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Gold hunting in Idaho
- Thread starter kurtallen
- Start date
sgoss66
Well-known member
kurt --
Extremely difficult question -- and nugget hunting is not something where you can just pick up a detector and head out, and expect to find gold. Learning your machine (which takes time), and THEN learning about hot rocks, cold rocks, mineralization, proper ground balance in ground of varying composition...there's alot to learn.
THEN, it matters what KIND of gold you are looking to find...very, very small flakes? Slightly larger flakes or small nuggets? Larger pieces? Gold in quartz or placer gold?
The Gold Bug Pro is a very good gold unit...that's what it was designed for. The Pro and 5" coil (or the new 5x10" coil) would be good choices for small gold; for VERY fine gold/VERY small pieces, the old Gold Bug 2 is the better unit...but not the easiest unit to use until you learn it; much less user-friendly than the Gold Bug Pro. Gold in quartz, especially just very fine veins, can be very tough to detect, as the non-uniform shape of the embedded gold generates only weak "return signal" to the unit...
Anyway, I am just trying to be honest with you -- if you want to find gold, there is quite a bit to learn, first (been there, done that...I learned very quickly that finding gold is a learned skill, not something a newbie, like myself, is going to "hit the ground running" with...)
Steve
Extremely difficult question -- and nugget hunting is not something where you can just pick up a detector and head out, and expect to find gold. Learning your machine (which takes time), and THEN learning about hot rocks, cold rocks, mineralization, proper ground balance in ground of varying composition...there's alot to learn.
THEN, it matters what KIND of gold you are looking to find...very, very small flakes? Slightly larger flakes or small nuggets? Larger pieces? Gold in quartz or placer gold?
The Gold Bug Pro is a very good gold unit...that's what it was designed for. The Pro and 5" coil (or the new 5x10" coil) would be good choices for small gold; for VERY fine gold/VERY small pieces, the old Gold Bug 2 is the better unit...but not the easiest unit to use until you learn it; much less user-friendly than the Gold Bug Pro. Gold in quartz, especially just very fine veins, can be very tough to detect, as the non-uniform shape of the embedded gold generates only weak "return signal" to the unit...
Anyway, I am just trying to be honest with you -- if you want to find gold, there is quite a bit to learn, first (been there, done that...I learned very quickly that finding gold is a learned skill, not something a newbie, like myself, is going to "hit the ground running" with...)
Steve
I have used the gold bug pro in the gold fields.In the british columbia gold fields, in my area lots of hot rocks.I know the gold bug pro detects alot of these in all metal.Key would be learning the sounds.I been told that the old gold bug 2 handles these rocks better? Maybe the higher frequency fails to detect some or the machine respondes more differant.
I know the bedrock I detect is tricky due to the fact there is alot of iron pyrite cubes with in the bedrock.These on some machines sound alot like nuggets,It fooled my tesoro vaquero in disc mode, in HIGH disc mode.The gold bug pro will ignore these in disc,on 0-which is kinda cool when there is LOTS of pyrite,it seems to still find nuggets.Does for me when I cant stand all the noise in all-metal-go disc 0 and dig every target because the pyrite is ignored.I might be missing little nuggets but I dont think I would hear them over the hotrocks.
I know the bedrock I detect is tricky due to the fact there is alot of iron pyrite cubes with in the bedrock.These on some machines sound alot like nuggets,It fooled my tesoro vaquero in disc mode, in HIGH disc mode.The gold bug pro will ignore these in disc,on 0-which is kinda cool when there is LOTS of pyrite,it seems to still find nuggets.Does for me when I cant stand all the noise in all-metal-go disc 0 and dig every target because the pyrite is ignored.I might be missing little nuggets but I dont think I would hear them over the hotrocks.
I really appreciate what you two have just explained to me. Being from Eastern Pa. is kinda easy to buy a detector and find coins. I am going to recommend a Gold Bug Pro to my cousin so we can both hunt coins when I visit and slowly learn the tricks of the trade when looking for gold nuggets. I have hunted gold nuggets once before in Southern Nevada, the guy next to me found one the size of his thumb nail, being a newbie, I was impressed and happy to find petrified wood.