Not sure…haven’t done the cons yet…yeah great time was had…
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Sometimes the gold you get isn’t in the snuffter bottle. 
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And it always looks bigger in ya sluice
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Totally agree with you there Mal. 
JW 
That is nothing short of spectacular Danno; congratulations. Inspired me to never give up!
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You found it!!! It fell outa my pocket last year thanks for finding it ill pm you my address to send it to me lol.
good shit thats a hell of a lil yellow rock you got there.
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The nugget of a lifetime well done danno
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Nice one danno, how did you find this beast? Well done
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A really beaut fishing sinker! Already got a hole in it to thread the line.
Well done - a great find.
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Wow that’s a monster!..we got nothing like that this labour weekend just gone…however did meet up with some good people while prospecting different spots…sluicing…sniping…blacksanding…creviousing…lifting slabs…caught up with jade…together we fed his sluice for a couple of hours and this is what we ended up with.(Magified)…0.25 grams maybe!..good fun!
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Went down to Nelson creek on the long weekend. Orignally went to the back creek which was much harder to accsess, taking us 1 hour down the track and then a while through dense bush, we then hit the upper end of the creek but there was no where near enhough flow to even pan let alone sluice, so we went miles downstream ( luckily few signs of other workings) and finally found a spot with enhough flow to sluice, but rubbish result only a few tiny flakes for 6 buckets worth, so we went down to prices creek ( the lower creek right next to the campsite) orignally not a very good result there either, but we went ages upstream and found a little waterfall bit, sluiced that out and actually got a pretty good result pulling out around 1/2 a gram for 10 buckets from the hole which was no to bad at all .! ( sorry for bad image quality I realized I only have video footage of it not an actual picture ) Screen Shot 2020-11-04 at 7.21.46 PM|193x255
But overall not to bad, and nelson creek seems pretty underused as we saw 1 sign of other workings our whole time walking up and down both creeks and there was no one there over the long weekend, but if you look hard enhough there is gold to be had there. Heres a link to the video we took if you guys want to check it out. Gold Prospecting Nelson Creek Fossicking Area! Claugheys/Prices Creek. - YouTube
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Only managed 4 little suckers for just over half a gram on my sunday afternoon detect. Better than nothing though.
JW
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Nice gold? I was wondering where do you go detecting? Is it normally in a creek bed or old timers tailings? I assume its mostly in central otago. Not trying to steal your spot at all im just wondering, as I have never had any luck detecting on west coast creek beds, even at our friends claim which is renowned for having large nuggets and has never been detected over and even when the clay is only 40CM-1M deep I have never got any gold out of it, and we even dig holes and sluice them out and end up finding solid pickers/small nuggets (like 0.1-0.3 gram pieces most often our record being 0.6 from the 3 sluicing trips ) but the detector never picks anything up from the surface, I have waved the gold over it and it makes nice solid dings even on tiny pieces less then 0.01 of a gram at close range although it does only pick even the larger pieces up at a depth of around 20CM or so, but even so I have spent days detecting there and never got anything other then old scrap metal out of it ( I have gold monster 1000 ). I was just wondering if maybe creek beds arent the solution or do you detect in creek beds as well?
Hi Sluicer. No I don’t detect creek beds. Most of them are claimed around these parts. I go up in the hills & usually a long way from any water. Sometimes in old timer workings & their throw out piles but also just random areas that look promising.
The GM 1000 doesn’t really detect to any great depth due to the size of the coils. It is a great detector but is more suited to small/tiny gold on or close to the surface. Good bedrock detector. The Nox 800 will get better depth due to its 11" coil. There is always a trade off re coil size, gold size & depth. There are not many, if any, places that haven’t seen detectors. You may think detectors haven’t been in certain areas but they have. So most of the bigger shallow gold is well gone & the hope these days is the best technology getting bigger deeper bits. Depends what you call big & what you call deep. The Minelab Pulse Induction detectors are very good at depth on smallish gold & there are many different size & shape coils for these machines. Both Mono coils & DD. The best of all gold detectors is the minelab GPZ 7000. Minelab only released two coils for this detector. A 14" & a 19" which are limited as to where you can poke & prod them. A Russian chap has made a range of coils for the GPZ 7000 & has them down to 8". His coils are what I am using on my GPZ & they do the business handsomely. The above gold was all found with a 15x10 inch coil.
JW
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Thanks a ton for the Advice JW ! Yeah I thought so as it would pick up the most microscopic pieces but only at very shallow depth . Luckily the area ( unless people have illegally snuck 5km up the back of our friends land) has never been detected, some of it has been dredged and washplanted but this was before the days of detecting and it has not been touched since 1990. It is also known for large nuggets, a gold nugget found there was at the time the biggest gold nugget in new zealand weighing in at about 80 ounces or so. But thanks a ton for your advice hopefully one day I can make the investment into a deeper detector? On the gold monster what coil would you suggest in general ( the clay ranges from at best 10CM- about 1M deep, but more often around about 30-35CM ) I thought the smaller coil but maybe the bigger one is better because it would get deeper?
Sorry im somewhat amateur to detecting as I normally just try for quater of an hour and then get bored and get back to sluicing XD .
Thanks a lot 
Hi Sluicer. That big nugget would have to be the 99 ounce Honourable Roddy Nugget found in Ross.
I just stick to the 5" coil on the Gold Monster. But the 10x5 should get you a bit better depth. The Nox 800 might have been better for you on the West Coast as it is water proof to 3 meters & will handle the wet weather & the odd drop into a creek. Has an 11" coil as standard but you can get a 6" & a 15" I think. They are waterproof to and ideal for in the water as they are a spider web design.
The standard 11" coil is still very good on small gold.
JW
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Thanks a lot really appreciated. The nugget wasnt honorable roddy, I dont really want to give to much info or I might giveaway the spot, but this site is not close to ross, and the nugget was found during the inital rushes and was the biggest in the country at the time, and the gully it was found in was named after the guy who found it. I cant really give anymore info sorry. Although you never know I may be wrong this is just what our friend ( the landowner and guy who mined it in the 60’s 70’s 80’s and 90’s ) but I would assume he knows what hes talking about.
Thanks a lot really appreciate your help, hopefully I can get some better detecting in next time 
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Aagh…that italian miner. Great nug
sorry the post in FB was taken down for obvious reasons, what it essentially showed was a 12 gramme rough nugget found over the hill from bendigo. Apparently found using digger and metal detectors, and apparently they were finding heaps, working unworked ground.