Gold Seeker

24 minutes ago, hawkeye said:

When this show started it was interesting to learn about what was going on offshore in Nome.  It showed a lot about the process and the clean up's. Then it became a soap opera starring a inordinate amount of folks with physiological hang up's and mental illness.  Then the looniest were featured in the under the ice version.

Maybe that's why we watched it. ? 

 I agree the first season was great, now it seems that the show only shows us the people with mental and or sociological issues, it's all about the drama for the Discovery Channel, the getting of gold is secondary, IMHO.

 I know a few guys that have been going up there for many years and they are nothing like the ones you see on the show even though they do experience some of the same issues as far as mechanical break downs, etc., but they expect them and are usually ready to fix the issues and get back to business ASAP, most years they do well and some years they are lucky to break even, but that the risk the take when they go there and know that.

On 3/27/2016 at 9:45 PM, Paul (Ca) said:

Thanks AU-Solitude,

Auctally, tomorrow will be it's first hunt. A local dry fresh water river bed, mineralization is extreamly terrible our VLF are gutless. Anything beyond 2-3 inches down IDs as iron with VLF, Pi's show no mercy depth is no problem with a good pi.

I'll post tomorrow's finds whatever they may be.

Thanks again,

Paul

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!

15 hours ago, Brett said:

Looks nice I'm am still unsure about this one it weighs 86ounces 

13 hours ago, Brett said:

I though it's look similar to this 

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!!!

15 hours ago, auminesweeper said:

....I saw the Quality of the ARB I got straight on the phone and ordered  the 78 litre version so I can use the 47L as a freezer and use the 78L as a fridge....

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!

20 minutes ago, Clay Diggins said:

Nice looking kit. I too like the large bottom. Never got much use out of a smaller pan but you can't have too many pans.

So is this kit P.I or VLF?

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.

On 12/12/2015 at 5:16 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

The 10" x 5.5" DD coil has been redesigned and is identical to what recently started shipping with the FORS Gold+

 

The coil ears have been beefed up tremendously compared to the original Racer, with more material on the inner and outer surfaces visible in the closeup below. Reinforcement has been added around the cable entry point also.

On 12/12/2015 at 5:25 PM, Steve Herschbach said:

The small coil is also identical to what is shipping with the FORS Gold+, a 5" round DD, also with beefy ears.

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!!

Hahahaaha,,this thing has snowballed---

 

Steve gave it one of the best reviews I have ever read from him!!!.....

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