Gold Bug Pro I'm new to the forum so please bare with me until I get my feet wet as they say. I just purchased a Gold Bug Pro and have read several post but they seem to leave out how gold responds. Can anyone tell me what 2-digit value will appear in the center of the display if I am lucky enough to cross over a gold nugget? I'm going to use my detector mostly for nugget hunting and would appreciate any pointers in this area.http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720315#msg-1720315Mon, 20 May 2013 19:50:55 -0500 Phorum 5.2.18 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1730471#msg-1730471 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1730471#msg-1730471gold specific metal detectors they are now becoming better known... What detector is not
too important but being first is... js]]> parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumWed, 27 Jun 2012 13:11:35 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1730145#msg-1730145 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1730145#msg-1730145
Thanks for the info!

Steve]]> sgoss66 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumTue, 26 Jun 2012 20:42:47 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1729595#msg-1729595 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1729595#msg-1729595Do you happen to subscibe or can get a copy of Western & Eastern treasures.... It will have a short
article in the August issue which hits thew newsstands soon. many Epithermal deposits were short
lived and while active had a large tent-city following...Jim]]> parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 25 Jun 2012 23:05:48 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1729594#msg-1729594 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1729594#msg-1729594Do you happen to subscibe or can get a copy of Western & Eastern treasures.... It will have a short
article in the August issue which hits thew newsstands soon. many Epithermal deposits were short
lived and while active had a large tent-city following...Jim]]> parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 25 Jun 2012 23:05:48 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1729109#msg-1729109 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1729109#msg-1729109
Steve]]> sgoss66 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 25 Jun 2012 11:12:36 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1728782#msg-1728782 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1728782#msg-1728782Elly Nay found a 70 pound chunk of float in a wash. They traced the float to its hillside source...5-tons were mined and
shipped to the refinery. It yielded nearly $20,000 at the 1909 price of gold. The mine was named Ellendale and it was found
in Saulbury wash. (Some spell it Salisbury). Nye county Nevada in 1909.... Google key phrases Ellendale Epithermal Pliocene Miocene
volcanics...]]> parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumSun, 24 Jun 2012 21:12:26 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1727959#msg-1727959 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1727959#msg-1727959
Interesting...

Steve]]> sgoss66 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumSat, 23 Jun 2012 15:12:54 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1727882#msg-1727882 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1727882#msg-1727882
"Float - the loose or scattered pieces of ore broken off from a vein outcrop. Float may be traced to its source or outcrop by prospecting."

http://www.desert-gold-diggers.org/articles/harnack2.htm]]> Welwood470 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumSat, 23 Jun 2012 12:38:44 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1725617#msg-1725617 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1725617#msg-1725617 GunnarMN Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumTue, 19 Jun 2012 17:44:03 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1725212#msg-1725212 Re: Book: "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector"http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1725212#msg-1725212 parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 18 Jun 2012 23:14:01 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1724829#msg-1724829 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1724829#msg-1724829
David]]> DSea52 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 18 Jun 2012 13:40:40 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1724662#msg-1724662 Re: Book: "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector"http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1724662#msg-1724662
Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector is a very good read. Dave did good!

HH
Mike]]> Mike Hillis Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 18 Jun 2012 08:20:40 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1724167#msg-1724167 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1724167#msg-1724167
Hope both your surgeries get you fixed up and back out gold findin' again!

Can you tell me what you mean by "chunk of float," and "Epithermal" placer? Never heard those terms/phrases as it relates to placer gold hunting/recovery...

Thanks!

Steve]]> sgoss66 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumSun, 17 Jun 2012 14:22:01 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723844#msg-1723844 Re: Book: "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector"http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723844#msg-1723844in print I bought a few copies for my detecting buddies... I still have a "like new" copy... It is not for sale.

Hey... more to say... I'm struggling with getting a new hip and knee so I can get out and detect for placer again.
I now got the hip replacement on May 23 and hoping for the knee in a few months...Now I will add more,

Western & Eastern Treasures will have a short article in the August issue... It is about finding a 75 pound
chunk of float which led to the Epithermal precious metal camp of Ellendale... The photos are of poor quality
but it the article is a pretty good read...Next I will try to write another article regarding 5 of us finding 3.5 pounds
of epithermal placer within the Great Basin Provence. The deposit was associated with volcanics, shallow and
very high grade... the vein mass 60% gold in a ferruginous mass... Jim Straight]]> parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumSat, 16 Jun 2012 22:30:03 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723234#msg-1723234 Book: "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector"http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723234#msg-1723234The book written by myself and Peter Hydelaar with the original Fisher 1980's-90's Gold Bug in mind was Advanced Nugget Hunting. It's on the Fisher website in .pdf format, maybe the Tek website too, I didn't check. Most of the information in that book is not specific to Fisher products and is just as valid today as when it was originally written. Particularly good chapter on hot rocks and dirt, nothing else in print to equal it even today.

The more recent book on the Fisher and Tek websites, not written with any specific machine in mind, is Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector. Much broader in scope than the book I co-authored 'way back when, and of course more up-to-date.

Nearly every day I see questions asked on this and other forums relating to beeping for gold, which are answered in Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector. Although available in paper print either free or for a price depending on the circumstances, it's a downloadable .pdf for anyone with Internet access. There are lots of good books out there on gold prospecting, and even good ones on beeping for gold, but this particular book is the best one for the newbie because that's the audience for whom it was written. It's all the stuff you wish was in a user's manual, but isn't. Some of that stuff even an experienced gold beeperist can learn from.

Anyone posting here with questions should first read this book. I don't earn $.05 every time someone clicks on the link, I don't even get a commission on book sales or metal detector sales, I work in the engineering dept. I'm hyping the book because I want our customers to be successful, which in the long run grows our business and helps provide me with job security. ......Okay, I admit to a smidgin of altruism, too.

I invite the moderator to make this post a sticky.

--Dave Johnson
Chief Designer, FTP-Fisher]]> Dave J. Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumFri, 15 Jun 2012 23:45:23 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723053#msg-1723053 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723053#msg-1723053 Hobo lobo Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumFri, 15 Jun 2012 19:58:27 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723039#msg-1723039 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1723039#msg-1723039Metal Detector" is very worthwhile to to get a .pdf copy. While it was written with the original Gold Bug in
mind it is full of information that is still as prevalent today--- even more so... as it was back then.... JS]]> parrott Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumFri, 15 Jun 2012 19:45:49 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1722266#msg-1722266 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1722266#msg-1722266
Quote
Dave J.
I recommend reading the user's manual, and also the book "Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector" (available as a .pdf file on the Fisher and Teknetics websites).

--Dave J.

Great read there!]]> Big Boys Hobbies Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumThu, 14 Jun 2012 14:52:23 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720653#msg-1720653 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720653#msg-1720653 JimGilmore Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumTue, 12 Jun 2012 02:13:00 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720500#msg-1720500 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720500#msg-1720500 Jessgo33 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 11 Jun 2012 21:23:27 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720407#msg-1720407 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720407#msg-1720407 DSea52 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 11 Jun 2012 20:07:06 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720349#msg-1720349 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720349#msg-1720349Others have posted some numbers for their finds, but I have not seen any postings for nuggets yet.

Good LUck and HH

Tony]]> acasto Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 11 Jun 2012 18:46:51 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720344#msg-1720344 Re: Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720344#msg-1720344"Gold Prospecting with a VLF Metal Detector" (available as a .pdf file on the Fisher and Teknetics websites).

Searching for gold nuggets you'll normally be in "autotune" all metals mode and will hear and dig all metal targets. In all metals mode the big number in the middle of the screen represents the type of ground minerals present, not target ID.

In discrimination mode the number represents target ID. Gold nuggets in or on the ground may show up anywhere on the target ID numerical scale but will tend to fall mostly in the 30 to 60 range.

--Dave J.]]> Dave J. Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 11 Jun 2012 18:45:07 -0500 http://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720315#msg-1720315 Gold Bug Prohttp://www.findmall.com/read.php?80,1720315,1720315#msg-1720315 DSea52 Fisher Gold Bug/Teknetics G2 ForumMon, 11 Jun 2012 18:11:03 -0500