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Trent King

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  1. 1 hour ago, Sheppo said:

    They stopped due to an incident involving firearms and someone being seriously injured. I know more to the story but this isn’t the place to broadcast that knowledge. 
     

    I also enjoy Krissy’s videos from Outback Gold Fever. While alot of her videos may not impart much knowledge, it’s great to see some of the areas she works in and gives a glimpse of what I hope to see myself in the near future.

    I can see Krissys videos going viral in a couple weeks when the Outback Kraut has the Outback Yank in for a cameo!

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  2. Lots of different projects on the go lately mate. 
    Gold related, we have been busy mining a high grade reef.  We have about 600 ton of quartz stockpiled.  I will do a video of that when we start processing.

    For a different challenge we also took on the job of rebuilding a satellite station.  Krissy did a video of that for us, attached below.

     

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  3. Congrats on the gold 👍. A good story, I usually only have a quick flick through so took your advice on starting at paragraph 3, ended up going back and reading the first 2.

    I got a 5g piece the other day at 14” in horrible black iron laterite, was using the 11” coil.  It sounded like a 20g piece would sound on the 5k at similar depth, I was stunned when it was only a 5 grammer.

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  4. I didn’t watch the video, but a 20 grammer  at 300mm sounds like a Coke can, I have tried it.  My experience similar to Vic, have found over 100 sub gram bits at 10”.  I only ever use Auto+ and have never had any noise problems.

    Tends to prove why utube videos comparing is a waste of time, don’t think I have ever watched one which wasn’t biased in some direction, not hearing a 20g bit at 300mm is definitely involving some sort of trickery.

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  5. My finger must have accidentally touched the screen near your scoop mate😉

    No need to feel bad about missing them, I had too until I used a loader. I had dug a deep bit there about 7 years ago, so that was the first spot I sent Paul with his 7k 19” when he arrived here, later that day he informed me all the gold was gone from this place after finding nothing 😁😂  Ended up getting about another 30oz from that 100 yard square.

    Always have great confidence in Minelabs new tech, especially when fine tuned on my ground 🙂

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  6. 9 hours ago, Norvic said:

    My 2 bobs worth, the EMI "problem" you fellows are on about doesn`t exist from my use. It is much like the volume control on the GPZ 7000, the higher you set it the more hotter the machine is. The vids you are watching I would say have the speaker volume turned right up, thus the induced instability". I suspect the volume control is not a totally AG gain control but more a digital RF gain control not like a linear booster one places on the audio output.  

    Further to this I have been playing with the volume control setting on both the 6000 and the Torus headband and an early observation is this can be a powerful feature ie. with the volume control on the 6000 increased from minimum and the volume control decreased on the headband the machine becomes hotter and seems to bring in the positive signals even more pronounced which at this early stage makes the 6000 detecting ability more like a VLF and thus may be the answer to those fine specie that PIs to now cannot detect as well as VLFs. Might just be the PI that suits Gerry`s detecting style.

    Like I said at the beginning my 2 bobs worth is, tis naught to be concerned about. The 6000 to me is one hot detector with new superior technology and like Steve said will probably become a classic like the GB2, those of us who were at it when the GB2 was introduced will well remember the negatives people expressed towards it and that was before the social forums we now enjoy. Heh I`m the fellow who was right amongst the X coil advantage what a month or so back, that had every negative possible thrown at, but they filled my pocket as the 6000 is now. 

    Can’t be too much of a fault/problem/error or whatever it’s being called because I can’t get mine to do it 🤨.

    I have found the 6000 loads quieter then the sdc/5k/zed have been running it on Auto+ with speaker (because I keep forgetting the headphones) on the worst areas I can find, found gold on all.

    Hopefully they suspend sales and spend 12 months trying to figure out this ‘problem’ 😁

     

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Mike C... said:

    I never use a bungee with my 5000-Im already tethered up enough with the power cord-I dont use a sadie-but I dont use anything bigger than a 17 coil either :ph34r:

    Same, never use a bungee.  Only time I can remember clipping it on in the last few years was with the NF 25” DD.

  8. 5 hours ago, jasong said:

    I duuuuuunno about that one Lunk. :smile:

    108 grams of gold to pay the 6000 off in nuggets the GPZ misses? What are we talking, mostly dinkster 0.10 grams or under then? That's 1080 nuggets. Most prospectors I've met haven't found that many nuggets of all sizes combined in their whole lives. I only find maybe 150-300 (of all weights total) a year myself and I'm usually at the upper end or top of the scale compared to anyone I meet and talk with who isn't working heavy equipment.

    Realistically, there are only a small handful of people with exclusive access/location knowledge who will be making the 6000 pay for itself specifically in finds the GPZ missed. In the USA anyways. Unless the 6000 does some serious magic in the salt and other bad ground, which is the thing we still have zero quantitative information on, frustratingly.

    Several patches close to town here that I got over 1000 nuggets off.  Got 1200 off one patch when the sdc first came out.  Paid its self off in two weeks on a patch the 5000 couldn’t get anymore.

    Trick is to get to em all first ! 🤔  I haven’t detected in 2 months to make sure I’m fresh for a month long assault!

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  9. A very handy tool for prospecting.  Arsenic is the main indicator element in our area.  To save money on assays I zap every soil sample then only send the ones away with elevated As.

    They are a great toy to play with, my mate and I end up zapping everything in sight.  Would never eat fish again if you seen some of the hits we got on them!

    Another interesting one, Caterpillar wanted $8k for some head bolts, being tight arses we got the $600 after market ones.  Once we zapped both the composition of them was identical!

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