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We head out on the last day of the year to add the final Gold Nuggets to our year end totals !! One last Adventure of the year to the Yuba River we go ! Gary @TwoToes and Kelllen @YellowFeverProspecting think they are going to get first Gold watch and see who ends up with it !!!! Thanks for watching it was a good year and we are looking forward to 2025 and what Adventures it brings
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On the Hunt for Hydraulic Pit Gold Me and Kellen @YellowFeverProspecting make a late season run up into the Sierra's trying to beat the incoming Snow Storm on our quest for Hydraulic Pit Gold. Our Plans are to work a new old spot that we checked with Lidar to see if it has the same characteristics as a spot me and Gary worked a couple years ago as they are fairly close together. Test hole after test hole we look for the pay streak and assess the gravels in each hole Hoping for Gold. We hit a few firsts as we got two Placer Gold Nuggets in the same scoop and three Nuggets in the same hole !!!! It's Never the rock I know you've heard that a few times before in our videos well this time it is the Rock !!!!!! On the Hunt for Hydraulic Pit Gold SG 132
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Gold Panning & Prospecting Bear Creek Where's the Gold ?? Prospectors Jeff and Brian head out on a cold and rainy day in search of those elusive Placer Gold Nuggets . We have Three Weather Alerts going on all at the same time but we are going to try and find some Gold anyways !!! If you can't get to your first three spots either because of the Snow or Ice then you try plan D or E might even be plan F I lost count !!! Here's a Tip look before you jump out of the truck you never know what's behind that log !!! Watch and Find out what I saw !!! Crazy stuff and no it wasn't Big Foot !!!! There's an Old saying look for Gold where it's been found before the old timers did there homework take advantage of that. Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed the video
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The Nugget Hunters Detecting Ancient Gravels for Gold The Nugget Hunters are off on another adventure to the Hydraulic pits in search of Placer Gold Nuggets and lots of them we hope !!!!! We have Gary @TwoToes and Bedrock Bennett @bedrockbennett1827 , and Brian on this trip. I get caught up filming Gary and Bennett going back and forth Nugget for Nugget so my Gold count isn't the best but it sure makes for a good video !!!! Enjoy as we all get some Gold and earn our Ice Creams while trying to stay cool and avoid the valley heat. SG 129 The Nugget Hunters Detecting Ancient Gravels for Gold
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Yuba River Gold Panning and Detecting Just like most of the Country we love the time change but that's not going to stop us from enjoying the cool crisp Mountain air and the Yuba River. So running just a bit behind me and Gary @TwoToes make our way up Highway 49 towards Mother Yuba and the Gold that waits for us to find it. Our original plans were to do some Sluicing but the River had her own plans so we adapt and put out the Gold Pans and start looking for hot spots along the river that might have trapped some Placer Gold Nuggets. Now that fall is here in the Mother Lode it's a bit cold in the mornings so those Headphones make good ear muffs so I turned on the Minelab SDC 2300 and checked the Bedrock and a few dump piles ( tailings ) left over from someone else. Found a couple good looking Crevices so out comes the Marian Crevice Tool to clean out those cracks. Here's a tip for you all don't let anybody who had smoked Tuna for lunch ( Gary ) put his oily fingers in your pan it makes the Gold Float !!!!!! so sit back and see if we can find enough Gold so we can stop and get an Ice Cream on our way home.
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There's Gold in them thar Hills Bugs Bunny say's it in the 1952 Looney Tunes cartoon "14 Carrot Rabbit" featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam " There's Gold in them thar Hills " The phrase 'There's gold in them thar hills' is, in fact, a misquote. The actual phrase was yelled from the steps of the Lumpkin County Courthouse in 1849 by Dahlonega Mint assayor Dr. M. F. Stephenson to stop the exodus of miners from Dahlonega in Georgia to California, which had just started its own gold rush ( California Gold Rush ) We head up to the High country to check out a few new Prospects before winter kicks us out and we are back to the foothills and the valley again. We have checked a few new Hydraulic Pits this year in hopes that the old timers left us some Placer Gold Nuggets to find. Today we have two Metal detector's to check for Gold the Minelab SDC 2300 and Kellen's GPX 4500 which one finds smaller Gold and which one goes deeper ?
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All, Together with a few friends I’m setting up a YouTube channel with detecting videos. I made a tongue-in-cheek trailer, made up like a David Attenborough nature documentary (including my own, horrible impression of his voice). It’s quite obvious that the whole thing is staged, including a scene where I’ve “found” a gold ring (my own wedding band). I showed the video to my friends and one commented “faking finds already?” He may have meant it as a joke, but now I’m worried that I’m risking the integrity of the whole venture because I didn’t think this through. Could I please have your thoughts on this? Would an obviously staged find in this context immediately put you off, or would you see it as part of the joke? I’m not sure if linking the video is allowed, but if @Steve Herschbach is ok with it, I will. Thank you!
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Hi Folks, It’s Sunday afternoon here and I’m trying to get ready for a few days detecting over the next couple of weeks. I’ve been working some gully areas with a mate but he’s gone away on a prospecting trip for a month and it looks like I’ll be working solo during that time. We put out a YouTube clip last week and it was so easy with two on the job. When we detected a target, one person would film as the other person dug out the buried metallic object. It saved a lot of time as normally tripods etc need to be set up and this often becomes a frustration that can take the edge off a trip. I decided that I’d mount my GoPro on the shaft of the 6000 to make life a bit easier for some of the footage that I plan to take on the next outing. When I looked through the various assortment of mounts that I had for the camera, there was nothing suitable for the job so I decided to make one. It is a simple task that can be achieved with some PVC pipe, some basic hand tools and a hot air gun. A piece of 50mm pipe was cut to 30mm in length and a slit was cut down one side. A spacer block and two cramping blocks were then cut from some scrap timber. You can see on the left hand side of the photo that the lower shaft of the 6000 was ready to be used as a mandrel to shape the PVC. The hot air gun was then used to heat the pipe until it became soft and pliable. This only took about 10 seconds. The PVC was then shaped around the shaft and the blocks were positioned in place. A G cramp held the moulded plastic in place until it was cured. I had to repeat the process a couple of times until I was satisfied with the shape of the mount. It was a simple matter of reheating the PVC to soften it before reshaping it again. The mount took a couple of minutes to cool before being trimmed, shaped and drilled to fit the GoPro. An off-cut of 3.5mm acrylic was shaped as a spacer to fit between the camera legs. Stainless washers could have been used for this component. The mount was attached to the detector and secured with the standard locking screw and a 5mm wing nut. Using scrap PVC is a cheap way of moulding all sorts of mounts for prospecting gear. I’ve just finished making a bathyscope from some 100mm sewer pipe. You may be able to see the light fittings at the bottom. They were all made using a similar method to the mount shown above. I noticed a local prospector was using a bathyscope when he was detecting in water. I thought it was a good idea as it can be time consuming trying to recover gold from submerged crevices without one. Have a look at Bedrock Gold’s channel if you get the chance. It really does speed things up.
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I consider myself fortunate to have met Garrett's Senior Design Engineer, Brent Weaver, many years ago during prototype testing of the Garrett Infinium. I think Brent deserves a great deal of credit in making Garrett the leader it is today with a series of incredible innovative bang-for-the-buck metal detectors, first and foremost being the AT series. Brent is just a real nice guy - comes across as a regular Joe not a head in the clouds engineer. I think this video shows that. It also has an extremely interesting discussion of pulse inductions detectors, ground balancing methods, and the dreaded "hole" that occurs when ground balancing. There is explanation of why the holes occur and how some designs try to alleviate but not eliminate the problem. Good stuff, starts around the 3:40 minute mark. The audio quality in this video truly sucks. However, this is important information, and so repeated listens, typing, and listening again on my part, produced the following transcript. Again, this is from Brent Weaver, Senior Design Engineer, Garrett Metal Detectors. Transcript starting at 3:40 mark: "If you look at the various pulse detectors that exist on the market, you have your simplest pulse machines, which are single pulse machines that are non-ground balancing. Those are detectors that are typically exclusively used for the beach, for example, the Sea Hunter or something like this. The next step in advancement there is to have a ground balancing pulse machine, those can still be a single pulse detector. This pulse channel is able to ground balance, which means it can neutralize the ground. The problem with that sort of technology is when you ground balance out the ground, you can also balance out any target that has a decay characteristic that is similar to the ground. We call this the "detection hole". Essentially, it is a hole in the conductivity... when you look at the conductivity of gold or any material, you look at a conductivity spectrum. The decay rate of that... pulse decay is a function of the conductivity of the material and also the thickness and shape of the material. It all factors into effective conductivity. For a ground balancing pulse detector, again, if the conductivity of the ground is similar to the conductivity of the target, when you ground balance out the ground you also ground balance out the target. To eliminate that problem, you create a second pulse which is substantially different than the first pulse, such that when you ground balance out the ground on the second pulse, its conductivity decay as far as the target is concerned, the conductivity decay on the first pulse and that on the on the second pulse do not match each other. As a result, as you ground balance out the ground on the first pulse, you create a hole, and you ground balance out the ground on the second pulse, it also creates a hole, but it is in a different location. And so, those two pulses working together in unison, working simultaneously, one will always fill in the hole of the other, they overlap such that you never have a detection hole. If you only have a single pulse detector, and it ground balances, it will have a detection hole. There are various products on the market, some are less expensive than the ATX, some are more expensive than the ATX, but if they are a single pulse detector, they are going to have a hole in their detection, period. You are going to miss gold. You are absolutely going to miss gold. Now where that hole falls depends on the mineralization conditions, and where the ground balance is set for the detector. As the ground balance shifts, the hole shifts with it. If you have a detector that has continuous ground tracking, such that you cannot switch it off, as that ground track moves around for the various ground conditions, the hole moves around with it and the targets are disappearing into that hole. You never know where the hole is at any time. Again, to eliminate that problem, the more advanced, the most advanced detectors, like the ATX, use multiple pulse technology. They don't just have one single pulse that repeats, they have different kinds of pulses, and those pairs repeat. That is one of the differences in a true high end performance product like the ATX, versus some of the other products on the market. They are good products, and they are ground balancing pulse detectors, but if they are a single pulse technology, they have a hole in their detection that will miss targets." Now, for me listening to that it is obvious that Garrett was clearly gunning for the White's TDI. How do I know that? Because it was Minelab that originally put multi period pulse detection into the consumers hands, via their MPS (multi period sensing) technology beginning with the ground breaking SD 2000. The White's TDI on the other hand is an older design, and in fact is basically just an Eric Foster Goldscan stuck in a White's labeled box. The Goldscan and the TDI are a single channel ground balancing pulse detector with the problem that Brent outlines in the video. Bruce Candy of Minelab saw the same issue, and the SD 2000 was specifically developed as a multi channel or multi period device for this very reason. MPS was patented, and so I am not sure if it was the patent expiring, or Garrett simply using a method that got around the patent, but the ATX is using a similar multi period design as the SD Minelabs. Having used the Minelabs and the TDI, plus the ATX, I can vouch for the electronics in the ATX as being very capable, and I do believe superior to that in the TDI. My ATX in fact tested favorably compared to my GPX 5000 with the 5000 having the edge, but not as much as I expected. I think in large part that is simply due to the Minelab using a much more powerful battery, pumping far more power into the ground than the ATX with its eight AA batteries. Unfortunately, in my opinion Garrett, made a huge mistake in taking these excellent electronics, and hobbling them with a housing that did not take advantage of one of Minelabs biggest weaknesses - ergonomics. The TDI had and still has a distinct edge in that regard, and at a lower price than the ATX. Ironically, it is also that detection hole and the ability to manipulate it via a manual ground balance that has become, not the big problem as laid out in this video, but a feature of sorts in favor of the TDI. People have learned how to manipulate the hole to help identify targets by using the ground balance control as a sort of reverse discrimination control. Combined with the unique conductivity switch on the TDI knowledgeable users can become very proficient at identifying various target classes, and this has made it very popular with relic hunters in particular. What history in hindsight reveals, in my opinion, is that Garrett missed the boat with the ATX as regards Minelab. The ATX hit the market before the SDC 2300, and had a window of opportunity to really make inroads, if it had been in a lighter weight dry land package, with a light dry land coil set designed specifically for desert prospecting. The electronics are there; it is the heavy housing, and heavy knock sensitive coils, overpriced by an attached telescoping rod assembly, that really hurt the machine. On the flip side, I don't think they did too much damage to the TDI either, with the TDI being a less expensive, more ergonomically friendly unit. Like the Garrett Infinium before it, the ATX has settled into being more a beach detector than a prospecting detector. I have of course been making hay over this since day one, and continue to make an issue of it at every opportunity, in hopes that we may see a Garrett LTX some day. Dry land design only for the absolute lightest weight possible machine with light weight knock resistant coils to match, it would be a winner. There is a market still I believe for a $1500 -$2000 ground balancing PI detector that clearly has more power than a TDI in an all in one package lighter than anything Minelab currently markets. The only question in my mind is whether Garrett will finally get it right, or will it finally be a moot point, when new Fisher, White's, and Nokta/Makro machines waiting in the wings finally arrive.
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I explored this area over 60 years ago and have done many trips since and hopefully a few more in the near future. Way back we did it with no guided tour as it was an abandoned mine at the time. Old post of mine...........Old Post....
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While scouting this morning, I came across a stretch of coastline and... You know what I mean.
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Watch GoldRyder break his 5 day skunk. His gold was very hard won. Congratulations buddy!
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Evening to all,i spend countless hours looking for a video on youtube ,i almost give up as it may lost in the archives of the youtube inferno: The video was showing a beach/lake comber using a CZ machine BUT connected to a modified/inverted leaf blower. The aim was to everytime he had a target press the trigger from the blower who i believed was connected to a venturi system,connected to a PVC pipe sucking the sand from the middle of the CZ coil,and all the water and material was then send to a waist basket designed like a sandcoop. Do you guys remember watching this video it must be +12 years old at least . Thanks RR
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Anyone that needs some good detector comparison and hunt videos for the Equinox 800, Equinox 900, Manticore and Deus 2 can certainly get lots of good information from Andy's (Abenson's) Relics and Rings YouTube site. If you are looking for weird, provocative, crazy, angry, not very factual, controversial, entertainment only, egotistical, opinionated, click bait type metal detecting YouTube videos, Andy's videos are not for you. If you want calm, down to earth, just the facts, painfully honest videos about those metal detectors, his videos are worth a real close look. Thanks Andy for taking the time to make them. Here is a good one.......
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New video I have up as of last night. When I get back from the gold show in Quartzite, I will get the video edited of the specimen. The SD card and the movo lapel mic for my Canon will be here by the time I get back.
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I have been searching for a video on tweaking the settings on a GP Extreme. I believe it was a Jack Lange video. It was specifically for the Extreme. Explained the settings to use to maximize the machine to find gold. A prospecting friend of mine had it and I've since lost contact with him. It was in VHS and hoping to find it in DVD.
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I just came across this short film that should be shared. Painfully ridiculous, but worth a chuckle.
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Hey everyone, just a shout out to y'all that my YouTube channel is taking shape. Got a video up today on Gold Basin and I am uploading another this very moment. Check them out and leave a comment. I have a few things to work on and improve. Words to stop saying, nervousness to overcome, looking at camera more often, yada yada yada check it out and please like and subscribe. YouTube Channel: Gold Seeker Adventures
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Yuba River Crevice Detecting For Gold Nuggets
Smithsgold posted a topic in Detector Prospector Forum
Yuba River Crevice Detecting for Gold Nuggets Me and Gary head back to Mother Yuba in search of Gold Nuggets and are joined by Tim from Blue lead Gold Productions. Let's Find some Gold on Mother Yuba !!! We are armed with the Minelab SDC 2300 and the White's Gold Master V-Sat that gives us both a Pulse Induction detector and a VLF detector. While me and Gary clear the boulders off Bedrock to detect Tim gets right to Sluicing with his Angus MacKirk Sluice box. The Yuba is known for it's small Gold so he should do pretty good !!! Moving those Boulders is hard work but that's what needs to happen to expose the Bedrock Crevices and get those Nuggets in our pockets !!! Yuba River Crevice Detecting for Gold Nuggets SG 047