Relichunter Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Just an observation I had this week, I been working some tailings with my PI, well as some of you know it can get crazy with iron. My only alternative was to use my Tesoro Umax with stock coil and give it a go. So the next day I went and scanned some small piles and within 15 minutes got a nice signal. The sound came in clear as I scanned left and right. Within seconds I recovered a nice 5.54 gram nugget! So for those coming into nuggethunting...don't despair if you only have a cheap vlf as you can find gold with it. Just get out there and scan those piles and eventually you will find that little fella.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredmason Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 WTG, relichunter; take a rake and work the piles and the dirt under the piles...headers and tails if drywashed, that is often virgin ground. fred 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Just get a decent VLF and head for the trashiest places. There is gold hiding in that trash for sure. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relichunter Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 Good point Fred, I am going to hit some major tailing piles tomorrow and see how it goes. To be honest, most of my gold comes from piles such as that. Once a while you get lucky and find a patch...but as I see it, the old timers dug the material for us, sure they got most of the gold, but left us some too Steve, I do plan on buying one this year. I , like many others on this forum have been researching these new ones coming out in 2016. Hard to make a choice because I am sure we all want the best one that would perform the best in the trashy areas. But from what I have seen, they are all pretty similar. No easy way but to work those piles and dig all targets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhaseTech Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Yeah, good point. I recently tested my Bandido II umax in all metal mode with stock donut coil and it did surprisingly well on smallish gold. I can only image it would do much better with a smaller coil. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
californiagold Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Are you talking about dredge tailings relic? I've seen some around here pay pretty good. But then there is some places not. Everytime I messed with some dredge tailings I somehow had great luck finding snakes. And some gold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU_Solitude Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Nice nugget! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relichunter Posted January 21, 2016 Author Share Posted January 21, 2016 Hey Nenad, Yes I was very surprised how well the T-U max supressed the ferrous targets . I basically scanned pretty fast and wanted to cover as much ground as I could. I dug clear signals and eventually landed that 5.5 gram nugget. In all metal mode I got plenty of deeper targets and was very happy with the results. In the past I only used it for beach hunting once a while, it was a inexpensive spare detector. Californiagold, The tailings are old diggins from the 1800's, lots of square nails and tin cans....I hunt year round and wear snake guards all the time, Just this past summer I ran into three rattlers, they let me know they were in the area very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasong Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Nice job man. But Jedi, are you ready for the final difficulty level and pull one out of those tailings with a Radio Shack detector?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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