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Date Posted: 18:03:31 07/09/03 Wed
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: ok, so whos finding gold, and what you using?
In reply to: mlgdave 's message, "ok, so whos finding gold, and what you using?" on 09:17:59 07/09/03 Wed

Dave-- as you know from "L" it is temporarily slow in the area where he has been swinging a coil. I took a quick swing around the the western half of Nevada visiting old friends and found it temporarily slow. However, there are some posting good finds on the various forums, so it is still out there.

Unfortunately gold is not a renewable resource. Once a patch is found and worked for easy gold, it takes more skill and a "better" machine. As far as finding gold, the GB-2 with the small 6.5 shoe is probably still the champ for subgrain and larger flakes/nuggets.

For the bigger/deeper the choice could probably be a Minelab SD or GS hooked up to different coils. In some instances the margin between success or failure could be the ability to hear a faint whisper od a small near-surface target, or being able to squeeze a half-inch more depth.

I really expect to see drywashing making a comeback. As you know there are a lot more areas with fine-sized gold that can be recovered by drywashing as it was 25-years ago before the VLF-type detectors. A Keene 151 can keep three or more operators busy. However, it will take teamwork and being able to reclaim as you dig to satisfy the current
"regulations."

Just my thoughts from observations I have made over the past 60 plus years. Much of the currently known surface detectable eluvial-placer gold areas have now been well pounded and the future for small miners will be for those that do a little surface preparation; such as scraping off with a hand-rake the top inch. Or being willing to hunt the trashy areas. Or to do a little drywashing as well as detecting. Or as you mention, dredging.

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