flakmagnet Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 There you go DigsAlot - instant gratification. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jonathan Porter Posted March 12, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 12, 2020 Yesterday was a bit of fun but not very profitable.? I zigged and I zagged but just could not get onto anything of any size so these little tackers were all I could manage for the rattle jar.? So instead I’ll post some pics of some of the things I’ve been up to gold wise over the summer starting with a nice big Brown snake that was sunning itself, these guys are best left alone for all the obvious reasons. A few days later I actually trod on a 2 footer in some grass which had me doing the highland fling and him slithering down into some tree roots, I think we both had to change our undershorts that day (I’ve only trod on 2 snakes in my whole career so its not a common event).? The world has been twitchy as heck with all sorts of scary stuff going on, as a result the gold price has continued to climb so all those little bits I keep finding decided to leap into my dolly pot and get crushed then melted into bush buttons so they could be sent off and refined. A fair bit of the gold I get is scrappy in nature along with a fair few specimens thrown into the mix, these are the mainstay of my cash flow. So a potato is cut in half and a spoon used to dish out the centre where you place your dollied and washed gold, a liberal sprinkle of borax is applied and then an Oxy acetylene torch is brought to bear till they all surrender and coalesce into a golden metal ball ready to be sent to my refiner. The potato resists burning due to its starchy nature and just smoulders instead, allowing me to do 2 or 3 one ounce bush buttons before they get too thin. Some of these went into the acid to be cleaned up as trophy nuggets. So yes the tiny bits do add up over time and my credit card and my still too dependant sons appreciate the way it deals with the bills. ? Not so scrappy now Till next time JP 14 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaskaseeker Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Interesting gravels and i would bet that red earth is hot for sure, pulse type units unlocked these areas as VLFs would surely struggle there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 A potato retort! Haven't seen one since my dredging days…very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 Looks to be a great thread JP I will most interested in your thought processes as you hunt on . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Ha ha! I love the potato trick! Thanks JP! PS. ...... don’t eat the potato afterwards!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flakmagnet Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Isn't the potato trick also good when you have mercury coating the gold? The mercury absorbs into the potato. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Catcher Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 On 3/11/2020 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Porter said: I found myself coming back to Smoothing OFF and Sensitivity conservative. I also played around with High Yield Normal and even though the ground could handle HY Normal the target signal was seriously degraded by that mode so once again reverted back to Difficult. Thanks for pointing this out, JP. I have made a habit to screen a new area first in HY/normal (if possible) at whatever sensitivity is tolerated, and then in HY/difficult, with sensitivity increased a few clicks. However, I found that increasing sensitivity to make up for the difficult is often not needed. The ability to hear threshold variations in difficult better than in normal seems to make up for for the loss due to filtering. Great threads, keep it up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Catcher Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 JP, what are you thoughts on the ML 19 in coil with the extra deep setting? Any advice you can share with the 19 and how to best use it? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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