Hello, folks. I'm new to prospecting and originally from Oklahoma. Now in Nevada. Bought an MXT a few weeks ago, some Superphones, and three coils(the standard 950, and then a 6x9DD shooter, and the 9x12DD(hope I got those measurements right!).I dont want anyone's secret locations or anything. I guess I am having a hard time figuring out where to go from the book's terminology that I have read. I mean, I am supposed to be looking for areas where "coarse gold" has been found before, right? I wanted to get your fella's opinion about some general places here in Nevada. Any good advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Ghost towns
elamar and Rhyolite. Any sense hunting for gold in ghost towns at all?Osceola, Island Mountain, Tuscarosa.
When books are mentioning that "gold has been found in gravels 4-6 feet deep", this means by a shaft, right? So then no gold nuggets near the surface that a metal detector could find? Or would tailings be in these type of places as well?
I'm simply not able to rightly assess what to make of the descriptions a lot of these mining and placer gold locations books are relating. They seem to mention placer gold more along the lines of creek beds, shafts, dry washers, stamp-mills, and panning, and next to nothing about gold nuggets found along hillsides or what have you.
On a different note, I read Larry Sallee's book "Zip, Zip" and he helped field test the MXT, and he advises working with only one detector and one set of quality headphones, and in reading this forum, I've noted that a lot of you guys have experience using several different detectors. Would you guys disagree with Sallee's opinion, and if you had only one detector to choose among your arsenal for your detector, what would it be?
Hope I dont sound like a total idiot. Thank you!