Coiltek’s very own Trevor shares his experience at the Bendigo Gold Expo – and how it led to him finding his smallest-ever nugget. Being a part of Coiltek for over 20 years now, I have seen (and held) many differently sized gold nuggets found with the coils we have produced
In resurrecting a childhood interest in detecting, I engrossed myself through months and months of internet research and conversation with many a knowledgeable person in efforts to find a suitable detector. I quickly realized metal detecting had come a long way since my interest had first peaked some 35 years prior. I was now looking at some serious detecting hardware, notably commanding some serious outlay of coin!
So all up in the previous 6 odd months I’d found about 10g of the good stuff with all of it in the last month. Now that may sound ok, but when you live in the Goldfields and generally spend a couple of days a week in the bush, the 5 barren months were enough to start some serious conversations with myself! I had just invested in the 18″ mono to compliment the 14″ Elite and was pretty happy with it since it had uncovered a 7g and 1.5g for me.
Last week two mates and I had the chance to test run the new Minelab Monster machine and also do some detecting. Bill had the monster, Peter had the SDC2300 and I had the 5000 with my trusty 14” Coiltek Elite.
I’ve been a nugget hunter for nearly two decades. Most days I find gold. But after a recent dry spell, I decided to try something new. I took my Minelab Equinox 800 out for some nugget hunting (with Coiltek’s NOX 10×5” coil). I will do this from time to time,
The 9” coil is ideal for cleaning up patches in open areas and picking off pieces of the diggings.
A tale of two Coiltek NOX coils. I regularly detect medieval pastures in Scotland and one particular field area was always a massive challenge, with lots of trashy waste signals tightly grouped that my larger coil struggled with. This called for a wee purchase and the coil that looked the
Since returning home from the goldfields of Western Australia, I’ve had time to reflect on the season which really put a smile on my face.
After trying the Coiltek DD 10 x 5″ elliptical Joey coil at an old ruin with great results, I decided to try some of those trashy high traffic areas around the club rooms at a local football oval and some local netball/tennis courts. Surprise, surprise, the football oval was no different than most with a multitude of pull tabs, screw tops and bits of squashed up foil littered everywhere making it very difficult to detect successfully.
