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  1. It would be nice to have a series of pictures of it as it bloomed. How long did yours take?
  2. It'll make some collector proud. You should have given us a chance to make you an offer. haha There would be a Klunker nugget premium.
  3. Here is a 'guide' to nugget value. I mean it tells you which types of nuggets bring the best prices. https://goldnuggetsforsale.com/index.php?main_page=how_are_gold_nuggets_priced&zenid=75b78b9f79f22916d031950fa700ff45
  4. All of this talk about gophers and moles. Let's have a laugh about a children's book about beavers.
  5. Should we be buying the stock? They have to be after a bigger market or higher market share.
  6. Don't stop your research and searching waiting for better detectors. Go to the best spots you can think of and then go back if you get a 'better' detector. Just think of all the golden hoards that have been found in England without the benefit of the 5 new releases coming up! I'm even glad I found a few things and I didn't wait for a better detector. Blast on! Go back.
  7. Contact Gerry and Lunk. They'll give you pointers.
  8. Pan it. Take the black sand and put it in anything really, add some water and separate the black sand from everything else and if you have any gold you will see it. As you separate it keep the part that doesn't stay in the pan just in case you are too forceful and you lose some of your gold. Have fun.
  9. The guys who use the 800 on dredge tailings in Idaho like the bigger coils so if you don't have a 6" coil you are ok. Dig everything for the beginning until you get a feel for what is there in terms of type and size. Once you really know the sound of trash then you can skip some of it and start to look for the gold numbers of 0,1,2. You don't have to be in gold mode either but it can help on the small stuff but you likely have a few larger nuggets in that stuff. Have fun. It is sure worth a try and with a tip like you've got you are ahead of the game. Were the tailings trucked in from another location? Research where they were found and you will know how much gold was there before they processed it. Mitchel
  10. Years ago I thought of a competition of sorts of getting metal detectorists together to go through a 'course' which would be akin to a test garden. BYO detector and see who could 'tell' what was and what wasn't at each stop on the course. This is nothing like that. haha https://minelabmetaldetectors.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/j/909B652EEB5D9FC52540EF23F30FEDED/DB0BCE1DBD546B193FEC1D8A50AFD3BD
  11. Seller be aware! Get more than one offer. Value is determined by a willing seller and getting multiple offers over a reasonable amount of time. If you don't do these things you will almost always end up with a case of 'seller's remorse!' (I know it was worth more but ...) Now, go find another ring.
  12. Well, you learned a lesson. Gold and precious metal buyers buy based upon weight. If they like the piece and they can make money they will pay you 'spot' based upon the purity. They are like going to a bank and getting quick money. It is not always the best price. If you do a lot of business with them they should give you a better price over time or find another guy. If you have a finished piece of jewelry you will just about always get a better price selling it on eBay. Take good pictures, give an accurate weight and try to show the markings and give some details about your research of the piece. I have a good gold buyer and seller but they could care less if it is jewelry or nuggets when they pay me. They have someone sort the stuff and they melt their own and deal in big volume. They tell you to take the stones out before you sell it.
  13. What a nice pile. I have a bad back and it always helps to bend over and dig a target every so often. Long periods between targets makes me sore and grouchy. We have clubs here that buy gold and then they have the drawings or raffles for it at the meetings and everyone is happy!
  14. You can see coyotes all over Los Angeles communities. They eat pets and occasionally they try to snatch a kid. A much more majestic animal would be a wolf. There are a fair number of them back down in the lower 48 now.
  15. I grew up in North Florida and the Eastern Diamondbacks were plentiful and big. I've seen them over 6 feet long.
  16. I've tried a bit of meteorite hunting with the 800 but I find the hot rocks in the iron range too often in the deserts where I go. The ground balance wants to cancel the major noises a meteorite would make and make them sound like a hotrock. With a lot of practice I think I could make it work but my 7000 and 5000 are much better meteorite hunters than my 800. If you could hunt some fields that don't have magnetic rocks you could easily find a meteorite. You should do some research by going to the Meteorological Bulletin and downloading the location of meteorites near you. It will give you a file that you can see on Google Earth where a named meteorite was found. It is rare that an entire meteorite is found so there may be additional pieces waiting for you at that location. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/ Mitchel
  17. After experiencing the symptoms which I can't remember well now for some years and not knowing what caused them or thinking they were bad hangovers I had a reason to have some strong antibiotics. It was a cathartic experience and it caused me to research and then I put the pieces of the puzzle together. I had to take more antibiotics before I was completely over it but each time I could feel them working on what was still in my body. It is a foggy 5 year period in my life.
  18. As you can see our leader likes you to have your own thread when you have something good to show. I was in your neck of the woods as we say last May. I hit many likely spots on the maps for about 3 weeks and found very little but what a great adventure. Mitchel
  19. I got Lyme disease in Texas in the early 80s and didn't know what it was for a few years. I had the classic bullseye on my calf but it was not so well known at the time.
  20. Yes, Fred will be missed here on the meteorite forum. He watched it much more than I do as well. Marchel, if you are magnet fishing what do you normally find? I don't know if Steve would add a forum about it but I'm sure you could add some pics to this thread. The reason why I ask is that when you do find a meteorite it will have much less of an attraction than your normal iron/steel objects. If it sticks really hard to your magnet it is likely not a meteorite. That is something the internet can't do yet is give you the feel of a meteorite on a super magnet. A couple of the other factors that make your find not a meteorite was that it has no 'entry surface' (fusion crust) and there are no inclusions on your ground surface. Don't expect a meteorite to be an extraordinary 'rock' in appearance. They are rather ordinary until you understand what you are looking at. Look at some of the other threads here when people asked 'Is this a meteorite?' and you will see some and see many meteorwrongs too and you'll also get some of Fred's good advice. Mitchel
  21. You know what they say ... pictures or it didn't happen! (Three feet is a closeup.) I'm glad you avoided the old snake. About how big do you think it was? It is 'funny' how the instincts are alerted by a snake. They really give me a jolt or anything that moves like them. So, which do you prefer? Early gold or late gold? Mitchel
  22. We'll just have to use and report with what we have. Mc30 has just posted up some gold and I think that is great. I've had my Xcoil on about 5 days of hunting now on 'patches' I've found gold before with the ML 14 and I've yet to find a missed nugget or an unseen nugget on those trips. Let's just say results vary folks. Location, location, location.
  23. What are the unit sales in these areas or is that proprietary data only seen in the boardroom and not in investor info?
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