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Well done on getting out and the finds. I just came back from 2.5 hours on our beaches at night. It has been several weeks since I've been out also and it felt good. What didn't feel so good was the same lack of targets as when I stopped. I hunt the surf/tide areas and I found less than $1 in change on beaches where I've found hundreds of dollars on in the past. Now I know even more that lack of targets is not because of hunting pressure but the energy of getting the targets back up on the beach.

Lots of slices for sale and some good videos too. http://www.polandmet.com/

Do you still have any of your Arizona pictures?

Sand Art ... Let it play through several sketches

This explanation as I read it again now would explain 'raking' a patch as many have been done in the past. Many tiny nuggets would be masked with the surface materials. Sometimes we would rake them to smooth them and get the coil closer to the ground but now it seems that the surface saturation was being raked away with it also. This raking would go on to the edge of the patch. This has always been one of my clues as well as previous dig holes. Some of these rake piles are 20-30 years old now. They are quite different from oldtimer workings and drywashings.

One thing I won't be doing is flying Air Asia anytime soon. https://newsroom.airasia.com/news/a-message-from-tony

That looks like the Leland pick that I use. I carry it in my left hand and use a bungee for the coil. That long handle on the pick sure saves on the back for scrapes and deep holes.

Easy now ... you'll be going down and pick Fred up and we'll never see you two again! Do you have a plan for this year?

JW, It should be stated that where Flak lives he could be visited by a mountain lion. There are several in his area that are tracked with radio collars but I'm sure they would like a chicken dinner! Other pets can be on the menu also.

You can always look at Nevada State Historical Markers! https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1TAZdKZbBKkZlH9o0VOObTg7KYq0&ll=38.58996229241184%2C-117.0312360736267&z=6

Want to have some fun and do research at the same time? Look at Historical Aerials https://www.historicaerials.com/

JP, We are all anxious to see pictures from your archives. We don't need to know how recent they are. I'd also say that making solo or family trips out into the bush or desert is sometimes necessary social distancing. It also helps to be showered with copious amounts of UV light. Several of the people on this forum who live in campers and trucks are not violating rules on open land here in the states when they prospect. They are complying with the stay at home rules because they are not a lockdown. Heck, some of us are stretching the definition of 'home' to include our claims and getting out without as much success as yours. Keep it up. Mitchel

I don't know how many trips you have made so far in 2020 but I know gold was hard for me to find in Victoria. Mitchel

Nice nuggies and with the Pros. (Any particular reason for them over other choices?) I agree with Flak. I had asked about the fires up your way. They were bad but now is there any new ground producing that had too many bushes before? Mitchel

Well done. There are lots of clues in the desert. haha Mitchel

The service department is very good when you contact them. They were stretched a bit thin before this year with the shows. You had to make first contact with someone out in the field if you called on a Friday. A couple of times I didn't get a call back until Monday and then you would get the RMA. They would keep it within their system of employees. This new marketing effort is a bit of outsourcing to Wooly. That is part of the email address with a /minelab. I sent an email to Wooly and got a quick response from them wanting to set up a phone call to speak about my 'brand management' and what they could do for me. It seems that Wooly and Minelab marketing have a high hurdle to jump before their users are willing to share with them because of being 'ignored' in the past.

Are you signed up on their website? I assume they sent me this email because I'm a registered owner or I signed up for the Treasure News/Find of The Month a long time ago but I very rarely go to the site.

Thanks. I read the other thread. The Wooly administration of it and the connection to the social influencers is confusing for someone that tries to avoid all things 'social' on the internet. We are on Steve's social site. He could drop on a dictionary of key marketing words and increase his traffic. I'm glad that he doesn't.

Minelab has sent me a couple of emails to 'join the team' and I have attempted to sign in but the Wooly marketing website requires a twitter, facebook or instagram account. I don't have these and no one responds. What is this 'team' all about? https://ambassador.wooly.com/minelab/signup/join/S0MyWXFUTGc4c05zMWcwOXBBVkFTUUQySjRUTWdCMnRFVUJ6cHhKQlFsM3I4blFzV1lPcld4VDJYOW96NEQzTHBSSjBOVVUxdmtaTW45VUp1bVdOcWc9PQ== Mitchel

I'm listening to folk songs based upon the Roud Index and Spotify. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_folk_songs_by_Roud_number

It has a nice flash. Good find.

Your Pennsylvania Minelab dealer has sold a lot of gold nugget detectors!

I'll speculate more on why Minelab doesn't consider North America a sales target for gold detectors or something like that. It goes hand and hand with their idea of not making the smaller coil for the Zed.

I think Fred meant this for here from the last episode ... also! Old Halls Creek....I was close to there... once again they dug a couple of nuggets and walked away....BS, again. and every thing they touch breaks.... hard to believe, fred

I watched the end of Parker's Trail tonight and lo and behold there was a screen that said "New Show Aussie Gold Hunters 10PM Next Week" That is great news in my book.