Hi fellow yellow hunters,
Just updating thread with some outstanding findings today, you will see what I mean by outstanding when you get to the end, enjoy.
Well the day was a bit muggy and a few drops of rain. Enough to put the plastic bag over the control box, Arrived at the location around 2:45pm today. After the long trek into the bush. Finally arrived at the spot and had the usual drink break, suited back up ready to see what the afternoon will bring.
After firing up the machine little EMI - quick tune and balance, final adjustment of the settings and away I was.
I also took my brother out again swinging away on the GP3500 with the 11" Elite. Before I post up the finds let me share with you something funny about today, my brother is aware of the settings on the GP3500 as he use to come out with me when I only had the GP3500 - I would let him have a swing when I wanted a break, or to at least not feel like I was not involving him. He use to have a ball just following along, checking out the grounds, and also using the pin pointer when I would find targets, we would share on digging and getting the targets out etc etc.
So he has a pretty good understanding of the machine, but never touched the dials or buttons, I guess because he always seen how many pieces of gold I would find that he always knew the detector is setup pretty much perfect.
So today after about 1 1/2 hours he was walking over towards me around this lower section, so I switched off my detector and headed over to see how he was going, well he looked very frustrated to say the least, you know how you can just tell something is up. So I asked whats up everything ok, he said "Im over this thing its noisy as hell and it is doing my head in" My brother was so use to the DD Pro coil and now it is Mono, I explained that it will be more sensitive on the higher mineral area's like reds and irons etc.
He said "I need to balance this thing every single step I take, its crap" He said there is a spot up the hill and just over there thats noisy as hell everywhere, and the noises are moving all over the place" later he showed me this area.
Really you shouldnt need to do that. Let me check to see what it is doing. So I grabbed the detector and put the headphones on, whoa. Instantly I knew what the problem was.
Haha - normally I have the Threshold around 1 o'clock on the GP3500 - well somehow this thing must have been bumped or he hit a stick or maybe it happened in the car before we got there. This thing was BUZZING not humming - It was roughly at 4 oclock haha almost on full threshold. I adjusted it back and checked all other settings, everything else was ok, when he put the headphones back on - he was like "Well thats heaps better and I was going to give up for the day because it was driving me insane"
I said "I bet you it was any wonder, and also everywhere you have walked you will need to do it again". He laughed, I said you can change the settings if you like, adjust volume, or change the signal or tone, if the threshold goes a bit soft or slightly raises you can change it to keep that nice mozzie hum. He said "no I will leave it the way you have it".
I asked him to show me one of the area's where it was just noisy everywhere so I could advise on the outcome, whether it was high concentration of hotrock, ironstones etc - well we get to this spot and I fired up the GPX - you know why it is noisy everywhere? Not because of this new mono, its because there is actually crap everywhere you swing. There would have been a section 5 mtrs by 5 mtrs and this was full of extremely loud signals maybe 15 or so within this contained area.
Anyway back to the gold finds.
Well for me, today the fourth target was Gold, and what a good start for the day.
1. Nice little piece of yellow - and thats the start for the day - good to hit one early and the depth was great - couldnt hear this at first but because it was a dip in the ground full of sticks and composty stuff - I cleaned it out roughly 100mm thick and then hit this faint sound. You can see the amount of stuff removed out, all of that black compost type material
2. Im not going to explain all of the next finds, they are all exactly the same, very medium to faint signals roughly 1 to 3 inches down.
3. A kinder surprise and another nice little piece of Gold - some of these small pieces were a challenge, I think one took about 15 minutes and it was only an inch down, everytime I broke the ground around it, the gold would fall deeper. And when I eventually had it in the scoop it fell out. And another 5 or so minutes just to find it. This piece was easy because it was contained within.
4. Another small piece - check how big the scrape area is - these mono's can be a battle to pinpoint with sometimes, compared to the dd.
5. Check how small this piece is
6. Sitting on red clays - this piece was in the upper section on the red clay, appeared to be white clay material - this ground that I was searching here was pretty much clay surface where it had been surfaced into mullocks.
7. And thats the clean up for today - 9 pieces of gold in total, and roughly the same in other little junky pieces along the way.
After a few drinks and food breaks today, my brother and I chatted about the day so far, he mentioned he was digging a couple of pieces of the usual junk but nothing else. So we finished for the day and headed back home. On arrival home I usually have a coffee, clean the gold take the images, reduce the size for the forum, then start my post.
Well I done all of that, and when I went back into the kitchen area my brother says check out my finds for today, he had the biggest pile of junk I have seen in one day detecting.
Check this out - tell me thats not persistent - all of those screw heads or nail heads, all in the same hole.
And after all of that he pulls out this as well.
I said to my brother, "you know the best thing about getting all those targets," he replied "whats that" - My comment was "Now I dont have to dig them"
All in all was another great day spending time with my brother - he is back at work for a few days. But hopefully get some detecting in again with him next year.
Hope you enjoyed the post
Another great day and 9 + 1 total for the day 10 pieces.
Dont forget to check out my December finds of the month in the competition section
Regards M.G
