Hobo

2 hours ago, tboykin said:

Some of the best prospectors in the world will never be known because they don't trust the Internet with all of their secrets...

I know of several nugget hunters and prospectors who never post on the internet,

Most of the gold I have found with a detector over the past 35 years has been with a Garret Ground Hog, original Gold Bug and Gold Bug 2.  I have a couple of Minelabs but up till recently ( introduction of the GM1000)  I prefered to hunt with a light wt. detector my biggest Gold Bug nugget was 9 oz..       I have never posted pics.

You could have determined it by specific gravity, probably,

I have been securing the cable to to the lower shaft since the Fisher T10 days and I haven't had any trouble with Gm1000.

The battery door loop may make a good safety tether for my Deus controller.

Thanx Steve, I like the compactness of it.

Steve, where did you buy the Golden mask rod?   Thanx,,..........        D.

Retorts are fine if you have one and I don't have a problem with em.  I also have had no problem recovering mercury from nitric. Aluminum foil  put into the diluted nitric drops the mercury out. If tis is dangerous please let me know...

Get a wheel, you can run it in reverse to amalgamate the gold and mercury then switch the polarity and pull the amalgamate out. Mustard gold is hard to recover without mercury. Don't breath the fumes. Nitric acid can be used to remove the mercury from the gold and then reclaimed from the nitric.

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Yes it has the charger and I will ship for $80.00. However I am currently on my way to Nev. then Ca. and its in Az. and I won't be home until Round the first part of Sept.

I have a reedman  battery pac that  i would like to sell

Are you still hunting in the same area?     .......D.

Trying to limit the rush on buying the czx?

what is a one grain gold bar? My TDI wouldn't detect a one grain piece of gold.

Back in the old days before they invented coil covers I used to cut a piece of plastic the size and shape of the coil and attach it with a large "rubber band" cut from a auto tire inner tube, crude but it worked. Nowadays there are probably better ways to build one.

3 hours ago, kiwijw said:

I would go the 10% more depth (who wouldn't) & I wouldn't be too concerned as to the weight (with in reason) if it gave me that 10% more depth. I am very happy with the Zed & l dont have an issue with its weight. Cheers

Good luck out there

JW  

I would bet you aren't over 80 yrs old either.

I have a HEAVY,  ML and some lights, Deus,  . Monster 1000 and a medium. Gold Bug2. Don't use the heavy much.   I prefer the light wt. over the 10%

Kieth, good to see your not working eery day, getting some time for detectin.            D.

JW.........In my situation and area patch hunting with the Zed is like hunting rabbits with a 30 cal. rifle, every patch I am aware of  has or had a significant amount of the gold detectable by a vlf.  At 80 + yrs old I can't wear & lug (or want to) a Zed all day. Once a patch is located a  heavy pi can clean it out. The GB was and still is a great gold finder, the biggest patch l ever found was with a original GB. I just believe l can cover more ground effectively with the 1000 than I can with the GB2.  

Thats true and if l get a non ferrous signal I will dig it and ferrous most of the time.

13 minutes ago, Mike C... said:

Hobo just look at this way its like training if you can find the small ones then the bigger sitting ducks are a piece of cake  Mike C...

True.  All l am saying l enjoy patch hunting and hunting a bit larger pieces more. I think for me the GM1000 will make a good patch hunter. 

I don't disagree with anything you are saying, but for me just hunting for fly specks in an area where that is all that is left or ever was does not excite me, l would rather be patch hunting or searching for larger pieces. I have been using the Gold Bugs since the original was introduced, but l think l like the GM 1000 better.

There has to be al limit on the size of fly speck that it is practical for a person to spend the time digging. Its probably different for different folks . For me I'm not too excited  about any smaller than a grain, unless its been a while since I have found anything.

I may have to resort to something like that when I get old.    ....... older

Looks  like my last hole that yielded a 30 cal. chunk of lead.      

1 hour ago, DSMITH said:

Well now I am  a little confused and pretty disgusted 

The confusion comes from getting up this morning went out after getting dressed grabbed the GM 1000 started detecting was getting all kinds of signals on the gold chance side of the meter some were pinging the meter and others were 2-3 bars on the gold chance side so I decided to do a little test  well what I found out is the GM 1000 is actually sounding off on everything like it is stuck in all metal and reading everything as gold chance on the meter laid my steel digging shovel down on the ground and passed the coil of the GM 1000 over the shovel and it pegged the gold chance meter on the gold side tried factory reset and it still does the same thing so that is where the disgust comes in I think I may have gotten a defective unit

Can anyone give me any ideas as to what to try next other ,then contacting mine lab 

it does not mater if you have the GM set in all metal mode or discrimination mode it does the same thing in both 

Your shovel is way too big, try a small irregular shaped bit of ferrous metal. A small nail or such.