Wild Coast

Picture of Nome alright. Temps have averaged about 50 deg. Weather is good. Three days to Prudhoe Bay. Some strange looking contraptions around here dredging for gold. Will be off the grid for awhile. Take care.

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In the gold country now. Nome, but stuck on anchor waiting for a weather change on the way to Prudhoe Bay. Wrong time of the year to be taking a vessel north but somehow I got roped into this operation and with only a moments notice. In the meantime my buddies back in Homer are checking out some prospecting spots that we had some supposed good inside info on and probably dragging gunny sacks of gold back to their boat and I haven't even got turn on the Mine Lab.

Thanks. I've bin scrambling the last few days responding to a call to run a boat in Prince William. Leaving at 4am headed for Whittier tunnel. Might take Gold Bug.

The glacier trip involves some (supposed) inside information that makes it a particulary interesting destination. And now I have to wait until this boat trip is over but it is my "day job" that allows me to do the other stuff.

Would like some more info. Daughter is going college in Nv. Wanting to do some looking around down there.

A area we have done a lot of hunting and thought we would check out.

Thanks a bunch. I live on Alaska so won't be traveling to far but most info still applies. Have a couple of vlf detectors, one is a gold bug pro that will probably be using as a pin-pointer and backup. First place we have in mind should have very little trash but not sure about the hot rock situation. Vlf machines were able to operate with only running into occasional hot rocks.

Was interesting to read about the use of big mono loops on tailing piles. Possibly a indicator that we will beable to get away with the monos but will have DD on hand for sure. Very impressed with the depth of pi machines as shown on YouTube . Haven't used one yet. Going to be checking out some virgin ground behind some receding glaciers as one project . Figured if going to put in the effort to get there it wouldn't seem right not to have a good pi machine. Will be practicing ahead of time.

Thanks again

Thanks, can't wait to get out and hunt with this thing. Watching videos and reading online manuals. At least it's a healthy addiction. I hope anyway.

Maybe I should start out with a "Joey" coil just to get familiar with the set up?

Bin lurking for a while and based on some of the info floating around like this thread http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/1151-reintroduction-of-the-minelab-gpx-4500/, I bit on a used 4500. Will be using in Alaska so wondering if the mono coils will generally be what a person would be using. Comes with one double D and 6 mono's.

Glad I can put the Zed out of my mind for a while.

Appreciate all the experience that's being shared around here. Has saved a lot of miles.

Just made a purchase on a used 4500 ( and a bunch of extra coils and battery) based on doing some research mainly connected to this site. Thanks guys . That being said I really like this post! There's seven coils and only one is a double D. From what I can tell the mono's should do fine for most situations in Alaska.