Great points Chris🤙 Thank goodness I have a cheap metal detector and I'm still new in prospecting for gold, now all I need to do is go out and not be afraid to fail and also dig everything🌟⛏️😁
If you think about it, there were many gold miners that kept their claim secret to prevent claim jumpers from stealing their gold. So staying just on well known claims might be less prosperous than looking on unclaimed or unowned land that most wouldn't think to check.
When I took the advice “ dig it all take your trash with you “ the quality of my finds increase dramatically. I also became adept at digging holes that when filled in were almost invisible.
Your spot on, been out with blokes that have done exactly that dismissed targets due too loud response. I ask my mate the other month, aren't you going to dig that?(nope rubbish), I dug it 10 grammar @half an inch down. Was out in heavily worked area other day, got extremely loud target between two diggers hole, dug out hole closes to the target down around three foot to find two large pieces of lead in the bell out part of the bottom of hole, 7.5kg of lead wishing that was gold, thou got a lot of sinker making material.
We don't know that much about where this large nugget was found apart from it was in the Golden Triangle near Ballarat. We also don't know when the nugget was found. It is unlikely that a new prospector will sit on a large nugget for a long time, maybe a few days or weeks. Now as Chris documented last year, we had some pretty wild weather late last year across much of Australia. In Victoria we had a lot of rainfall and streams, gullies, creeks and rivers were overflowing with vast amounts of water, which equals large erosion events and the shifting of soil and vegetation and rocks. It could well be that this nugget was brought closer to the surface by the erosion of material above or around it and that put it within the sensing depth of his detector. Again, being a new prospector he might have tried searching a freshly eroded area and been the first person to pass over that nugget with a modern detector even if it wasn't the most powerful detector. Or the nugget might have been buried under a tree which fell during one of the storms and the prospector simply scanned the root ball pit on the off chance of a hit? We will probably never know the full details of the find, but I strongly suspect that last year's weather events played a significant part in the finding of that nugget. Mark from Melbourne Australia
absolutely so true.. I just finished detecting a spot with so much rubbish I gave up. I really need to go back and dig it all up. After all this is my hobby. I am not doing this for a living. I can just enjoy the possibilities...
For sure, dig everything... I did, I'd been digging junk for 3hrs and came across a screaming signal, and was thinking it's just going to be another piece of junk only to find a 11.9g piece of gold.... Mind you I have had my detector for for 5-6 years and that was my 2nd piece I have found 🤣😂 Thanks for the video Chris Cheers 👍🤓✌️
Me personally think it’s a little bit convenient that gold hits 3 grand a ounce and this huge specimen is found by what people would say is a cheap detector
I.was told by a old digger if you have a strong signal dig it up and always check the hole again. Looking forward too the video on that 11g ore sample. Your expression was priceless.
I agree! Was just thinking of all the things I found in my first few months of detecting before I started dismissing targets from my experience in spending hours digging cans and bottle tops. Now I run through a small area taking the nice sounding targets and then grid off and take my time. Crazy thing is working slowly and methodically gets a lot of caps and lead and canslaw but when that gets taken away there is a treasure of roofing nail heads and old copper nails that make it all worth while. :) Along with treasures. Treasure to me is something that makes me wonder about the last person to possess the item.
When I was shown the tips and tricks by an older fella who had been detecting for years. The one main thing he repeated over and over. He said. DIG ALL TARGETS, CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW UNLESS YOU DO
I dig all target refuardless. Alum can be melted lead turned to gold( spray paint) and steel hammered to an ugly tent stake If it rings dig it. Remember the treasure is only the bonus it’s the adventure we seek
Thank you so much for that amazing insight and encouragement mate! So inciteful and motivating. New prospected here . Only a few hours of prospecting with my Nokta Makro Gold Kruzer under my belt. The ground is just beginning to thaw here in Western Canada. You’ve helped light a big fire under my motivation to go explore with my detector and I’m so looking forward to the adventures in store for me ahead in the coming summer season. (I still have to get a good handle on tamping down my bearanoia tho! Lol) Life is far to short to not go have fun doing something I’ve always wanted to do and your little talk today reinforces that it’s the journey and not 100% sticking to and getting overly proficient in any one particular methodology and perfecting it. It’s more just about having fun and learning along the way! I can’t wait! Thank you and cheers! Your awesome :)
Great video ! I run a VLF detector (GB2) and dig every target. I always sweep the hole again after finding junk because the old timers stashed a lot of specimens under the trash pile to retrieve later...and sometimes the junk has value too!
Indeed it pays to keep an open mind. Is ignorance bliss, in this case clearly yes. Great verbal and perspective. Mindset is everything. Be well, thank you Chris.
I've been metal detecting for 35 years im 52 and I can tell you I dig everything that doesn't give an iron sound and depending on where I am I dig every iron sound if there's a chance of civil war stuff I found so many Canon balls in a corn field in Hatfield a small town In Pa that sounded Horrible I ues a whites mxt its old it's beat up but I love it however it's really time for a replacement
I dug two nails dug a big hole left the target found, an 18 gram bit near buy i might go back and reinvestigate the signal , i would be devastated if the hole was opened up loll .i come across many targets like this , i honestly believe the nugget was found in an open field on private property or excavation works. The old miners threw out my 18 gram bit as it was ironstone covered, big bits like the one found would not have been left behind on old digging's.
To myself I dig all targets irrespective. That's how back 4 yrs ago I detected an area that was and still is full of trash targets . I still 2 pieces of gold in amongst the trash area. Why did I find those bits because no one else wanted to spend the time to look. Everyone has walked past it or thought yep too much junk trash no chance of gold ,well how wrong were they. Just proves a point of have a go check it , dig all targets as you maybe lucky enough like the person you described in your video.
I still use my Whites 6000D Coinmaster.... Yeah Im that old.... And in two months, Im heading to a littel area that i know for the last year has had massive floods through it... Thats allot of earth that I know has been moved..
U you find a big gold nugget one day Chris just follow ferns nose, my dogs have just stopped in there tracks and made me look at where they have stopped and OMG the amount of coins and $50 notes,silver earrings they have found me just on our daily walks has been amazing so if fern stops somewhere check the ground around her u will never know if you don’t look
That's exactly what I thought straight up ... would have screamed on the better detectors but the fact it with a VLF machine you can use the numbers to discriminate... the fact he was an amateur lead to the find for sure I reckon
Don't ever underestimate the equinox 800. It's a real gold hunting beast if you really know how to use it. The 700 and 900 are really just same machine with more options but over all same.
I found a 18k 9 gram ring and I was digging everything but then I changed my settings to another stop digging so many pull tabs now I can’t find nothing so I’m just going back to factory settings and start digging everything again. The only I can only search for a hour a day because my body is falling apart
I’ve seen it happen but it’s because somebody with experience or they’ve taken advice from somebody with experience so they’re in a good spot to start with! So they’ll be in a good area and they’ll go right to the middle of a trash pit or dig target to normal detector wouldn’t dick and presto but it was somebody was experience that got them in that spot! My first two hours of running a detector I got three nuggets from one penny wait to 3weight and a 3 1/4 ounce Nugget!! That was like in 1985 a gold bug! I’ve seen it happen to a few beginners I seen one guy get an 8 ounce or in a couple guys get over a pound piece when they were first beginning but it was because of the professional that had put them on the spot is a very good teacher! Dig everything‘s a bunch of bullshit but it does happen usually if you have a big metal target on top of a nugget like we’re an old timer was digging and broke off a pick point! You get enough experience you don’t need to discriminator you can tell the difference I’ll leave the junk for the amateurs I want the gold! Not saying I won’t come back prepared with the right tools and clean up trash so I can get the nuggets in between it in the trash areas but when I’m normally detecting unless I’m in a really good area cleaning up trash. The more gold knowledge you have the better off you’ll be follow the old-timers is the best advice I could give anybody research and where there were been working. The reason why you don’t hear about all the nuggets in gold found it because that’s the first thing you learn is to keep your mouth shut because gold fever is very serious it will drive people to insanity and get get you killed. It is impossible to make sense or understand insanity how do you deal with that!
Just putting a question out there which is better equal notes Bella equal not all mine lad I have a mine lab 1000 gold monster N and was wondering if it would be equivalent to the equinox 800
Exactly right before I write a comment thought I'd better check everyone elses.Who doesn't know that by now before every holiday season same old story.
That's an interesting point. So two questions, has anyone made a list of when big nuggets were found (in say the last 20 years, not historic finds)? And if so what machines they were found with? Because I had not considered this and with they way this game works its pluasable.
@@SpudEngineering Not everyone declares their finds,I've personally held quite a few nuggets between 10oz to 112oz belonging to a members of a detecting group, I've heard that some of the bigger nugs we often see pictures of are from mining companies.
@@SpudEngineering When Minelab introduced SD and GP series detectors which were superior to earlier ones meaning there was still a lot of gold to be found compared to now.These days you need to have the latest detector to find sub grammers.
It was revealed that it was dug up just before xmas and the finder has been "cleaning it up for sale" there was whispers of a big find of around 2.5 kg at the time🤔
Dig it all!
And get off the beaten path.
Great points Chris🤙 Thank goodness I have a cheap metal detector and I'm still new in prospecting for gold, now all I need to do is go out and not be afraid to fail and also dig everything🌟⛏️😁
If you think about it, there were many gold miners that kept their claim secret to prevent claim jumpers from stealing their gold. So staying just on well known claims might be less prosperous than looking on unclaimed or unowned land that most wouldn't think to check.
When I took the advice “ dig it all take your trash with you “ the quality of my finds increase dramatically. I also became adept at digging holes that when filled in were almost invisible.
Your spot on, been out with blokes that have done exactly that dismissed targets due too loud response.
I ask my mate the other month, aren't you going to dig that?(nope rubbish), I dug it 10 grammar @half an inch down.
Was out in heavily worked area other day, got extremely loud target between two diggers hole, dug out hole closes to the target down around three foot to find two large pieces of lead in the bell out part of the bottom of hole, 7.5kg of lead wishing that was gold, thou got a lot of sinker making material.
Perfect advertisement for Minelab and Lucky strike just in time for the easter hoildays!
have the courage to dig and find nothing
It doesn't sound like courage to me...more like tenacity and sheer bloody minded persistence 😅
God put there name on it in the beginning
@@douglasbrown4775 it would be their...and, no 'they' did not
We don't know that much about where this large nugget was found apart from it was in the Golden Triangle near Ballarat. We also don't know when the nugget was found. It is unlikely that a new prospector will sit on a large nugget for a long time, maybe a few days or weeks. Now as Chris documented last year, we had some pretty wild weather late last year across much of Australia. In Victoria we had a lot of rainfall and streams, gullies, creeks and rivers were overflowing with vast amounts of water, which equals large erosion events and the shifting of soil and vegetation and rocks. It could well be that this nugget was brought closer to the surface by the erosion of material above or around it and that put it within the sensing depth of his detector. Again, being a new prospector he might have tried searching a freshly eroded area and been the first person to pass over that nugget with a modern detector even if it wasn't the most powerful detector. Or the nugget might have been buried under a tree which fell during one of the storms and the prospector simply scanned the root ball pit on the off chance of a hit?
We will probably never know the full details of the find, but I strongly suspect that last year's weather events played a significant part in the finding of that nugget.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Lol I dig every single every time, trash or not. I have a fear of “what if”. Love your stuff Chris, keep ‘em coming brother!
I have been learning lately that you dig every target.....been learning this from some Cali friends
absolutely so true.. I just finished detecting a spot with so much rubbish I gave up. I really need to go back and dig it all up. After all this is my hobby. I am not doing this for a living. I can just enjoy the possibilities...
For sure, dig everything... I did, I'd been digging junk for 3hrs and came across a screaming signal, and was thinking it's just going to be another piece of junk only to find a 11.9g piece of gold.... Mind you I have had my detector for for 5-6 years and that was my 2nd piece I have found 🤣😂
Thanks for the video Chris
Cheers 👍🤓✌️
Me personally think it’s a little bit convenient that gold hits 3 grand a ounce and this huge specimen is found by what people would say is a cheap detector
I.was told by a old digger if you have a strong signal dig it up and always check the hole again. Looking forward too the video on that 11g ore sample. Your expression was priceless.
Yeap, its aa simple as a reminder to dig everything.
Chris, I have been watching your videos for quite a while now. They are still interesting and informative. TYVM
I agree! Was just thinking of all the things I found in my first few months of detecting before I started dismissing targets from my experience in spending hours digging cans and bottle tops. Now I run through a small area taking the nice sounding targets and then grid off and take my time. Crazy thing is working slowly and methodically gets a lot of caps and lead and canslaw but when that gets taken away there is a treasure of roofing nail heads and old copper nails that make it all worth while. :) Along with treasures. Treasure to me is something that makes me wonder about the last person to possess the item.
When I was shown the tips and tricks by an older fella who had been detecting for years. The one main thing he repeated over and over. He said. DIG ALL TARGETS, CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW UNLESS YOU DO
I dig all target refuardless. Alum can be melted lead turned to gold( spray paint) and steel hammered to an ugly tent stake If it rings dig it. Remember the treasure is only the bonus it’s the adventure we seek
Thank you so much for that amazing insight and encouragement mate! So inciteful and motivating. New prospected here . Only a few hours of prospecting with my Nokta Makro Gold Kruzer under my belt. The ground is just beginning to thaw here in Western Canada. You’ve helped light a big fire under my motivation to go explore with my detector and I’m so looking forward to the adventures in store for me ahead in the coming summer season. (I still have to get a good handle on tamping down my bearanoia tho! Lol) Life is far to short to not go have fun doing something I’ve always wanted to do and your little talk today reinforces that it’s the journey and not 100% sticking to and getting overly proficient in any one particular methodology and perfecting it. It’s more just about having fun and learning along the way! I can’t wait! Thank you and cheers!
Your awesome :)
It’s an insane nugget can only hope ya find something like that someday
I'd love to see the old chisels at some stage.
Great video ! I run a VLF detector (GB2) and dig every target. I always sweep the hole again after finding junk because the old timers stashed a lot of specimens under the trash pile to retrieve later...and sometimes the junk has value too!
Indeed it pays to keep an open mind. Is ignorance bliss, in this case clearly yes. Great verbal and perspective. Mindset is everything. Be well, thank you Chris.
I've been metal detecting for 35 years im 52 and I can tell you I dig everything that doesn't give an iron sound and depending on where I am I dig every iron sound if there's a chance of civil war stuff I found so many Canon balls in a corn field in Hatfield a small town In Pa that sounded Horrible I ues a whites mxt its old it's beat up but I love it however it's really time for a replacement
Thinking outside the box can pay off Handsomely! Cheers JJ
Well put Chris. Very true. We do tend to be creatures of habit. Take care mate 😁👍
I seen that article and hoping that it was you that found it.
Great comments Chris.
Buy an icy cold chocolate Big M. Drink it, and that's gold.
Good luck mate! One of those days...just wait 🤠
I dug two nails dug a big hole left the target found, an 18 gram bit near buy i might go back and reinvestigate the signal , i would be devastated if the hole was opened up loll .i come across many targets like this , i honestly believe the nugget was found in an open field on private property or excavation works. The old miners threw out my 18 gram bit as it was ironstone covered, big bits like the one found would not have been left behind on old digging's.
Good advice. Thank you.
Besides if the find is genuine or not, great info is contained in this video Chris. Nice work!
Rule of thumb, Dig every target to know for sure!!
Assumption, confirmation bias, hubris. All can deter us from opportunity. In all aspects of life. Try it, test it, do it, say yes, join in, be active.
To myself I dig all targets irrespective. That's how back 4 yrs ago I detected an area that was and still is full of trash targets . I still 2 pieces of gold in amongst the trash area. Why did I find those bits because no one else wanted to spend the time to look. Everyone has walked past it or thought yep too much junk trash no chance of gold ,well how wrong were they. Just proves a point of have a go check it , dig all targets as you maybe lucky enough like the person you described in your video.
Spot on. Dig it dig it dig it
Like two toes says, dig all your targets.
Not a bad find for an equinox 800
First rule of metal detecting dig everything!!!
Well said!
I still use my Whites 6000D Coinmaster.... Yeah Im that old.... And in two months, Im heading to a littel area that i know for the last year has had massive floods through it... Thats allot of earth that I know has been moved..
Don’t underestimate the multi IQ capability of the 800.
U you find a big gold nugget one day Chris just follow ferns nose, my dogs have just stopped in there tracks and made me look at where they have stopped and OMG the amount of coins and $50 notes,silver earrings they have found me just on our daily walks has been amazing so if fern stops somewhere check the ground around her u will never know if you don’t look
He's a lucky bloke that's for sure
Cool story!
That's exactly what I thought straight up ... would have screamed on the better detectors but the fact it with a VLF machine you can use the numbers to discriminate... the fact he was an amateur lead to the find for sure I reckon
I will need to move to South Island maybe up near Nelson if i took up a hobby?
Its a retirement goal in 5 more years.
Abyss dredging made the right decision ?
If they want to be gold miners!
Being a UA-cam or it’s a whole different ball of wax both take a lot of work!
Chris, always appreciate you sharing your philosophy about this.
Don't ever underestimate the equinox 800. It's a real gold hunting beast if you really know how to use it. The 700 and 900 are really just same machine with more options but over all same.
I dig every signal
Another nugget came out of the closet before every holiday season.Yea right recent find as recent as 20 years ago perhaps.
I found a 18k 9 gram ring and I was digging everything but then I changed my settings to another stop digging so many pull tabs now I can’t find nothing so I’m just going back to factory settings and start digging everything again. The only I can only search for a hour a day because my body is falling apart
Biggest nugget ever found in VT was just up stream 👀
I’ve seen it happen but it’s because somebody with experience or they’ve taken advice from somebody with experience so they’re in a good spot to start with!
So they’ll be in a good area and they’ll go right to the middle of a trash pit or dig target to normal detector wouldn’t dick and presto but it was somebody was experience that got them in that spot!
My first two hours of running a detector I got three nuggets from one penny wait to 3weight and a 3 1/4 ounce Nugget!!
That was like in 1985 a gold bug!
I’ve seen it happen to a few beginners I seen one guy get an 8 ounce or in a couple guys get over a pound piece when they were first beginning but it was because of the professional that had put them on the spot is a very good teacher!
Dig everything‘s a bunch of bullshit but it does happen usually if you have a big metal target on top of a nugget like we’re an old timer was digging and broke off a pick point!
You get enough experience you don’t need to discriminator you can tell the difference I’ll leave the junk for the amateurs I want the gold!
Not saying I won’t come back prepared with the right tools and clean up trash so I can get the nuggets in between it in the trash areas but when I’m normally detecting unless I’m in a really good area cleaning up trash.
The more gold knowledge you have the better off you’ll be follow the old-timers is the best advice I could give anybody research and where there were been working.
The reason why you don’t hear about all the nuggets in gold found it because that’s the first thing you learn is to keep your mouth shut because gold fever is very serious it will drive people to insanity and get get you killed.
It is impossible to make sense or understand insanity how do you deal with that!
The more we learn, the more we realise we don't know.
Just putting a question out there which is better equal notes Bella equal not all mine lad I have a mine lab 1000 gold monster N and was wondering if it would be equivalent to the equinox 800
Just pays to dig everything up
How did you get your teeth american bright white?
200 pellets? Quiet week ey?
Lol minelab sales will boom for a month
That's the whole idea,it's all crap,happens every Easter,The start of detecting season.
Maybe a little bit of salting going on.
@@goldennuts9590 lol i called it months ago
Your a fool if you think that nugget was a recent find,Minlab do it every Easter,
Even non prospector's know this.
Exactly right before I write a comment thought I'd better check everyone elses.Who doesn't know that by now before every holiday season same old story.
That's an interesting point.
So two questions, has anyone made a list of when big nuggets were found (in say the last 20 years, not historic finds)? And if so what machines they were found with?
Because I had not considered this and with they way this game works its pluasable.
@@SpudEngineering Not everyone declares their finds,I've personally held quite a few nuggets between 10oz to 112oz belonging to a members of a detecting group,
I've heard that some of the bigger nugs we often see pictures of are from mining companies.
@@SpudEngineering When Minelab introduced SD and GP series detectors which were superior to earlier ones meaning there was still a lot of gold to be found compared to now.These days you need to have the latest detector to find sub grammers.
It was revealed that it was dug up just before xmas and the finder has been "cleaning it up for sale" there was whispers of a big find of around 2.5 kg at the time🤔
hmmmm I dunno man. Looks fake to me.
I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS.. THIS IS WHY YOU DIG EVERY TARGET.. END OF STORY.
The thing I've learned most as a detector is dig every target you never know what it will be if you don't
If your out looking you never know what you'll find we all have our days 🏴☠️⚒️🪨👍🇺🇸