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

some areas might need this size 😁

yes its a very poor article, they didn't even know who found the "Hand of Faith" well Kevin Hiller did along with his wife Bep Hand of Faith Discoverers: Unknown Location: Kingower, Victoria Date: 1980 Gross Weight: 875 ozt (27.2 kg; 60.0 lb) Net Weight: N/A Notes: Found using a metal detector.

I am liking the 6000 with the 11" mono, getting plenty of gold with it in WA, the only other coil I have tried is the 9" Coiltek Goldhawk, and it worked fine as well, although I found it felt a bit heavier than the standard 11" mono. This is some of the ground we are detecting on right now, and for the last 6 days between the missus and myself we have 35.5 grams from this area. So all in all the both of our 6000's running the standard mono coils and the manual sensitivity at about the 3 O'clock position and in difficult, as there are way to many hot rocks to run in normal setting and this is the average size gold, about 6 or 7 bits to the gram this is a screen shot of some of the gold find points and the chain line gridding cheers dave

you make a very good point there dig4gold

I don't know how much a new one cost in USA from a dealer, but here in Aussie they are $349 so for me it saved about $324 😁 cheers dave

nice, I hope it goes well for you. I know your ground is way milder then here in WA where we are detecting, but can you do some kind of comparison between the the new 12x7 and the original 11" standard mono coil I'm still using the 11 mono that came with the 6000, I've had the new 6000 for about 5 or 6 weeks now and detected with it for nearly 5 weeks at the most, and it has a bit over 90 grams of gold so far, so it has more than covered it's purchase price. cheers dave

all I know is that the exchange2 and the exchange2 extended need to be used together download the data as usual with the exchange2 and then use the exchange2 extended to send the data to google earth, well thats what I used to do but the gpx6000 has no such function so I just use the Trilobite on the mobile phone now to keep track of the live and pending leases in WA and it also makes your trails and waypoints which can be sent to google earth. a screen shot example of the Trilobite on my mobile phone cheers dave

you can save 100 find points on the 7000 (which you have filled up) and you can save 100 waypoints, the only difference between find points and waypoints is the info that you can look at latter. And 10 Trails. Find points have the size of nugget if you put that in, and the coil used and the settings used, the waypoints only have the coordinates there is a program that will display all your downloaded find points waypoints and trails on Google earth, it is an extension of the xchange2 and called "exchange2 extended" I dont think ML has it as a option but I got it from somewhere else. once you have downloaded all the info from the 7000 onto you laptop using xchange2 you can then delete (clear) all the stuff, go to the last screen and choose delete stored geo, I think it's called cheers dave

not sure why they have the wires crossed over on the one your looking at, both this one and the one I got have JST connector so maybe you just can unclip the wires out of the JST and put them back in the opposite spots, I've never tried pulling the wires out of the connectors but maybe it is possible as the actual JST plugs look the same on both. cheers dave this youtube video shows how to swap the polarity on the JST connector

G'day gef12 yes we have chatted previously on occasion, but no we have never been to Katherine in fact we have never even been to the NT but it is on the to do list sometime. yes were having fun and our setup works well for us. cheers dave