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Chunky stuff! Thanks for a look. She should get a Find of The Month from Minelab! Mitchel

That is the nugget you found that made you make up the story, right? The 'poison' got into his system anyway. I wish we had something to scale to know how big that snake was!

This morning I was greeted by a message from Google. It asked me to review my privacy settings. Many of us share photos and links and some are posted on forums with a link from Google Photos. Location can be important on some pictures. You don't want to give up your patch without knowing it. There is the ability to disable geo location. You may want to review it. Here is the setting: Remove geo location in items shared by link Affects items shared by link but not by other means. Mitchel

Their videos will never be the same.

Well done sir.

Lunk, Thanks. When you published that report I didn't really 'understand' the Monster language. Now I do even if I don't own one. If you can track out an ironstone and by some chance get an indication of a little gold in that rock ... Hopefully more people will reread your report you linked to me. Thanks again. Mitchel

It seems that you are given enough sensitivity that it can be overloaded. Probably better than underloaded. How is the discrimination? We have an area where the ironstones sound just like gold to the 7000 and we have to dig everything. Would the monster tell me the difference between an ironstone (grabbed by a magnet just like steel) and gold? What if that ironstone had trace amounts of gold in it? Mitchel

Scott, It sounds so easy to use ... even your dog could use it! Mitchel

Norvic, I was praising Lunk's ability and knowledge to go where gold is. Now that he is there with a Monster he had some fun with it. He's also given it a review as a GB2 expert and I like what he has to say. I also like what you say about the Monster and I'll try to disregard you are promoting a down under company! (We already know you are a homer.) Mitchel

No, I'm not talking about politics and being a Moveon.org trainer. I'm talking about resistivity detecting. Electrical resistivity tomography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) or electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes. If the electrodes are suspended in the boreholes, deeper sections can be investigated. It is closely related to the medical imaging technique electrical impedance tomography (EIT), and mathematically is the same inverse problem. In contrast to medical EIT however ERT is essentially a direct current method. A related geophysical method, induced polarization, measures the transient response. The technique evolved from techniques of electrical prospecting that predate digital computers, where layers or anomalies were sought rather than images. Early work on the mathematical problem in the 1930s assumed a layered medium (see for example Langer, Slichter). Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov who is best known for his work on regularization of inverse problems also worked on this problem. He explains in detail how to solve the ERT problem in a simple case of 2-layered medium. During the 1940s he collaborated with geophysicists and without the aid of computers they discovered large deposits of copper. As a result, they were awarded a State Prize of Soviet Union. Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, the "father of ERT" When adequate computers became widely available the inverse problem of ERT could be solved numerically, and the work of Loke and Barker at Birmingham University was among the first such solution, and their approach is still widely used. With the advancement in the field of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) from 1D to 2D and now-a- days 3D, ERT has explored many fields. The applications of ERT include fault investigation, ground water table investigation, soil moisture content determination and many others. In industrial process imaging ERT can be used in a similar fashion to medical EIT, to image the distribution of conductivity in mixing vessels and pipes. In this context it is usually called Electrical Resistance Tomography, emphasising the quantity that is measured rather than imaged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_tomography Here is one unit being offered by Kellyco. https://www.kellycodetectors.com/blog/find-gold-resistivity?utm_source=email&utm_medium=BlogBUTTON&utm_content=BlogGoldResistivity&utm_campaign=MSTRBlogGoldResistivity20170624&utm_term=Lead_SuperBowlGiveaway2016 Mitchel

Ah Lunkster ... you can find gold with ANYTHING! Good detecting. Mitchel

Richard, Most of the 'salesmen' in our industry would be out of business in very short order if they didn't help us find more. I always spend time at my local stores and local clubs no matter where I buy. They give me tips and hints and locations where and how to hunt. The learning curve is too high for me to do this alone. Mitchel

Nice job. Will you ever have to go back there again? Mitchel

Richard, Do you know anyone who is searching these areas already? Do you have a local metal detecting shop where you can ask them what people find in your area? What are they finding? What is of value? What is the predominant junk you want to avoid? I search in two primary areas of Southern California. I search on the beach and I need discrimination. It also needs to be usable in salt water. The other area I search is the desert for gold nuggets. (This requires a different type of machine.) Mitchel

Thanks for the posting. We NEED eye candy. Mitchel

I would ask the question about what part of Texas are you in? It may sound like you are in East Texas which from my understanding would have more potential relics to find. Some of the relics up that way could be Civil War, right? I guess you could have some battle field relics in the south also and not just modern coins. These 'uses' would be different than just coin and jewelry hunting on some of the gulf beaches. Mitchel

Here is a great video with some people we know from the forum added for eye candy!

He is home. His stuff is over here some place.

Why should we expect a 'maxed out' detector to be smooth? Change the way you use it or use it at the normal or conservative settings. All of my Minelabs give me this choice. SE Pro, 3030, 7000, 2300, etc ... Friends of mine that are good with GB2s get them modded. It is a circuit board 'fix.' They also tell me that anyone who is not an expert with a normal GB2 should not and in some cases will not get modded. As to the coil bumping issue ... have Miner John make a 'nerf' coil cover so that when you scrap or bump it the 'bump' is not heard. Maybe this would also fix the grounding noise. I put one of the lexan plates under my 19" coil (mounted on picture hangers) and it has eliminated this noise because the coil can no longer touch the ground! Mitchel

So, that was the Ganes Creek that I missed. I had a call for a cancelled opening or an added week in 2012? I wasn't 'ready' and thought I would go another year but didn't. I read about the landing strip. Mitchel

June 2017 News from the UCLA Meteorite Gallery One of a series of monthly letters sent to visitors to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery and to others who requested to be on the mailing list. The Meteorite Gallery (Geology room 3697) is open with a docent present every Sunday from 1 until 4 with the exception of the last two Sundays in the calendar year. And it is open every work day from 9 until 4 but without a docent. It is not open Saturdays. We remind you that our website address is: http://www.meteorites.ucla.edu/. There you can find a map of our corner of the UCLA campus and instructions for parking in structure 2. At 2:30 on Sunday Jun 25 the speaker at our Gallery Event is Dr. Frank Kyte. The former manager of the UCLA electron microprobe and winner of the Barringer Prize of the Meteoritical Society for his research on the use of elements like iridium to trace the presence of impact deposits in sediments. His topic is "Eltanin, the largest meteorite of which intact fragments are preserved". Summary: The largest recovered meteorite was discovered in the Eltanin region at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean about 1500 km west of the southern tip of South America. It has been documented by sediment cores collected during a series of German oceanographic cruises. About 2.5 million years ago a one-kilometer-diameter asteroid impacted the ocean and deposited more than one kilogram of meteorites per square meter over thousands of square kilometers. About 90% of this was melted by the shock of the impact, but 10% is undamaged meteorite fragments. The lecture is in Geology 3656, just 40 yards west of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. Our next Gallery Lecture will occur on Sunday July 16. The speaker is UCLA Professor David Paige. He will speak on "Ice deposits at the poles of the Moon and Mercury". Surficial ice evaporates relatively quickly if exposed to sunlight in the inner solar system. However, some parts of craters near the poles of Mercury and the Earth's Moon are in permanent shadow. If a water molecule lands in such a spot it is expected to stay there until evaporated due to heat from a micrometeorite or a photon from a star other than the Sun. New spacecraft data support the interpretation that there is ice in these shadowed regions. Reminder: You can find the UCLA Meteorite Gallery on Social Media. Please like us on Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/UCLAMeteorites ) and follow us on Twitter (@UCLAMeteorites) and Instagram (uclameteorites). JTW UCLA Meteorite Collection Geology Building, Room 3697 565 Charles Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095

When I come to Australia I want to stay a few nights in Bendigo. I don't know any of the other places, yet. haha

Nice one ... It could have been a sunbaker? I'd say if the weather is good keep on swinging. We have 110-115F in our gold fields now. It is time for beach detecting! Mitchel PS ... was reading about Bathurst the other day. Are nuggets still available around there?

Nice. I wish you even more of course.

Well done. Nice nugget. Do many detect there already?