And why were you not there?

@@moneybox5733 bad planning by me

Greg, it's very hard to tell, the 4500 found all the big stuff and the 6000 finds a lot more tiny bits. We averaged 500g per trip with the 4500 and so far the 6000 has not done better than 200g. Perhaps the gold has gone?

@@moneybox5733 very interesting Phil, I am starting to correlate the information from various members of you tube and the latter comment is very correct. Cheers to you both . Greg

Yes Nullagine area :)

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Yeah, sorry Taz... Late last year Taz sustained a serious injury. He was playing up at the time, crawled onto the stove and was a victim of the wrong hotplate selected. He's pretty much cured but we couldn't risk an overseas trip so close afterwards.

I've never done it, the renovation thing. Well I have bought a few old houses and splashed a bit of paint on, laid a few rolls of wallpaper and built a couple of kitchens but nothing like this. We really hope a good clean up will make it look a little less daunting.

Come on guys, I need a little encouragement. I already have a wife so I don't need any more negative views 🤣

I't a Knudson concentrator.

Thank you, I have an electric one. I always ask because I have another one that needs parts and we don't know the bri.

Yes, correct. I have put it on when the hot rocks are a bit noisy. Still sensitive to small targets and will ping deeper bigger targets. Will top out about 10” on a 5g where the 11” mono will punch a bit deeper. Mind you we are in Leonora, that ground shown might be more difficult to balance on. I know I can get mine to run dead silent on the laterite and basalt. I bit noisy on the magnetite iron stone. I wonder if the 6000 in this clip has a problem. It has been an issue on the early machines. Although I have spent a fair bit of time with two of them without issue.

@@goldfools5445 Yes the DD does make a diference on bad ground but these ironstone rocks give such a sharp signal there seems to be no fix for it on the 6000. This is my new 6000 supplied by Minelab under warranty recently. The old machine was trouble from day one but I put up with it for nearly tow years but after one repair and four coil failures Minelab replaced the whole unit and this is a much better detector.

When on the patch at Naneen we had two 6000's and tried both coils. The GPZ7000 and GPX4500 ran reasonably well over the same ground where the 6000 couldn't be used.

That's why I love my zed Phil. It still gets noisy, but in some ground the 6 is too sensitive and thinks everything is a target

This is vacant crown land so we're limited in what we can use. I'm sure dynamite would be frowned upon but I do need to take another look at it. Perhaps a big coil on the GPX4500 might turn up something.

@@moneybox5733 I’ve only got a 4000 with new Nugget finder Evo 14x7 coil, not much hope for me.

Yes Pat you are probably right but it's just another bit of gear to carry however we should.

Mate, you must give up that name, it's holding you back 😁. Yes I've very fortunate to have a permanent fossicking/prospecting partner. It makes treks into far off destinations much easier and therefore the chance of finding treasure is much more likely.

I find it easier to work with metal and the mesh size suited perfectly. I'd like to build something now to reduce the dirt from the dryblower output from 7mm down to 3mm to pass through the Knudson concentrator.

@@moneybox5733 u might try some hard ware store sheet of expanded metal mesh - the smallest might be less than 7mm ..

Thank you Robert. The biggest problem is the location where we like. We're in Cue WA so if I need something our best resource is the local tip where stock levels of useful items varies considerably. Freight is either very expensive or awfully slow. I ordered a new LG computer from LG in Sydney on 28th February. It was sent via DHL but is still floating about somewhere. I'll use locally available items when possible.

@@moneybox5733 bif flotilla of box shipping containers that are sitting in purgatory .. awaiting something ... chinese shipments are about a month now, depending on the kind of item ... it speeds up magically around Christmas time !!!

We know the dryblower doesn't get a lot of the very fine gold but of course we don't know how much is really there. My dryblower output is already screened down to 7mm so I'm hoping to set something up to screen all those piles down to 3mm and then pass all that dust through the Knudson and hopefully collect the flower gold that we've missed. The problem is water supply.

thats why you get the 2300 out to make sure its not ground noise before you dig to far

If only we'd have been here 20 or 30 years ago....