Gold Seekers/Metal Detectorists Discussion Thread, page 1

It's very interesting you should start a gold seeking thread when that fellow in Australia found the nugget worth $300,000.

www.heraldsun.com.au...

reply to post by randomname

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That's what I'm doing, giving our money to our kids so they have a fighting chance in this sick economy.

reply to post by randomname

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I think that as the SHTF, you will have a narrow window of time to either finish getting preped or if you have a lot of money, buy it all at once. Once the SHTF then money and gold will be useless. The trick will be to pick when is the last gasp of the economic system will be. I wish I didnt have to wait and take that gamble but I just dont have the money to do much preping at this stage. I dont even have my own place yet. I am learning a lot of skills about how people used to live 100 years ago, and buying some cheap things like a hand powered flour mill, but that is about all I can do. I also wonder if there is going to be a new gold rush when unemplyment is high and gold skyrockets at the early stages of the SHTF.

reply to post by InTheLight

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You are really not giving the money to the kids, you are investing into your genotype, your immortality and really the only certain goal of biological life.

reply to post by Panic2k11

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You are making assumptions about me.

reply to post by Cinrad

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I agree with you. I think that gold will initially be used as a high value trade item, until people realize that they can't eat it, use it to keep warm, drink it, etc. I would rather have the same value in food as opposed to a gold nugget.

I have been a gold miner and Metal Detectorists for over 45 years and at the last mine i worked i found over $200,000 in high grade hard rock gold Specimens with metal detectors.

I have friends that worked the mine next door that found millions in gold Specimens with metal detectors
www.origsix.com...

In May i am pulling out and heading back to that area for the summer to start a summer search program.

reply to post by ANNED

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Can you give us a few tips on choosing the right metal detector?

reply to post by dainoyfb

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What about wind-up?

reply to post by InTheLight

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Lots of cheap moving parts under stress. Tend to fail. Plus you're expending time and calories that the sun could be providing for free.

reply to post by dainoyfb

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I hear those solar panels fail after a time.

reply to post by InTheLight

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As with any electronic device they can even fail immediately. But the risk is much lower and in my professional opinion the panels are much easier to repair. I would much rather repair a bad connection (which is about all that go can wrong with a panel) then try and come up with a proprietary gear, bearing, or other generator component.

That being said, panels do lose efficiency over time but that can be calculated in or you can set a panel aside as a future replacement. I have panels that I am still using effectively and they are over twenty years old. I would be much more concerned with the metal detector suffering an unrepairable failure in that time.

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