Hi guys. Nine little suckers for a late afternoon detect on sunday close to home. GPZ 7000 & the 15x10 Russian made X coil. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to find a thing at this well thrashed spot. But I had not had the 15x10 X coil in there. Loving it.
Best of luck out there
JW 
beauty mate dam fine got me itchin to get out there thanks for showing us ya gold
Bang the pic on here
Good for you Gav. Nice. I like the nox 800 with the little 6" coil. I reckon equally as deadly as the GM 1000 but with the advantage of the VDI # read outs.
JW
Is there such a thing as old flogged ground on the West Coast with the amount of rain they have & the flows that go down the creeks & rivers replenishing the gold traps? 
JW 
@kiwijw so what mode do you tend to run your Nox 800 in? Wondering what the ground is like down there compare to the coast…
I turned mine on using Gold 1 and immediately thought I’d made a mistake buying the Nox as it was so noisy. All was good when I swapped to Gold 2 for “difficult ground”. Kept hitting the odd bit of mineralised ground but soon figured out what was going on after chasing a few phantom targets. Though I also nearly gave up on a few phantom targets that did indeed turn out to be good nuggets but hidden in what felt like impossible locations. I guess cracks must have been in the rock at some point that later closed up. Seen it before and still amazes me when gold can get to hiding in!
Hi Gavin, I know well & truly what you mean by gold being down inside what looks like solid bedrock where there must have been a crack at one stage for the gold to get down in there. I recently bought a Milwaukee battery powered kango after spending hours smashing away with cold chisel & hammers & screwdrivers into what now is solid bedrock. Only to end up bringing to the light of day smooth water worn alluvial gold. My trusty pick just not being up to the job & taking too much of a hiding.
Cold chisel/screwdriver & hammer
All these from that one kango session
I haven’t used the nox 800 for a wee while but pretty sure I was using Gold 1. Full max sensitivity, Multi frequency, all metal mode & flicking to discrimination to check on targets got. Then working off the VDI numbers. I have got many bits of small gold with the VDI’s in the negertives down to -4 -5. -8 -9 was usually hot rocks but the magnet on my pick was the best discriminator on iron rubbish 
I am in the habit of digging all targets & through doing that realised that tiny gold can be well into the negertives with the Nox. I am talking very small gold with the 6" coil that is most of the time not even registering on the VDI numbers at all but just a very slight blip/fart/hiccup in the threshold. I had a strong run on a few spots comparing the nox 800 with 6" coil & the GM 1000 & 5" coil. Impossible to separate the two but liked the Nox 800 as the GM 1000 has a habit of a bit of bump falsing on the coil where as the nox, like the GB2’s little snipers coil, is rock solid. I reckon that is due to the windings being epoxy filled & locked in with no chance of movement inside the coil housing.
You obviously have sussed it out & got it running good for your detecting location & conditions. Probably different for me here in Central as it is for you on the West Coast.
Best of luck out there
JW
Yeah, that 6" is deadly! Dug a few good gold targets myself that didn’t show up with a number so I know what you mean. If there wasn’t any mineralised bedrock close by I tended to investigate anything that gave a consistent signal. There was definitely mineralised bedrock in this creek as I broke a few pieces of solid rock off that continued to give the signal. I thought I had it sussed with hot bedrock giving a 9 - 10 number, but then I started getting into areas where the numbers would be 1’s like a lot of the gold targets I found. Just when you think you’ve figured it out… 
Good going Gavin. Way back when I was into detecting and cracking out, it was amazing just where you find gold in bedrock. After a while we just put the detectors aside and concentrated on breaking out every crack, as many gave no signal. Yet produced good gold. Normally deep down and on its side. This was with a 17000 Minelab years back. It was the best gold detector in its day. Often what gave away a hairline crack that was more or less invisible to see, was a minute line of vegetation, usually moss. Only a few thou thick. And when cracked out, Contained gold. There has been quite a bit of conjecture as to how gold got into these tiny cracks. Obviously eons ago, they were more open. Trapped gold. Then closed up to protect their booty. The how"s and whys are no doubt complex. I have a few idea’s revolving around glaciation (Ice Age). Tectonic plate movement.(earthquakes) . Frozen water expands. Nice Kango you have there JR, bet that chews up that Otago Schist.
Cheers Trev aka “The Hatter”
I think you’ll find hes swiss! Italian name swiss origin
Nice one elliots, West Coast?
Bloody nice mate. 
Whats the weight there?
JW
I would just like to say well done for today JW, I know you will post shortly
they are all each under a gram sadly, still nice to look at 
Just a huge shout out to all the awesome paydirt members I met and received advice from over the past year on The Mainland. It is inspiring when people want to share and give a few pointers; thank you so much. We crossed the strait yesterday and are already frustrated by the traffic and dull scenary. Regards Ingguy PS… will be back home on the Coromandel Friday so will be out and about before the summer surge
Hi all
Took the nox out for a look around on Sunday
Went back over some ground I know has been checked and came up with these bits totalling 3.3 grams. Went back after work a couple of days later and had another scratch around for the 2 small bits in the second picture. Running the nox on gold 2 at 20 .The little bits read 1 and 2 as usual (just like shotgun pellets) but the bigger bits were 4-6 and the biggest one was a 10 - 12 and would usually be a hot rock but the tone was louder and sharper.
Hey fisher- man that’s awesome 
I just bought a nox and slowly learning the machine
Hey Mr Miagi
Great machine and I’m still working it out as well 
There seem to be different types of hot rocks as someone previously said but I have to say the gold was louder and more insistent?
Enjoy the Nox - they are awesome- one of those small bits was about 4 inches down
Looking forward to seeing some of your finds posted soon
