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    Geelong Vic AU
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    Prospecting, fishing, kayaking, tinkering.
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    3030, 2300, FT 1600, home made high banker.

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  1. Hi Goldseeker, Merry Merry Christmas and to you all!! Had a few , being an Aussie holiday an all, “hic “ cool subject . Look for country rock, sediment. look for valleys where on either side there be volcanoes of a certain age . Sediment is old. Sediment is crushed by Monolths , under sea mountains “ granit” +,that jostle about in the liquid state of the crust .volcanoes “ vent “the pressure between the mono’s and the sediment. The sediment is squeezed so tight it cracks, peculiar to a North South line. DunnolyVictoria AU. In the fissures gold and its host silica squeezes. “ I believe” ,through the pressure points. I hypothesis that Gold umongst other heavy elements make up the Earths core and is surrounded by silica, quartz and the lighter materials, that being minerals. movement and hydrological action force fingers of heavy elements to the surface. Grafity,Geology, Sonar. God Bless . God Speed.
  2. Hi guys, long time lurker here, havent had much input lately as I very seldom have the opportunity to prospect these days, but enjoy thall the articles and feedback from a really great forum. So , as for the magic carpet ride !, I wouldn’t give it a second thought. But what I did do when I was swinging my first detector was go big on the coil, a 20” DD on an 8klz ft 16000 ,now at the time i was recovering from a prolapsed disc operation ,so swinging a coil that big was pretty ambitious in fact as it turned out to ambitious as I just couldn’t do it . So what I did was I made a wheelbarrow. I used a child’s plastic rimmed front bicycle wheel and a greased wooden dowel as the axle . Basically a wheel barrow frame made of light wood such as pine with out the tub, suspended the coil behind the wheel facing forward and Bobs you’re uncle, worked a treat’. When you hear a target just rock back and forth to pinpoint, obviously you would have to make the frame of the barrow to suit your height and arm length. If I could get my hands on a SD2000 and had the time ......
  3. Anybody seen the latest in metal detectors from DRS Electronics, their new Ground expert machine is just awesome. If it can do what they claim it can it might be a real game changer for metal detecting.
  4. Cemelec.com electronic projects, great advice, plans and parts including pulse machines and coils .
  5. Quality sound is everything. I like to draw a picture in my head, brrrrrrrrrrrrtt , blip. For me "tone" is everything and the threshold a melody that the soft tone of deep gold gently vibrates on. I prefer cup style headphones ,but on a still day without wind and external speaker with mx volume is ok.??
  6. Purely from a part time prospectors perspective.You can own the most sofisticated rigg in the world, but "driver" and experience is where the rubber meets the road. My dirt digging buddy gave up the 7 and went back to a 5 with immediate results. I would be happy with a mod'd 2000 and the elite coil series, but you couldn't pass up the ping ability of a 2300 and inline amp.⛏
  7. Comparisons ?. Bears , lions, wolves, rattlers, alligator ,tornados and loonies with semis. Boomerang.
  8. Hi guys, I started metal detecting back in the nineties when my wife bought me an FT 16000. This machine had terrific notch discrimination but I learnt not to completely trust it on the goldfields. Whilst it could nail small silvers and coppers with ease it did have trouble with hot rocks like most VLFs and what I later discovered was masking, that being that the machine was telling me there is a target but the tone was saying iron . After seeking some advice as to why I was not finding any colour I was told that if you ground balance on a target you suspect is hot and it still registers as " target " it's a keeper. The result a 13grma at depth and encased in ironstone and something I would have tossed previously ( how many ?). Hope it helps, great post Steve, cheers. Happy hunting. Chris
  9. Way back when the Australian gold fields became world news ,they were rushed by hopefuls from all over the world. Along with them were the veteran 49ers from California . They realised that the geological foundations were similar and were able to locate the mother loads by first locating the "indicator" which nearly always ran roughly north and south. Apart from variations in bedding I would assume the the geological patterns would be similar all over the world where quarts dykes are exposed. Hope this and a couple of pics help in your hunt. Gold don't come easy it seams.⛏. Chris
  10. Nice one California.Don't do so well with the MGR on this type of ground, but an SDC with an in line amplifier.and chasing the little runs down the hill cleaned up on the small stuff ,really impressed with the depth "if there is"anything of size under this baby it's going to yodel . Happy hunting.I have attached a couple of pics , hope you don't mind. Tarrengower Maldon. AU
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