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Date Posted: 16:42:21 08/24/02 Sat
Author: Jim Straight
Subject: Re: nostalgia question--- my 1 and 1/2 cents---
In reply to: seeker (ak) 's message, "Re: nostalgia question" on 13:47:01 08/24/02 Sat

Woody wrote the first GB manual. Nuggets were found by Hardrock Pete and others using BFO/TR's.

My (Late) kid brother,Tom, found several using a White Goldmaster III TR and the small accessory nugget probe near Coloma, Ca, in 1976. He bought it directly from Factory as this was before White's set up regional dealership program.

In about 1980 Woody was using a Compass 77B and Herb G. an early VLF White when the partners found and split the value of the nugget that launched Woody to fame. Both Woody and Herb great guys and a credit to the development of "electronic prospecting" as it was then known.

Tidbits: Ken Sr. was the first to use the term "electronic prospecting" (early 1960's). Waldemar Lindgren used the term "Ironstone" (1925) to reference the laterite soils of Australia. In 1942 Charles Lindberg then in his early- middle 40's, as a civilian instructor (employed by aircraft industy) in S. Pacific showed the pilots "how to" in actual air-combat situations--- and while flying a P-38 during this training engaged and shot down a Japanese aircraft. Got no credit as he was a civilian.

Getting back to early nugget finds: I understand, but cannot document, that (Late) Olive (Mrs. Ken White, Sr.) found a nugget near Charleston, AZ while returning from a trip into Mexico about 1970-71. The original Goldmaster Forty-niner, a TR, was designed about 1971. Mrs. White was into prospecting for both gold and uranium. My info from (Late) Wayne Winters.

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