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January: No Meeting
February: Tuesday 9th Feb, 2016
March: Tuesday 8th Mar, 2016 (AGM)
April: Tuesday 12th Apr, 2016
May: Tuesday 10th May, 2016
June: Tuesday 14th Jun, 2016
July: Monday 11th Jul, 2016
August: Monday 12th Aug, 2016
September: Monday 12th Sep, 2016
October: Monday 10th Oct, 2016
November: Monday 14th Nov, 2016
December: Monday 12th Dec, 2016
Hello all.
Wayne Shaw
President TMDC
Hello readers.
As the end of the year looms ahead theres action-a-plenty both on the
TMDC home front and further afield.
In brief:
Minelab releases their new 19 (2kg) mega coil for the GPZ.
Hillsborough Station sees its first month of pay-to-detect visitors.
Peter Craggs Townsville Prospecting World opens in Aitkenvale
A new Li-Ion battery option arrives for the popular SDC2300.
JW finds evidence of some crafty currency work.
The convenience of our club facebook group is being realised and utilised
by more members. Notifications of impromptu news and club events have
allowed things to be organised and actioned with greater flexibility and ease.
Remember you can download our club newsletters and the Hillsborough
Visitors Conditions Of Entry there as well.
As our group grows we will have access to additional features for the page
that will bring more variety and add greater value for group members.
Our group now holds 62 members from across Australia and the world.
Cheers,
Peter Tarca.
Editor
HILLSBOROUGH
Makes History.
While a select few have been fossicking form and headed off with my mud map.
at Hillsborough for decades, a viable As the day went on I met up with Pats
pay-to-detect option has never been friend who familiarised me with the initial
actioned - until recently. Being the first camping and fossicking areas, and the
station in the local district to open to location of the No-detecting zone - an
Geo-tourism activities of this nature is active mining lease area that cuts across
a History-making event to celebrate, the land for 3km. We had a look over
and a very suitable way to moneytize a some old diggings, and later that day I
fortunate geological position a grazing set up camp beside Eight mile Ck. and
property might posses. paid for a 5 day stay - apparently the first
ever to do so.
Hillsborough station is owned by Patrick
and Jenny Williams, and a number of As evening fell I could hear the echo of
weeks ago I was able to visit. While I a thousand croaking frogs, and quickly
didnt manage to cross paths with Pat, realised that much unlike areas closer to
at the house I met a friend of his from Ravenswood and Charters Towers, this
Charters Towers, his wife Jenny and area actually held water for a reasonable
daughter Karin, and her husband Kale period of time. This, I thought, was
Robinson. I happened to arrived on fantastic! Finally a place where my non-
the very morning the first draft of the detecting friends and their families would
Hillsborough visitor guidelines came also enjoy camping. And who knows,
off the press, and after a brief chat I maybe theyll enjoy some fossicking too.
completed the formalities, signed my
Hillsborough
SIDE 1
O
ver many years I have This being the case I decided to put
found many decimal some into a chip vending machine
currency coins especially a few days ago. Strangely enough,
the cupro nickel ones. one particular twenty cent coin would
drop straight through every time.
After cleaning them through a tumbler
they came out rather a dull colour On closer inspection of the coin I
but clean. the bank would not accept found it to be double sided, that is it
them, not even to send them to the had the platypus and the numeral 20
reserve bank for disposal. on both sides!
He had a look
at it through
his eye glass
and noticed
the milled
edge was
missing and SIDE 2
advised
me that it
appeared to
be doctored.
He couldnt give
me any reason
why anybody would
do that on such a low
denomination coin.
Maybe some of our members out there
might be able to shed some more light
on it, meanwhile I will just put it aside as a
keepsake.
John Williams.
GRAND OPENING!
30% Deeper?
Working my way back up a creek, When using Normal Ground Type
I found many ounces of weighty (in milder soils) Ive actually been
gold at incredible depths that had able to run a higher Sensitivity
been totally ignored by a GPX with setting. I just couldnt believe how
a 20 inch monoloop. I also missed smooth it was running for such a
these using the GPZ 14 coil they big coil, and I blooded the coil with
were just too deep. The GPZ 19 its first piece after a short time,
is deceptively stable and quiet a very small flat piece of about
I recovered a 15 ounce nugget, 0.1g which proved that the big coil
really deep! hasnt given up much sensitivity.
- Jonathan Porter - Nenad Lonic
T
ypically itself, to
these types compare the
of claims are relative sensitivity of a
greeted with much Anyway, some background large coil to that of a
concern and doubt, information first smaller coil, we need to
before many even get determine the strength
their hands on the We all basically know of their respective
product and test it for that large coils detect transmitted magnetic
themselves. deeper than small fields and the receiver
coils. Why is that? sensitivities.
Even then, there are a The relationship
wide range of settings between the size of a These can be
to choose from and coil and the detection calculated by applying
soils to test in, so depth depends on the Biot-Savart law,
results can vary greatly a number of factors which describes
depending upon the related to both the the magnetic field
test conditions. Also, construction of the coil produced by an electric
larger objects will and the particular target current.
typically be detected itself.
deeper for the same For this, we need the
size coil. Starting with the coil exact geometry of each
Townsville Metal Detecting Club Newsletter - November 2016
ARTICLE - Minelab GPZ 19: Going 30% Deeper
winding, the number of the coil, but decays just detect the nugget
of turns and the size more slowly with the with it? Once we know
of the wire. Once we distance from the coil. this, we can utilise the
chose a shape, the Thus, further away from previously calculated
number of turns and the coils, a larger coil relative sensitivity to
the wire size depend has a stronger field. determine at what
upon the constraints
we apply to the design. We now need to
consider the
For example, we target, for
usually require the
inductance and the
resistance of the
transmit winding to be
the same regardless
of the size of the
coil, such that the
transmitter electronics
operates optimally
with any size coil.
This leads to a
reduction in the
number of turns as
a coil gets larger or
conversely an increase
in turns as a coil gets
smaller.
Based on this, we
can understand that
a small coil with more
turns creates stronger example
localised fields, while a particular
a large coil creates a nugget: if we use
field that is weaker in one coil as a reference,
the immediate vicinity at what depth can we
Townsville Metal Detecting Club Newsletter - November 2016
ARTICLE - Minelab GPZ 19: Going 30% Deeper
As an example, the
ground noise that
each coil picks up
depends on the
detailed geometry
and construction
of the coil, but
also on the
composition of
the soil (e.g. how
inhomogeneous it
is, on what spatial
scale, etc.).
GPZ 19 Brochure
The POWER Of
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hey say that opportunity is
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I didnt
own an SDC
at the time, but was
curious about them. I
was also curious about
additive manufacturing
and a year earlier, with
Regular NiCad
and NiMH
batteries for the
SDC2300 run at
1.2 to 1.5 volts
each, and there
are 4 of them;
So theres 4.8v
to 6v.
The Li-ion
option uses
just two
batteries at
3.7v and
give out
7.4v.
www.SDC2300UpGrades.com.
$450.00 (reduced)
(this is a great price by online
comparison - Editor)
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watch?v=KLGSLCaksdY
Cooking.
Preheat the pan
Cook a crust
Cleaning
Heat is needed to
clean properly
Storing.
Be sure to cure the
coating of oil on your pan
before storing.
FOR SALE
DETECTORS
REASON - I can
only use 1 at a time,
decided on the 7000;
not sure its the right
choice, but need to
shift 1 as batteries and
other bits dont like
sitting on the shelf for
long periods.
Comes with:
2 Standard Batteries Commander 11mono
Spare Battery Lead Commander 11 DD
12 & 240 volt chargers Nugget Finder 20 round
Koss Head Phones Nugget Finder Coil 17 X 11 (looks
Single speaker rough, works well)
Hip stick DVD Unwrapping the GPX 5000
Carrying case
Minelab GP 3000.
This machine has found Good Gold
This machine comes with: in the couple of years I have had it
11 DD coil ranging from 16.86 gram to 0.2 gram.
Head Phones
1 x Battery This is some of the Gold found on a
2 Battery Chargers (12 volt, and 240) recent trip, plus the 16.86 found at
2 x leads Dells Hole.
New Harness
User Manuel PRICE: $1400.00 (reduced). Contact
Coiltec Control Cover Mal - 0407628677
Jonathan Porter Videos: Unleashing Email: austinsmk@bigpond.com
the GP Series
Minelab SD2200 V2
Purchased NEW in 2009. Hardly been New patch lead (as new) for original
used - maybe 12 times. Has found battery which is not included.
gold. New Minelab coil (replaced under
Minelab Pin pointer (will sell
warranty).
separately $100)
INCLUDES:-
Fully lined, padded zip carry bag PRICE: $1250 The lot (or best offer)
Contact Steve or Dorothy
New detector mods
- 0428 717 889
- light weight battery 12hr run time
- External speaker
Spare speaker
New 11 DD coil with skid plate
Spare skid plate
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watch?v=3YbSEkHKbtA
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watch?v=C7qVr_B4pZg
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Info on fossicking for gold, topaz & petrified wood in southern Queensland, North Queenslands
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www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/
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We provide the answers to your questions on gold detecting & prospecting in Western Australia.
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Our own closed-group club page for members and non-members. Posts are not seen by public.
Click on Join Page to send your request to join the group.
www.facebook.com/groups/australianfossicking/
A closed group page for the avid Aussie fossicker.
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The GPX, GPZ SDC Club page. A closed group page for active detectorists.
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A closed group page for waving wanders of the red centre - or those who venture out that way.
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Aussie Gold Hunters and Prospectors Group is a closed group page for the gold hound.
If you know of other groups or related Facebook pages, please let me know
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