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Aureous last won the day on February 14 2023

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    Victoria, Australia
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    Gold Prospecting, detecting in general, Ghost towns, ghosts and history!
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    Minelab GPX6000, Minelab SDC2300 for backup. About to get a Nokta Legend Pro pack. NF 12x7, CT 10x5 coils.

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  1. GPZ and ATX owners should get one of these when they buy new from the dealer! Expected RRP????
  2. In the South is where the Muslim terrorists are incl elements of Islamic State. Westerners are discouraged from travelling alone there, esp if you're chasing gold. Luzon might be a better bet for safety. There is gold quite close to Manila, in the hills above Marakina and nobody seems to pay much attention to it, except for a few local kids.
  3. My thoughts exactly......this seems likely. Just dodgy re-copying of text.
  4. My understanding is that 'Ultra Sensing' is their term for the flat-wound coils. Anything that doesnt have that term on the coil is just std bundle wound.
  5. Apologies Reg, yes it could be misconstrued by the unwary 😉 I will edit it 👍
  6. plus also a big whopper that @Reg Wilson found back in the 90's and an american con-artist tried to pass it off as a US one.
  7. Hope whoever buys it, gets an assay to determine its actual country of origin.
  8. Its a massive job. Not only do you have to contend with waterproofing the box, connectors, battery, switches etc plus shortening or building a new stem and cuff setup, but there's also the effect of buoyancy. True underwater detectors are neutrally buoyant with heavy-base epoxy or similar. For the same amount of time and $$ spent, you'd be better off with an Excal II or a Garrett SH II.... or even a Nokta Pulse dive.
  9. A real SMH moment with Dave being the 'host', my understanding was that he was never a prospector anyway, just a quarry owner/earthmover...everything he learned about gold mining was since he joined Gold Rush. The real-deal guy to do this sorta thing would be Freddy Dodge methinks.
  10. No need for anything fancy, just a short length of shock cord tied onto the handle of your scoop and a holster. Ive used this method of scoop retention for over 20 years now... aint lost once since 😉
  11. I think Steve hit the nail right on the head.... aside from the 'Detector tech hitting the wall' question, Minelab, as the world leaders in detector technology, are slowly failing....even if they dont see it. Competition is here with much more to come. The GPZ7000 replacement has been sitting on the bench for a couple years now and without the actual 'hitting the ball outta the park' analogy coming true, then all the small, incremental improvements aint gonna be enough to sway the serious purchaser into ditching their Legacy GPX, 6000 or 7000 machines. As Minelab's own motto goes 'Performance is Everything' and this actual, serious performance increase will be the ONLY thing that keeps ML at the top of the heap. Not only do the serious guys buy a lot of detectors, but their in-field results drive sales. Nothing sells like success....
  12. Plenty of options for future development still.... the square winding style that NF has produced, the options for CC coils on current PI detectors, flat winding etc....PLUS the future options for signal processing in the coil rather than on the PCB (like the Gold Monster does) are possibilities.
  13. Methinks the sales figures for the last quarter must be looking pretty poor for Codan/Minelab. The massive price increase in the face of increased competition strategy apparently doesn't work......whoda thunk it?????
  14. Good to see that the designer is given credit right on the front...eh @Geotech??? 😉
  15. @phrunt Winter is as close as you'll get to an ice age in Queensland, as you probably remember. Nice and dry (usually) and plenty of flies and snakes @Gold Ryder there too....cant have you missing out on all the Aussie fun 😉
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