ANZAC Day Gold - NZ

Hi guys, Back down in my beloved Central Otago. Went out into some old gully prospect digs from the early 1860's with my GP 3000 & joey mono.







Total for the day



Good luck out there

JW

Hi Kiwiji,

Very nice land mate, love the look of the photo. By the way bloody good effort with the 3000, just imagine what you could find with a 5000 and a 6" to 8" coil, I bet you would triple your nugget ratio.

Go for it

Mariner3800

beautiful looking country kiwiji and
great gold, good job!
cheers
bedroci

Very nice country side and the gold not to bad either. congrats on your finds.

Cheers.

Mike.

Thanks guys for the comments.

Well I went back in the weekend to a similar area with the same kind of prospect diggings.



Managed these little suckers.



I take note of the comment "Imagine how many more you would get with a GPX 5000"

I would love to try one just to see what it would get that my 3000 mightent be. We dont have the highly mineralised ground that you guys have. I can always run a mono without any issues unless I get too close to an electric fence or high voltage powerlines.

This weekends gold was found using a Nugget Finder 12 X 7 mono.

Also found these nice little specimens.



Close up of the bigger one



Good luck out there & happy hunting

JW

Hi kiwijw. Great finds and photos. Thanks for sharing your success. Did you weigh them?

Hi there Hey Presto, Yes weighed them. Just over 5 grams all up for the lot. So not much weight. The bigger speci was just under 2 grams. I actualy did better tonight after work with 7 grams. Will put pics up tomorrow of that lot.

Cheers

JW

Very nice species there KiwiJW, congrats on your finds and hope there is plenty more there for you.

Cheers.

Mike.

Thanks Mike, I would really love to find where those speci's are coming from. They dont look to have traveled very far but dambed if I can. The boys from the Golden Triangle videos sure gives me inspiration & hope.

Cheers & all the best to you out there.

JW

Whacko kiwijw! You've done better with your 3000 than most of us on our later models. Don't change a thing you're doing, and don't waste your money on a newer model. You're finding fantastic fine gold. Well done.

Hi there Goldsniff, Thanks for those words. Funny you should say that. I was looking to
up "grade" to a 4500 a couple of years ago & a few people said to me that I shouldnt bother due to our quiet ground & the extra cost there wouldnt be much advantage. Also I know the 3000 inside out & the learning curve of a new machine seemed very daunting. The 3000 suits me just fine but it would be interesting to try a later model. I do know that 4500's have been over the same ground but I am still pulling gold off it after them.

I went out last night after work for 3 hours & got 9 bits for just under 7 grams. Again I was using the 12 x 7 NF mono.



I find night time the best time to detect. No solar influence. Detector runs nice & quiet. With a headlamp on it is so much easier to concentrate & focus on the ground you are covering with the beam of light shining up only a small amount of ground at a time. Makes you cover every bit with the coil & nice & slow before moving on. No stone left unturned.

Here is the flip side of the bigger speci I got in the weekend



Happy hunting

JW

Please don't rub in your excellent finds with your 3000 too much kiwijw. Your 3000 is finding smaller bits there in Kiwi-land than most of us find over here with our complicated GPX's. For your own curiosity, maybe you could invite someone from over here to bring their GPX 4000/45000/5000 so you can try it out sometime? Then we could all learn about the differences between countries and between detector capabilities.