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Date Posted: 22:01:06 11/10/02 Sun
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: Where can I metal detect near Randsburg?--- Jim McC, belay that last post
In reply to: Jim McCulloch 's message, "Re: Where can I metal detect near Randsburg?" on 19:52:02 11/10/02 Sun

as it somehow was chopped off; what it is supposed to say is to sell your GMT and instead try a MXT on the shists in the Stringer distrct. From what I have been told by a happy MXT user, even with the 9.5 coil it is a "winner."

I know you are successful with you GMT but have you tried a MXT in the areas you mention in your text to Gregg? I recently found--- just a few weeks ago a small nuggie with my Infinium on the Rand Slope just a few hundred yards from where Randy and I were last standing. Try the small rivulets and if you see caliche; hunt up the slope from the exposure. The 10x14-inch DD on the Infinium seems to be adequate for me as far as depth; but in recent tests on the slope, "Plumber" (are you reding this) can hear my Infinium deeper than I can with a buried Jefferson nickel as the test.

Try a Jeff nickel down about a foot and see if the MXT hits it loud and clear. Jerrybeegood with his 2200/coiltek can punch down on a Jeff about 14-inches. There are larger "regional" gold nuggets; worn and more alluvial than eluvial on the slope about 2-miles northerly of Randsburg. The source may be either the Rand Schist or even the Atolia Quartzmonzonite. I notice both "poppies" and fairly fresh actinolite in the area where I have been finding a few nuggs over the past 10-years. The biggest was 3/4 ounce and Don Brown dug it for me--- shallow caliche--- as my hand was in stitches from cutting it the day before in my metalshop class. (I was playing hooky.) In this immediate area on a club claim I have been told--- per Hye McCall--- and I believe it true (as I found the 3/4 ounce) that about a dozen large nuggets; some of ounce size were found by a scraping with a bulldozer about 1970. I am finding old lead and a few older .22 casings so not all of this area has been detected. As far as I know I'm not on a active claim; The nuggs are well scattered--- good "old hit and miss" as my old Grandpappy, "Dragline" would say; the channel not defined.

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