Could anyone who has found gold nuggets in Australia in the last 5 years using a detector other than a Minelab please let us know. I have been detecting for 6 years here in Vic and the only detectors that Ive seen successfully used for nuggets are Minelab Pulse Induction models. Im sure there are other brands that have found nuggets, but I personally havent encountered anyone currently doing so.
Thanks for that, you can get these on ebay for about 350 delivered. Not sure to start out with one or save up 5000 for the top of the line. If I save up and realise I don't like detecting it's a waste but if I use the garrett 350 and have real bad luck I may lose interest all together!
I would advise anyone looking to buy a metal detector to buy anything except a minelab 5000. And also, could you message me and tell me where you went so I take my 5000 and pick up the gold you missed?
the snakes, spiders, wiping your butt with a pile of dirt, sweating your guts out.....:lol: but it sure is fun.
really i dont know why people bang on about minelabs all you see on Aussie forums, if they are so good then i wouldnt be telling anyone. so of the biggest bits of gold were found with bang up old VLF's has this changed ? how do the minelabs do in the iron junk ? they kick butt there to i guess?
That depends on your attitude to sharing info with others. Silver Stackers as a whole would be total crap if people didnt share info about good things. The reason I started this thread is to try and establish the value in machines apart from Minelab. Some people reckon Minelabs are crap and arent worth it. Plenty of them bang on in Aussie forums too. Actually most of the biggest bits were found by old miners. VLFs have accounted for many of the larger nuggets to be found simply because they were the first types of detectors around. Most nuggets would have been shallow. The 'Hand of Faith' nugget found back in the 1980s was sticking out of the ground. The Mineralised ground is the big problem faced by VLFs and is where the PIs come into their own. This why there is still gold to be found in many good areas. Using discriminate dumbs down the sensetivity and depth capabilities of a detector. Much gold is still in spots of high junk. I dig most signals. Some nice nuggets and specimens have sounded like junk so I dont mind. In summary: The larger and easy nuggets have mostly been found already. They are not like spuds, they dont grow back again. The two choices going forward are trying to get extra depth or greater sensetivity to smaller targets
agree with all of that ^^^^^ except for maybe dragging along a gold bug pro for the iron junk filled sites just as another tool. have 2 minelabs so they are good at what they do like you said there are other options to maximise the experience if you ask my mate at Kilkivan west of Gympie he may disagree with you about gold growing
No one gets all the gold ! You cant cover every square inch. When you get out there its a mighty big country.
I have seen expensive pro looking setups being swung across the ground so fast they created whirlwinds in their wake.Even every covered square inch needs to be properly checked again. REDBACK
yeah your better to peg a smaller area and go over it thoroughly than just wander willy nilly. But in hard country thats not always possible. A hand held gps is also a good investment.
