Had Doubts But Not Anymore.

bloodgold2 wrote:

golden wrote:Bravo M & J.


Hehe i like your line i got tired and Jan took over.


Just give girl some credit


Great start with a new toy.

Well done. Beautiful nuggets.


Cmon young Mick (just wait until he fires up )



Good luck guys.


GoldEN

Hi Golden, yeah the oldies are sure giving abit of whoop arse to the young fella ATM but normally youth and determation wins out in the end Good luck Mick you got abit of catching up to do!!

  Bloodgold2, your talking about age here I'm a guessing

It was an eye opener to see Mike & Jen come home with thous two bits, Well done to the both of them

  This has given me back some confidence in the machines, Time will tell.

Jen,
Save your video to your hard drive then it should be simple upload to YouTube, copy the link and post it via the YouTube icon on the top bar.
You can also post it via "flash" icon.
Good luck

Peter

Thanks all, yes we are really glad that these nice nugs were waiting for us and the GPZ to come and ping them out. This area we have found all size and at different depths, so I thought it the best spot for our first good try with the Zed. I am Farley confident that the bigger one would have been missed by the GPX, but the 10grm was a better response from the top before disturbing the ground, but I did notice when I started to scrape the ground with my pick, that it looked as if it had been scraped a long time ago had a hollow look about it. So who knows maybe someone may have heard a faint sound with an older machine and thought it just ground noise. As this area is Farley variable in mineralization especially to the older machines.

G'day Steve, no we weren't using either the bungy or swing arm, but you can't swing it for to long, I found if you are not getting many sounds then my arm was starting to ache. This is why I only detected for about 1/2hr and Jen took over for a little go. We did find you have to adjust the stem just right for yourself and this does make it more comfortable.

Cheers.

Mike.

Nightjar wrote:Jen,
Save your video to your hard drive then it should be simple upload to YouTube, copy the link and post it via the YouTube icon on the top bar.
You can also post it via "flash" icon.
Good luck

Peter

Hi Peter
Yep have files on harddrive.
Where will I find this icon? Left or right hand side of screen..
I will turn my crappy lap top back on and look again.. I feel it may be full of virus as well.
Should see the silly adds popping up 
Thanks Peter

Awesome finds and great start with zed. Good to hear reports on deeper finds too well done.

Good on you Mike and Jen
What a fantastic start with the new machine
cheers dave

Thanks UTBN (Jase) for your congrats and I also send my congrats to you on your great finds too.

Cheers.

Mike.

Detrackozi wrote:Mike&Jen
I thought I said that 51 gram would cover the cost of the cover  It was a nice piece to have in your hand
It was good to meet you both today all the best on that patch.

David

  You had your chance when Mike past it over to you,
you should have went running out the door    
And Mike wouldn't had any hope of catching you either 

It was nice to met you a well David. 

Thankyou to everyone..

We really didn't have any faith in this machine, after all the talk.. That's why we never bothered to take along the other machines, I just brought my sdc2300 along to try and ping a few tiddlers 
But then I thought I had better keep an eye out on Mike, so I just followed him around, carry his water 
( got my chance at using the new beast as well  )

Found the sdc2300 came in handy though, I had to go get it from the car, it helped to pin point the gold, once it could hear it, that is.
We left our pinpointer at home as well 

Fingers crossed the gold we found with the GPZ7000 weren't just fluky finds.

But the 51 grammer was down a fair way, even though in the video it doesn't look like it..
Even the 10 grammer was down a bit, under tree roots.. Small tree roots.
Hope that this machine pings a few more deep ones.
Mike has some more deep ground areas to try, once he has finished with this area.

So fingers crossed it's not a one off find.

Nightjar wrote:Great effort Mike/Jen, now we are seeing what the new machine is all about.
All we need now is comparison with the target still in the ground.

Cheers
Peter

 Yes peter. 
I wish we had of done the comparison test. 
Now we shall never know for sure
You all know what it's like when you get a sound?
 Don't think     as you want to know what it is, 
get all excited and you hope it doesn't turn out to be junk.
Once we dug down over a  foot, we wished we had of brought the 5000 along.. As by that stage we were 80 % sure it was going to be gold
it was way to late by then. 

Congratulations Mike & Jen.    Couple of great nuggets there - drool!!

Thanks AnnieL,

Yes these are our best ones we have found in Vic for quite a few years now. Since we have been going over to WA that is.

Cheers.

Mike.

AnnieL wrote:Congratulations Mike & Jen.    Couple of great nuggets there - drool!!

Thankyou Annie
How's your wrist? How long before you can use it again?

Nice finds!!! I really like the bits of quartz in those beautiful slugs. A few more of those and the GPZ is paid for!! Idaho Les

Wow! Great shooting with the GPZ

LuckyLundy

Yes!!! Congrats!!! Hey Jen, I see you made good use of that voucher i got you. Sorry Mike, but if it had been your birthday i would have given it to you. Well done once again, Harry.

Well done Mike and Jen. Hoping this is just the beginning for you both finding big gold. Young Mike it's your turn next mate. Jen you only have $7,700 to go and your machine is paid for I'll see you all later this arvo and I'll bring down a crowbar and a long handle shovel also my 5000
wombat

slimpickens wrote:Yes!!! Congrats!!! Hey Jen, I see you made good use of that voucher i got you. Sorry Mike, but if it had been your birthday i would have given it to you. Well done once again, Harry.
******. Jen check your PM's quick. I mean, right now!!!

For the  Voucher  Harry.. It worked a treat.

LuckyLundy wrote:Wow!  Great shooting with the GPZ

LuckyLundy

 Thankyou 

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IDAufinder
Nice finds!!!  I really like the bits of quartz in those beautiful slugs.  A few more of those and the GPZ is paid for!! Idaho Les

Thankyou Les
Yes they aren't bad pieces at all. 

Wombat wrote:Well done Mike and Jen.  Hoping this is just the beginning for you both finding big gold. Young Mike it's your turn next mate. Jen you only have $7,700 to go and your machine is paid for  I'll see you all later this arvo and I'll bring down a crowbar and a long handle shovel also my 5000
wombat

Thanks Bill
We need someone with a shovel and crowbar to dig these holes 

Congratulations Mike & Jen, Great Nuggets for first blood of the 7000. The future looks bright.
                                We hope to be at the geological centre of Vic. next week when it looks to be cooler.But only using our old 45's.
                                Cheers
                               "TWO BOB"

It could not have happened to better people.
A just reward for you (lack of) faith in the 7000

Please leave some for us users of outdated, outmoded, worn out old detectors from Minelab

Better take a chainsaw as well as Bill's garden tools

Good on ya!!!

Robert

Well done again Jen and Mike.....Minelab should knight you with the 'Order of Saving the Sinking Ship Award'....lol.......what's more it could not happen to two more deserving folk....and we all know your story/finds are the' real deal'...
perhaps Minelab could consider giving you the first of the new big coils for the 7000 when available...you continuing to find nuggets <which you no doubt will> is far more effective than any advertising blurb/ costs they could ever put out...
Good luck...Hoo Roo

Hmmmm? Not many gold bearing white pipe clay deposits up that  way.
I recall working an outcrop back in the late seventies using a Relic Magnum 7. The ground was quiet so even that tecta worked ok there. ....That was the ONLY area that I could get any sense out of that tecta.

adrian ss wrote:Hmmmm? Not many gold bearing white pipe clay deposits up that  way.
I recall working an outcrop back in the late seventies using a Relic Magnum 7. The ground was quiet so even that tecta worked ok there. ....That was the ONLY area that I could get any sense out of that tecta.

It wasn't in white pipe clay.   
It has quartz through it.
If you notice pictures can lie.. Look at real estate.. Gee don't some of the houses look clean and neat 

I have given HOBO'Sgold the USB stick to upload to YouTube for us.
He is out with our son, trying the new beast at the moment.
So once he gets back home and he has the time, he will put it on for all of us.

Gee Robert & Larry
What can I say..

  BOTH.  For your kinds words..

Robert.. I won't be buying the new machine either ....I too will be using the older ones.. 
But now again I might sneak by,  when Mike isn't looking and take it for a swing.
Only one problem. I will still need him to dig the holes 

Did you hear that Bill!!!!!! Bring your chainsaw  

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Wouldn't that be nice Larry.. If minelab would let the boys use the new coils when they first come out.
But I doubt it 

I know our young fella would put it through it's paces.

I cn see tha qtz but the rest of the white stuff looks like kaolin ta me.
The place that I detected way back was a large area of exposed kaolin with narrow qtz reefs running through it. It had been heavily mined in the early days...Just a hot rocks toss from Dunolly.

adrian ss wrote:I cn see tha qtz but the rest of the white stuff looks like kaolin ta me.
The place that I detected way back was a large area of exposed kaolin with narrow qtz reefs running through it. It had been heavily mined in the early days...Just a hot rocks toss from Dunolly.  

I have been told there's No gold left in Dunolly   
    

Nah it didn't come from there.. Keep guessing 

You will see the colour of the dirt and hole on the vid..
But please remember.... It's the first time I have used the camera.

The same day I did the Kaolin patch I also left a nice broard mellow signal in the ground just a tad down from the Matrix Reef (Rehola). Went back a couple of weeks later and the area had been pegged with a Mining Lease.
    Why did I leave it in the ground?? Well it was very dark and stormy night, the hole was approx 2 foot deep, the signal was strong and I could not see the end of me pick, so I filled it in and planned to come back the following weekend. I was in the RAAF at the time so it was two weeks later.
    I often wonder if anybody snagged a big nugg just a bit SE of the reef and down the hill a bit.

No gold left in Dunolly!!??
That's a bit like saying that a White pointer won't bite yer head off if you pat it tenderly on the nose.

Great finds, Mike  

They will help considerably with your positive thinking with the new 7000,

Phil