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  1. Spoken like a true Aussie… You’re going to ruffle some kiwi feathers saying things like that! 🤭 But they actually do have gold nuggets over 1 oz. Simon shared a video of one found in a stream bed a while back. It was palm-sized.
  2. I was going to also mention glacier polish… there even seems to be some parallel lines in it that would indicate directions that it flowed or shifted (if slickenside related). Simon, any small lakes or natural ponds in that area? Glacial moraines? looks like a great day, good for you Simon. I’m curious, why did you feel that the 10 x 5 Coiltek would have been a better choice than the larger 12 x 7 Nugget Finder coil? Was it due to the terrain or performance? I have both but not enough experience to say yet.
  3. I like the 10x5 that I purchased from Gerry a lot but I sold my 14x9 (bought it used from the DP classifieds). The 14x9 is a very sensitive coil for small stuff and depth, but I didn’t end up keeping it because it just felt heavy, especially compared with the other Aussie brand‘s similarly sized larger elliptical coil (which I really like for its light weight and sensitivity). The 10x5 is a very good coil though and I am thrilled with it- sensitive, light weight, and its size makes it able to cover closely around rocks and trash, and under bushes.
  4. Well, I don’t need another expensive lead detector, nor a better goofy looking but very functional sun hat (yeah, I got in on that sale and like it very much- thanks on that one), but I’ll will wait excitedly for the unveiling!
  5. Doc, I knew you were criminologist, but I didn’t know the rest of that. Wow! Organizational Psychology is a very interesting subject. For all the larger companies I’ve worked for, the best ones were two that actually used contractors specializing in this to help with employee morale programs and they were pretty good. And as you know, those companies with owners and supervisors who don’t really care end up with very short employee recidivism, and end up with high training costs, lower employee productivity, etc. A close friend of our specializes in it also, and she’s very busy in the bay area with many corporate clients. You were absolutely spot on with the Gspot scoop. It does speed up sorting out the waste from the heavies, particularly all that time wasting lead! At least with iron one can take it out quickly with a magnet, but man I hate lead, as do every other prospector out there. The scoop was a great idea. As for the Dalas project though, I’m sorry that I have to report that I still haven’t any idea how pizza and a paddle have to do with prospecting but I’m sure it will be a good one for the unveiling! 😄
  6. Looked you up on the US Patent website and am guessing “up the creek without a ___ “ has something to do with the “HONESTY TESTING AND SCORING EVALUATOR”? As far as I know, I don’t need more screws or a drill, but I sure could use one of those “HONESTY TESTING AND SCORING EVALUATOR”’s and a “up the creek without a ___” for my students right about now! 😉 But seriously, you have some great stuff and I’m sure this will follow suit Doc! Oh and what type of pizza?😁
  7. Ron, the problem is, they wouldn’t want to make too good of an expensive detector, because then just a few people could buy it and they would suck up all the gold, and then nobody would want to do it anymore.😉
  8. …and don’t post your beyond visual distance flights on YouTube as the man is looking out for those.
  9. It would be difficult to see the small stuff with a drone that gives evidence about the prospecting potentials of an area, but it could help when looking for those off the beaten track with larger types of evidence of gold potential (pits, drywashing piles,etc.). Sounds like a good experiment to see if it is useful for finding new places. Good Hunting!
  10. When drones become more autonomous it will also be possible to let them fly into mines to map their interiors using lidar or visual imagery. I saw a demo of dog-like robots doing this at a JPL/NASA open house last year- they were autonomous and could walk in beyond remote control reception to map out deep interiors of mines, caves and collapsed buildings - pretty cool stuff!
  11. I used to do mine surveys and mapping for work, and we used a drone to check hard to reach prospect pits and old mine sites to see if they had any open adits or shafts to survey. It saved a lot of money (in time) instead of us hiking up to them. I also used it to help with an archaeological survey to look for rock art up on cliffs and outcrops. Drones for prospecting may help with identifying areas of prior work (old trails, drywashing piles, mine dumps or other worked sites), and looking for areas with outcrops or dikes with prominent mineral deposits. It’s not a new idea, and even Jeff Williams has some videos on his channel where they are also using a drone to look for historic mines.
  12. Steve’s and others carrying their picks are good ideas and I do too when traversing hills- I also sometimes use mine when climbing up a slick dirt hill to help pull myself up, but I usually holster it when walking flats while not detecting. To carry it, I use a $10 Harbor Freight holster because it has a couple extra smaller tool holders on it that I use for my pin pointer and my scoop. I also attach the connector end of two retractable key reels to it to attach to the pin pointer and scoop - keeps me from losing them and even pulls them back up if I don’t holster them.
  13. You realize that you found the master’s ring created by Sauron, right? I know it’s too late for you, but I would never have put that thing on because he is seeking it, seeking it — all his thought is bent on it. The Ring yearns above all else to return to the hand of its master. They are one, the Ring and the Dark Lord, Dave, and he must never find it. Keep it hidden, keep it safe. Translated those markings mean: “…One Ring to Rule them all One Ring to find them One Ring to Bring them all and in the darkness Bind them.” 😄
  14. I’m sitting here thinking where the Henry would a gold H button go? Oh, it must be some Aussie thing or something…then the light bulb turned on. Hahaha.
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