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Why the White's MXT is GREAT!

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steve herschbach

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Hi,

One picture says it all...

<img src="http://www.akmining.com/moore/101988t.jpg">

But I'll add a note. I found this beautiful 1.53 ounce gold nugget last year on Spaulding Creek, a tributary of Ganes Creek, Alaska, with my trusty White's MXT. I dug this out to sell on my website and so had to take some pictures of it. The picture does not do it justice; I need more practice getting the color balance right. When it sells (asking $1469.00) it will comfortably pay for that MXT a couple times. And it is only part of over 2 pounds of gold that MXT has found for me.

Need I say more?

Steve Herschbach
 
What does something like that come up as in VDI? I'm planning on doing some nugget shooting next spring and I'm curious. BTW, very nice find.
 
Hi DAIsup,

The larger the nugget, the higher the VDI. I found a 2.12 oz nugget the same trip that read 72. A 35 oz nugget another guy found read about 85 if I remember correctly.

If the gold in your area is normal, then it is smaller. 99% of the nuggets out there are going to read less than 50 VDI, and most of those will read under 25. So it really pays to know the history of the area you are huubting very well. I hunt creeks where finding anything over 1/4 ounce would be unheard of. So I would expect any reading over 30 VDI to be an aluminum can or steel plate.

But if the creek has a history of extremely large gold nuggets, like Ganes Creek, all bets are off. Ignoring a high VDI number could mean walking away from a 50 oz gold nugget!

Many detector scales will show rings ranging from small to large on the VDI scale. Or some show gold coins ranging from $1 to $2.50 to $5 and up to $10 and $20. he larger the gold coin, the higher the VDI readiing. Similar size gold nuggets will give roughly similar readings to the gold coins, but it can vary a lot due to factors like purity. Some gold nuggets have pretty high silver content.

When nugget hunting, you usually should dig all non-ferrous readings. Small or deep gold in mineralized ground will also read iron, so even rejecting iron signals will cost you gold if you arenot extremely careful.

Steve Herschbach
 
Hey Steve, have you ever come across a nugget that read as a high conductor on the Infinium? Kinda curious seeing as the manual says that a large enough nugget will.. but what's large enough? Going to be hunting in some areas this summer from which multi-pound nuggets have been dug. Don't want to pass one of those babies up. ..Willy.
 
Hi willy,

Yup, the 25 ounce gold specimen found at my Moore Creek Mine this summer with a Garret Infinium was low tone/high conductive.

I'm not sure where the break point is but the big ones read up in the coin range.

Steve Herschbach
 
Thanks for the reply, that's some good information to know. Maybe one of these days I'll get to up to Ganes Creek too!
 
Steve,

Have you ever used the MXT to find placer deposits in prospecting mode? I think there's a blurb in the manual about it and I'm curious on how well that method works. (i.e., high mineralization area that has a pocket of low conductive material)

I just don't see much written on that anywhere.

Todd
 
When I am looking for a spot to work a dredge in a shallower stream, use a high-banker, sluice or just pan, I use a detector to locate the higher-mineralized pockets. Those are often the concentrations of black sand and other 'heavies' and that's the material I am going to work through.

Monte
 
I didn't know you prospected, Monte. I played around with this last summer, but nothing to give it a good test. I suppose once you find high mineralization, the upstream end would be the place to start.

We panned a little last summer and had a great time with it. So I'm as green on this as TH-ing. :)
 
what machine do you micro hunt with. i have used the goldmaster with a little success. how is the mxt on small chains ect? have you used the gold bug 2?

redhawk
 
He's in Hawaii at the moment I believe.

But as far as micro-gold hunting, the Fisher Gold Bug II with the 6.5 coil is the best on the market for finding the smallest nuggets or small/thin karat jewelry, bar none. 1/10 grain "nuggets" are not unheard of using this combo, if you even care to try and separate something that small. The GB-II is also gaining a following as a dry sand beach machine for hunting micro-jewelry, where you can use the iron disc and dig (sift) everything else.....which is pretty much unavoidable if you want to find gold.

Ralph
 
steve,

thank for the info. have you tried the mxt for micro stuff. i am snowed out at this poin t in colorado so research time is at hand.
i tried the gm 4 but no gold chains or real small gold. there has to be a ton of small chains out there. i love looking for the micro stuff so i had better try the gold bug2.
thanks jim
 
Hi Jim,

The Goldmasters/GMT are better on micro-gold than the MXT. My personal preference is the Gold Bug 2, however.

There is such a thing as too sensitive. The MXT with 6"x4" DD coil gets most small jewelry items while not beeping on bits of aluminum weighing 1/100th of a grain, as would be the case with my Gold Bug 2.

But if micro turns you on the Gold Bug 2 with 6" coil is killer.

Steve Herschbach
 
Hi Todd,

I've never found the right place to use a detector to trace black sands. Sounds like it would work well in the southwest/drywasher country. The black sand tracing ability of a metal detector is very much a surface effect as compared to magnetometers.

I do know of some creeks where I think using a detector to find deposits of nails and other iron trash would put a person into the gold. Most streams have 100 years of mining history and floods have put man-made trash into the good gold bearing locations.

Steve Herschbach
 
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