Gold Seeker

Congratulations DR, that nugget is a really nice one, anyone would be happy to find a nugget half as nice!!!

Happy Birthday Lucky, nice birthday gold you got on your birthday!!

Click on the link below for all topics on this forum on the GPZ 7000, the info you seek maybe already posted,

http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/tags/forums/minelab%2Bgpz%2B7000/

Where can I get the canvas water bags , never seen them before? How do they keep the water cool?

 

-Tom

You'll pay a good sum for one of the original "Desert Water Bag" flax water bags, you can find some on Ebay, I don't think they're being made any longer, at least I couldn't find anyone that still makes them, the original company that made them sold out to Coleman and it seems Coleman stop making them in the late 60s early 70s, but you can still find "Desert Storm" water bags made for our soldiers for Desert Storm that work exactly on the same principal, they're made from flax just like the old desert water bags, but are not the same shape and have string at the top/mouth to keep them closed instead of a cap/stopper, not ideal but if it works what the hey, desert water bags keeps water cool by evaporation just like a swamp cooler works, which is why most people keep them tied on the front of their vehicle, the air flowing over the bag while moving induced more evaporation and thus more cooling to the water inside, you need to soak the water bags for about 48 hours to totally saturate the flax material and then them fill with water, the outside of the bag will always be wet and as such the water will evaporate which causes a cooling affect to the contents.

http://youtu.be/FQJPl4F7Wq0

 Desert Storm bags, this is the cheapest source I found, but you can find them many places, especially army surplus stores, etc...

http://www.armysurpluswarehouse.com/outdoor-camping-gear/canteens/desert-storm-bota-bag.html

Other sources for the Desert Storm bags.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=DESERT+STORM+WATER+BAG&form=MS8TDF&pc=MS8TDF&src=IE-SearchBox

Actually I did find a source for the original style Desert water bags, but they're expensive..

http://www.can-spec.com/canspec/products/products.php?ID=14

Nice nugget AD, thanks for posting! 

Wondering when the release date and pricing info?

If you watch the video posted by Steve above, the introduction of the GoFind starts at the 36:45 mark and continues about to the end of the video, the Minelab Rep stated that they would be price from $179 (GoFind 20) to $309 (GoFind 60), and the possible release date was stated around mid-May/early summer.

The price point is mentioned at around the 39:00 mark.

The released date is mentioned at around the 51:45 mark.

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 I believe IDAuFinder is referring to the "InBoxNow" popup ad that is sometimes at the top right of the main forum page, it almost fooled me once but I realized it was an ad before I click on it.

Well Pard had second thoughts about his posting his finds and edited his post to remove them.

Thanks Mike, I'm glad to hear it's a genuine report, I think these specimens/ nuggets are the largest being reported found with Minelab's GPZ 7000 to date, very exciting to see!!

Here's a link to 2 specimens found yesterday, no story posted, just photos and weights of 12.2 ounces and 4.25 ounces!!! 

Not sure of the truth in this report, the thing that has me wondering is that the larger specimen sure looks to have had an acid treatment/soaking to clean it up/remove some of the quartz and usually that would take more than overnight in most cases? 

http://arizonaoutback.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=12026&pid=69813&st=0entry69813

I would love the hear more about these finds and if indeed this is a genuine report.

Thanks for your insight Barry!

This link is where I first saw this about the budget proposal, it's says that it is Obama's budget proposal.

http://www.mineweb.com/regions/usa/hardrock-miners-get-shafted-obama-budget/

Well said Steve!

There's still good ground left with gold to be found, but it's privately owned land but most the land owners aren't giving permission to hunt most of these private lands, the gold rush on public land is the gold bearing land that's about played out!! 

 I posted this info at the first of this month on many of the gold forums, not many seemed interested and most of those that responded think it will only apply to lode claims, but I think otherwise, I don't see how this cannot affect both lode and placer claims, it's a backdoor attempt to completely change/get rid of the 1872 mining laws, IMHO!!

Most seems to have the "let's wait and see what this is really about" mindset, once they see "what it's about" it will be too late.

I have recommended that everyone contact their representatives to stop this budget proposal before it's too late.

This leasing and royalty plan is what all the environmentalists have been going after for many years now and they now have a partner in the White House that will try his best to make it happen if we don't speak up and make some noise!!

It would appear that if someone with a CTX wanted to spend the money for the lower GPZ shaft, 3 hard rubber bushings of the correct size and a through bolt would make it possible to mount the CTX coil on the shaft, the offset cable of the CTX coil I don't would be much of an issue as long as the center rubber bushing didn't prevent the cable from entering the GPZ shaft.

As you said, if money isn't an issue, it looks like it's a doable way to have a longer shaft for a CTX.

Are the pieces with the "tits" removable or a part of the yoke/shaft?

Nice comparison Steve, can you post a photo of the CXT coil mounting to it's rod, would the CTX coil lugs fit inside of the "Y" of the GPZ lower rod?  

Happy Birthday Ray, glad you could get out a make it a golden birthday, even though you had to make the arduous trek into that gold field!!!

That's a nice nugget, it sorta looks like a mini "Boot Of Cortez"

Whatever insurance you may find that will cover the theft of a metal detector, just listing it with your insurance company may not be enough, make sure you have detailed clear photos or video of the detector and all the accessories, this includes clear photos of the model numbers, serial numbers, and have the receipts if possible and store all of this proof in a fireproof safe or in a safety deposit box, if you have ever tried to get insurance companies to cover any losses from your home, car, etc. either from fires, flood, or thief, you will know these photos,videos, receipts are a must if you expect any coverage of your losses, especially full replacement coverage, this applies to anything you are expecting your insurance to replace fully or part of the value under a insurance policy if a loss occurs, some items such as jewelry, art or similar items that have no way to determine current value I would suggest you have a fairly recent appraisal to expect to get full replacement value under your policies!!!

Don't learn the disappointment of finding out some items will not be covered by your insurance because you couldn't prove you had them and or what their values were the hard way by not having documented proof of such!!

As we all know insurance can be more expensive then we would like and most of the time it's never needed, but do your own due diligence if you expect that insurance to live up to your expectations of why you purchased it to begin with, I can assure you the insurance companies will do their very best to not cover all of the losses you hoped it would cover and in some cases none at all if you can't provide positive proof of the losses in your claim!

The gold bug 2 is teaching me a lot about metal detecting...mostly about digging...been doing a lot of that...but having so much fun... Been going to old hydraulic mining sites and the history I see and dig is amazing to me...boot tacks..old tobacco containers...old mining equipt...etc etc.. Mostly etc...lol ...thnx

 I you're finding lots of trash, it tells me that not many detectors have been in the area, so keep beeping, after you get most of the trash out of the way is when you could start finding nuggets that were hidden/masked by the trash.

Don't hesitate to going back over ground that you have already detected especially if you do so perpendicular to the direction you detected it before, many nuggets have been found by doing this, this is especially applies in areas where you have found nuggets. 

Diorite

https://www.google.com/search?q=Diorite&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0JviVN3rB4PugwSa-oDIDQ&ved=0CFAQsAQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diorite

Thanks for the info.guys, looks like some good research thanks chris. I will cut some of the inside eggs and see whats there,we are in very fossilized country here i live 20 miles from fossil oregon they find fossils regularly at the highshool track there. Maybe space eggs i like that old theory. The picture of the two small eggs is the centers of them.

Rick,

 I'm not so sure I would cut into those "eggs" maybe an alien inside them, once you release one it will release all the others   , it will be Orson Wells all over again, the War of The Worlds, Martians attacking everywhere!!!  

Jason,

 I can see where you're right with the companies being behind the times when comparing the electronics of detectors to computers and smartphones of today and as the younger tech savvy generation future detectorists are getting into this hobby I can see this being the future of detectors.

That being said and in respect of not hijacking this topic, maybe you could start a new topic on this subject and see what the interest of others on this subject is.  

I agree that having detectors that are tweakable/hackable would most likely not be a great selling point, while there are some detectorists that have the tech know how to do the hacking to personalize a detector to their liking, a large percentage of detectorists will most likely make the detector less sensitive than it was originally, if not completely useless.

On another note, I'm not all that knowledgeable on how detectors and coils are tuned to each other, but if I'm not mistaken a coil has nothing but winding inside it with no electronics, so therefore I believe that a detector is tuned to the particular a coil/s instead of the coil/s being tuned to the detector, anyone with knowledge of this tuning process please add your input.

Areas of once deep overburden that has been removed to expose new ground, and I agree on the tree root balls being good to check out in good gold bearing areas.

Thanks Steve, I would also like to add and give thanks to Nugget Shooter's 6 active Moderators who do a great job when Bill and I are not on the forum, we all work as a group to keep the forum on a even keel, we also as a group vote on forum policy/rules changes and actions towards violations of forum rules, without our Moderators it would be a very tough job at times!