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DDancer last won the day on March 23 2017

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    Back in the USA working for a living
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    Pretty much anything with a lead on science~ Rocks and minerals, Prospecting primarily detecting and pans, travel.
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    For gold :GPZ7000 current For coin: EQ600

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  1. Well heck the animation is outstanding and the field test was most convincing. I gotta wonder how many times the developer was hit in the face by the receptioner thingy with antenna's. Seems like I could just walk in a circle around where the gold nugget and silver bars are to pinpoint but It make more sense trace and retrace the cardinal directions for proper pinpoint. For soil types I wonder if it has Sand mode? But as seen earlier in the thread there is no manual for it so it must be pretty intuitive. Ah god, my sides hurt..... LOL
  2. Cant find the receipt but I still got the detector 🙂 GP3000, coils even the pick. LOL Yeah that was a chunk of change.
  3. Sometimes you just gotta go Low and Slow. Beauty there!
  4. Looks to my like a mixture of large quartz granules and mica schist. Common in most mountainous area's I've been to. Keep looking around there maybe crystals.
  5. My thought is that its a wind eroded agate. Abrasion, in this case by sand, on the harder and softer parts of the agates banding can give a very sculpted appearance. I've seen simulur in agates from water courses.
  6. With the new member account rules kicking in it'll be interesting to see if it has an effect on the hit and run group. Personally I enjoy Rock and Mineral forums much the way others do. They often can be very informative, and as a rock hound, offer me a view of stuff I'll probably never collect 🙂 I used to be fairly active in these forums but I do admit the "What is it" stuff put me off. However I do pop into read new posts in the event it might be comment worthy. So I say keep it.
  7. Looks good to me to. Before you send it off ask around, look around, for business's that buy gold and other precious metals and see if anyone can give you an XRF reading on it as GB suggests. Some pawn shops have them, gold and silver buyers and recovery facilities.
  8. KDOCAC, Depending on where the show you saw shoot the view is where the answer to your questions are. Australia, as mentioned above, has various geology of various ages depending on location. Here in the US much of or gold geology is pretty much dependent on young and tectonicly active geology, thus rugged and mountainous area's are where gold found. Australia's geology is much more stable and much older. Australia's tectonics are more pronounced and younger on the east coast and their west is stable so much of the land is effectively flat there. The way one aussie explained it to me in the West is that the mountains have essentially eroded away and left the iron and gold behind. A similar process occurs in our own western deserts. Having detected WA's gold fields many times, yes much of it appears flat. Especially on camera. But there's a lot of rolling out there as well as some steep hikes.
  9. Its your rock. I only take the energy to bust them up if there's something to make me think I need to know what is inside or to help identify it. If it looks cool it sits on a shelf, if not its leaverite.
  10. Concretion, you can see the layering in the pic's and the grainy structure of sediment. As Jeff said sometimes they can sound off depending on how much iron is concentrated in them.
  11. It does not take long at all for limestone to alter the ph of an aquarium as it's reactive to any acids in the tank. Think fish urine. Small lime stones dont tend to cause a problem but large amounts can make ph control impossible and that often leads to sever problems with biologic s~ fungus, algae and some parasites. This is why aquarium owners avoid lime stone. You'll be better served with quartz, hard granites and some schists if you want to decorate.
  12. Reminds me of something I was shown, a picture, and told about from another prospector in Australia in an area we were looking around in. He'd found a nugget that was shaped very much like a chisel, showed me that picture he had of it back at camp, and explained that the slates in the area we were in would capture the gold and due to heating/cooling the rock would expand and contract shaping the gold. He had a term for it but I cant recall what it was. I suspect something similar with your find. Neat stuff 🙂
  13. The GTI 2000, later the 2500, was the first top end detector I ever used (top end at the time). The surface elimination function works ok but it's basically a screen for targets detected at the selected depths. The GTI will simply mute most any target, except large can slaw and the like then it just chirps a lot, and attempt to give positives to deeper targets however its not an inverted audio. Targets will still be masked using that function so its not something I used very much. But it does work. The only audio inversion I have ever come across was a coil for my GP3000. I still have it but its been so long I cant remember if its a nugget finder.... any rate it was called a phase inversion coil, it was around in 2005 I believe. It had a switch on the coil that allowed one to "flip" the transmit and receive of the DD design making shallow targets sound like deep ones and vice versa. It worked rather well, mine was the 16 inch, and the inversion function also helped deal with EMI. Other than that I cant recall anything else aside from audio boosts like the affor-mentioned gold bug. My thoughts.
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