Gold Seeker

Well how did you fair when testing your new Pi project?

Nice home away from home Fred, may you always park it right next to the gold!!!

Amazing guitars, I would love to be able to own one of them!! What i find more amazing is that in the photo of you playing your new guitar you look just like Eddie Cochran (I pictured you as being older ), no wonder you wanted a guitar like his!!

Happy Birthday Lucky! I gotta go and dig some bait!!

Your tongue to the Miner's Buckle is an awesome find, it's a very rare buckle, if no one has found the 3 other missing pieces I would be back out trying to find them!! Here's a video from Ron and Mark of Ca Relic Adventures of the same Miner's Buckle found by Mark, Mark found 3 of the 4 pieces of the buckle, he sent it to Leonard Short in Virginia to be restored who is a master at his craft!! This is the same Ron and Mark in the video posted by Deathray in his topic... How I Got Poison Oak , Video The final results of the restore is amazing, especially IMHO because of the patina it has after the restoration, not to mention that it is a perfect complete buckle now!

Since you are comparing the two photos, your piece and the real deal in the other photo, one thing to note, see the white knuckles and the intense grip the man has on the real gold, it's because that real piece of gold is very heavy, much heavier than one would think before actually holding it themselves, now to your piece, you're holding it very causally and light handed because at 86 troy ounces it only weights 4.3 Troy pounds, it's obliviously is not very heavy, I'm not saying your piece has no weight at all because it's a rock and most rocks are heavy, but they weight 1/8 to 1/2 what gold would weight for the same mass, if that was gold you would not be able to hold it as easily as shown in your photo as it would weight I'm making a wild guess at 15+/- Troy pounds.

Brett, Do you own any raw natural gold? If not I agree that you need to get some gold cons/paydirt as mentioned so you know what to look for when you do actually see real gold in your pan.

I've been following along with Steve's Alaska dredging trips for a number of years via his journal, always a great read, almost like being there!

Very nice gold coin, unless it was a key date, which will be forever unknown, I think it's worth more as a love token!!

I don't know why the archaeologists just don't come and ask us old fellers, we were there and responsible for at least a few if not most of the pultabs, we can give them all of the mysterious info/history of the pulltabs, places where all the big parties were, etc. and then they wouldn't have to do all of that hard work trying to figure it all out, it would save them tons of time and work!!! Oh well you can send them to school, but you can't teach them nothing, they seem to want to figure it out all by themselves.

OMG!!! I've always thought that archaeologists go a little overboard and to the extreme now we have solid proof!!! I'm guessing that using a metal detector will be a hard road from here on out!! This statement says it all.... " Schroeder noted, because the ring-tab’s new status means it can be used to identify sites that may have historic value. " So I'm guessing the historic value he will learn is all the places people used to go and get drunk!!!

Not ever owning or looking at a portable frig/freezer, I have a question based on you getting the second unit. Can one of these units be a frig and a freezer at the same time or is it one or the other, either you use it a s frig or a freezer but not both at the sane time?

Very nice! I really like the character of those 2 nuggets, both would make a very nice pendants!

Brian, curious, what the weight of the dink/nugget?

That;s a price I can live with, so all we have to do now is wait for it to be released!

I'm also a large flat bottom panner, so this kit is right up my alley, but price will be the deciding factor as to if I will own one of these kits or not, as I don't really need it, I use mainly green pans but I do have a few blue pans so this kit will even up my pan collect a bit and as mentioned one can't have to many pans!! I believe that it's both PI (Pan Induction) and VLF (Viscosity, Liquefy, Fluidity)

Such great finds for any gold miner/prospector, but unfortunately the owner of the mine Mike Corbley died around 5 months later on March 03 2014, may he rest in peace! http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?pid=170097700

Jason, This may not be what you're looking for, not sure if you've seen these portable rock crushers? http://www.crazycrusher.com/ One of these and a little water for panning and you can test on the spot.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.

Steve, You say that these coils are identical to those being shipped with the FORS Gold +, so I'm guessing that they can be use on either detector if you own both?

Only knowing Paul from the gold forums, i have formed a high opinion of him, him giving the MXT to the professor pushed my opinion over the top, Steve it's good thing you and Delek have done, you couldn't picked a more deserving person ! Congratulations Paul!

Congratulations on your first nuggets, now you'll never be the same, the fever will never let you go now!!

Steve spent a vast amount of time writing up his review of the Gold Racer, but it seems that he spent about twice as much time writing the review of the ML7007TM, I'm sure he'll be sleeping in this morning!!! Thank for the review Steve, now Matchbox will have to put on another shift to keep up with all the new orders coming in!!

Paul, Time to update your list of armaments!! Paul ML2300 Invincible 7005 Falcon MD 2020 Lots of shovels Pick by Leland Pick by Bunk Footprints 8000 by Barry and Leigh Scales by Merton ML7007TM

That's combined weight. over 1 ounce of gold.