Popular Post principedeleon Posted June 20, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted June 20, 2017 Hello everyone.. Im rookie starting out gold prospecting with a metal detector. I have always dredged for my gold and wanted to give metal detecting a go. So i have gotten the GM as my first gold prospecting detector and i would have to say im very impressed. Im happy with how simple it is even in our hot soil here the Dominican Republic. I had to switch from deep all metal to "Gold Mode" most of the time because of the ground noise. But it was manageable for a rookie like me just walk everywhere and just detect. Found a couple false signals but they was like pockets of black sand they appear while scraping off the overburden to reveal more the signal. So i have went to a place where some lady just walking by found a piece of gold since i dont know of no place here where people would metal detect since no one do nugget shooting with a prospecting machine. After about like 10 minutes i got a good signal and i dug my first gold nugget about 4" down. It weighted in at 1.4 Grams. After trying to search the are for 10 more minutes and not founding nothing more i left since it looked like it wanted to rain. So i have found my first place where i know i have found shallow gold. Hope i could start now a list of these deposit to revisit when i have a PI machine . 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Awesome - first gold nugget with a detector! Congratulations! In all metal mode did you try the auto sensitivity settings to see if they run quiet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdahoPeg Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Nice nugget! Great job! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
principedeleon Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Yeah steve .. i was even getting some ground noise sometimes but i would just past the coil again if i didnt get a double signal i would just ignore it and move on. And Thanks IdahoPeg! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Well done! The first is always the hardest. Hope to see you posting many more gold finds with your new detector. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen58 Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 congratulations Principedeleon What a great first find!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Well done. Nice nugget. Do many detect there already? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldrat Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Congratulations principedeleon on your great find 1gram + . I run an SDC and have found over 200 nugglets all under 1 gram can't tick that 1gram box yet . Going out Saturday with a friend and his Minelab Monster maybe there's a 1 grammar waiting for me . Hope you enjoy detecting and find plenty of gold . Cheers goldrat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
principedeleon Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Thanks everyone for ya comments. And Mn90..im the only one on my sector nugget shooting that i know of. People around have a muilti purpose vlf and use them for treasure hunt. But very little know how to operate these machine since they come in english. Kiwi- i start of on auto sen+ with discrimination and as it gets quite i meaning no ground noise or metal objects i try to back it down to deep all metal and sensitivity to 10 and it just might work well for a minute to i get very soon to a hotter piece of ground . So i just stay mostly in autosen+ and in discrimination mode . GoldRat- GoodLuck!! Hopefully you find a muilti Gram nugget =] I love the discrimination on the machine i just couldnt figure how i would have ignore all these iron signals from blasting my earphones and digging it without it. *something i notice is the sound coming off the speaker are kinda low at full volume . I dont think i could even hunt just using the internal speaker it makes me struggle with my hearing to pick up these signals .* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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