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Fred, There is a lunker waiting for you! Mitchel

To Perth Mint: I am officially applying for the job of sweeping that shop floor! (There was stuff flying everywhere.) mn90403 (In the event I don't show up for work one day you won't have my official name and station.)

Years ago I had an external hard drive backup that I bought just as a backup solution. It crashed. I still have the data on the platters and no one has been able to recover the data (mostly pictures). What I should have had was a dual hard drive backup or a server backup which includes many drives in an array that is supposed to prevent data loss on any single account.

We all seem to use a fair bit of technology these days in the pursuit of gold and pleasure. We have detectors, maps, gps's, phones, books, scans, photos, videos, cameras, stories, etc. etc. not to mention our computers and drives we use to record and back these things up. Some are mobile and some stay at our homes and some are in the cloud. A few months ago one of my devices stopped working and I know I lost some data. It is data I may not 'need' but without it I don't have it as a record. I may have lost some find points for the Minelab 3030 on XChange2 because I didn't have a backup of the backup so to say. Steve sent me some private messages about it but I think it would be a good topic to help us review, store and share our data with someone or not lose it easily. What do you do with your computer backups? Do you just backup online? When you travel, how do you sync your data so that all files and pictures are current on your devices? How do you purge your duplicates so you don't run out of storage space on your external and internal memory? How do you prepare for a trip and what do you do when you come back from a trip? I hope to copy someone's procedure or modify mine to a more simple system. Mitchel

Norm's coin was a plant! (I got a silver dollar!) haha Don't go to Gold Basin looking for coins and relics.

It is a tough job any more for both and getting harder! Thanks for looking.

I got out for 3 days to Gold Basin. The first day was a skunk but then at the end of the second a little color. I got up at daylight on Saturday and found a couple of meteorites before 8 AM. Then on a long walkabout I found a mini-patch of 3 pieces. Later on a 5 mile walk I found a 15g sunbaker meteorite. It is nice to get even small results with the 7000/14. Mitchel

After she is gone ... does it make detecting better or worse?

Actually ... you only need a 2" coil or a pointer! (Where can it 'hide?')

Bada Bing, Don't you get lost over there WITH your car? Mitchel

They just announced the Google App and this article goes over the iPhone App as well. https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/20/google-maps-lets-you-record-your-parking-location-time-left-at-the-meter/

Yes, you heard it right. Time may be used in the future to find gold and/or oil. Here is a very technical observation of this technique from 2012: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurement/prospecting-for-oil-or-gold-check-the-time

That is a great patch ... do you tell the land owner? haha I think I would bring out my flashlight and keep hunting unless he was a great friend and would let you back! Nice birthday. Mitchel

Thursday we were by in Rye Patch and while I didn't get any nuggets Lu got 4/1g with the 2300. We hunted until dark (about 7:00 PM) and then got back to Santa Monica about 5 AM! Are the drive times shorter in WA?

Paul, I was just there today and I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Lu and I took pictures at the old Hudson (??) then drove up a couple of miles past your claim toward the upside of Rabbit Hole. It was a road no one uses because you can't get across the big wash coming out of the Rabbit Hole valley. We had to turn around and go back (past your claim) to get back on Jungo Road. There were very few tracks (maybe 3 only) to near your claim since the last rain and now I've added a couple of them. There were piles over toward the old power lines and older activity but no new holes on your claim. I didn't add any either. (I know you have a camera out there some place!) Tomorrow back to Rye Patch. Mitchel

We spent time out near Rabbit Hole today and Jungo Dry (Wet) Lake. No nuggets and no meteorites ... a bit more wind today and some light snow showers were in the area. Tomorrow back to Rye Patch and then drive back to Santa Monica (8+ hours) so we plan on some color!

It is another great day here with some high clouds filtering the sun. Today is a day for exploring what the winter has done. One thing it has done has been to fill up the lake. All of the flats now have water over them. The fishing is not so good yet as the fish that were concentrated now have extra miles to go. They may be in different temperature groups but that is another sport for a different time. Now is a time for Jungo Road. Mitchel

Randy, I'm in Winnemucca for the night. I have two more days here. The weather is great but my choices of where to hunt have been bad the first day. Mitchel

Rye Patch here I come! Zed 19 is ready! I'm going to areas hit hard by Zed 14s and everything that came before them.

Does anyone need a prospecting partner anywhere in Arizona, Nevada or California this week? I've got Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. My detectors are loaded. I just need to travel from Southern California. The weather is going to be great in Rye Patch or ... PM me if you have a proposal. Mitchel

Very nice!

On February 26 I went to a lecture at the UCLA Meteorite Gallery and the topic was tektites. The lecturer was John Wasson who has studied these for many years. This PDF explains what he said better than anything I can remember. http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2015/pdf/2879.pdf

Very nice all.

An 'outsourced' or 'in-house' state of the art interface with other devices and platforms would not be too distracting I would think. They just need someone to write the code.

WTG Lunk and Mom!