Hi Guys,
Well today was another outing back to the gold hole area, was a great day. My brother came out with me and before we left jokingly I said lets go find the Australia nugget. He actually laughed and said more like Tasmania
When arriving I changed my usual strategy with the 14" Elite and switched over to the 11" Elite and set it in Enhance Gain up - just to see if there were any small pieces that will still give a signal in the main area where I have worked pretty thoroughly over the last 30 or so days. Not the edge but in the windows already worked. Scouting under anything small that the 14 couldnt get or even the mullocks hoping to hit any small signals.
Well first target under a low lying bush right up against the trunk a signal, within the first 5 minutes, a nice little rusty nail head. I continued to a mullock where I hit 3 pieces of Gold Prior with the 14" - 1 in the mullock and 2 just at the base of it.
Well there we are only 1 foot to the left of where I hit one small piece - a signal. And it was Gold - roughly 2 inches deep 0.05g
After a couple of hours on the 11" in the main area - a very small piece of rust - this thing only just registered.
In between this we had a break, hah again we laughed at the small piece of gold and said thats not even Tasmania that thing - my brother is out on the edge working away with the GP35 with the Detech and he had quite a pile of junk, rust lead etc.
After 3 or so hours on the 11" Elite - it was good to change it up and get in some tight area's - but no more targets found. The main area is getting to the point now that it is a challenge to hit targets with the current setup - Is there gold still there - of course there is but now I will need to assess what can be done to achieve more finds.
I will now assess the current strategy and technique and switch over to another which has proven to be an excellent gold finding strategy - just havent used it out there yet.
Well after a few hours time to put the 14" Elite back on - I absolutely love this coil, back on and running in Normal again. Hit some nice deep targets but unfortunately not gold - but still great just to be able to dig some deep ones. Not sure what one object was but it signal responded 0.22 Lead - maybe 6 inches deep - hah was I in for a surprise, 2 feet later a piece of steel - almost looked like a capacitor rusted away - roughly as round as a 5 cent piece and 20mm in length - the depth these coils get is great - and the response that it provides for such a small solid at that depth. The grounds are mostly mild soils in this area and running in Normal with Fixed tracking was no probs at all.
Being able to fine tune the GPX for stability and ensuring to keep depth - or switching it up to increase depth and sensitivity on the smalls is just great. Provides us with such a better advantage in the fields.
Anyway here it is guys - smallest piece found out there so far with using the detector. The smallest were those panned samples
Almost had me beat today though - Day 33 - 32 days with gold finds, and I think it would be hard to ever get past that goal of consecutive days, definitely not impossible though happened once, fair jump though from the previous consecutive days was 7 in a row.
I will need to check my finds list - but that should just about put me close to 50 pieces of Gold Found this month, last time I added to my list it was at 43 pieces, And a Total of 25.6g. Not that it matters even if it was none this month, good to keep these figures though.
I dont really care what size or how many I will find tomorrow, if at all. - but its more so what will the next piece look like. Of course we all would love to find the KG Nuggets but unrealistic goals are not good, doesnt hurt to dream though - but keep expectations low, and just enjoy every target.
Anyway hope you liked my 0.05g so far its my smallest piece ever found with a detector, in 15 or so years.
