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Metal Detecting for Gold
What To Look For On The Goldfields (New To Prospecting)
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<blockquote data-quote="loamer" data-source="post: 48076" data-attributes="member: 981"><p>Good point about time of day. Heat will most certainly affect the running - in my experience the hotter the ground, the more prone to ground noise. In this weather, I am usually done by about 10 ish - you can almost see and hear that things are going to get real noisy real quick. The VLF use is interesting - in Victoria I would not bother at all unless the gold had a quartz matrix and then I would probably limit my VLF to that. I find the Xterra 70 next to useless on the hot mineralised ground. Excellent for quartz as I can run it flat out - on horrible ground I have to wind it back so far to shut it up from burping, farting and wheezing that I am probably getting about 1/4 inch depth, and that's a maybe. Had to laugh about the gold four feet away - yes, its a bloody big question with a patch - when and where do I stop. I never tell anyone of my patches for this reason - heard too many stories of people declaring a patch finished and then it gets really cleaned out. I also know that there will be deeper gold just waiting for new technology. Remember when the first PIs hit WA and Victoria? - it was a whole new game. </p><p></p><p>I do use a VLF for checking for throw outs if I am digging into a quartz reef/vein/blow/line. has proven very handy for pinging little bits and pieces of gold the 4500 ignores.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loamer, post: 48076, member: 981"] Good point about time of day. Heat will most certainly affect the running - in my experience the hotter the ground, the more prone to ground noise. In this weather, I am usually done by about 10 ish - you can almost see and hear that things are going to get real noisy real quick. The VLF use is interesting - in Victoria I would not bother at all unless the gold had a quartz matrix and then I would probably limit my VLF to that. I find the Xterra 70 next to useless on the hot mineralised ground. Excellent for quartz as I can run it flat out - on horrible ground I have to wind it back so far to shut it up from burping, farting and wheezing that I am probably getting about 1/4 inch depth, and that's a maybe. Had to laugh about the gold four feet away - yes, its a bloody big question with a patch - when and where do I stop. I never tell anyone of my patches for this reason - heard too many stories of people declaring a patch finished and then it gets really cleaned out. I also know that there will be deeper gold just waiting for new technology. Remember when the first PIs hit WA and Victoria? - it was a whole new game. I do use a VLF for checking for throw outs if I am digging into a quartz reef/vein/blow/line. has proven very handy for pinging little bits and pieces of gold the 4500 ignores. [/QUOTE]
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