Lamar

Dear group; Although efforts to spread oil upon troubled waters is appreciated, I feel that I must explain the reasons for my ire. I feel this matter could have been handled in a much more gentlemanly fashion. I could have been PMed by the administrator or a moderator and asked if I would delete the offending topic of my own accord. Had I been asked to do this, I would have cheerfully and willingly deleted it and also offered up an apology for anyone whom I may have unintentionally offended. This is how I do things. Instead, I was basically given the forum equivilant of "Sit down and shut the heck up!" without even the common courtesy of a PM explaining why my topic was taken down without my knowledge or approval. This is the proper etiquette in such matters , as I understand them. I am now insulted and embarrassed. Your friend; LAMAR

Rob; I posted what I did in an attempt to teach others the folly of posting slanderous remarks on other forums and I truly believe that all people can be taught, no matter how things may seem to be at the outset. I posted what I did in an effort to be thought provoking and humorous and obviously I made an error somewhere. C'est le vie. I do understand that you own this board and as such, it's your right to delete whatever topics you deem to be inapproriate. Please take this time to understand that it is also my right to choose not to post on this board. I did not post for well over a year previously, and this should serve as adaquate example that I feel no pressing desire to post here or anywhere else. You will not have to delete another one of my topics, as I will never again post another word on this forum. As for what may be owed, if you feel strongely about it, then consider it to be a Christmas present from me to you. Our business is now terminated, as is our friendship. Ciao. LAMAR

Dear group; I am constantly amazed that people would actually believe that fanatical groups such as the KGC or the Sons of Liberty actually existed without a single shred of factual proof. A large number of people seem to wish that John Wilkes Booth was a member of a secret organization, bent on bringing down the USA and restoring the Confederacy, when in fact, he was just suffering from mental illness, in very much the same manner as the man who gunned down all of the people in the mall in Omaha was, just a couple of days ago. There was no conspiracy, there never was any group who cached huge quantities of gold and silver all over the USA in the hopes of bringing about it's eventual destruction. There are no arcane symbols and secret codes pointing to vast treasures and X never ever marks the spot. This is the same as stating that dowsing rods really works. Your friend; LAMAR

Dear RWAC; No, I was not trying to be exclusionistic(is this a word?) If you look at my sig, you will see that I live in Bolivia, which is in South America. We have Aussies and prospectors from Brazil and other parts of the world, however what I was attempting to state was that I don't recall Great Britain ever being known for hosting an abundance of native gold. Your friend; LAMAR

Dear Trevor; I love my Platypus coil also! The only bad things that I can say about the Platy coil is that I don't use it enough and when I do use it in water, afterwards I need to separate the skid plate from the coil to remove all of the accumulated water, or the coil will become noisy when used on land. Is there any way to keep from removing the skid so often? Your friend; LAMAR

Dear Uncle Ron; Happy birthday! Your friend; LAMAR

Dear group; Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to make the connection between Cornwall, England and placer gold recovery. When was the last time England saw a big gold rush, anyway? The Middles Ages? Your friend; LAMAR

Dear eodseal2000; I agree with you my friend! Accusations of hygrading are bad enough, but not backfilling holes is a crime punishable by bullwhipping! The offender should be corralled, thrown to the ground and an Apache war dance administered about his head and shoulders. I would also like to point out to you that stating that Minelab Commander coils are BETTER than Coiltek coils is a sin bordering on blasphemy! This is something that will remain unforgiven and unforgotten, my friend, as we are all naught but mere humans and we cannot be reasonably expected to forgive something as heinous and horrible as those statements proclaiming the greatness of Commander coils. This is why I shall forever remain on Nuggethunting.com as birds of a feather flock together. Your friend swinging the orange; LAMAR

Dear Req; Wow, this is super cool! I went to the site of a recent fire (about 1 month old) and YEP, the detector could detect the changes, slightly but very noticeable. To test further, I then wet the burnt ground thoroughly with water and the signal strength increased just a bit. I am getting smarter every day! Thanks Req!!! Your friend; LAMAR

Dear Req; That makes sense, because after I dig up the charcoal, I can disturb it with my foot or my shovel and the signal disappears. I tried the charcoal by itself just a few minutes ago and YEP! You're right, it won't detect the charcoal lying on the unburnt ground. But why does my GP3K pick up old pottery pieces and some types of glass, especially blue colored glass? My GP3K LOVES that blue colored stuff! Your friend; LAMAR

Dear Req; I must also respectfully disagree with the statement that a PI detector will not detect charcoal. My GP3K will will detect an old camp fire very well, especially after a nice rain has soaked the ground. It will only do this with the larger DD coils however, such as the Wallaby and I've yet to experience this phenonemom with mono coils for some really weird reason. My GP3K will also detect broken pottery and even old broken glass pieces! On the other hand, my White's GMT-E will detect tree roots and worms, of all things! Your friend; LAMAR

Dear group; I have a honest question for all of the fine members of this forum. A couple of days ago I offered some sincere advice pretaining to the depths and the performance specs of PI detectors vs. VLF detectors as they pretain to nugget hunting and someone wrote a very nasty reply in regards to my post. I am wondering if I perhaps gave the original poster some bad advice or not. All opinions on this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! Your friend; LAMAR My advice to the original poster Dear group; I noticed that the test which was posted on this topic did not include any Minelab Pulse Induction (PI) detectors. I happen to own two different Minelab PI detectors, the GP3000 and the SD2100v2 and I can pretty much guarantee that if someone were to bury a kilo of coins at 2 feet depth and gave me a crack at finding them, I'd slap on an a 24X12" Coiltek UFO mono or a 25" Nugget Finder mono coil and I'd walk away with a kilo of coins, especially if the test was conducted in ground with very mild mineralization. This is pretty much a no-brainer when it comes to the Minelab PIs. They are so much better at pure depth than the VLF detectors that it's not even fair to attempt to compare the two types of detectors. The biggest single limiting depth factor to the Minelab PI detector is not the detector, nor the ground mineralization, it's the size and shape of the coil that's has the biggest determining factor concerning depth. Ground mineralization can play a decisive role in a detectors' ability to detect nuggets at great depths, even the PI detectors. The problem is that looking for gold nuggets requires the detectorist to venture into areas with high to extremely high mineralization in order to stand a good chance at uncovering gold nuggets. The old saying that "Iron is the mother of gold" is very true and a detectorist stands his best chance of locating nuggets in areas with the highest ground mineralization. Salt is also a big factor in determining a detectors' depth and gold likes to form in zones where there is a high salt content in the surrounding matrix. High concentrations of halides (salt) affect a Minelab PI detectors' depth much more than ferrous mineralization does. Even buried, damp charcoal from an old campfire can be detected with the Minelab PI detector, this is how sensitive it is to changes in ground mineralization. You can pretty much disregard using a VLF detector to search for gold nuggets, as the areas in which they can be used are limited to areas with very mild mineralization and as such, these zones are much more rare than highly mineralized gold bearing zones. Before you conside me to be biased towards PI detectors, I also own a VLF detector and it's a White's GMT-E series and it does one thing VERY well. It finds ground mineralization better than any other detector I've ever used. When detecting a brand new area, I like to start out with the GMT and locate all of the highly mineralized patches of ground. Once they've been located I put the GMT away and go to work with my SD2100v2, or in rare cases, with my GP3000. It's been a very good system for me. To answer your original question, 3 feet of pure depth is pushing the extreme outermost fringes of even a PI detectors' depth range and I seriously doubt that there is a PI detector built which can penetrate the ground matrix much more than 2 feet. I've personally dug up old tin cans at 20 inches and they sounded sooooooo good from the surface! OK, I didn't actually gig them up myself, as I live in Bolivia, the poorest country in South America and in order to do my part to help the local economy, I always hire a young man or two for a few dollars a day to take charge of all of the excavation portions of my nugget hunting ventures, which then leaves me free to pursue other more important activities, such as pondering what will be the patch to detect in. I also place these youngsters in charge of all of the heavy transportation requirements. All in all, it's a pretty system, my friend. Your friend; LAMAR The response to my post from another member Sometimes, I just can't hold it in..WHAT A PILE OF BS!!! This Lamar guy is either a shill, or doesn't know squat about operating a VLF detector. I've found thousands of $'s of gold in extremely mineralized areas (I can even pull up the official gov. geo-surveys) and, while a VLF won't get the pure depth of a ground balancing PI, it can sure find nuggets. I even found gold, with a VLF, in an area that (due to the type of mineralization) a PI was pretty much useless. I don't know how many thousands of prospectors, hunting bad ground with VLF's, have found plenty of gold. What, before the advent of ML PI's, these guys just sat around, thumbs up butts, and moaned about not being able to detect for nuggets? I outta post a link to this guy's post on the other gold forums.. they might just get a laugh out of it. ..Willy.

ar group; I swear by the two PocketRocket systems that I use! Just the weight and size savings over the stock ML lead acid boat anchors are a blessing! I was suffering from back pains whilst using the ML batteries and the PocketRocket completely eliminated this problem for me. I LOVE MINE! Your friend; LAMAR

Dear JP; The video is very nice and very professional in practically every aspect EXCEPT for the cheesy grocery store music. Can you please replace the sound track with you singing a cool rap song that explains the HipStick? And maybe have a dancing kangeroo in the video to add a touch of Aussie authenticism to it. Your friend; LAMAR

Dear group; I think I've figured out why the group on the High Desert forum seems to be so pumped about the ML Commander coil line and many members of that forum seem to feel, some of us might say wrongly, that the Coiltek and NF coil lines are inferior to the Commanders. The reason may be because the High Desert forum admin is a Minelab dealer and he doesn't have either a Coiltek or Nugget Finder dealer agreement. I do not know for certain if this is true or not, but it would explain a lot. Your friend; LAMAR