[Ridge Runner]

Gary S Nuggets is like women, none ugly just some look better than others. All gold is a keeper and like you said your not going to throw it out. Best of luck on your next time out and let the ugly ones keep coming. Chuck A.

[Mtnman]

Wash him up and he'll be real presentable in town, next trip!

[Qld Sandy]

Hi Guys,
If you want ugly here's one a mate and I dug recently. It would be the ugliest I have seen for a long while. Heavy but ugly. It was found with a GP3500 and a 24" Coiltek UFO coil at 24" deep.

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[Purplehays]

Gary, Soak it in Wink and it will turn out real purty!!!! Chris Hays

[dave wiseman]

Hey Sandy,looks real good to me against that dark rock.From your posts on the Aussie forums seems like your quite the prospector.Do you do any hard rock stuff? Dave

[Qld Sandy]

Hi Dave,
I leave the hard rock mining to those that do their best work in the dark.
I enjoy detecting and the thrill of finding new spots to detect instead of following the majority around, as it is more profitable. All the best for the new year.
Regards from QldSandy.

[dave wiseman]

Hey Sandy,I know thatmost Aussies use minelab PI's,but have you heard of anyone still using vlf's with any success?.....Find some more of that ugly stuff in the new year...Dave

[Nitro 54]

Theres no such thing as a ugly nugget!!!!

[bigdigger]

QldSandy,

That's a great find! Does anyone know how much they could get for that nugget? Just curious as it looks fine to me.

[dragonboss]

Hey Sandy,I know thatmost Aussies use minelab PI's,but have you heard of anyone still using vlf's with any success?.....Find some more of that ugly stuff in the new year...Dave

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I have been a VLF man since the early eighties with first a ML 15000 then - A2B - ML Xt 17000 and now the ML Eureka. I have found a fair bit over the odd recreational weekends - but nothing big. I still reckon the A2B was one of the most stable machines I have ever used and it had a very crisp signal response. With a small coil would collect fly-shit sized chips and was great fun for the kids.

Alas its getting harder and harder with the VLF machines - particularly in the hot ground over here in Oz. I am now about to upgrade to a Pi machine but will keep the Eureka for the beach and for sentimental reasons. I have now retired - travelling the bush and coast with fishing rod and detectors so need to find a bit more than I used too.

Have successful and safe 2006.

Dragonboss

[Qld Sandy]

Hi Dave,
As Dragonboss says it is getting harder to find gold with the VLF's. I, too, started off with an A2B and found it to be an excellent stable machine. The Goldmaster 2 was a bit of a challenge as it was a noisy bugger in comparison, but deadly on little sub 0.5 gram bits. I think that machine cured me of chasing those little ones, and having trouble seeing them without glasses helped as well. LOL. Having said that we are finding gold with the PI's, some of which the old A2B would have no trouble finding. My mate (sorry, buddy to you guys I believe, as we are definitely not attracted to each other in the slightest) that I go detecting with pinged a 6 1/2 ounce solid nugget at the amazing depth of 3". This bit had obviously seen daylight as the top side was stained that orange colour that nuggets have when they are sunbakers. So they are still around if you are lucky enough to run your coil over them.

Hi Nitro54,
Please let me say that the nugget is challenged in the beautification stakes then.

Hi Bigdigger,
That piece weighs in at 414 grams and SG's at 341 of gold. I'll let you do the math for it.

Regards and Happy New Year to all.
QldSandy.