I cant let my good buddy Lanny take this nonsense all on his own. Anyone wanting to be a professional nugget prospector in OZ only has one choice of detector and that is an SD. Then there comes the coil arsenal, so you need a 10" X 5" elliptical coil for small shallow nuggets, a 12" or 14"DD coil for average size nuggets at medium depths and an 18" or 24"DD coil for big nuggets down deep. If the ground isnt too HOT, you could use the monoloop coils to get even more depth.

I've found 100's of little brat nugs with my SD. In one patch I got more than 100 bits for a total weight of 28 grams and I know for sure that a VLF detector wouldnt have had a snowballs chance in hell of detecting any ONE of those bits.

Oh incidently, the SD can also handle QUIET ground but we dont get much of that here, not with any gold in it anyway !.

Good hunting,

Chris Hake.