13grams of fine central Otago gold up for grabs
$120 per gram
16 grams in the pic on the listing but only needing to shift 13 for dredge upgrades
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“There’s Gold in Otago yet boys” 
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Nope no gold left here.
Thats the last of it. Dont go and look in the otago rivers or creeks your wasting your time.
Na it’s still there. Patchy but there.
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Think you will find that gold is patchy every where.
JW 
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Hi jw i in chch gold monster 1000 5 inch coil extremely noisy over same ground as 10 inch funny shape one isnt ,seen aussie chap woody tear coil down and fix all the little wires on a 5 inch , dont suppose ya know of any one capable of doing similar to coils in sth island .
No, sorry. How much of a hard time has your coil had & what is the 10" coil like? You didn’t say. Could be just noisy ground you were going over. VLF’s don’t like hot rocks & iron sand.
Woody is a bit of a wizz but he does bang on a bit in his you tube stuff. If the coil is buggered be best just to buy a new one. A few grams will more than pay for it.
JW
Nah same ground both pretty new 5 definitely had more work but after watching the utube thing when that woody chap tears coil apart all the tiny red outer wires are poking out everywhere he recons it’s them bouncing around causes all the Xtra noise he says it’s a common fault with minelab coils ie slack or useless Asian making them, thnx reply thou
You’ve been where I go a long while back ya posted the farmers name, I don’t believe ya went far enuff up that river ?? No one much ever been up there by looks
Opal and all sorts right up where the snows sitting at mo
Yes Minelab are pretty slack at their coil making. Oddly enough I was given my Gold Monster from Minelab prior to its public release. They wanted my feedback on it in our NZ conditions. As you may know we are pretty lucky here that our ground is generally very mild & can run detectors flat out in the high end settings & full max sensitivity. The gold monster was no different. Only it had knock & bump sensitivity. It became a matter of very careful coil control. I told Minelab this & they said I was running it too high & to back off the sensitivity. JP & Steve Hershbach said the same thing but I pushed the point that it wasn’t falsing because of high sensitivity to the ground itself but only when bumped & knocked. Even only slightly. It kind of developed into a bit of an argument that I just backed off on. Long story short, when it got released to the public many people complained of bump sensitivity & it did get recognised as a problem. Shoddy coil winding & relying on foam to hold the wires that over time breaks down & the wires loosen up & false. I suggested they epoxy the wires, just like Fischer does on the little sniper coil on the Gold Bug 2. That coil is bloody bullet proof. But no, Minelab is all about lightness. So their shoddy coils continue. My 11" coil on my GPX 6000 suddenly shut down on me after about a year. That too became a very big problem for Minelab & they were replacing heaps of them under warranty. The 6000 had a few teething problems for Minelab.
Interesting about the opals. The only opals I know of in NZ are in the Coromandel on the eastern coast side .l detect on a few farms with the owners permissions & I doubt very much that I would have mentioned farmers names. Maybe you can enlighten me on who & what farm & what river you were talking about going up further. Are you talking in Central Otago or the Coromandel? All very interesting.
What other detectors do you use, outside of the Gold Monster & where are you based?
Regards
John Wilson. 
Ugot a private email jw as to where i go?? Gold monster my first detector after a yr or more reading likes o u in nz and watching utube chaps and all the detector banter they had ,got it 6 months back. Nearly threw it away till I found a tiddler piece after 100 holes o digging up bullets an Ole shotgun pellets only thing kept me going was depth o some lead pellets near 300mm deep, all reading as gold.
Yes well lead will read as gold as it is non ferrous as is gold, brass & all other non magnetic metals. The discrimination only reads on ferrous items, eg iron, being magnetic. One thing the gold monster is very good at is finding tiny gold. Albeit needs to be very close to the coil. Very good on bedrock & in creeks on the tiny stuff.
You can send me a personal message through this forum. I will hold back from giving my personal email address.
JW