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Has the dealer experienced other problems with the 6000s?

I did more to discourage prospecting in Victoria than all the crocs in Australia!

How many 'known' meteorites are in your area? If you add one more then it would be good to know and it could also be of some significant value if it is of an unusual type.

Probably good news but you still have a bit of 'research' to do. You need to find someone that will classify your meteorite and then give it a name and submit it to Met Bul to be included in the database. The best way to find someone to help you is look at that listing for the nearby meteorite and contact someone on there and they will help you. They have been there and done that as they say.

Well done and well told. Thanks.

I used an SE Pro and liked it for many years. I bought it used from a friend. It worked great on the beach. It got dropped into the salt water one time to many and corroded so badly it could not be fixed. A couple of years ago we bought a lightly used one and still have it but use it little with the other detectors I have available. Your discussion of the 'pro coil' makes me wonder if that was the only difference between the SE and SE Pro? I bought a Coiltek 12x8 for it and it is really quite good also. How does that compare to the Pro Coil?

You likely have found a previously unnamed meteorite if the nearest meteorite is over 20km away. It would have needed to be an exceptionally large mass (like in Gold Basin) for it to have shed fragments over such a large strewn field. Some say that Gold Basin is made of several different meteorites/events and they are not all of one kind. If you look at your meteorite and get it classified and it is the same classification as the named meteorite then you may have a piece of it.

I read about this movie and looked at the trailer. It seems to capture some of our 'problem!' haha

Well done Simon. Thank your lucky stars for JW who keeps putting you on nuggets.

On April 22rd 2012 I was chasing the Sutter's Mill Meteorite and I was on the wrong side of Lake Tahoe. Without anything better to do I drove on to Elko, Nevada. I knew a geologist there but he was in Mexico at the time. While I was there I learned a little bit about the Carlin Trend and stopped into a book store and met a knowledgeable man. He told me that all of the rivers once flowed West. That was long before the Sierra Nevadas were there. He told me that I should keep that in mind while detecting for gold. He also told me that most of the gold around Elko was fine but there were a few detectorists who did really well but on private land or mining property land. There was very little open land. This would confirm your research of significant releases heading west from the great divide.

Some sort of unique 'piece' could be made from those nuggets which could enhance the value over just gold alone I would think.

I like the results.

I just read with interest an event that changed the landscape of Eastern Washington State. There is some mention of Montana so these events may have changed where gold has been moved and where it is left. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/devastating-ice-age-floods-that-occurred-in-the-pacific-northwest-fascinate-scientists-180979749/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily-dek&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220419-daily-dek&spMailingID=46715100&spUserID=MTMxNjg2MzE5MzQ5NgS2&spJobID=2222101253&spReportId=MjIyMjEwMTI1MwS2 A little bit more research provided a more detailed link. https://hugefloods.com/Scablands.html

Well done Reg. I've rubbed both of my boys noggins for you and James. I hope both of you drench your pant legs in the fields and share those pictures here. Mitchel

Simon, Get your dredge ready. I'll be right there! https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/128327995/the-new-central-otago-gold-rush-is-just-a-trickle-for-most

Swift, The pin is rusty. What do you think the other metal is? Mitchel

The top 10 craters are impressive. Think about how many are unknown! https://www.livescience.com/45126-biggest-impact-crater-earth-countdown.html

Use this to search your meteorite to see if it has a name. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/

Here is a story about a Museum that bought a previously found coin on eBay France! https://www.livescience.com/rare-charlemagne-coin-found?utm_source=notification

And I've also lost friendships over gold! I should sometimes avoid a pointy finger least I get lucky and clean out a patch!

This is an interesting read about someone taking people out to some claims near Coolgardie for a few days to find gold and relics. https://www.farmweekly.com.au/story/7680225/prospectors-dig-for-gold/

There have been some 'paper' flippers using the Rye Patch name and reputation for finding gold for a few years now. They have made much, much more money flipping claims than finding any gold themselves. To hear your description of weekly and perhaps daily gold find expectations told to expectant buyers smacks of fraud more than hype. To have a claim 'near' a gold producing area is not the same as having a producing claim. Of course an uninformed buyer or 'newbie' as Condor has described would not know how to prove the claims. Let all buyers be ware that they should 'prove the claims (not just the paperwork filings)' of the seller before parting with your money. We should name names and put good and bad reputations on display for what they sell. We don't want people to be 'oversold' or cheated just because the word gold is involved.

Lunk and maybe Jasong in the States and Norvic and Aureous in Australia and a couple more if you want a broad field.

Well, upon more 'research' on the rose quartz it is very common and not very valuable. I'd say that the 'crown' setting was made and then some quartz was shaped for the ring. Even with the size and customization it is not very valuable. Why couldn't they make it out of gold? haha

I'm not sure if it is quartz or glass or ???