Walker

My 2300 was falling apart, basically unusable. I pulled a Steve. 

Hahaha!!!! Man are you sure you weighed that right? It looks so much bigger than 3.5 Oz. So glad to see those still popping out! Thanks Lunk!

4 hours ago, Big Nuggets Bob said:

the 7000 found but were not detectable with a 4000 or 4500. These were NOT small nuggets. I was surprized but you probably have come accross this.

I see this almost every day. The area I am working has seen every generation of detector and I still pull out nice pieces consistently with the 7000. 

Oh man I wondered where I lost that! Stay out of my spot! ?

Thanks for taking the time to post that Lunk! Those are becoming more rare. Now there's one less. Keep at it!

Thanks for posting that, I love to see good stuff still coming out of the ground year after year when a lot of people say there is nothing left. Good job!

4 hours ago, strick said:

Nice to see your only human like the rest of us....taking into consideration all the great nuggets you have found!

strick

Thanks buddy, I still get a kick out of the little stuff.

Haha!Fair question. Smallest. 

Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's my own personal record that I broke. Not sure what it weighs, I didn't even try.

On 1/16/2018 at 12:00 AM, kiwijw said:

Found with a crevice sucker in the Coromandel region of New Zealand.

Close up

Cheers

JW

Oh man JW, that close up looks like a pile of mashed scorpions.

Hey Norvic, the more cheese the better right?!

That is a parrot! 

I got this one  on the 4th. 22 grams. 

Wow Glenn, I think you found a fossil that had a gold replacement. Awesome!

Some people say this looks like mother Mary.

Ok, I have seen a lot of people mistake volcanic ash for several other possibilities such as sediment from an ancient hydrothermal vent, known to produce large   sporadic nuggets.

On 12/20/2017 at 10:59 AM, GB_Amateur said:

Ok, I see you asked a specific question and you're getting a lot of good answers.  But I'm going to step outside that question with my answer.  Besides a moderate to high frequency VLF and a lightweight PI, I'm taking a gold pan.  The chances it tells me something I don't know, even if the chance of that is small, is clearly worth the weight and cost.

Even in our hi tech world it still comes back to a gold pan doesn't it. I still use one a lot. 

Are you sure that it is volcanic ash? 

Wow!........wow!

Come on people! Where are your Christmas nuggets? If you can believe it, this one is under an ounce. I call it a potato chip. Very flat. 

7 hours ago, Jonathan Porter said:

Steve's stirred me up so here's a pic of a tiny piece, but no-where near the smallest, as its hard to take pics of tiny gold in 38 degree C heat in bright sunlight. That's my excuse anyway, although our levels of mineralisation are a pretty good excuse too!!

Me getting all fired up about tiny gold is pretty funny though.

JP

 

JP, I can tell you had to lick your finger  to get that out of the scoop.!!! ?

22 minutes ago, Chris Ben said:

Jim that 18 to 20 inches, is impressive...for the GPZ...Lol.  I just happened to get my coil over the right spot. 

Chris

I believe it, I've seen it ?

The spring equinox is on  March 20. Hope that has nothing to do with it. 

Sorry everyone, I have been super busy. I have been detecting Rich Hill area. I was running in extra deep with the Zed. It was a solid inverted signal. I was surprised it didn't have the warble. Probably about 20 inches deep.

I happened upon this toad today. Just under 2 Oz. 59.8 grams!