Does This Photo Show The Future Of Detecting

[geof_junk]

This is from ....prospectingaustralia.... 

 

[Aureous]

The GPZ update detector next year may well focus (or partially provide provision for) those deeper multi gram or multi ounce pieces. But for now, the tiny, more prevalent gold is what we have to be content with.

[IronDigger]

8 minutes ago, Aureous said:

The GPZ update detector next year may well focus (or partially provide provision for) those deeper multi gram or multi ounce pieces. But for now, the tiny, more prevalent gold is what we have to be content with.

Hope so, lol maybe I'll wait a year! 😆

[jasong]

This picture just gave me an idea. If I get rich and famous I'm going to make a few 12 gauge shells full of solid gold pellets and go reseed the goldfields like some sort of modern Johnny Appleseed. 

[GotAU?]

3 hours ago, jasong said:

This picture just gave me an idea. If I get rich and famous I'm going to make a few 12 gauge shells full of solid gold pellets and go reseed the goldfields like some sort of modern Johnny Appleseed. 

 Be careful there Johnny. Next thing, you’ll be wishing you had the Midas touch and will really be regretting it soon afterwards! 😄

[phrunt]

If my pellet to gold ratio was anywhere near that persons I'd be happy!

I don't think detecting has much of a future at all, gold almost gone, old coins nearly gone, new coins not being used anymore as everyone pays electronically, jewellery more often than not these days is cheap costume junk as people don't value it like they used to.

What are we going to be detecting for when only the junk will be left.

[Chase Goldman]

53 minutes ago, phrunt said:

I don't think detecting has much of a future at all, gold almost gone, old coins nearly gone

I get that you have vastly limited real estate and history in New Zealand, Simon.  And natural gold is obviously disappearing without replenishment, apps have replaced coinage and currency for today's commerce, and I'm finding a lot more CZ and tungsten carbide than diamonds, gold and silver jewelry at beaches and parks.  So you make good points.

But on the flip side, relic and old coin hunting is still going strong in the US with plenty of untapped private lands with plenty of history (you simply have to do your research and know how to ask landowners for permissions) and UK's deep metal history in pasture land and farm fields dating back two plus millenia is still popular and productive.  Climate change effects on storm intensity are causing a lot more beach erosion presenting great opportunities to recover deep old drops for the vigilant beach hunter.

So I tend to be optimistically glass half full when I look at detecting's future.  At least in the US and UK. 

As long as I am still able to stumble across a Virginia farmer's hillside full of CW bullets and buttons in 2021 and or pull a gold coin out of a Pennsylvania farm that has been pounded to death or to find Spanish silver and Colonial buttons in my friend Bob's farm permissions that have been nighthawked and cherry picked to death for silver, I'm gonna keep digging and not worry about what the future holds.

[phrunt]

Yea, if I lived in Europe I'd have a vastly different view I think, times ticking here though.  I'd struggle to get excited about relics unless they were very old like some of those finds they get in Europe.  I'd really like to find some of their old coins too.  The other thing I'd like to find are meteorites, they replenish, sometimes 🙂

 

[Tony]

Erosion is never ending…..some of it is slow and some of it is fast.

There have been areas in the Western Australia goldfields where ex Cyclones pass through and dump a couple of feet of rain in a day……I have seen areas that I know well get completely transformed by moving water that just needs a little elevated topography to shift millions of tons of soil………potentially exposing huge areas of gold bearing ground to an eager detectorist 👍

……..I have optimism always when looking for gold 🤞
 

……..and a good ☂ 

[geof_junk]

Simon I feel sorry for you. After I get to NZ on my cruise in Nov. there will not be any gold left, but the buckshot I will leave for you😀. So book a detecting trip to the Old Country to find your just deserves. 🤩