account of the weekend, amigo; good times as always!

56 minutes ago, geof_junk said:

Lets hope others put some sunbakers shots up.

Here’s a 3 gram bit basking in the Arizona sun:

5 hours ago, Gold Seeker said:

That all being said if I had a time machine that would take me and a metal detector back in time (and back to the present) to whenever I wanted, now that would be the golden ticket!!!  

Are you listening, Minelab? If anyone can invent said time machine, it's Bruce Candy and ML's R&D! Because of your detector tech innovations, there will be no detectable gold left to find in the future, so the only solution is to detect in the past. Certainly, ML must have at least applied for a patent on a flux capacitor by now…🤔 

BTW, great post on Vic's gold history, GJ. 

1 hour ago, Goldseeker5000 said:

I have 25-50 mph winds to hunt in today. Fun fun.

Sounds like a great day for winnowing!

Great job tracking down those space rocks, amigo…that big one is a real trophy…WTG!

Way to persevere and get the gold!

I’ll be sure to drop by your booth, Reese. 

1 hour ago, aerospace guy said:

2nd question is have you Gerry and others 'hammered' Rye Patch with 6000's and is there still gold to be found? What other Nevada areas do people have success detecting? I KNOW I KNOW...people are SO closed mouth about areas but not me ..I tell people what areas I have success..I just don't pinpoint them.

The GPX 6000 hasn’t been out long enough yet for Rye Patch to be hammered by it, so yes, nuggets can still be found there with it and other machines, as you witnessed during the training class. Nugget hunters have successfully detected gold at many locations throughout Nevada, many of which are detailed here.

1 hour ago, aerospace guy said:

I've gone up and down countless 'washes' and they are always loaded with lead and trash...what do you guys running the 6000 do in those cases?

We grab our discriminating VLF machines and leave the 6000's in the truck, especially if there is lots of ferrous trash, but even then, you still have to dig the non-ferrous trash like lead, shell casings, aluminum and copper targets, etc. If the majority of the nuggets in an area hit a certain conductivity range, then they can be cherry-picked by just going after targets that fall within that range; you'll leave gold behind that falls outside of that range, but it's a good compromise and increases the gold to trash ratio, which is handy when you don't have much time to detect.

AG, that’s a decent chunk of the good stuff…WTG!

4 hours ago, GB_Amateur said:

I'm curious to read how this compares to @Lunk's GB meteorite finds in terms of size.  I was thinking most meteorites found there are pretty small pieces, not 6/7 of a lb. 

The largest stone I recall finding at GB was around 500 grams.