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Jasong, you make some really good points and minelabs response sounds like it is painted with a very broad brush. Obvious too Minelab I would believe if they had not wasted your time with some caned reply. I'm a bit confused really by the mistakes on something as simple as the ring when my other customer service experience was so good. Did you call minelab America and talk to Nadia?

I'm no expert on meteorites and what I know would not fill a tea spoon in an ocean of information and am really sorry about the quality of the pictures, my photography skills are not much better than my detecting ones. I was very cautious about calling this one a meteorite when I found it, just threw it in my pocket not being sure if it was a piece of slag or cast iron. when I got home and washed it up i could see it infused with clear yellow crystals, all of the light yellow rust orange areas are transparent crystal spots in the metal. you can also see with a loop the thumb printing in the non burn crusted areas and a difference in the rust patterns in the nickel iron.

sorry to hear of your problems, hopefully it dries out a starts working for you. Im sure Nokta will take good care of you soon. good luck getting it working again

I was also kind of wondering just how big a difference the ring would make when used in the western united states, the ring is targeted as I understand for a very specific mineral content as found in a limited geologic reagin and as such seems counterintuitive if used in soil conditions of a different composition? If there is a need for something like this worldwide (and I'm not saying there is by any means) shouldn't it be formulated to match the targeted mineral content and then, this is really something IMO the detector does very well already without any outside interference by the operator. I just want one to hang on a string and wear it around my neck as a token to the Zed gods as I'm about wondering the hillsides, ferret ring warding off evil spirits...

Been doing a some research on this little rock and it looks like another meteorite for the ZED, this one is a nickel iron pallasite weighing 6.51 grams.

I called my dealer the day the white paper was posted and also still do not have one of them rings as well. I thought when minelab sent the replacement detector a few weeks ago it would have one included, but no. I am also guessing they are still back-ordered, or not so much of a priority for minelab outside of the homeland. luckily, haven't really needed it, just sorta nice to have one to wear around if I get the urge.

love the gold!!!

cool gold, wtg!

Scott, the rain came down pretty hard for a spell. attached pictures of some of the stuff i found, old bullets, some kind of a lead barrel/keg tap and this rock... very magnetic down about 12 inches. The rock has a number of small crystals growing out of it and a dark surface.

The lightning was getting close and I beet feet back to the car, I'd just jumped in the car and turned on the video when it hit the ridge in front of me, pretty convincing message about getting out of dodge.

Im not a very observant tracker, but the area sure looks interesting and the bullets I found had that thick white oxidation they only get from a long time in the ground, so the area has not been heavily detected. I never went down to the creek, was it claimed property or just the logging company taking steps to make sure no one tries to put a claim on top of the logging operation?

Spent a few hours detecting and exploring the hillsides yesterday. I first turned on the Zed about 7:30 in the morning, it was semi overcast warm and a little humid. I was detecting a huge quartz outcrop on the edge of a minor slightly eroded peak inside a series of small ravines, the solid quartz mass was 15 feet high in areas and littered the slopes, there were many such breakouts in the area, fire a few years back cleared the brush and the hills were still easy to navigate. Also a history of tunnels and hydraulicing near-by, although these hillsides were spared of that. The weather was very variable and the chatter was slowly building in the zed although I never felt it was making it impossible to read the signals, the bursts were far enough apart to tell the difference. The trash I found was all very old stuff, no gold this trip as the weather cut things short and things were nearing the dangerous side. Possibly no gold in this outcrop that may be why no washing of the hill by the old timers, or the bedrock may be to deep also the slopes are very steep here, then again it may just be that more time needs to be spent looking.

He posted a few days ago, high on codeine and some other prescription drugs he said... seemed the drugs were pretty good.

wow, that's really beautiful, I know you put a lot of hard work in for that, so congratulations on a incredible find, way to go!!! Hope you find another crevice with an additional 30 pounds in it, was up at Roaring Camp and they were telling the story of a guy in 1961 who struggled for weeks dredging on the river and then found a tiny crack in the bedrock. when he opened up the crack with a crow bar it went (the crevice) all the way across the river and he was able to pull out 30 pounds of gold, hope yours is the same.

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My last few days out at rye patch were a skunk for me also, I swung the coil and worked it as hard as i could trying new areas for me and reworking one spot very carefully where I did have success on a prior trip. Its a very big place and at max depth for any coil you may be sampling only a few square inches at best, so luck plays a huge role out there. Like Steve has said "sometimes you turn left and sometimes you turn right," sometimes the coil hits and sometimes it misses by millimeters. In the hammered areas the deep gold is easy to miss and hard to find, you can do everything right and you still need lady luck sitting on your shoulder giving a little nudge now and then. Someplace out in the vast area of the n, nevada desert a big ol patch is waiting for a hit from that Nokta and one of these days you are gonna get it, good hunting!

Also, in the washes and dry streams you'll find a lot more trash that washes down from all the old tin cans and junk left behind from years past. all this junk plays heck on the gpz, but the Nokta should have an advantage there. good luck hunting

Pay attention to the area close around bushes where its difficult to get the coil into and also look for dead brush stumps and check around those places where it may not have been accessible to a coil in the past. For fun, keep your eyes open for crystals while swinging that coil around looking for gold nuggets, I have found some nice ones laying right on the surface for the picking just shining in the sunlight. Also, be on the lookout for meteorites last month I found a nice little 6 gram one stuck to the magnet on my prospecting pick after digging for a signal next to a small bush.

I picked up a couple of items to help protect the zed from damage in the future, having learned my lesson. the first thing I ordered was a screen protector and sun shade off of ebay for $26, it seems to fit real nice and is easy to use the controls. I also took Steve's advice and picked up a knee brace to wrap the case with, although the one i bought is a little short. I also accidentally ordered a cover for the ctx control box, so I will see what needs to be done to make it fit the zed when it gets here. Black elastic sports wrap also works well on the lower shaft and hand grip as a protective wrap, lastly I picked up an electronic keyboard padded soft case at the local music store for only $45, they come in a bunch of different sizes, this one is 76 keys and seems to fit about right with plenty of room for the harness, headphones and there is an additional pocket on the outside that will hold all the charging stuff.

Some of the best customer service I've had from any company. After dropping my ZED and cracking the case and then having some screen issues a couple of weeks later, the repair of my detector could have gone any number of different ways, thankfully Minelab took very good care of me in the way they handled my problems with this GPZ. No complaints from me on how this was handled, in very short time from sending my unit in for repair Minelab sent me a brand new GPZ 7000 as a replacement at no charge covered under warranty. No hesitation on the part of minelab to take care of this and make ma a happy customer.

nice gold and good looking ground to hunt on, good going out there!

thats good cause we only want to hear about happy fun arduous adventures on this forum. Sounds like you're set pretty good in the navigation department, no lost prospectors this trip. Have a great time and good luck hunting!

sounds like one of those lost dutchman stories where they find a prospector the victim of some mysterious tragedy... all his blood is gone and no one knows why???

wow, really fast reply from Minelab, I got an email from them this afternoon much faster than I expected. They said my detector is repaired and completely checked out and operating at optimal performance. it's also heading back my way via fed ex with the tracking number supplied, no mention of any charges for the repair so my guess is they are covering it under warranty. Less than 48 hours from the time they received my detector until the time they shipped it back to me, so far this is great customer service from minelab. Some of the best I've had from any company I've done business with.

dont ya know it, but minelab did send me an email a few minutes ago at least letting me know they have the detector and tell me they will be in contact as soon as they have more info on the repair. so far that is ok customer service at least they get back and give you the info that they can pretty fast.