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  1. I just came back from a trip to Gold Basin. As we know there are meteorites there. I found one about 80 grams. When it was washed off and brushed I could see some tiny yellow shinny spots. I've found lots of Gold Basins but I don't remember and of them with gold in them so I did a search. That search introduced me to a concept that many have that much of our mineable metals, including gold came to earth with meteor showers. If true this could explain a lot of unexplainable patches in different areas. Here is a primer from one of the AI tools, Copilot. This is new for me and might take a while to have my brain wrap around it after all of the info about gold being molten and coming up with eruptions. Someone help me understand this. Did meteorites bombard Earth with gold? | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/earth/did-meteorites-bombard-earth-with-gold/
  2. Gerry's crew (I had a lesson from Lunk before I took Gerry's course) taught me more about machines than any other course. It gets you confident in your equipment which is essential. Gerry's training area is Rye Patch so you learn some about the ground and how to read it there. Ray Mills gives you tour with his course. There is a certain amount of assumption that you know how to use your detector well enough to find gold. There are turn it on and go detectors that will find it if it is there but you need to be able to read the land. Chris Ralph's readings are good at showing you how to read the land. While I've not taken a formal course of Kevin Hoagland he has taught me a lot about the 5000 and how to read ground. I'm short on time this morning and I'd tell you something good about all of them. More later ... Now, what do you do after training? That is another topic but more than ever you have to use what you have been taught and get lucky. Both of those take TIME. Time now should be spent with someone who has a pointy finger who needs a hunting partner. I think most of us would go more if we had a hunting partner. I did when I had a good one. We pushed each other and shared with each other. Don't let politics or personal issues get in between you and your hunting partner. You will have idle time where you share and that could let strong feelings bubble to the surface. Detectorists like us can be a hardheaded lot. Gold can do strange things to us as well. Be careful out there.
  3. I'm in Gold Basin. We spent yesterday looking for gold and meteorites. nada between the 3 of us using x-coil, 6000 and 2300. I'll admit it wasn't full day on all 3 but we went at it for over 6 hours on 4 different locations where gold and meteorites have been found before. If I was bringing someone new with me I wouldn't expect the results to be different but there is always beginning 'luck!' Things are much harder to find. I need someone to show me spots. haha Is that training?
  4. I should have added that the expensive hearing aids didn't really fit. They kept falling out of my ears so while they sound better they function poorly. I'm expecting the Algo to 'function' as Norvic has said. The video shows that its form factor can find small gold and has coil options. Those things exceed choices available to higher priced detectors and they can make up for differences in amplified sound.
  5. This video in a way mirrors my experience with hearing aids. The $5000+ hearing aids sound better than the $1700 ones! Are they worth it? In the right circumstances you would say yes.
  6. How much can a pink, 1 carat be worth? I'm sure the insurance paid for it already.
  7. He is not going to look it up. He's going to tell me what it says. haha He won't know how to find me.
  8. If you want to meet up some time in May ... after May 8th, hit me up and we'll set something up for a swing. I've found that when you are helping someone find some gold, I happen upon some gold myself! We are in the 'same' area based upon detectable gold is concerned. This is the best thing you can do in early April. Kevin Hoagland will be there. I'm going to be in Texas for the eclipse. Placer Petes (placerpetesgoldcamp.com) http://placerpetesgoldcamp.com
  9. I would need something other than a loop to read the numbers. I'm sure it was a laser, and it is 4 characters long. It is a very light gray when seen with a loop. It is very small. Doesn't seem like a GIA number. I need to take it to a jeweler.
  10. An 800g recent fall has been found near where Simon lives in Queenstown! Maybe I'll have to go and see if there are fragments of it still unfound. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/new-zealand-s-10th-meteorite-discovered-by-couple-sitting-in-queenstown-spa.html
  11. Everyone speaks of John B's claim in Gold Basin. It was not on BLM land. It was 80 acres he owned. He was one of the founders of WSPA and let all of the members camp and detect his property. I wish I had gotten one of those ouncer club certificates. It was on order.
  12. I was playing billiards yesterday and one of the guys came up to me and said "Have you seen that gold show?" I said I know about it but hadn't watched it yet. He thought it was great. He's a native Californian and never hunted for any gold in his life but has been fishing all over the mountains. The show's real claim to fame might be that it gets non-prospectors to watch!
  13. Oh, my goodness! There is a big TELL in this auction ... Look at the closing date ... April 1st
  14. When I read this story I thought about a different thread where we came to the conclusion that we don't need new detectors to patch hunt. This little tale confirms that ... even tho it might not be a 'patch!' Talk about striking gold! Metal detectorist unearths the largest gold nugget EVER found in England - and it's set to fetch at least £30,000 at auction | Daily Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13218195/Metal-detectorist-largest-gold-nugget-England.html
  15. I seem to 'get by' with Google Maps and I download offline maps. I can mark spots if I find something, and I can put in claims with the GPS coordinates before I go out. I can get within 20 feet. I can take these locations and look at My Land Matters. OnX is much better but I don't like to pay if I'm not playing much in the desert. I've got locations all over my Google Maps.
  16. So the 8 might just be a super coil! I remember that Lunk told me that the Commander 8 was a really good coil out in the gold patches.
  17. What am I thinking about? The Equinox is a 6" coil.
  18. My wife has been looking at a ring I found a couple of years ago. It has a pink diamond in the center and if you look very closely you can see a number on the face. This is not on the girdle. The diamond is not very big (half carat) so we wonder why it would be numbered.
  19. Nice work there. I like park hunting with the 8. It has quite a bit of 'off coil' sensitivity and reasonable depth. The small coil find reminds me of the first time I used the 8 on the 800. I found 4 rings at the beach. I've since found other good jewelry but interestingly enough I've never found a nugget with it and I've tried for over 20 hours. I've found a bit of gold with the 11" but not with the 8".
  20. Patch hunting these days takes strong legs and/or special equipment. Much like the old days!
  21. It's about the gold as Steve said. You can perform, outperform, over perform or any other improvement you want with a detector but if it doesn't get you a significant amount of gold from existing patches (based on reports from others) then it won't be needed. We can use the detectors we have now to find new patches. That is a bit of a different challenge than just a better detector.
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