I recently bought an SDC 2300 and took it with me on a trip to Tassie's west coast.
On the first day I detected 5 pieces, the largest of which weighed 0.2 grams only. Thanks to the detector, I found a crack in a creek bed that was covered in shingles and had not been recently cleaned out. I panned about a gram from just that crack. This was the first gold I found with a metal detector, yay!
Second day I went to a creek that's been worked thoroughly about 6 times over since the 1870s. I'd heard of someone recently finding a small patch of wash with gold in it, and took the SDC for a look. Sure enough in a few minutes I detected a 0.1 g small flake, and a couple of minutes later a 1.15 g piece. I found 3 very small bits, the largest 0.27 g in a remote creek that I could comfortably backpack the detector into. I can fit my tent, gear and food for 3-4 days in the bush, plus the SDC, into my 75 L pack. Total tally for the trip was 3 g.
I am amazed by the size of gold that the machine was detecting, mostly in the default sensitivity setting. Ten of the flakes in this picture were detected with the SDC 2300, and not all the bigger ones, some of which I panned. If you can afford it, I would highly recommend it. It used to be thought that Tasmania was not worth detecting for gold in, for lack of nuggets and remoteness of locations. I honestly think the SDC 2300 is changing both of those perceptions.
Cheers,
M
On the first day I detected 5 pieces, the largest of which weighed 0.2 grams only. Thanks to the detector, I found a crack in a creek bed that was covered in shingles and had not been recently cleaned out. I panned about a gram from just that crack. This was the first gold I found with a metal detector, yay!
Second day I went to a creek that's been worked thoroughly about 6 times over since the 1870s. I'd heard of someone recently finding a small patch of wash with gold in it, and took the SDC for a look. Sure enough in a few minutes I detected a 0.1 g small flake, and a couple of minutes later a 1.15 g piece. I found 3 very small bits, the largest 0.27 g in a remote creek that I could comfortably backpack the detector into. I can fit my tent, gear and food for 3-4 days in the bush, plus the SDC, into my 75 L pack. Total tally for the trip was 3 g.
I am amazed by the size of gold that the machine was detecting, mostly in the default sensitivity setting. Ten of the flakes in this picture were detected with the SDC 2300, and not all the bigger ones, some of which I panned. If you can afford it, I would highly recommend it. It used to be thought that Tasmania was not worth detecting for gold in, for lack of nuggets and remoteness of locations. I honestly think the SDC 2300 is changing both of those perceptions.
Cheers,
M
