Steve in Idaho

Every time I go out I find gold. I still have not had any falsing problems yet. I keep my coil wire tight against the shaft and I push the coil through a lot of brush. If I hit the coil cable to hard it will false. I love this machine  My poor old GB II thinks that I have abandoned it. I cannot wait to go out again. 

I run my coil wire straight up the stem and secure it with velcro ties and I have never had an issue with it being touch sensitive. I run the coil around and through brush with out any noise. I run the sensitive as high as I can get away with it. It still finds gold.

I tie my coil wire so that it runs straight up the shaft. I use those velcro ties and have not had any falseing. I do this on my other machines and never get any falseing from touching the coil wire. 

That gold monster is habit forming. I have found gold every time I take it out. That thing would go nuts at Ganes cr.

I would love to find just one Rye Patch nugget. Very nice nugget Peg. 

We went up to an old wash site on a shape ridge and I got a good reading on a rock out crop. I dug down and found a nice picker about two inches in the dirt and rock. I went over the hole and got another reading. Another picker. I kept doing this until got about 6" down. I got 9 pieces that weighs 3.9 gram. It was at the end of the day and my battery was down. I will go back another day and tear that top of the ridge apart. There will be more gold in that area. I am about to put my Gold Bug II away for a while, but never sell it. 

If I ever loose my loop, I will know where I can find one. Thanks  Steve

I like it. I am going to do the same thing to my GM. I have some extra straight stems to work with and an extra lower shaft for the big coil. 

Very good info Steve. You should go to work for Minelab and write instruction books for them. The GM 1000 book is short on good instructions..

Nice stuff. If I had not had so much to do, I would liked to have went with you. We can try for next weekend with the GM 's .

I have a copy of the Complete Unabridged edition of Zip Zip. It has a lot of good information in it. 

A very nice display.

To Rege-PA:

We were the first group into Ganes cr in 2004 when I went to a place down stream from camp to detect. This place on the dredge piles was dozed the previeous year. With the snow melt and the spring rains, the old dozer pushs were washed off. The gray muck had been cleaned off by the rain water. I was following the dozer blade edge on the push and I got a signal that sounded like the blade it self. There was an off colored hart shape rock that I just went over with the coil of my Gold Bug II. When I picked up the gold colored rock, it was very heavy. I knew it was gold by the weight and color. The rest is history. The best find of my life.

That big heart shaped nugget at the top of the pics on the right was the nugget that I found at Ganes cr Alaska in 2004. It weighs 33.85 troy.

This was my first time at the nugget shoot. Had a great time and got to talk to some interesting people. Did not win any big prizes but had the time of my life. Thanks to every one that worked hard putting on this Rye Patch nugget shoot.

Ace Hdwr sells a product that has a weak solution of hydrofluoric acid called wink. Buy the one that is for cleaning concrete. It not only cleans quartz, but it will desolve the quartz in time. 

I think that Ganes cr was mild to Moore cr.  I never been to Moore cr, but as other friends of mine have been to Moore cr.,they said that the tailings at Moore cr had more minerals in them than Ganes cr. I hunt other tailing piles and Ganes cr was easier to hunt. I also hunt old mine tailing piles and those with sulfides mask the gold, unless it is large pieces. I have used a VLF detector and a PI detector on both types of piles. 

I bought a Garret Deepseaker and I found a 3 oz nugget with it. I also used it to hunt coins. That was about 30 years ago. 

I went to hunting gold with a detector because I got sick of all of the permits and hell that I had to go through for dredging. I have found more gold with my detectors that I ever did dredging.

I am in North Idaho and yes I hunt on rock piles and under them.

Ya it did. I only paid $40 for it and it needed a skid plate and that cost $33. That was a good investment. 

It was a dirty looking piece until soaked it in hot oxcylic acid, then into hot soda solution and it foams and the crud comes off and the quartz turns white.

I bought a used DD coil for my SD2200 V3 and the first trip out I got a 21.4 gm nugget under a big rock down about 9 inches. That coil runs so quiet that all I heard was a faint good sound that I knew it should be gold. The last nugget that I found was at Ganes Cr. two years ago.

I have found some very nice nuggets with my 705

Nice find Gerry. When you use the correct detector, they always find the big ones.