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Out of curiosity Dave
Comparing the Z 10x coil v the SDC2300 coil, what is the smallest piece that you have found with both machines
Marty

Dave wrote:
How is your 17" X-Coil going?

cheers dave

Well Dave it's like this

Despite all the controversy about how noisy the x coil is supposed to be and all

I have found a setting where it runs nice and smooth , I'm not going to openly discuss the setting anywhere
Seen way to much crap on other Forums to become part of that.

I know it works and runs just as smooth as the ML14" coil (for me anyways) and it has no worries finding the small stuff either down to .3gr at 6"
also finding so much lead shot left behind by others , makes one wonder why they are still there

If anything, it's like getting to know the Z all over again as the targets for a .5gr sound so much like junk
one just has to dig it all to be sure

Marty

Top looking pieces there Dave, well done. Go the X-Coils

Cheers Kon.

Aahrr,  some very nice eye candy there dave. Making me jealous now.
It will be about 3 weeks till we get back to the hills for another run. Got back there a few days ago for couple hours for another 2 bits of that maiden patch. With the large xcoil. .3 and .45g. Bit of cleaning will bring weight down a bit. Xcoil really proving itself.   Got that nice trip in a few days. The trial drugs have not been doing there thing so time is of the essence now.

Certainly getting the results you wanted Dave, keep them coming.

The 17”x12” X-coil is working very well for you Dave, very nice gold finds there. Congrats and thanks for sharing your nice finds.

Cheers.

Mike.

indeed proving its self mate well done I just cant get my head around the whole cable cutting thing

very nice speci dave,might be a great piece to cut into slices/half? display piece

cheers moredeep

 Damn, If only it were all gold   None the less, gold is gold. Well done Dave. Judging by the looks of your gold specimen, I get an average of +/-  17 grams of gold contained within it.  If you intend on crushing it, do let us know what the gold content comes out to.

Cheers Kon.

Sliced is the way to go first & go from there.
That 17x12 spiral, is working wonders by the looks of it.

Cheers Kon.

Dave, we tried to slice a couple nice speccies couple years ago. They were nice white quartz with good gold content, but when cut they broke apart. Either they did not like any heat, even though they were wet cut. Or the gold in them expanded the quartz breaking them. Gold soft and grabbing blade.
They were quite laden with gold and we really wanted to be able to mount slices in a gold band for pendents but that never worked.
Still worth trying, as would be nice looking with quartz and gold showing. And nothing to loose. Just keep your fines from saw. Gold dust.

Bloody ripper Dave cheers Pete.

davsgold wrote:Some more species and nuggets for the X-Coils 4.5 ozs for the week, well it's not even a full week. the weather is starting to warm up and getting windy as well, gusts upto 60 odd km/hour is a bit annoying, but hey the gold has more than made up for everything that might seem a bit annoying

130 grams and 50 grams of gold inside this one


The collection for the week 4.5 ozs of gold in these species and nuggets


cheers dave

What sg are you using for the ironstone

WOW! very nice dave

cheers moredeep

Firstly my thanks to Dave (davsgold) for making the 12" X coil available for me to test. I would point out that this is the GPX and QED compatible coil and not the GPZ one.
My testing involved both air and ground, using bundle, flat and spiral wound coils of a similar size, as well as a couple of larger and smaller coils. Real gold was used as well as a 300ml beer can.
The X coil was superior to all other coils of similar size, except when compared to the 25" Nuggetfinder using the beer can. This was naturally an air test.
The QED gave better target response on the smallest bit of gold, (pinhead size) and was far better on a 1.5 gm raggedy piece which the GPX did not like at all, but the GPX was marginally better on some of the larger bits.
The highlight of the X coil was how stable it was on the ground at my place which is gold bearing. I could run it on the QED with a mode of 1 and the gain flat out on 10. It ran very smooth and responsive on this hot setting that I could not use with any other coil on this ground.
Hotter settings can also be used with GPX and I did so with these tests.
Summing up I would say that this coil improves performance on both GPX and QED.

cheers reg, I am just about to recive the 12x6 xcoil to test on the 5000 against the evo range mainly the 12" but will try also the 15" and see how things preform cheers for your report

nice work mate

That 17X12 inch spiral wound X-Coil is certainly producing the goods Dave, well done. Can't wait to get my hands on one to test it here in Vic.

Cheers Kon.