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Simon, You do need to open up more on the left. Don't go all the way to the bottom. Raid your wife's jewelry and use your wedding band. Borrow some rings from friends. I concur that you have the silver nailed with those settings. As you go father left you start to get into our penny range. I've had silver rings 'top out' in the top right so you may want to include that row.

I'd say if you want gold nuggets with a CTX then look for Gold Hound threads. He did pretty good with it when no one else was using it in the bush. Now a man made object ... a gold ring is a really full sound with the CTX. I'll have to give some thought to your question as I've found many golds with it. I still have them on my GPS so when I take the 17" for a walk now and then I'll have to remember the numbers. I'll tell you I mostly look at the graph and even if I have it in all metal I know the rings are in the center left. That visual gets me excited.

I rarely use the pinpoint also ... just habit. There was not much on the beach today but I did dig a couple of 10" quarters and I have an 8" scoop so I had to scratch at the hole a few times for those coins. There were just a few two scoop pennies and then a lot of nothing. It was a nice sunny 3 mile walk on the beach.

Well said Mid. I hit Southern California beaches a lot. Mostly the wet sand areas. Recently I had a return to the 11" to give my arm a bit of a rest on the swing. I was surprised how deep it really goes. I can hear coins deeper than 11" in some cases and that is normally quite enough. The last couple of days after a bit of a blow and energy stirring up the sand I've gone back to the 15" and it finds more. It finds more going fast or going slow. It finds more deep when you get that iffy. I dig almost everything except a few pennies. I just can't spend 6-8 scoops sometimes in the recovery when I could find a better target with more character. It is a mood thing. Something that does make people not want to use a big coil is pinpointing. Often times I don't use it and I just look at my coil and know where the target should be dug. Sometimes that is a bit of an optical illusion. The target doesn't seem like it is where it should be. Today I worked out a correction for my perception. When I work my way over a target and get a full sound I normally focus on the Minelab Logo and dig under it for my target. My recoveries were not as efficient as I would have liked. I was taking extra scoops and missing my coins. I adjusted. What was my adjustment? I started scooping behind (closer to the center) from the logo. My eyes focused there (about 4 inches difference) rather than closer to the edge of the coil. It greatly reduced my number of scoops for recovery. I felt like I was swinging my 3030 again where I could get a lot of targets with just one or two scoops rather than 5-6! I'll concentrate a bit more on the 11" coil and see where my focal point is for recovery there. Thanks for your books Clive. Mitchel

Will Steve be making 6000 rods?

What will the time be at 2:22:22 tomorrow morning? Just think ... we get 2 chances at it!

Well done. It always helps to have a pointy finger along on a trip.

I go back over my same ground when I'm finding color.

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Good job Gerry. I started looking for meteorites about 10 years ago when I had only my 5000. It was difficult for me at first and I had to get help from some expert meteorite hunters. They eventually showed me how to set up that machine and I was able to find some sub 10 gram meteorites. Those are hard to pick out against the patina and hot rock strata in Gold Basin. They are easier to find when looking for irons at Franconia. The 7000 is a good detector for meteorites but you have to be in the right place. That big one you found is probably bigger than any I've found out of the dozens now so you did a good job there. All of them are getting harder to find. How many did Lunk get? Mitchel

Saves me the time of watching them!

It is hard to put together a heist from the park for just a one day show! They have more of a problem now with 'where do we keep it?'

I had read the article but wasn't motivated to post the first one but I'm glad you did now. We've got some other threads dealing with gold from the East but this one has more of a coin perspective than those and then retells the gold finds and mining.

What brand of detector would you need to find this? (If it was buried.) https://survivalupdate.com/a-12-million-dollar-solid-gold-cube-appears-in-central-park/

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Farmers digging nuggets ... https://coinweek.com/us-coins/us-gold-coins/why-the-charlotte-and-dahlonega-mints-were-built-part-3/

Well ... I don't normally watch comparison videos but that one was WELL WORTH THE WATCH! It hit my sweet spot for sure. I've said many times that I was probably the first one other than Steve to find some gold nuggets with the 11" 800. It is on a thread here some place. They were small nuggets. We got to see different technology used on nuggets in the field. Invaluable information and sounds for all of us. Thank you. I've been considering a small coil purchase for my 5000 and it shows that I either don't need one or it will ignore the tiny gold (and maybe the tiny bird shot) and be a form of discrimination. What we didn't see in the video is a reaction to hot rocks. This would be like many 'played out' gold patches where much of the trash and many of the hot rocks have been removed. In those patches most of the surface gold and shallow gold has been removed too so those of us watching this 'test garden' we don't know how many detectors have been used on a spot before we get there.

Turhan Hello to you in Turkey. It is good to have you here. What types of things can you find there in your parks and beaches? Mitchel

There is a large section of Sovereign Hill that is the Chinese area. Just as in the United States the Chinese miners were 2nd class where they were allowed to live (down stream) but they took advantage of it by being diligent and efficient. I spent a considerable amount of time when I was there speaking with the guides in the Chinese section. It is pretty well documented they lifestyle and treatment they received which was different than other parts of the camp. The very high fees all miners had to pay in Australia created a bit of resentment that I bet still runs through the country today. The fee collectors certainly didn't enforce it equally and caused much strife in the gold towns. The gold towns of the US were mostly lawless in the early stages with many records of Chinese miners being thrown off their claims or worse. I'm more sensitive to these issues now because my wife is Chinese as you know. While I was there I did see the kids dressed up as Simon said. They were being led through the streets to play as if they were in the 1800s. It is well researched and a living history lesson. I take it to be an example of one of many gold towns that dotted the landscape.

Reg said I should go to Ballarat when I was there and I was very glad that I did. If anyone else is in Victoria you should go too! https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/centenary-of-gold-discovery-monument

Wow! I was just posting about the 'complications' of getting a gold mine in California and the United States and it turns out in this case as in many other cases you have to be as much if not more concerned about who is doing it. About 10 years ago I was buying penny stock in a gold and silver venture in Mexico. That company went BK.

Same facts here but a different writer. Sounds like a different story! https://www.salon.com/2022/02/05/the-gold-rush-returns-to-california_partner/

Why was there a mint in Georgia? https://coinweek.com/us-coins/why-the-charlotte-and-dahlonega-mints-were-built-part-2/

Would a 5000/9" Elite be more sensitive than a 2300?

Well done! Those are the types of spots we're left to find in known gold areas. The clues may have been removed but you found some that were not picked up before. It has changed the way that I look at a known gold area to keep my head in the game looking around the scrub, rocks and even a few open places.