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  1. That's a great way to start out the new year, very nice specimens. WTG! 👍
  2. WTG! Great way to start the new year and with a new coil. 👍👍👍
  3. Copyright 2004, I and my wife were contributors to this book. Copyright 1991
  4. Nice way to end the year! Congrats on another outstanding find. 👍
  5. Wife's wedding ring: My wedding ring: Jeweler placed one of my leaf gold specimens I found in a old ring setting I had:
  6. Gerry you are one of the very few dealers left that have the knowledge and offer training anyone that wants learn gold prospecting. Hopefully you are still young enough to provide this service and education for many years to come. I know when I started detecting for gold nuggets and know there was something at the time of what you had to offer, I would gladly invested the time and money to make the learning curve less frustrating and being more productive out in the field. This is the second time in the past 30+ years in hunting the same area for gold specimens that I and my wife did not go. My wife had a hip replacement two years ago and turning 70 she has decided the almost vertical tailing piles are not the place for her to be. We have been detecting ghost towns this past summer and enjoying finding coins and relics that they have to offer. We will have to see how 2024 shakes out for gold prospecting. Here's another wiregold specimen that I recently cleaned with some host rock left intact:
  7. This is so true in the area I and my wife prospect for gold specimens on tailing piles here in Colorado. We have tried many different types of PI detectors in the past on none will detect the gold specimens we find with a VLF detector. We were hoping the Garrett Axiom would be able to detect this type of gold and this last spring met with Rusty Curry with Garrett to see if the Axiom offered some promise. Unfortunately the Axiom wasn't able to detect the gold specimens, even using the different types of coils they had to offer. We are hoping someday a PI detector will be produced by somebody that can detect these type of gold specimens, as there are certain areas where we are plagued with hot rocks and minerialzation and a VLF detector is basically useless. Here is a .67 Gram wiregold specimen that a PI detector will not detect:
  8. As you can seen from the photograph I took, I believe it's a spacer as it is very thin. I was hoping it would have some type of letter. What is really amazing is this was found miles from any close town, how did it end up there! The stories it could possibly tell.
  9. The token reads "84" on the Deus II VDI scale, so it could be be brass or maybe copper.
  10. Recently a group of us made a trip to the mountains in Colorado to search for coins and relics. We have made trips to these same sites in the past and came away with some nice coins, relics and tokens. Some of the sites can test your patience with the amount of iron you encounter lying above and below the surface, but putting in long hours of detecting you are sometimes rewarded with a few keepers. Three of us in the group were using XP Deus II and two were using the original XP Deus and we were able to come away with some nice coins, tokens and interesting relics. One of the tokens I was hoping to find this trip was a token from Bucktown, Colorado, as they are rare and valuable in any condition. The first two days I wasn't finding any thing spectacular compared to the others in the group, but the last day my luck had changed. I was very fortunate to find a "Good for 5 cents in Trade" square token from a proprietor that had a saloon in Bucktown. I check with several sources to see if others had been found and so far this is one of a kind. Another interesting find was a "Knights of Labor" pin. The pin is 1/2 inches in diameter and still trying to find out what the meaning of the letters S,O and MA are. Of course you find a "what is it". It measures 1 1/4" x 3/4" made of brass or copper, maybe a gunsight? A few of the non-ferrous targets that I found. . One of the sites we detected on this trip.
  11. Yep, that my question also. Version 1.0 did change the vdi numbers on my custom programs, but that's a minor inconvenience. Also wondering a my custom programs what else it may have changed. Video from Iffy Signals shows using stock Fast program and no problem with falsing or target separation. https://youtu.be/KbilSwb5K8M
  12. Found this item at old coal mining camp in southern Colorado. Just think if it could tell all the stories it heard while miners were playing pool.
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