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Looking good,  S'pose you can just use your camo brolly when you get hit with a downpour !

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Ashley

The front cover pic is of the 71.5 Oz nugget,  Boy you guys sure had the glory days in detecting gold,  But in saying that my next gold find could be a biggun !

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Ashley

Wow !   Is this the one ?

Nice prospecting rig there Steve,  Only problem is you might just walk past it tucked behind a bush .  Was it from the military vehicle auctions they had recently ? 

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Ashley 

Good result there JP.    Congrats !

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Lot's of good comments and ideas  here !  

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Ashley 

2 hours ago, Reg Wilson said:

Orange Roughie patch Post Script 2

From their description, I knew that car quite well.

Ah !  .......... The Plot thickens !

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Ashley 

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Thanks beatup & Steve.

On 11/3/2017 at 6:52 AM, kiwijw said:

Come on Ash....you are no apprentice

Kiwijw : The apprentice bit was the first thing that popped in my mind after looking through the " Reg Wilson Collection post"  and then i posted up this post. But i still consider myself an apprentice as i am always learning, learning, learning.

mn90403, Thanks,    "Those that have mastered", I wouldn't like to hazard a guess on their gold take and most would never divulge it,  But "Those that have Mastered" to me means mastered their detector, Mastered reading the ground and their environment and the gold will come.

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Ashley

Thank you Lunk, Dolan Dave, vanursepaul, bluthermal. 

Rockett : Used & tried a lot of settings as it was my first opportunity to try out the new Minelab update for the Zed,  Factory settings work well but always try & see if you can get the Zed to run in Normal on the ground you are on.

Jrbeatty : Yes was lot's of digging but i was lucky enough to find most of the gold in patches with only a small amount of rubbish targets, One patch of 31 small nuggies had 11 shotty pellets pretty much smack in the middle of the patch and no other rubbish anywhere. The 62 patch was only gold targets, did end up finding a boot tack about 20m away from the patch

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My Apprentership Tally for the 2017 Season in Western Australia, 715 pieces of gold, Biggest nugget was 10.87grams, smallest was 0.09grams. Biggest patch was 62 nuggies in an area not much bigger than my 14ft caravan.  All found with the mighty Zed.

Gold is sectioned in the photo as explained :

Top section and the small pile at the 9 o’clock position was from my trip early in the season

( roughly 3 months ) for 458 pieces.

Small pile at the 8 o’clock position and remainder of the gold on the right lower section was from the latter trip of just over a month golding for 257 pieces.

9 o’clock & 8 o’clock piles was the 62 patch found on my last day of the early trip and clean up on the first day of the latter trip ( best patch bit was a 6 grammer with a total patch weight of 37.56 grams )

Total weight comes in at 11ounces ( possibly a tad more when I crush the speccies )

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Ashley

Wow !  Fantastic post, Thanks Reg & JR.  Many many untold stories from that nugget photo collection, What a book it would be !

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I have the same type as Cabin Fever has  ( Little bit longer legs )  from my Sovereign GT days,  From memory i got them from someone in the USA.

Just tried it on the Monster and it works a treat.

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G'day Madtuna,  My very limited experience with the falcon was pretty much like yours so I reckon it's a matter of getting the hang of it, Hopefully some experienced operators of the falcon probe chine in with some advice.  Great to hear the reef hasn't run out yet for you. What do you think of the small crusher your using ?  ( You were talking about purchasing a small crusher some time back ) 

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Anyway, thanks again and here's a couple of more pics. So far I've crushed about 1 1/2 kg of rock for about 4oz

Again congrats Steve, Some serious weight there, Enjoy the experience, You are living the dream !

Out of interest : Did you end up with one of them small crushers for just this sort of occasion, If so How is it handling it ?

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G'day Steve, Downloaded the update and am i understanding it correctly, The new ground smoothing in the Off ( default ) setting is what the detector was before downloading this upgrade, Only when you select "Locate Patch" or "Salty Soils" will it be different.    So if correct there is no problem using the new downloaded version as your detector is still the same as before, Only when you select Locate or Salty will it all change  ( Hope that all makes sense )

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Congrats Steve, Good onya !!!!!!   It's what we all dream of finding.   Will be interesting to see what difference the new Zed updates do for you in the Laterite.   " 

" With the Locate Patch setting, it is now
possible to use Normal Ground Type in
very ‘hot’ laterite soil… this is exciting!”
Field Tester 1 –
Kalgoorlie, WA "

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Exciting stuff for sure, To be able to add salty ground and heavy laterite ground conditions to an allready brilliant detectors portfolio and to top it off be able to use the "Normal Mode" is what dreams are made of.  I have an area i was just at recently in W.A. ( Aust ) that will be getting re-visited in the next few weeks to continue the "Normal Mode" experience/testing.  Normal actually worked in this spot, got 42 nuggies for 26.6g but 20 metres  away Normal was un-workable..   Going to be interesting !!!!    Thanks Minelab !

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LOL !  Good one !

Nice one deutran, Beats my biggest nugget to date for this season, It's a 6 grammer found on my last day detecting, Lucky to have found a patch that yielded me 42 nuggies for the total weight of 26.6g ( Heading back to that spot inside a month as i'm sure i have some unfinished business there ) Pic is of my finds so far this season, 458 pieces, 6 grammer is in that pile on the right from the last day patch.

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My last few pics of natures wonders out bush ( not so much critters )

Saw lots of Red Capped Robins while out detecting & also Wedgetail Eagles ( they have a 7ft wingspan )

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Yes it's very interesting seeing the videos & reports ( thanks for posting them up fellas ) on a lot of prospectors mainstay GB2 V the new kid on the block the GM1000 Monster, From what i have seen so far they are both very worthy contenders and i guess from my point of view it will come down to which one handles the mineralized  ground in Australia better and i think i know the answer to that already, ( by the earlier posts re the GB2 ) Looks like it's time for a new tool/toy.

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Ashley 

Kalgoorlie W.A. ( Australia ) is celebrating the 60 millionth ounce of gold to come from the hole " Super Pit ".

P.S. Photo shows 1/2 hr after blasting, To see whole area of "Super Pit", Suggest go into Google Earth and have a look.

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Ashley 

1.  Salty ground solution

2. Some of the feature of the GM1000 that would work with the Zed.

3. Password sounds good, Time shown on screen would also be good.

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G'day Steve, Must say for my couple of months plus out in the goldfields I haven't seen/heard so many wild dogs before, Almost every night/morning you hear them, Seen plenty wandering around but luckily had no encounters of a bad kind with them. Lot's of wild dogs out there !  The baiting programs don't seem to be doing much to dent the numbers.

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Ashley