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WTG Fred. I could only tell from the title that the gold signal was wobbly! One day at a time out there and you'll be ok. Mitchel

The UK game is known worldwide. The government makes their land and their antiquities available to finders. Landowners want a cut of what is found on their land otherwise they would just do it themselves or hire someone to do it they trust. The rules are pretty clear. If it is museum quality you can't keep it. If it is anything less you can keep it but you have to split it with the land owner. It is his land and his rules permission. Many of the land owners get 50% and share that with the tour operator. If you know of a better deal, take it. Go to the UK and get a permission for free. Go to a different country and get any permission to export at all. Try Europe or Asia or North Africa. Try getting meteorites out of Algeria a legal way. What do detectorists have to pay for permission to coin hunt properties in the Northeast for Colonial coins? I know a real estate agent who got permissions when he sold their properties. He would go detect his listings. How long does it take you to find an owner who will give you free permission? (They are out there but that costs money to find also.) We who are near forests and BLM land should be grateful and take advantage of our protected permissions to find natural gold and minerals on unclaimed land before a politician changes the rules. Mitchel

Paul, Welcome back. (I lost my phone in a similar way about two weeks ago and found it with 'find my device' on a freeway on-ramp. I had my photos synced and backed up but not my contacts. There is a difference as it turns out. More details if you need them because I learned much about Google Accounts I never knew.) Anyway, I think you should just set up a YouTube Channel. You don't give access to everything on your Photos account (they look good there and it saves time) but anyone can see any or all of your videos. I've had a pool video channel for years. Where will you go at the end of this contract? I imagine you got your truck from West Los Angeles. Mitchel

Very nice ... they look so much bigger ... well done. Mitchel

Very nice get there. You might get another visitor to see you down there! I played tourist today in the Mojave (Mohave) desert and came back with nada ... except some nice pictures. The last time I was down your way I couldn't hunt the good areas because I didn't have 4WD but I do now. The wife and son are still out of town so ... I've got to go somewhere ... maybe Quartzsite. Mitchel

Here are some tips! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-07/gold-prospecting-in-western-australia/7287746 Has this been updated?

This is the kind of story you wish you could have read just a few short years ago ... and had a helicopter! https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-10-26/pilbara-gold-rush-started-by-man-seeking-stray-cattle/10420380

My hearing has not gotten any better. I KNOW it is one reason for my increased number of skunks! I'll have to find the right combinations with the 7000 at the next hunt. ?

Simon ... the space junk is quite a sight. It was like winning a piece of the lottery but ... I'd take a piece of out lottery from last night because it was 1 billion dollars! I don't even know if I am a winner yet on that one but I certainly take the sky lottery forever. Mitchel

This is what I saw. There is still more of it out there. https://watchers.news/2018/10/19/iridium-satellite-fuel-tank-crash-california-october-2018/

When is next time?

On my way to Rye Patch last Thursday morning about 1:17 AM I was on 395 and observed a meteor or 'fireball event' that was just incredible. I now see that there is a video that does not do it justice. Before I put a link to that video and those reports let me tell you what I saw and how I reported it. This is what I saw: About 20 minutes north of Ridgecrest on 395 I had just gotten out of my car. As soon as I opened the door I could see it coming. It was several objects burning in the sky with 6-7 separate streaks. It was a dark night and no moon. It was perfectly clear where I was and I thought I was just looking at a huge screen TV. The height seemed to be that of a commercial jet but this was much larger. It didn't remind me so much of a meteor as it did space junk. I guess we'll find out more about that later. It was just a coincidence that I stop at this particular time and place. I probably would not have seen it or I would not have seen as much of it if I was still in the 4Runner. Most of my report is in the report itself. So, what do you do when you see an 'event' of your own? Well, I drove all night to go looking for some gold at Rye Patch so that is what I did. That night I had to sleep. The next night I had a chance to get on the computer and ask the question 'What was that?' Where do you go, what do you do online to report something? As it turns out you go to REPORT A FIREBALL at the American Meteor Society. https://www.amsmeteors.org/ When you get there you can click on Report a Fireball. You will get asked a series of questions to describe what you saw in a technical way that will let the software develop a map of the event as you and hopefully many others saw it. You can upload pictures and video. You can also search for events from all over the world. So, I reported and I didn't see my report with the others. As it turned out there is a pending report file and if you don't state it as they are compiling it then your report will not be added. I now knew my event number was 4094 so I edited my report and it was added to the 29 others and still counting. It was a very, very neat experience. The video now posted on YouTube is only 1/100th of what I saw. I had better than a front row seat. I was in the middle and there were no heads or clouds in my way! Here is the report link: https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/4094 Here is the video: https://www.amsmeteors.org/videos/?video_id=1445 Mitchel

How much wind? Holes and trash ... probably still gold there! Thanks for the report Rick. Mitchel

This was my first beach hunt in a few days because I had been out in the Rye Patch area over the weekend. While I was gone I understand that it had rained and some wave alerts had been sent to my email. Our area beaches get hit hard by detectorists but I know them pretty well and followed my intuition when I got there. We don't have a negative tide right now and there is a Santa Ana wind blowing so the new waves are very small. On my way 'out' I hunted near the waterline. There was very little to find. I walked about a mile or so with very few targets. There was a bit of a trough at the bottom of the hill (beach slope) but nothing seemed to be holding. I was thinking about leaving and I worked back in the direction from where I had come. Then I got a clue. The clue was the junk wire pack. It was completely buried in the wet sand and had a thin plastic bag around it. It certainly is an unusual beach find for me. This pack was at the bottom of the hill and just above it for about 6 feet or so was hard sand and just above that was about 10 yards of 'past wave' deposited sand. You need some energy to move targets and you need the right conditions for those targets to be 'grouped' and deposited. Some beaches will stay this way for a few days and some beaches will only keep targets for a few hours. I look for these pockets. I liken it to a crab crawl on the Deadliest Catch. Anyway, I went up into this area and found a hoop earring among the bobby pins, pennies and a few other coins. I was using the Nox 11 on all metal and I was digging EVERYTHING. Sometimes I skip pennies and bobby pin sounds but not last night. Then I was surprised by one of the silver hoop earrings and its mate was just about 5 feet away. Then came a copper hoop, and then another and all of them within 10 feet. They're all water tarnished. Then I got what I thought was a ring ... earring it turns out but then a stainless steel bracelet. Then another earring (GOLD) and finally a couple of silver rings (.925). I worked the patch with a grid pattern and it kept giving. I had had enough after 4 hours. A 'bad' beach had turned into the most hoops (10) I've ever found. I've been on beaches where I've found 5 chains in a session but they are as rare as this beach. You never know. Follow your clues. Mitchel

I've had training and hunts with Lunk that were not as a result of his Gerry's detector gig. His association with Gerry enhances his ability to help people with technology. Mitchel

I saw the nuggets too. Good gold, I think you are holding some back! haha Mitchel

Norm said it.

Here were some other thoughts I had on that subject.

Here it is. I used your keywords. Equinox Sound 3030 Gordon Heritage

One of the Equinox testers in England had a 'program' for that. I read it and posted so let's do a search and see if I can find the thread. Mitchel

I'm headed to Rye Patch tonight. It is in the 20s (below freezing) at the beginning of the morning. Good video. Mitchel

I did have two nuggets!

Thanks Fred. I didn't see anyone. I camped behind the cabin because I didn't want to move and there was only a couple of vehicles out there maybe because there were signs it had rain and it was starting to rain again about 3 PM when I left. Maybe after Rye Patch I'll go back and before Bill's outing I'll stop in again. Maybe Shep is at the Q?

I'm surprised that no one said it: There is GOLD at the bottom of those rainbows!

I've stayed at a couple of the motels at Meadview in the past and once at the RV cabins but after an all night drive I can sleep almost anywhere. When I leave like that I don't have traffic and I get two days of detecting or a 3/2 if I stay over.