davsgold

Any of the spiral wound x-coils are excellent for patch hunting, and the Concentric for know patches to look for deeper missed ones. The 17x12 spiral is great if you want a bit bigger but not to big, and I used the 17"cc x-coil as well in WA for good results. 17" sizes is about as big as I bother to go, but this year I'm giving the 15"cc x-coil a good work out in WA

gold took a little bit of a breather for a couple of days then took off again last night and still dragging silver along with it

and the gold is dragging silver along for the ride this time as well

yes your right, and to be estimated to get 30,000 pounds that like nearly $60,000 AUD for a 2oz bit of colour, I reckon it's way way over valued, tell them their dreamin

yep did a similar thing with a few of the early x-coils, I used a 1/4" or 6mm steel rod to wrap the curls tightly around, and tape it down at the start and finish, and heat with a heat gun, just hot enough to barely hold on to the curls, let it cool right down and slide the rod out, it works but not forever, the other thing is to roll the detector anticlockwise while feeding the cable up the shaft, if it is a bit tight this helps keep the curls tight and not un wind them. cheers dave

yep just like in the guys video, keep the metal cool and grind it don't press the grinder to hard and a bit at a time and grind like the guy does in the video

Merry Christmas to all and a happy safe great New Year cheers dave

sad news indeed, RIP Neville and condolences to your family and friends

Haha, yes she has been lucky entering competitions and still wins stuff, but my answer is, well someone has to win it may as well be her 😁

yes geof, your right, malleeboy gave me permission to make the picks like his, just as long as I called them a different name, so that is how we came up with the name "Gold Digger Picks" I do three sizes, small medium and large and a few of the detector shops in Australia stock them

nice gold Condor, hard work to get it though and a twisted knee, hope it heals quick, great photos and story to go with them, thanks for posting about you trip and adventures cheers dave

have you had an assessment on that big 36" coil from the x-coil guys

Funny as it sounds, what you said, but I also like the 11" mono ML on our 6000's they work well for us and at this stage they don't have any build issues, but they sure are built light and flimsy so time will tell. So far the first one has about 3 months use on it and has had one skid plate wear out and a new on put on, the 2nd 6000 has about 6 weeks use and going well, all the use has been in WA for both machines and coils cheers dave

yes, you and me to, I think a CC x-coil on the 6000 would be great

what you describe about the 11" mono ML coil for the 6000 is not what we noticed in WA and detected for at least 3 months out of a 4 month trip in WA. I did try a 9" coiltek mono and found it was ok as well but I liked the 11" ML coil and it found us plenty of gold and it ran quite well in my opinion. WA is not noted for quiet ground, but yes you will need to move some hot rocks out of the way but there was gold under and around quite a few of them. On the Granite type ground is much quieter type of ground and nearly no hot rocks and you could run the 6000 in normal but on the ironstone type ground it seemed necessary to run the 6000 in Difficult, and on getting a target when switching to normal the target was no better and I found the ground signal would nearly mask the target at times in the Ironstone type ground if running in normal. cheers dave