hawkeye

Hey, I found some of that window screen wire with my 2300 in N Nevada too.   Must have been after Steve cleaned out the patch.     Thanks for nice write up Chris. 

Thanks guys for the feedback. Last time in NV I was so spooked by the flat tire stories I had plugs, slime bombs, and a little 12v air compressor ;-). Of course, nothing happened with all that stuff onboard.

New tires. If you don't mind, what are the specs on those new tires you folks are using. I spent a little time in N. NV last year and lucked out with no flats on my 6 plys, but thinking about an upgrade.

Looks like 10 ply on the sticker of Lucky's tires.

Caveat emptor.

As I was looking at the nice collection I wondered why the GPZ picked these up when other detectors didn't. For the most part the nuggets are all very oddly shaped. Could that be why? Maybe I need more things to think about.

Nice work russ.

Thanks Steve. 

Infavorable locations #5 isn't necessarily applicable to placer gold as there are numberous areas where gold laden deposits have eroded over time leaving bajada and other type placers and the resulting stream placers in washes.  Of course originally these areas where in favorable structures before eroding

Check out Part IV, "Arizona Lode Gold Mines and Mining", Bulletin 137, Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, Geological Survey Branch.  It is an overview of geological features where gold may be found.

PM me if you would like me to e-mail you a copy of Part IV.  Bulletin 137 was originally compiled in 1934, but Part IV is still applicable today.  Please send me your personnel e-mail address so I can send it to you direct.  I am not sure I can attach a file to a return PM.

Ken

 Looks like that prospect is a no-go.  I guess the owners are afraid someone will destroy the "natural" setting of the tailings piles.  Or, they just flat don't like people on their land.  Thanks for info guys, and the lesson Barry.

Looking for information on detecting the tailings piles along Prichard Creek near Murray, Idaho.  I have to do some more research to see if the area is public land or private property, but curious if anyone has any experience with the area.  Looks like an interesting place to check out.

Hey, I quit my day job 20 years ago.  I didn't add any gold income in my financial plan.  So far that was a good assumption.

Russ,

Signaling on tree roots? Some months ago a forum member had an issue with his 2300 falsing when touching Palo Verde branches. Not sure if this is even related, but when he checked with Minelab they asked him to return it and they sent him a new one. Is anyone else having this issue?

Hey Herb,

Fellow Albertan here. Do you winter in nugget country? I'm sure you know this, but Alberta is flour gold country. I have thought about detecting in the Wildhorse area near Fort Steele, BC, but it is pretty much all claimed. The nearby Fisherville public panning area would be a great place to detect, but no detecting allowed. Like me, you are going to have to make some long road trips to get on the gold. Good luck.

That`s it D-TEX, yeah they had a little edge on the A2B when the A2B was king. In some ways I miss those pre-PI days, less of us about. Lot of surface gold in places sometimes multi signals on each sweep for many meters, the beginning of the electronic gold rush.

"Multi signals on each sweep for many meters".  Metal detecting heaven.

tvanwho,

To prevent or minimize black and blue toenails trim your toenails very short.  Good fitting boots also to minimize your foot sliding forward in the boots.  The toenail thing works.

That is a good question.  Didn't think about that since as far as I got was Civil Air Patrol.  Don't think that counts.

I realize the discussion on pricing is beyond old, but since I reside in Canada in the summer I thought I'd check out pricing there.  $9999.00 Canadian.  Current exchange rate now is about $1.00US=$1.25CAN after fees.  So if you bought in Alberta where the only sales tax is 5% federal GST and threw in the exchange rate you'd be paying about $8400 US out the door.  

Of course, if you only have $Can you still are paying $9999.00. ;-)

Paul,

Check out the Professor's post in Classified.  Not sure he knows about your offer yet.

Hey Norm,

Check your message box.  I sent you a PM.   

A good friend of mine said "you know what is good about get old---NOTHING".  Now you got all the time in the world to go detecting, but can't hear the dang detector.  Much less leap buildings at a single bound.  

Gold Hound,

Thanks for sharing that experience.  What a great prospecting lesson.

Let's add a new element that combined with luck to got me 3 little nuggets all within a 10' circle.  Laziness.  Near the end of the day heading back to the jeep came to a little wash and being to lazy to stumble down the wash I chose instead to walk on a nice level bench next to the wash.  Went twenty yards got a nice signal on the 2300, dug the target, a nice little nugget.  Three feet away another target and nugget.  Five feet away under a little bush another target and nugget.  This was on a club claim that has been searched a lot.  In this case luck was a big factor, and a good deal of credit goes to the 2300.  I'm sure I wasn't the first guy to search that nice level bench.  Or maybe all the hard workers walked down the wash ;-)

Azblackbird, you must spend a lot of time in the "can" if drinking a gallon and a half a day. ;-)

Chris,

You make a good point.  You are including one's broader skills as a prospector which is valid.  Finding that place to put that detector over detectable gold is getting more and more difficult for the amateur detectorist.  Recently developed detectors such as the SDC2300 and the GPZ7000 are allowing us to find gold in areas that were cleaned out with previous detectors.  For whatever reasons, time, money, age, length of time detecting, many hobby dectectorists do not have the advantage of being able to find new areas to detect or go back to old patches.  A good detector capable of detecting the missed gold offers us a more than 20% advantage.

I'm going to buck the conventional wisdom that it is 80% ability and 20% the detector.  How big would your pokes be without the superb VLF's like the GMT or the GB2.  What about all the Minelab PI's which revolutionized detecting for gold.  Lately the SDC2300 which provided you with gold you previously walked over.  Now it appears the GPZ7000 is doing the same thing.  Sure you mastered the detector and it provided more gold, but where would you be without it.  Probably walking around with two bent clothes hangers.  I think it is more realistic to give the detector at least 50%.

Digger Jones,

That makes sense.  Not sure why I was so thick headed when I read the quote.  Thanks. Now back to the gold rush.