Saturday, Feb 18, 2012 at 08:31
Hi Unc
Good point there. Like I said I am no expert and rely of people like you that have been there and done that.
Having said that, one chap in
Laverton that like you had been detecting for year would upgrade every 2 - 3 years with the new Minelab models. He purchased the last of the South Australian made units, from memory just over $5000.
Like you he said that the units had paid for themselves countless times over. Like all prospectors, GPS technology goes hand in hand and he wanted to see just how much better his new unit was going to be.
He said he revisited one of his old sites that he had been over time and time again, and he knew that he had found all the gold that the detectors could find there. He went straight to an old scraping that he had dug and to his surprise, the new unit went off of its head. He could not believe it and thought that something must be wrong.
Lucky for him it was not
rock, and after much digging and picking, he said he went down to nearly 1 metre down and found one very big nugget that was worth more that he had paid for the new unit.
Weather this is true, I can not say, but he said that the last of the Australian made units were the best that he had ever used, with far greater depth penetration, with his older unit good to around 500 - 600 mm depth.
He did show us some of the good nuggets that he had found over the years, some the size as a match head, and a good number bigger in size than a 10 cent piece, and two very big ones the size of 50 a cent piece. Silly me asked if he had ever found bigger ones and he said quite openly yes, but they were either sold for an income for him or locked up in a safe in a bank.
Seeing the big nuggets confirmed that it would be a real drug and you would want to keep going, never knowing when that next big one was going to be found.
Cheers
Stephen
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