Took my mxt out today for my first real run with it.
Was a hot day, by 1030 it was close to 40 deg, id already downed 2 lt of water.
Area was an abandoned mine, with a reputation of nugget or nothing. After a few hot rocks, got a confusing indication of iron, +94 followed by bullet +40 Then big item , iron 90.....so I dug, found a really big ball bearing, put the detector over the hole, and got the bullet +40 again!
You beauty im thinking. Swithed to prospecting mode, adjusted settings, got a high pitched squeel with a 10% probability of iron, ran it past my entrenching tool and got a growl, back over the hole, screech! Right! I start digging again, and put the spoil on my plastic bucket lid. Ran the detector over the lid, screech! Great its on the lid. Grab a hand ful, run it past the coil, nothin, repeat, same, then, I just tip the lid into the bucket, gotta get out of the sun!
So start driving out, cross a nice dry creek. Why not, walk down about 30m, stretch of bed rock exposed, run the coil over the crevices, all I get is the occasional hot rock, then, in the middle of nowhere, I get a stong beep, get confusing indication again, iron, bullet, iron, braclet, from -90, s to + 40, s so I have to dig, hard digging, all gravel and large chuncks of quartz. Dig half a bucket of gravel and fine grey dirt, then get back to the aircon hilux, hit the road, home.
Get home, and decide to pan the 3/4 bucket. No gold. But I did find my mystery "fugget" a piece of tin folded up......that came from the ball bearing hole.
Also found some mineral that pans just like gold, behaves like panned gold, but is blue! Its a beautiful metalic blue, pretty small flakes, will try to photograph a piece.
