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Now I have cheated and looked on the map. Bendigo ... a few years ago I was going to stay there after a day of training with Ronda Hyde. I never got there but it is still on my personal map. Mitchel

Feb. 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 Feb. 26 the speaker at our Gallery Event is the co-curator John Wasson. Although emeritus, John remains active in research with most of his efforts focused on chondrules and the formation of chondrites and iron meteorites. And, as this Sunday, on tektite formation. The title of his lecture is: “Formation of tektites in thermal plumes: no craters required”. Summary: Tektites are glassy samples with interesting shapes (e.g., teardrops) and compositions similar to soils and shales that formed as a result of weathering the continental crust. Since 1960 the consensus view has been that tektites are crater ejecta. However, high concentrations of 10Be (halflife of 1.5 My) show that tektites are made from soils from the upper 50 centimeters of the crust. The best model seems to be thermal plumes resulting from accreting weak asteroids or comets that disintegrated and deposited their entire energy in the atmosphere, similar to the 1908 Tunguska event. Dust was entrained into these hot plumes and melted there; collisions among droplets led to the growth of the splash-form tektites. The lecture this month is in a new location: Geology 3656, just 40 yards west of the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. This is a larger and more comfortable room than our previous venue in Slichter, and about the same distance. Our next Gallery Lecture will occur on Sunday March 12. The speaker is Roger Fu, a recent Ph.D. from MIT who will be an assistant professor at Harvard starting this fall. His title is “The water-rich interior of dwarf planet Ceres”. New data from the NASA Dawn spacecraft has revealed that the dwarf planet Ceres (940 km diameter) shows characteristics of both "rocky" and "icy" bodies. He will talk about how the morphology and spectroscopy of the surface point to a composition with less than 30% water ice. Even so, intriguing features observed on Ceres suggest localized regions enriched in sub-surface ice and, possibly, the existence of an ancient global ocean during its early history. Reminder: You can now 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

Dave Now that you bring it up ... I don't care about pronouncing it ... we all want to know where it is! haha How long does it take to get there? Mitchel

Ok ... language alert: headless chook ?? footy ground ?? advise (advice) We have one member here who takes your lesson a bit 'farther!' His advice is to hunt near to where you park. You don't need to go running off. If it looks good all around the area ... hunt the parking lot! We have also learned to hunt the road in and out. GB, thanks for your advice.

wombat Please kick the dirt around. It will encourage some of us to come and visit you and others of us to come back. I've personally wanted to visit the Golden Triangle area for some time now. Of course there are many other places of equal or greater interest. What are your primary states? Before the dust settles we ask that you show us some of your finds by link or post. We Yanks like pictures to go along with the stories. (Some of us can't read Australian or English!) Welcome Mitchel

Great gold. What were the ground conditions like? You were using the 14"?

I went back to the same beach today and ... less than $1 ... so ... hunt your beach pockets while they are there! Some waves deposit and some take it away.

There must be SOME mistake ... that coil can't find missed or deep gold! I know for a fact it can find small gold too. My last nugget with it was just .12 g. Thanks for your post. Mitchel

I went out this morning looking for what the storm has brought in. We had some waves in the bay up to 15 feet! When detecting after a storm it can be good but it can also be 'blown out' with very little pattern. I hunt for 'focused energy' and patches. This can take a lot of walking but can also result in rewards. My initial pass at the beach was along the cut (such that it was) which was mostly pushed over. The waves and tide had gotten so big that nothing stopped and it blew right over the blanket line. This makes for a good day if you are a beach comber but difficult for detecting. I kept walking and finally found a patch while the tide was still high. I came back to it an hour or so later when there was a bigger beach. The gird began and I was in a nickel, dime and quarter patch worth sticking with. This got me $18+ and a couple of keys. Then on one of my shallow penny hits I looked in the scoop and GOLD! Really? I put it back down on the beach and tested again and still penny on my 3030 ... must be gold plate. I'll check it when I get my glasses on ... time to work the patch more. When I got home I looked and J A 585 with a diamond ... maybe it was the size ... a penny won't quite fit inside it. It weighs 11.5 g. Yahoo, GOLD RING.

We never seem to be far from the nurse or where the nurse has been or where he will be soon. Mitchel

You had a double picker (lost your pick twice). So many things on your mind you forgot to take pictures for us? I want the one when you slid off the hood ... Great writing. Mitchel

What a post! That is a lot of eye candy for us in Southern California with all of our rain today and the last few weeks. When I saw the top nuggets and you said crush and 13.5 ... but then I saw IT. Thanks for posting. Mitchel

Norm, I have had great service from Minelab in the past on my 5000. I had an intermittent display problem and when I spoke with them they replaced the board and sent it back to me at no charge. I'm glad yours worked out the same way. Mitchel

Did Rye Patch Reservoir fill?

Talk about something that is not 'cheap' then take a look at the Easyrig for cameras. http://easyrig.se/

Is there any way to know when a stolen device (any device) does a login with the GPS? It would be unique to that device and if ML knew it was stolen then they could 'unlock' the block so that the location of the GPS signal could be reported to the true owner. (I don't even know if GPS can be used that way.) Mitchel

The truth be told! If the gold is there it's a lot easier! If you get training from Ray ... the first day is without a detector. It is a distraction.

When checking the penalty for theft on Google I found: Crime: Robbery/Theft Country's Punishment: USA- petty theft may result in a small fine and 6 months in jail, grand theft may result in a year or more in prison and a large fine. Repeat of offenses may result in life imprisonment China: Lethal injection (death penalty) Mexico- Up to 40 years in prison or more and a large fine depending on the theft

Thanks Klunker, I too have greatly increased my total nugget numbers with the Zed. I resolve to increase the size this year. Unfortunately ... finding small gold keeps us going back ... again and again and again until we get every last scrap. This can reduce the total weight because we are not out on new ground finding that bigger nugget that the other machines can only find. It is like digging pennies on the beach. I could dig all 25 that I see and hear on my 3030 and half of them now can't even be cleaned or I could skip some or all and dig a dime or quarter. In the desert or the field I can't tell the size or depth of the nugget (with some exceptions) so I have to dig them all. I need to give the 19 a good patch workout. Mitchel

You know ... (here it comes Paul) ... all of this chat about your detectors. Shouldn't you be more worried about all of that gold that you had just found? Must have been pounds of it, right? It won't take long for you to find enough to pay those two detectors off. On another note, I guess you were sleeping with all those other detectors and that is why they didn't get them? Inquiring minds want to know. (I just bet someone knew there was something good in the truck and that is why you were a target. I'd be suspicious of locals more than a random hit.) Mitchel

Google Maps lets you login on multiple devices. I put in points and pins on my phone and I could see them in real time here on my laptop computer because I was signed in to the same account. (Your points would be 'saved in the cloud' so to speak.) I'm not 100% certain that GE works the same way because I have had one hard drive crash and when I got on GE with the other computer many of my finds were not saved. I'll have to look at a backup and do as Swegin and Steve have suggested. Many people have done it Fred and as long as your old computer is working you won't lose the data. Mitchel

Theft is not good and of a personal item is worse. I just met a guy this afternoon who I was showing my 3030. He said can I hold it and I let him. He told me he had an ATX but I should have GPS. I said I have it and he said NO ... a tag so if it was taken I could track it. He was telling me where to hide it. He has one on his bike, his detector and lots of other things he owns. Maybe I should get tags on all the detectors and ... after I find my cell phone I left at a club meeting on Friday! Mitchel

Wow! Such a sensitive subject. We can't seem to get enough of it for fear we missed something. None of us will get it all but with a good grid pattern and a couple of passes it may be time to go to another patch. The last pass after most of the trash has been removed I'll push the sensitivity up if I'm still getting some pieces. If you wander search a patch it could last for a longer time on all settings. (The search for the missed grid gold!) Mitchel

David, If you go to the top of this forum you will see a search engine. I used it with the following key words: 7000 sensitivity I got 42 results which included some of the very important threads on this forum which deal with your question. A couple of the results will not apply but I think you will find lengthy discussions on sensitivity and volume limits, JP's conservative settings and Steve's super hot settings to name a few. These results will answer questions most of us didn't think of asking. I hope this helps. Mitchel

Well done. We appreciate the update. Mitchel