I today spoke with one of the guys from the PROSPECTORS PATCH in WA and asked him if he knew if the XP is capable of detecting gold nuggets as well as gold rings, to which he replied that he will in the very near future be giving instructions of a new programme which can be added to the XP which will enable it to detect gold in the goldfields, knowing how good this machine is in responding to most other things I cant wait to try it out." watch this space" for further developements.Oneill