mn90403 Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Norvic, I'll always appreciate your comments. You must know by now ... it is harder to be a prospector than some of us are capable of doing on a regular basis. I'm back to a once or twice a month nugget hunter for the next 2-3 years. I guess my best status now would be a tag along detectorist or wait for my metal detecting club to get an easy claim! haha Mitchel (Right now I'm going out for a 2 hour beach hunt to finish my birthday. It will take me about 5 minutes to get to the beach!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 9 minutes ago, mn90403 said: I'm back to a once or twice a month nugget hunter for the next 2-3 years. I guess my best status now would be a tag along detectorist or wait for my metal detecting club to get an easy claim! I would also add that being the parent of a young child and living hundreds of miles from the "goldfields" also tends to cramp us amateurs style. Happy New Year to you Mitchel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 22 minutes ago, mn90403 said: You must know by now ... it is harder to be a prospector than some of us are capable of doing on a regular basis. Ah ha, tis so allover I remember back yonks ago I answered similarly on an OZ 4M, found naively that I`m indeed a fortunate fella, you`ve got the metal one day you may get the time and inclination, patience grasshopper...patience. A good serve on your birthday will get you in the mood go out and get amongst those coins and stop perving on the "Baywatch" shielas. ? Aie Flakmagnet……. jockeys for horses for courses, but most of all may 2020 be a Top Year for you and family......you amateur...……..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 People think many things. Minelab said ZVT is the platform for the next ten years or more, not that the GPZ was. Minelab is in the business of selling metal detectors and it is disingenuous to pretend otherwise. We all know the program, they have been introducing new gold machines every few years. I always assumed the GPZ was just the first in a new series and can’t see how anyone would think otherwise. Unless told so by an overzealous salesperson... I have to grant you that. Fact is nobody need buy anything. Plenty of happy GPX owners out there. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacky Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Haha, everything I do in nugget hunting falls under the "prospecting" heading, I intentionally go to areas that were mined 100+ years ago and ignored since. I do that because there are no current claims to worry about, but there is obviously potential for gold. That said, my recovery rate is currently zero. It's fine, I have fun, but minelab (etc) should hope I find something because the only way I pay thousands on a new detector is cleaning out a new area with the equinox and knowing I can likely find more with xxx detector worth the investment. So far that is certainly not the case. I'm not discouraged, I already have several spots picked out for when the snow melts. But I'm a realist, I fully understand I'm most likely tilting at windmills. I have a severe cold and am quite drunk, so if that doesn't make since, well, sorry... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norvic Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Lacky, diverge a bit and go out away a wee bit from those 100+ years ago mined areas, go out into the fringes and find what those old codgers missed...…………... I think I`ll have another rum no bugger it another two or so, that`ll put me way past apologising…………….. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacky Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Kindred spirit Norvic, I will take the advice to heart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McCulloch Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Dave, are you a new papa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted January 3, 2020 Author Share Posted January 3, 2020 Hi Jim, no, although I am the proud dad of two great kids it's not me. I believe our Mitchel has a relatively new child and we all know that being a dad to a young one takes precedence over mining…. Happy New Year to you. Hope maybe to get out and see you this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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