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Found an old u tube channel I created years ago, God only knows how I got back into it but it seems to work. Sick of bouncing my crowbar off the rock I went detecting for four hours, found a couple of small bits and thought bugger this I'm having an early knockoff at 2pm, heat and flies! I became very restless about that hole a couple of hours later so searched through my toolbox and found an old wood chisel. Back to the hole I go and start chipping away..... Thanks for the tip on u tube jasong.

You won't go wrong with that combination Relichunter, it's not quite as good as the Zed but still deadly on smalls and has great depth.

The vidio I posted doesn't seem to work, any tips on posting vidios from an iPad would be appreciated.

Hi Relichunter, I checked the faint signal first thing the next day. The 4500/Elite combo did pick it up but only in the center of the coil, the Zed performed better on what turned out to be a .20 gram piece at two inches. I also checked the hole I left open with it and gave a slightly better response than the Zed, both definite dig me signals though. It took me an hour to get down another five inches, near on solid rock. Both detectors were blanking at that stage. Nothing response with the pinpointer. How good is the Zed though? Picked up a .02 gram piece and then a deep one ten feet away with the same settings! You don't miss much with High Yeild-Difficult in my experience. Here's my hole and a pic of a nine gram piece I picked up. trim.49A7E6DE-43BD-4F6C-8376-A305BA536426.MOV

Arrived home after a quick trip north of Perth, just seven days and three of those taken up with driving there and back. Set up camp on some likely looking ground and keen to try out my discounted GPX4500 with the Coiltek Elite 14 inch coil I managed to get in two hours before dark on the second day for nil return. I have a Zed but my reason for buying the 4500 was for patch hunting, sweep speed being the determining factor. The GPZ 7000 is unbeatable in the sensitivity stakes but she likes a slow swing so I figured, find the first one with the 4500 and then put the Zed into action. Next morning I'm off on a four kilometer loop from camp and bugger me my first find is just 100 metres from camp on my return! A nice little .8 gram piece six inches down, the 4500/Elite combination gave a very definite dig me signal, very happy with that setup. Had a late lunch and then put the Zed into action, several more small nuggets and a nice nine gram piece before the heat got the better of me. I just kicked back and relaxed for a couple of hours before getting back into it, another couple of little ones for a total of 14 grams for the day. Just before knockoff I had what I thought was an iffy signal with the Zed, six inches down still iffy, eight inches and the signal was better but it had been a long day so I knocked off, time for a cold beer, left the hole open to check with the 4500 the next day. I also left another very faint Zed signal undug to compare the 4500/Elite combo on tiny gold. Here's a pic of my smalls for the trip

I'm sure the batteries became available in Aus about a month after the Zed was released, at least three months ago anyway and priced at $250 Aus.

I also posted the pic on an Aussie forum and another poster tracked it down. It was found in the Kalgoorlie region in 2010 and weighed 30kg or 66 pounds. http://golddetecting.4umer.net/t1958-gold-prospecting-australia-s-detecting-tour-at-leonora-great-9-5-days-426-pieces-of-gold-found#17972

Picture of a nugget sent to me by a good friend, he swears it's real. He didn't find it but it was supposedly found in the Kalgoorlie region around twelve months ago. No details on the weight, depth etc.

Thanks Steve, hopefully I'll have some other photos to post within a couple of months as I'll be back out there in a few weeks. I've been a reader only of this forum for a while now and the civility between members is what appealed most to me, plus your reviews and write ups. No nonsense, straight to the point and tell it exactly as you see it. Refreshing! The Zed is growing on me the more I use it. One target that instilled more confidence in me was a four grammer. Although only six inches deep the Zed had picked it up without actually waving the coil over it, was under a lump of Quartz a few inches ahead of the coil, that surprised me.

Thanks Paul, although shortened by bad weather it was a good trip. I run a Zed and it didn't like the lightening (distant) over the last couple of days. The settings I find that suit me in the very highly mineralized ground I detect are High Yield/ Difficult with the Sensitivity on 12-15, Threshold 26, smoothing off and manual ground balance. The standout requirement is to swing slow, very slow, on ground that you know produces. They are noisy settings and I worry about missing the quite deep one but the Zed is noisy with any settings it seems. On one spot where I picked up about twenty pieces for six grams I tried Bogenes setting on several signals, the response would still pull you up but the above settings produced a much clearer signal. Nothing at any real depth, the deepest just three inches.

Hi, I just returned from a ten day trip in the Gasgoyne area of Western Australia. The first seven days were spent going over new ground patch hunting without any luck then ground I know has produced for the bread and butter gold. There is over 50 bits the largest being four grams and a few nice specimens.