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Here is a video about an underwater camera.  What do people here use?

I still have a Windows laptop that was loaded with Win7 and then upgraded to Win10 and the hardware is so slow I can only use it as a backup now.  The internet requires speed and video and the Google Earth needs a good driver ... I bought this Chromebook/viewer just for the internet.  

It may be necessary for me to buy a new computer before I buy a new detector so that my research is more complete with the online tools.  This forum upgrade will still take time to feel right but we will forget about the old version in time and get back to content again.

I reached the limit of the edit box.  haha  ?

15 hours ago, IDMineralSurveys said:

My eyes are okay... i was wearing my ? 

I was looking for settings on my Chromebook to dim it!

And like Chase said the edit is at the top right. (Does anyone ever use that 'Reason for edit' box?)  

I'm surprised the language of detecting was already set.  It sure would have been cool to have one of those back in the 60s in Florida.

I don't see many of them but here is an article about detecting in New Zealand.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/money/10-09-2020/theres-still-gold-in-them-hills/

Great job again.  What is that VW?

I've taken Ray's training in the area where he lives.

Is that the area where you are hunting your gold?  I mean the Redding, California area?

My Equinox stand has broken several times and I have glued it.  When I am on the beach and in the water I prop it up against my leg/hip.

23 hours ago, Allen in MT said:

Hundreds and hundreds of keys and tokens. this is just some of my finds over the years.

You have a lot of history there.  It could be 'documented' with a note of some sort.  You know about when and where you found them which will add value.  It could all add up to many thousands of $$ and enjoyment for a collector.

It may be a tedious task but no one else can do it.  I would suggest making a 'split' with one of your younger relatives.  They post it online and they 'split' the money with you.  Maybe they get it all or ...

While they are doing this they will learn about you, the family and have a money making hobby/business.

I see history thrown away in our alley dumpsters and given to Salvation Army every day.  If it had a 'story' it would be of much greater value to the right person.

I just came back from a beach hunt.  Mind you conditions are not right at the beach for a lot of targets so I took it slow and easy on the first few 'tests.'  I used B1, 23, 6, F2 0 and then saved F2 9 and switched back and forth on the find, during the dig and after recovery.  I would have to say that several of the targets were the same on both with the 15" coil.  Lead seemed very similar.  Before I got to the wet sand I had a target and the 9 clearly had an effect on it.  It kept it in the negative numbers and sound and it was a dry bottle cap.  That was the best test where I could see a clear difference.  If other targets had responded the same way I'd use some F2 but I found a jumpiness with it that would take a learning curve to interpret.  I'm familiar with 0 sounds and expected targets.  F2 9 will not be something I use often, maybe in a park but that would be all.  I tried a bit of F2 5 and it was much less jumpy on the little swings.  I just didn't feel like the time it would take to switch back and forth would be worth it.  I'd already have dug the target.

I think I should try the difference between B1 and B2 rather than FE or F2.

Mitchel

Depth to bedrock gold could be a big problem of course.  Those that dug down to pay layers would have an advantage over a metal detector but you have the advantage over the trenchers in finding a shallow source.  The maps I was suggesting would have been some sort of USGS (if you are in the states) or other maps of historical activity you could see on My Land Matters.

Where (geographical area) are you searching?

Everyone here is using the latest update?

Not

13 hours ago, oldmancoyote1 said:

For several years now I have been dragging my buddy to new places that I thought would be good spots to detect.  We both have darn little to show for all our effort.

What made you pick the spots you went to in the past?  Did any of them have previous mining activity?

5 hours ago, Chase Goldman said:

That, of course, is dependent on search mode, ground conditions (e.g., mineralization), ferrous and non-ferrous junk density, and the primary targets of interest (gold vs. jewelry vs. coins vs. relics, mid-conductors vs. high conductors...) and their depth.  I guess that takes me back to my preferred middle-of-the-road IB setting of F2 = 4 to 6 as a good starting point.

Chase,

I'm quite like you on my beaches.  I don't want to mask. (B1, 23, 6, FE2 0)  I dig just about everything and if I see a -3 or -4 and it is deep I've had the numbers move up as I get the target out. (A -2 is nearly always a hair pin.)  Sometimes it will be a corroded penny at 10+ inches.  I can't think of a specific valuable target now that was negative and became valuable but just by practice I think it happens frequently.  I'd have to video my hunts.  Simon and I used to talk about the negative first numbers and Steve has addressed that.

So the FE and FE2 are only audio controls.  It doesn't change anything in the display.

A target that fools my 800 is a bent tent spike.  My 3030 would make it sing out loud and clear but the Nox garbles it like a chain.

One variable you did not list from above was the coil size.  Is everyone on these tests using the 11" coil?

Image: Rio Tinto.

Rio Tinto has showcased its rare pink, red, violet and blue diamonds from the Argyle mine in Western Australia virtually to a group of collectors, connoisseurs and luxury jewellery houses.

There are a few here:

https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/rio-tinto-previews-rare-argyle-gems-including-six-hero-diamonds/

Just now, phrunt said:

She's just got a weird brace thing on it. The bone bent rather than cracked. Looks like a wrist guard. 

I asked because I had two casts and one 'sling/wrap around' when growing up.  One when I fell out of a tree, one while playing soccer/football in high school and one while playing softball in college.

40 minutes ago, phrunt said:

My daughter broke her arm falling off some monkey bars so skiing is off for 3 weeks, she tried to hide it as she didn't want to miss out on skiing but the pain got too much and gave it away.

Did it have to be set or just slung?

I was just on eBay looking around at some old purchases I had made and one was from Miner John.  I clicked on the transaction and I see there are some 'live' products available.  That is good to see after I understand he was wiped out by the fire.

Has anyone tried this stand?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Minelab-Gold-Monster-1000-pro-detector-stand-also-fit-Minelab-Equinox-600-800/202877933766

I saw another stand on a thread sometime here over the last year that would fold.  Does anyone use a folding stand?

I don't have a Monster.  I don't know how Minelab would let a detector be sold that twists and turns so much when you put it on the ground.  Every video I've seen shows this problem of securing it while you get the little nuggets out of the scoop.

WTG WLTDWIZ

Well done and more to come.  

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Scrub saves gold ... SIMON!  haha

Well done!  We all need a 'wake up' to let us know what it is all about.

More can follow but it is certainly better to have the one you got.

Keep seeking.

Mitchel