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You will need a heavy duty bike rack for your e-bike. I use a modified Harbor Freight motorcycle rack. And one other suggestion- consider a step through frame. Especially if you have a short inseam. If you are carrying a detector on your side you will have to step over both to get on or off. But I ended up with a high step and like it a lot- I have 1700 miles on it commuting to work every day since September and for occasional weekend fun rides.

Quite a few of us e-bikers out here- RadRover 6 Plus for mine. It’s a fat tire off-road bike. A buddy also has one that he prospects a lot with. It works fully with throttle and/or pedal assist. They have a pretty good sale going on right now. https://www.radpowerbikes.com If you do get one of these- PM me. I have a good source for refurbished batteries for them at 1/2 off if you ever need a spare.

A very nice day in a wonderful place!

Nugget hunting…That’s what it’s all about!

thanks for sharing that video. There’s no coil error, and it doesn’t happen with my CT coil. It could also be a loose battery. I’m going to start a new thread in the GPX 6000 forum for this- I am getting Sourdough’s NF thread here off track! Sorry Scott!

My detector kept turning off and on with slight bumps the last time I used my 11. I think it’s because the connector was loose, have you ever heard of anything like that? It’s still under warranty but I’m not going to be able to test it correctly until I get out sometime far enough away from town.

What’s different about the bottom of the coil?

Simon, check yours for cracks. I had the older one and turned it in about six months ago for a replacement because of ear cracks (posted a photo of it on that older thread about the ears). They replaced it with this same one as well. i’ll have to admit I forget what the original looked like, can you post a photo of yours?

Beautiful!

On the MRDS website, you can download location KML’s of historic mines per state that had gold recorded as a primary or lesser metal producer. Put those on Google Earth and you will be able to find remote and roadless areas between them. On USGS you can download KML’s of geologic maps and also put them on Google Earth. Look for patterns in all three. That’s how I’d start if remote virgin patches were my goal. https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ Download/Select: search data using a form Pick State, with commodity Choose format: Google Earth Get Data Download data file: the one with .KML at the end. Open the .kml file on Google Earth

All the posts I’ve seen about people successfully finding nuggets in the US these days mentioned digging in areas with trash and pellets. Steve also mentioned recently that presence of trash and pellets was a good way to know an area hasn’t been thoroughly detected. It doesn’t come easy, and that’s been something I started learning as well.

There could be a treasure buried behind old dams, especially those with lakes that were large enough for boats to be on. When I was a kid, I found a heavy 18ct gold women’s bracelet shining in the dried silt behind an old dam that was under repair. My mom kept it after repairing the broken clasp on it. Apparently some woman, possibly on a boat lost it while dangling her arm overboard? One thing for sure though, you’d probably dig up more lead than you’d ever want to dig or see while detecting there!

So far Ive only really found it after being given the pointy finger. And of those I did find, they were just a few little bits not much heavier than .5G, but the fun of looking for it with friends beats all!

Very nice!

Yes, thanks for the gum trees! We try burning them every year, have bugs now that eat them (thrips), but we have no koalas so they just keep growing back! I hear Africa now has California poppies growing wild as weeds, have you seen any in Australia?

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.” ... For some reason I felt compelled to comment with a Bilbo Baggins quote- that landscape is beautiful and I would disappear for days there. You are truly fortunate to live in a place like that!

If I didn’t know where you are from, I’d swear these are Valley Oak trees in the Sierra foothills in central California’s motherload country! Some of my favorite places I’ve been!

Early spring out in the Colorado Desert, CA. Out looking in the sand for opalite, and nearby for jasper, agate and petrified fossil and wood pebbles left behind by the Colorado river in its ancient exposed channels. Some of our goldfields are in places that generally look like this in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree, Randsburg, and Barstow, CA.

EMI- radio waves and such are affected by any conductive metal, lead stops x-rays due to its dense atomic structure absorbing the energy.

Do you use a pinpointer with your 17 inch? I have a Minelab pointer but it acts up sometimes and may need replacement. I was thinking of getting a Garrett carrot (I understand that those work better for small items?), but wasn’t sure as to what would work best with that coil. Of course, whatever it is, you’re gonna have to move the coil well away while using it, everything starts beeping when you fire up a pin pointer near it.

Thanks for the input! We don’t have much salt in the auriferous desert areas of So. California, but if I go to Nevada, I guess I’ll have to use the 11 inch. I was thinking this coil would be good for meteorites on our dry lake beds, but they are mainly salt playas so it will be interesting to see how that goes. I did have fun using that coil for the first time yesterday, and am looking forward to going back to give it a proper shake down as this is all I got yesterday…. https://youtu.be/GaBtHcAm2GA

That 17” Minelab mono is pretty sweet. Just used mine for the first time today and it honked on little tiny pieces of lead 2”-4” deep. I was in pebble to cobble sized rocky terrain interspersed with small boulders and only a few plants (desert mountains). I was going pretty fast, trying to beat the sunset at my last spot for the day and was surprised how small the lead was I kept picking up. It’s a great coil for doing quick surveys over large areas and really doesn’t weigh a lot. I have a Coiltek 14 inch mono , but it just seems kind of heavy and bulky compared to the 17. I haven’t done sensitivity comparisons with them yet. Both are relatively new for me. The stock 17 is a great coil if you need to cover a lot of ground, else the smaller Coils like the CT 10x5 would obviously be best for vacuuming between the rocks and underneath bushes.

That 10 x 5 is pretty good. A buddy used one and it pulled even more bits for him where other PI’s cleaned up before. It’s really good for getting in between rocks, the very bottom of little washes and underneath bushes, I really like it. One thing though, it takes a lot of time to use because it’s small and takes a while to thoroughly cover an area. It’s really a fine vacuum clean up tool!

Luis- also this:

This is a good start to find places to go look: There’s some information that might be pertinent, his other videos may help as well.