dig4gold

Thanks for telling the weight of the nugget. As I didn't watch the whole video I was unaware of the size. Seems I wouldn't have known, even if I watched to the end. LOL. Nice find. All Detectors have their uses.... even the Nox 800. Might not be all the time for the detecting you do but it isn't too shabby a detector. The Walco pick would have been good just for scraping & lifting the material to the surface, without having to swing it. I am sure it would have saved you a bit of time. D4G

I know what you mean. I just saw in his list of gear used that he has a Walco Pick & a Nox 800. I wasn't sure about the 6" coil but that set up is ideal as a pinpointer in those exact scenarios. Personally I don't use a pinpointer but opt for either the Gold Monster or Nox with 6" coil. Reason being, very often there is other smaller gold present in a dig like that that both those vlf's would hit on that a pinpointer wouldn't. I kind of thought that the elliptical mono with its sensitive nose would act as a reasonable pinpointer to get a better location of the target. No disrespect but I gave up watching the vid after the geo hammer got stuck into the side wall. Which made me think he had dug down past the target. In my mind the geo hammer is not the right tool for that recovery as you cant scrape out any material with that so I could see it dragging on. I had better things to do than watching paint dry. D4G

Where was your Walco pick for digging that sucker out, & your nox 800 with 6" coil for pinpointing it? D4G

I think you are being a bit hard on Jim & Vern. They made the decision that they didn't want to risk being killed any more & moved on with their lives. They had already dodged potential death many times in the cause of protecting what you had. The gold isn't every thing. D4G

Lose lips sink ships. I know your frustration so best to keep quiet about your patch finds until maybe you think you have cleaned it out. Is a patch ever truly worked out? Not in my mind. D4G

Nice finds. Good chance the broken chain is the reason it got lost. You most likely didn't cut it through. D4G

Have you contacted the manufacturers? Any issues should be covered by warranty. D4G

Truth or fiction?? I at times forget that this isn't always truth. D4G

Nice find Gerry. D4G

Jacob has nothing to lose. No family. You on the other hand do. So where is your true loyalty? To Jacob & the gold, or your family? You are no good to your loved ones dead. You have a good amount of gold already. Jim & Vern decided the gold was no longer worth it & Jacob showed no respect to their decisions. Jacob didn't even have the decency to thank them for what they had done & wish them well. He is just selfish & I think he wants to go out the same way as his brother & old crew. Die fighting for the gold. As I said, he has nothing to lose, but you do. No gold is worth your life. Decision time for you now. You are not in a good position. D4G

Maybe they are the sensible ones. D4G

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I am a dig it all guy. That way there is absolutely no doubt you may have passed up & missed a piece of gold. I do use a magnet & I have very often found gold in the same dig after retrieving an iron target that was most likely the initial signal. More so than I can remember. Each to their own & what you are comfortable with. No right or wrong in this. D4G

You couldn't take that gold with you & you did the right thing. After all, they gave you many joyful moments in finding it. Like you said, they kind of had to accept it. Thank you for your contributions to this forum. RIP One Guy. D4G

Absolutely no doubt that Minelab make the best gold detectors IMHO. But there business model has gone to mining the miners. I guess it has always been going that way but none more so than after the GP, GPX series through to the 5000. With the amount of user adjustable control of settings & the huge coil selection offering plug & play to make those detectors the most versatile to suit most detecting situations that we will most likely never see the likes of again. The 6000 went a bit wayward with its flimsy construction to achieve lightness & its EMI & coil issues that should never have happened to the final released production item but once eventually sorted, electronically proving a wizard on small gold. But again it has taken the after market coils to fill gaps. I guess we should be thankful that Minelab has allowed that. I kind of think there hand was twisted though. D4G

That is sad indeed. Sorry to hear this. It made me go back & re read his last gold porn post. RIP One Guy. I don't post on here often & living in New Zealand I don't know any of you on here but we all share the same passion that detecting & chasing gold brings. It has dawned on me lately that many of us are creeping into the twilight years of our time gracing this earth. Such is life. Getting out there searching is getting a bit more difficult & a challenge & possibly not putting in the hours we used to or would like to. Life catches up on us all. I am noticing too the number of musicians that I grew up listening too & respect, don't live for ever either but their music, songs & their messages do live on. Take care, stay safe & enjoy life thoroughly. One day it will be your last. None of us escape that day. D4G

Bit like the SDC 2300. That is ML's game plan to "make" you have to buy another detector to fill the "holes". Same with hard wired & no other choice coils. OR very limited coil selection. Putting chips in to stop aftermarket manufacturing of coils. Look at the crap fight that X coils caused by looking after us with choices on The GPZ 7000. D4G

Did you reset the box & put the tailings back through? D4G

I may have missed it, but what settings are you running? Cheers. D4G

MMMmmm. Maybe the reason you aren't getting bigger deeper gold is that you aren't targeting it, preferring to target the small, tiny shallow gold by your coil size choices & depth into ground penetration. Your friend seems to love his 15"CC & that will be giving him some good depth. If you don't look for the deeper bigger gold you aren't going to find it. Or do you have trouble swinging a bigger coil? D4G

If you are killing it then why don't you go buy a brand new 12 x 7? What other coils/detectors have you been using that weren't killing it? D4G

Bummer. Surely it must have taken a knock. Maybe without you knowing. D4G

You took the words out of my mouth. I was about to say similar. Thanks Phrunt. Do you still skateboard? D4G

It appears that your cable too is wound under the shaft, but maybe further back from the coil. If it was wound over the top of the shaft the cable would be even further from the coil. More so when you lay the detector down, flattening the coil to the shaft & cable as in your photo. This can lead to false signals as you lay your detector down. That is some pretty tiny gold your friend got. Do you know what settings he was running? Thanks. D4G

It is crazy that wasn't detected years ago. I often wonder if these kind of "discoveries" are legit & not just to push up a companies share price. Bit like someone claiming a big nugget find with a certain Minelab detector just prior to the Easter holiday weekend. Coincidently seems to happen all to often. D4G