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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.

Greetings from the sun soaked sands of the desert southwest. The weather has been perfect the last few weeks here in the Quartzsite regional placer area of Arizona, and so far my trusty GPZ 7000 has recovered over 60 nuggets from some of the old patches, with a total weight of one troy ounce. With lots more winter prospecting season left, it's time to hit the rugged Arizona outback in search of new nugget patches. Good luck out there!

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!

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.

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!

Back in action at the foot of the Majuba mountains, my newly updated Zed is shredding it by kicking off the winter prospecting season with a quarter ounce of heavy metal. It's going to be a great season!

A very illuminating article; thanks for the link, Steve.

Thanks for he invite Rick, I'll be sure to wander into your camp next time, and we can talk gold while munching on some of that tasty Gold Diggers pizza!

Glad those settings work for you, Peter. I continue to use the same audio settings as described in my post that you referenced; the only functions that I adjust are the Gold Mode, Ground Type and Sensitivity, as and when the ground conditions dictate. Welcome aboard the forum, and I hope those Zed settings serve you in the gold fields as well as they have served me.

WTG Lucky, a splendid poke indeed!

Good job guys!