AU79 Prospector
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I have been toying with the idea of purchasing a Minelab GPZ-7000... but I am looking for honest feedback in my situation
- For those that haven't been following my YouTube videos - I prospect predominantly at an old hard rock mine known for big gold... every year someone will find a 1+ oz nugget in our club. Many many sub ouncers found. Back in the day, an eight POUND nugget was found on this site. So big gold is here (The vein literally cuts right through the claim)
- almost everyone metal detecting for nuggets use VLF detectors like the gold bug 2
- Mineralized trashy ground (old pieces of iron, horseshoes, etc from the old timers)
- Literally HUNDREDS of old tailings piles (Big nuggets have been found in them as well)
- I currently have a Nokta AU Gold finder (high frequency VLF detector) that I use predominantly to scan my course tailings... I know, for this purpose I should have spent less $$$ on a detector, but I didn't know better when I got started.
I feel that there may be some big chunks of gold sitting a depth below what the VLF detectors can search (there has to be with the amount of finds in the area). But... I am a NEWB to the extreme with a metal detector. The GPZ-7000 is definitely state of the art and obviously a great/expensive detector. But I have not even found a single nugget with my VLF detector (mainly because I've only used it for my tailings and a few short metal detecting sessions)
I see a few options
1) Forget it. Stick with panning/highbanking - your outta your league son.
2) Try to become proficient with a VLF. If you start finding nuggets, then consider taking the plunge (i'm leaning towards this)
3) Go big or go home. Spend the money, learn the detector, and potentially find a bonanza of nuggets that others have passed over with predominantly older VLF detectors. In the end, we all dream of finding MONSTER nuggets -- this will make this possibility much more likely, but at a significant cost.
What would you do? (Lets assume for the moment that you have the money for the purchase so that isn't an issue)
You guys have really helped guide me on many issues this last year, so I'm going to the well again =)
- For those that haven't been following my YouTube videos - I prospect predominantly at an old hard rock mine known for big gold... every year someone will find a 1+ oz nugget in our club. Many many sub ouncers found. Back in the day, an eight POUND nugget was found on this site. So big gold is here (The vein literally cuts right through the claim)
- almost everyone metal detecting for nuggets use VLF detectors like the gold bug 2
- Mineralized trashy ground (old pieces of iron, horseshoes, etc from the old timers)
- Literally HUNDREDS of old tailings piles (Big nuggets have been found in them as well)
- I currently have a Nokta AU Gold finder (high frequency VLF detector) that I use predominantly to scan my course tailings... I know, for this purpose I should have spent less $$$ on a detector, but I didn't know better when I got started.
I feel that there may be some big chunks of gold sitting a depth below what the VLF detectors can search (there has to be with the amount of finds in the area). But... I am a NEWB to the extreme with a metal detector. The GPZ-7000 is definitely state of the art and obviously a great/expensive detector. But I have not even found a single nugget with my VLF detector (mainly because I've only used it for my tailings and a few short metal detecting sessions)
I see a few options
1) Forget it. Stick with panning/highbanking - your outta your league son.
2) Try to become proficient with a VLF. If you start finding nuggets, then consider taking the plunge (i'm leaning towards this)
3) Go big or go home. Spend the money, learn the detector, and potentially find a bonanza of nuggets that others have passed over with predominantly older VLF detectors. In the end, we all dream of finding MONSTER nuggets -- this will make this possibility much more likely, but at a significant cost.
What would you do? (Lets assume for the moment that you have the money for the purchase so that isn't an issue)
You guys have really helped guide me on many issues this last year, so I'm going to the well again =)
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