More information......Pinocchio?
May 30, 1998 at 08:25:50
In Reply to: Is More Information Needed??
posted by Lanny in AB on May 29, 1998 at 12:40:32
Missing information?
After reading a few of the comments I decided to make this post. I can also see why Kimm does not post much anymore. Why take the heat when you try to past on information? I think this will be my last post as far as using the Minelab SD2100 goes. I hope everyone believes the posts are tall tails. Do not buy a great Minelab unit. They cost a lot of money. There is enough competition out there already in the gold fields with people usung detectors. If everyone had a Minelab SD2100 then there will be less gold for those of us who use that unit.
Even though I live in Key West, Florida do not let that fool you. I am 60 years old and have been interested in rocks and gold for 55 years and have been hunting for them that long. I have spent the past 4 years learning more about gold and how to find it. A lot of information came for this forum. I now have (7) 160 acrea placer claims that I work every few months.
I the last 3 years or so I have spent nearly one year in the field at my claims prospecting. It has paid off for me. I have worked very hard at it. 12 hours a day dry washing, sometimes 6 hours a day metal detecting and 6 exploring or dry washing. In the last 5 months I spent 10 weeks prospecting on my claims of which over 280 hours was using the SD2100. It has paid off for me, long nose or not! It has paid for the detector many times over.
As I posted many times in the past looking for information, I have come to learn that my site does not have any mineralized ground. I talked to Minelab about it because at first I could not ground balance the unit and thought there was a problem. There is nothing to balance out. They said that is OK because my ground is NOT hot and the controls can be left in any position. I do run into 2 types of hot rocks some times. One is red and the other is green. I can balance the rock out if I want to. Without mineralized ground the going is clear except for gold and trash. In my last post I said I keep covering the same ground over an over and I still find nuggets big and deep. With a mono coil at maximum depth you can not cover all the ground unless your sweeps over lap by only a fraction of an inch. Your detection area at maximum depth is almost a point, not the size of the coil or half the size of the coil. I cover the area I am detecting 10 to 15 times at different angles. Most times when I find a very weak target I listen for it at many angles and only hear many times it from one angle. That is how to detect the deepest with any detector. Gold does seem to produce a small halo. I have found many targets of small gold and when disturbed I lost them on the detector. Then I would vacuum and screen the sand and find a very small nugget. At the coil the nugget would show up but not an inch or so away. This has happened many times from a depth of 3 to 6 inches. My friend did that with his gold bug and gave up on the target, I recovered the 1/16 oz nugget. So was that target you moved and lost small gold or did you just break up mineralized ground? Mine has been gold most of the time.
The person who was with me for 3 days is experienced with his Fisher unit and it was turned on. He has found many nuggets at shallow depths but his technique is not good. I could not get him to correct it. I think I may have intimidated him with the nuggets from the SD2100. He covers the area way to fast. He advances at near a 1/2 walking speed. I have spent several hundred hours at this spot with the SD2100. Now I find most gold targets at 5 inches and deeper and he could not hear them with the Fisher. He did hear gold targets when I pointed them out to him, that were shallower. As I said in the past, the detector and the person must become one and both the detector and the person must be the best available to get deep gold nuggets.....Pinocchio?......Richard
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