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"Jon Anderson" wrote in message
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On 2/1/2011 10:19 PM, Steve B wrote:

She built a viewer out of 4" PVC with a glass bottom, and walked the
creek.
In the first week, she found one nugget the size of a golfball, and
several
smaller ones of good weight. Hugh gave up on all the heavy stuff and
just
used the underwater viewer after that.


Another neat item, though a lot pricer, is the White's Goldmaster, tuned
specifically for gold.

The 16 to 1 mine in Allegehaney, California, has taken to using metal
detectors quite a bit. They found one dang decent size specimen in a well
traveled tunnel, just a foot or two inside the rock. They'd been walking
right by it for many years and had no clue it was there.


Jon


IIRC, they are the prime method of finding gold in Australia, and companies
have even made specific models to deal with Australian soils. I have been
using mine for looking for meteorites. None yet, but some possible
specimens. I use three neodymium 1.5" disks right now, and boy, you can
hear it when something clicks and jumps on the magnets. Will have these
analyzed at some time, there is a lot of iron in the soils hereabout, the
next county north being Iron county, and iron ore to make cast iron has been
mined there for 150 years now.

Steve