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Metal Detecting for Gold
A question about GROUND BALANCING
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<blockquote data-quote="ProspectorPete" data-source="post: 458431" data-attributes="member: 3820"><p>I've been detecting in areas with lots of hot clay pockets that sound sweet as well as small gravel pockets that also sound sweet depending where my GB is, I run in fixed and finding that I ground balance a few inches away from the signal then if the signal is still strong I scrape about 1-2" off the top layer (after the overburden has been removed) and if the scraped spoil signals as well as the hole it is 9/10 times just ground noise, GB over the spoil and the hole signal will almost disappear, only once have I had a piece of gold that was in the hole while the spoil coming out also signalled, my smallest piece to date @ .1g that just had that something about the signal that wouldn't go away.</p><p>On the other hand, if I get a sweet signal and scrape a couple of inches off and that spoil doesn't signal then I get excited when working very hot ground like surfaced areas.</p><p>I also find areas that have a few inches thick of rotted leaf/bark litter in a small pocket tend to sound off as well, once you scrape the overburden away the signal is gone.</p><p></p><p>I detect in motion Very Slow which helps makes the detector more stable but also makes ground noise and small gold/bird shot targets very very similar, not sure if Slow or Normal motion speed helps with separating the difference in signals?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProspectorPete, post: 458431, member: 3820"] I've been detecting in areas with lots of hot clay pockets that sound sweet as well as small gravel pockets that also sound sweet depending where my GB is, I run in fixed and finding that I ground balance a few inches away from the signal then if the signal is still strong I scrape about 1-2" off the top layer (after the overburden has been removed) and if the scraped spoil signals as well as the hole it is 9/10 times just ground noise, GB over the spoil and the hole signal will almost disappear, only once have I had a piece of gold that was in the hole while the spoil coming out also signalled, my smallest piece to date @ .1g that just had that something about the signal that wouldn't go away. On the other hand, if I get a sweet signal and scrape a couple of inches off and that spoil doesn't signal then I get excited when working very hot ground like surfaced areas. I also find areas that have a few inches thick of rotted leaf/bark litter in a small pocket tend to sound off as well, once you scrape the overburden away the signal is gone. I detect in motion Very Slow which helps makes the detector more stable but also makes ground noise and small gold/bird shot targets very very similar, not sure if Slow or Normal motion speed helps with separating the difference in signals? [/QUOTE]
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