dig4gold

Hi Mitchel, what made you go to Waihi? A good walk for you & family would be the "Windows" walk in the Karangahake gorge. Site of the 3rd richest hard rock gold mine in NZ back in its day. The Talisman, which has activity going on today.   The Martha mine was the richest followed by the Blackwater mine in the south island at Waiuta. The Birthday reef was a late discovery in 1906 & was found on King George's birthday. Hence the "Birthday" reef. It closed in 1951 due to the shaft collapsing. Today an Australian company has driven a low level tunnel & have very recently hit the Birthday reef way below the extent of the old workings. Looks like happy days ahead. The Blackwater mine had the deepest shaft in NZ. Sorry I can't recall the depth off the top of my head. Do a google search on Waiuta. Could be worth a trip up to the old ghost town. Very interesting.

D4G

The Martha Mine in Waihi. Yep, still mining there.

D4G

Some nice stuff there for sure.

D4G

8 hours ago, Bedrocker said:

Obviously Jacob didn't let fear control his life.

No, but there were other peoples lives involved in this last incident. It didn't need to happen.

D4G 

On 4/7/2024 at 8:40 AM, GhostMiner said:

Jacob laughed and said that the low life loggers didn’t like him talking with the two ladies. I for a fact knew that Jacob despised loggers and he may have come over there just to get under their skin. 

That's the way I see it. He knew what he was doing & must have known what the result would be. I reckon you guys got off lightly.

Makes for a good story though.

D4G

19 hours ago, GhostMiner said:

   September 15   2002     Part Four

 

   The guy that Clay had sent flying over the barstool was not getting up but the one I had punched was turning towards me. I started to raise my hand to block his punch but it turned out I didn’t have to worry. Clay clocked him but good with a blind sided right hand from hell that sent him flying back over a table near the crew that was still sitting and taking everything in.

   Now there were five more coming towards us and cursing up a storm. By now Conor was looking for a weapon and latched onto a beer bottle. Jacob had pulled his buck knife and was standing with his back to the bar ready for action. All I could think was that this awful place hadn’t changed much since the 1930’s and the plan of having a relaxing evening had vanished with the first punch. 

   Somebody in the barroom hollered that the police should be called but I heard the bartender behind me say that there was no one on duty right now. We decided quickly to make our stand at the bar by letting the loggers come to us. Jacob was hollering for them to come on ahead and he’d cut them to ribbons. He looked half crazed. Come ahead they did and the punches were flying. Conor and I took care of one of them while Clay sent two of them reeling backwards. Conor turned and caught another one of them on the head with the bottle he was using as a weapon. Then I got caught with a punch that sent me crashing back into the bar but Jacob grabbed the guy from behind. He had a hold of his hair and had stuck the knife across his throat. Everything stopped. Jacob told him that if he even breathed hard he'd cut his throat. And I think he meant it.

   Lucky for us the logging crew was drunk and they didn’t have a lot to bring to the fight. The two gals that had been sitting at the end of the bar were long gone. The second logging crew had not made a move. There were only two of the loggers we were fighting still on their feet now and one had a buck knife to his throat. Before we could figure out our next move the bartender had pulled a shotgun out from somewhere under the bar and he squeezed off a shot into the ceiling. The entire place went quiet except for the jukebox. He told us to clear out. He said he was going to close the place for the night and wanted us gone before anyone else left. I looked over at Clay and he said “Let’s go.” Jacob released the logger and we eased on out of that sh.. hole. 

   TO BE CONTINUED .............

Jacob can take full responsibility for starting that s#it fight. Not fair on the rest of you. What was he thinking??

D4G 

23 hours ago, phrunt said:

 I'd only use the 15x12" for larger targets.

Exactly.... like large gold at depth..... Sounds like a win to me. You might find you will not fill your pockets with so many lead pellets either. If you don't search for large deep nuggets you are never going to find them.

D4G

1 hour ago, kingswood said:

The 3000 combo with the 24x12 UFO mono found buckets of deep gold years ago, theres no reason why it wont do the same now. Use whatever you can afford as a second machine.

Agree totally with that. A 3000 was listed on our online auction site for NZ$800 & got passed in but it did sell so a deal must have been struck. I was very tempted myself.

If your spot is virgin ground you are very lucky & a 7000 would be a killer. Even with the standard 14x13 coil. Whack on a 15" cc X coil & you just might be blown away from what I have heard about them.

D4G

That is a very generous offer from DrillerDave. I reckon you should take him with you.

D4G

2 hours ago, phrunt said:

I have a 15x12" Commander, probably never use it.

So are you saying you bought one & have never used it? You might be surprised if you hook it up to your Algoforce.  I have found deep gold with my one & it wasn't too shabby on smaller shallow bits either.

D4G

I would have to wonder with using an older model ML PI or GPZ 7000 that the bigger deeper gold you are looking for has not already been found with them back in there day. Hence the GPX 6000 mopping up the crumbs these days. A very high chance that any ground you go over has already seen many a coil over it. The gold doesn't tend to grow back.

D4G

5 hours ago, phrunt said:

I can't remember the 14"x13" weight.

Just weighed my ML 14x13 & it is 1239 grams. That is just the coil with skid plate & curly cable.

D4G

11 hours ago, Renatsvarog said:

I noticed in the last few years the picture quality has decreased

Yes, absolutely. Hence going in with the drone. You can't zoom in as much as you could do on Google Earth without it losing a sharp focus.

D4G

That's a tease showing a recreated photo of gold found years ago.

D4G

2 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

At these prices, even the little GPX-6000 bits are worth collecting.  

When weren't they worth collecting? No catch & release on my watch.

Gold in NZ NZ$3,822.00

D4G

2 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

Heck, just a simple thing as soil moisture content or EMI, can easily effect a detectors capability and miss a nugget that otherwise would have been heard. 

Quite the opposite here in New Zealand. I have found that moisture in the ground enhances depth & sensitivity in our mild ground. 

D4G

5 hours ago, strick said:

He's looking at old workings...

I use Google Earth for locating old timer workings & then may go close to a location & then put up a drone.

D4G 

Can you please explain what we are looking at in the images & what is of interest to you & why?

Thank you.

D4G

So why/how do scammers get away with what they do? Surely then they are are traceable.

D4G

It shouldn't be so hard for them to say if it is spiral or not. Language barriers these days is not an excuse.

D4G 

April fools no doubt.

D4G

14 hours ago, phrunt said:

I just wish Minelab would give in, disable the chip and let the aftermarket coil manufacturers go for gold on the 7000.

That will never happen as it would most likely effect 6000 sales drastically & SDC 2300 to a certain extent. Although the 6000 would rob many 2300 sales these days I would think. But like you say, Our ground being very mild it isn't a level playing field compared to overseas areas of hot ground & that is where the 2300 appears to do well.

Minelab play their cards to mine the miners these days & not give them an easy, "cheaper" alternative. Like aftermarket coils. Unlike the earlier GP GPX days.

D4G

On 3/30/2024 at 5:52 PM, Lesgold said:

Had to walk about 40m to get to water so it lost its appeal quite quickly. Here’s the result. I was quite impressed. If I was keen, I could classify a few buckets and have a play in the water. The problem with doing that is detecting time would suffer. So maybe not just yet. Lol.

Only 40 meters??!! I reckon you were lucky to have any water for miles. Sounds like you need to set up a highbanker or dry washer & work that ground. If you were impressed by what you got in a pan imagine what an hour or two through a highbanker or dry blower will produce.

D4G

You think they would have corrected the copy & paste if it is not correct. They must know about it by now. Makes it false advertising & misleading people into getting something they are not, as in this case here. Not good enough. Or is it on purpose???

D4G 

It is crazy too how when the signal is in the scoop, with what appears to be a small amount of earth material, the signal can go from faint to a screamer as you remove material & whittle it down as you wave the scoop over the coil.

D4G