Nevada Gold found with Whites GMT

[Steve Herschbach]

Nevada Gold found with White's GMT

Closeup of a 1.7 gram specimen I found recently near Winnemucca, NV with my White's GMT. This and a few other pieces are my first Nevada gold! The GMT is excellent on gold like this that PI detectors have a hard time seeing. I could not get my GPX 5000 to see this little specimen even on top of the ground. The GMT had no problem getting it several inches into the ground.

 

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[G.A.P.metal]

Steve
That piece is just beautiful...thanks for posting it !
Gary

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

beautiful specimen

 

[Aufisher]

WOW! Amazing!

 

[goldenIrishman]

Steve... You keep posting pics of finds like that and you're going to give everyone here a bad case of "Detector Envy"! Really nice find!

 

[JohnnyFlake]

Very Nice!!!

 

[taternut]

That piece is amazing! I'm jealous!!

 

[Lanny in AB]

With the 5000, which coil were you using?

Beautiful, beautiful gold.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Nugget Finder 9" x 14" Advantage Mono. You might argue a smaller coil would see this piece but the fact is PI units are well known to have problems with porous specimens and wire gold. There is a wide spread presumption the expensive units must be best for everything but they are often trumped by VLF units.

Don't get me wrong, my GPX is my main gold getting machine! But right tool for the job. I spent a day and a half pounding this location with the GPX for nothing but bullets, then went to the GMT and had gold in less than 30 minutes. Got another similar specimen and two small nuggets.

I almost always start with the GPX hoping to score big. I always have a time limit though within which I will switch to a VLF and look for tiny gold. I hate getting skunked and can almost always sniff out some gold with a hot VLF. May be just a speck, but it beats nothing at all.

 

[Aufisher]

Glad your on this forum Steve!

 

[63bkpkr]

VLF or PI

Hi Steve,
The slightly magnified picture of your find adds just enough improvement of clarity to show just how lovely that find really is! And found with a GMT and the 5000 would not pick it up on top of the ground, interesting! Thank you for sharing with us the find as well as the details......................63bkpkr

This is why I am hoping the new Garret PI unit causes others to bring out improved PI units, some healthy competition and new technology please!

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Late and have to get up early, but nature of the PI beast. You can build a PI with a short pulse delay that will easily hit gold like this. But then you light up the hot rocks and bad ground and are no better off than having a VLF. There is actually a place where ground and gold readings meet and overlap. My GPX ran smooth and quiet but missed the gold. The GMT lit up the ground and hot rocks and ran noisy - would have foiled a less trained ear. But it also lit up the gold. Mull on that one!

 

[Goldwasher]

Manual or auto GB?

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Manual. I do not like the small target response on the GMT when run in tracking.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Steve, that is just downright gorgeous! Nice find. My lifelong best friend is down in that area, running a huge expansion project at Allied Nevada. He keeps talking about going out looking, but never seems to find the time. I'll email him that pic...should get him moving...LOL
Jim

 

[Jim Hemmingway]

One of the handsomest specimens ever Steve... WTG.

Jim.

 

[EagleDown]

Well, Darnit! Looks like I need to set the TDI aside and go back over the area(s) with my MXT. Lot of ground to cover.

The thing I like about the TDI is that it ignores 'hot rocks', yet I can put a 1.8 gram nugget under the 'hot rocks' and it reads the nugget with no trouble. But now, I can't help but wonder how much gold I passed up.

 

[Hard Prospector]

Well, Darnit! Looks like I need to set the TDI aside and go back over the area(s) with my MXT. Lot of ground to cover.

The thing I like about the TDI is that it ignores 'hot rocks', yet I can put a 1.8 gram nugget under the 'hot rocks' and it reads the nugget with no trouble. But now, I can't help but wonder how much gold I passed up.

The TDI and MXT make a great team.