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Is there anyone out there that propects for gold with either the g2 or gold bug?

I have before. Found my first nuggett with the Gbpro. It does like hotrocks I use it in a large pit that was dug by highhoes.On and in the bedrock is iron pyrite cubes that set off the machine something fierce.My buddy had better luck with a Infinium with a small coil-no hot rocks.I have yet to try and ground balance over a hot rock it may help.

I have tried in the river but with no luck.
 
I do it works pretty good. I can get small boot tacks at a few inches depth. I also found my biggest nugget with it. It is alot of work, and you will get alot of trash. Hot rocks are not to bad you can GB it some by pushing the GB button over hot rocks. Just work on bed rock It seems to work best their.
 
After doing some dredging back in the 80's I have been out of prospecting for the past 20+ years until this year when I decided to get a detector. The dealers I spoke with really tried to push me towards a Minelab but I have limited time to prospect and wasn't sure I was ready to make the investment so against their advice I bought a GB Pro. I joined a club so I would have some areas to get started in and after about 20-25 hours of learning the machine and digging every signal I found my first nugget. Since then I have found a number of pieces from about half the size of a grain of rice to a little over a half ounce. All were found in an area with lots of hot rocks and trash that has been heavily hunted for years. I think the machine is very capable if you take the time to learn it and have the patience to keep hunting.
 
this great to know, where i'm located in maine i live near a famous river for getting gold, placier and what is called picker sized on average but once in a while you here that someone will get .053 gram nugget, the place is hammered during the summer and full of hot rocks, thanks for the info!
 
You can give detecting a good go but sometimes it is just better to use a gold pan than a metal detector. I am afraid you live in one of those places. The gold is just too small for detecting to be very effective.

Steve Herschbach
 
I've tried panning and believe it or not i have more patients detecting than i would panning and that i've seen people catch gold rings out there before just messin in the water?
 
Ok - I've given this advice before but here it is again. If you go to a known placer area and the placers contain mostly small fine gold you should look for Lead. Lead and gold travel together to a great extent. Once you have located the lead, get your sluice or pan and work the gravels. I have had great success with this.
 
Use the meter to find high concentrations of magnetic sand.Then you can mark out the streak with some sort of flags,markers.Seen a video of some dude doing this on a inside river bend-mark out the black sand streak, then got his high banker/dredge and worked it.
 
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