Your deepest nugget found with a vlf

[Grumpie]

Thought this would be an interesting topic it's well known that vlf machines are shallow penetrating detectors when compared to pi machines but with some of the newer advancements of vlf machines I'm thinking that gap has started to close a bit.

 

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[63bkpkr]

about 8" down under a hunk of bedrock doing the "Lanny" thing.......63bkpkr

 

[Grumpie]

Larry Sallee claimed to have found a 3oz nugget, which I believe he said, was 17" deep. I'm assuming it was with the gold master 11.

I was wrong about Larry Sallee claiming to have found a 3 oz nugget at 17" it was a 1.5 oz. I've never found a 1.5 oz nugget before but I'm gonna have to try bearing a 1.5 oz lead weight in the yard at 17" just to see if the nokta will pick it up. The soil here is much milder than in Arizona.

 

[Terry Soloman]

About 7" with a Goldbug II. The nugget was 2.5 grams.

 

[Grumpie]

About 7" with a Goldbug II. The nugget was 2.5 grams.

Nice

 

[Grumpie]

about 8" down under a hunk of bedrock View attachment 1389791 doing the "Lanny" thing.......63bkpkr

Very cool

 

[bug]

In an air test, or in a mild non mineralized ground type, the depth distance may be close to a PI detector, but once you get into mineralized ground where most gold is found, a vlf is not a real deep seeker. VLFs definitely have their place though, but for outright depth a PI is the way to go.