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GC Thanks for the info and great gold. It will be an area for you that will keep on giving. Don't tell me where it is because I'd keep going back in my dreams and my SUV. haha When I see the big 'picture' it reminds me of similar berms I saw in Sierra County from years ago. Many, many areas were worked but there were also areas missed. If you can estimate the age of those trees that might give you some clues.

In the fall of 2013, I was in touch with Chris, Dave and a few of the other meteorite hunters. I thought I was going to meet up with him in the Barstow area and go out on the lake and maybe meet Bob Verish. Somehow our connections didn't meet up on Wednesday (11/22/2013) so I drove on to Franconia that night. On Thanksgiving Day I found my Goose Egg nugget. It's funny how some things are connected. Later or before I don't remember which, I went out with Chris and his family hunting meteorites. They were much better at it than I was.

This is a pretty good article that tells about most meteorites! New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from a single source The Link

Purchased glory? I don't think buying them should be hidden in the story. Tyler Mahoney: Gold prospector ‘hits the motherload’ with $85,000 nugget haul | PerthNow The Link To The Story

That is some really pretty gold there. It is much better than the gold I saw today that I could have bought to fool you guys! haha It is about half an ounce.

Yesterday I found a patch using the M8 in the area. In addition to a mixture of black beach sand there are many wire pieces of variable shapes which want to defeat my hearing and sight. I tried the goldfield but settled on blc with 5-7 on the speed. I made lots of micro changes to find the good stuff in all the bad but it is the only patch in town so to say. Coil control is certainly a key. Don't go too fast in the center of the patch and don't go too slow to find the best area. That is more time and beach management than it is the detector. When I walked away from this area a half mile or so everything calms down so that sensitivity can be added and speed reduced and still hear the targets that aren't there.

I should have said this was at my iron/wire beach where it has been nearly impossible to find coins in quantity. While these coins were not deep, I found many more in a patch than I could with the 11 at this location. I'll go back to the other 'thread' and it will add some clarity to my usage.

Mike, My big nuggets came from an area where he started detecting in Franconia, Arizona. I never met him but had occasion to exchange a few messages with him about he started detecting because he needed to rehab after a surgery/injury. I can remember seeing pictures of bottles of his gold on Chris Gholson's old forum. It would be nice to see some of that stuff on the Wayback Machine.

I upped the speed today with the M8 and it helped me find some change. The beach is in an area where there should have been old coins but it didn't happen for me today. No jewelry. It didn't get very good depth.

Clermont Again When the price gets this high then men get the fever. Just think of all of the gold that you sold for 1/3 or 1/2 the price of it now!

Beach Low Conductor is where I keep my Manticore most of the time. I use it at the beach in wet and damp sand, sand on the blanket line (you can really crank it up on the Dankowski settings to 27 or more with horseshoe on), super dry beach sand and in parks with sand play areas. To me the high sensitivity can be used with the discrimination and the good stuff just jumps out at you. My normal sensitivity on wet sand but not in the water is 23. This may be similar to Bogenes settings or Steve's super-hot settings for the 7000.

I go fishing because it is only a few blocks away from where I live. Here are the two catches of the day! One is a yellowfin croker and the other is a perch which weighs about a pound and they taste very good.

This video shows a difference between ATLC and Beach Low Conductors. Does this happen because of different output signal or selective/masked audio? I'd have to watch it again to see if the screen output is different. Actually, he said the ring was 17.

What did it look like after the hurricane? or what does it look like now before the next one?

Milton coming in after Helene will sure cause a major change in the bottom. I wonder if there could be a 'fall out' zone that would be searchable. I have my doubts. It could be a good time to go to Venice and find shark teeth!