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Ranger and Tell found this five-gram nugget recently . They used Rodettes, Examiners and Goldscrews. It was about four inches down in very ferrous soil that had red and yellow ochres making locating by standard metal detector alone difficult. It was one of a kind as every square inch of the area yielded no more. Proof once again that the long range locators we make will find missed nuggets in worked areas due to their discrimination.

The picture (bottom left ) shows an assortment of about 60 baby nuggets found by one prospector in the one and a half months since Xmas 2003 using an R-T assisted hand-held long range locator. The nuggets were all found separately, a few each day. Largest one (center) is 19 grams.

Bottom right shot shows a newly-found baby nugget using the Rangertell Examiner.

Some of the 180 baby nuggets found this year by the prospector using LRLs some improved by Rangertell . He averages about one a day. The first picture was taken in February, last picture in June. There is a 19, a 14 and an 8 gram as well. Ranger and Tell , using Examiners correctly determined the position, weight and depth of three of these nuggets yesterday before they had been dug.

Types of gold encountered recently using Examiner T-G. Left to right (X60): Micro-presences as 1&2 metallic, 3 metal coating and 4 smear gold . R&T

The picture shows a quantity of the raw gold bearing ore found in Colorado by Hardpan, an experienced locator.

Hardpan writes:

'Hi Ranger, The silver was in a chunk of that gold bearing ore from the same mine dump. I just slowly walked around the dump with the Examiner aerial very short, set to one of your frequencies, and I would get these VERY distinct pulls to a spot. I would just roughly box in the spot and put the detector on it and Whheeeee.. screaming in my earphones. Found enough pieces to keep the detectors busy. They were dug down as deep as 12 inches and as shallow as on the surface. The surface ore was gray and oxidized, the subsurface ore was jet black.

All of the ore had gold in it. Every piece. Even the silver nugget had small crystalline bits on it before I gave it an acid bath. Some pieces had more than others, the louder they were with the detector, the more metal inside.

Best Regards, Hardpan'

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Congratulations Hardpan on your latest expedition!

Fine gold pan load found by Hardpan using Rangertell earlier this year A Silver Nugget found this time

Pic (below left) Dolly pot, mortar and sieve pan used to sort the gold-bearing ore.

Opaline flint favored by natives for spears found Australian drought-exposed swamp bed from great distance away with Examiner T-G

--COLORADO PAPERWEIGHT--JULY 2004

500 GRAM PURE SILVER SPECIMEN FOUND WITH EXAMINER

Hi Ranger,

We returned a week ago from our annual Colorado vacation. Besides finding lots more of our usual tri-metal ore, I found a nice paper weight with the

Examiner. It is a 5cm X 10cm irregular mass of mostly native silver weighing 505 grams. When dug up, I almost tossed it over my shoulder as it looked

just like any piece of rust-encrusted, iron mining debris. Then I remembered that it had not registered as iron on the IronID of my White's GMT. I whacked

it soundly with my rock hammer and broke off a lot of the oxidized shell. I also noted that where the hammer hit any spur or protrusion, the metal flattened

and silver color showed. I then checked it with a magnet, and it was attracted. Bad news. Ah, but then I remembered that most of the primary silver ore

I had collected here was magnetic, because it held iron oxides besides silver, copper, and small amounts of gold. Just to be sure, I checked it with the Iron

ID meter again. Non-ferrous! When I got it home I soaked it for a couple days in muriatic acid to take off the remaining exterior oxidation. Several baths in

water leached out more iron oxides, leaving a spongy black metal mass. A bath in liquid metal polish then showed out the silver color interspersed with small

areas that are black or coppery. It took a long time to find, as the Examiner was drawn to many individual pieces of ore that have small amounts of silver in

them. I had boxed the target in to about a 15 inch square, and only made half a swing with my detector coil before having my earphones blown off my head.

I was very pleased with the cause of the resulting headache. We're hoping for silver nuggets in the primary ore chunks, and maybe a little more gold. I'll

let you know if there are any surprises as we crush the ore.

Best Regards, Hardpan

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There's a bunch of silver medals in that lot. Thanks again for the report Hardpan.

Ranger/Tell

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' Using R-T units like the auto-tuning Examiner your pastime can be rewarding if you're seeking gemstones.

The pic shows an assortment of gemstones found in a few hours by a stream. All Rangertell units are the best dry pinpointers around since they detect even invisible gold (transfer to paper with finger and check ). The Anubis now on all units allows you to forget or null out this micron gold which is a nuisance.When washing for gold or gems check your pan with the any of the units you have to establish whether there is in fact what you seek in the panload or shovel. Running your finger round the rocks and sand collected will tell you exactly where the target is since the unit you tuned will swing towards your finger as it touches or comes close to the gold etc. If you're pressed for time you can take a handful of the material thus isolated and test it, then wash that on it's own. I used an old unit to find these. A drop or two of sewing machine oil on the handle shaft and some fine soap steel wool and it was good as new.

Depending on your locale it is not as hard as you think to find this type of assortment dry panning with an R-T unit.

Same creek recently (60x). This was a random microscope look at a wet pan remainder.

Without the Rangertell product(s) this would entail days of checking and knowhow and still no overview of what is actually where you're hunting! A metal detector is not going to find you gemstones.

Last weekend we travelled some hundred odd km high into the mountains to a dense forest area and detected virgin reefs apparently missed by open cut miners. The purpose was to R and D test the Examiner and see if the findings tallied with the geologist's report conducted a few years ago during the mining. This type of activity is conducted every week by Rangertell and results in product enhancements and development with every different scenario.The pix might give you an idea of the vegetation. It would not have been possible without the Examiner which the miners obviously didn't have. The exercise in mapping and strength of target field went without incident save for a fat, black snake that wasn't quick enough for the car wheels. Have to watch those since they have a miraculous tendency to remain with the vehicle and frighten the driver at the end of the journey or worse. It's happened to me once. A black mamba remained in this manner in Africa biting the driver and putting him into a rare coma.

The shots show the forest vegetation, two arsenicated adits and a mine wall.

The amazing thing about the gold is that it is relatively close to the surface and appears to have been totally missed by both the miners in 1880s that found about two dozen kilos and those of a few years ago that extracted more than a dozen with great difficulty using more than 100 semi-trailers to transport the ore some hundreds of km for processing. This was necessary since extraction using cyanide etc was not allowed under Forest Protection Statutes. The forest has since been deemed a natural protectorate. It's easy to see why. Such untouched florescence deserves protection to an extent though I can't see much occurring to it save manmade bushfires and rampant logging. Those trees are hundreds of meters tall, tickling the belly of the sky in this awesome bush kingdom.

I bet many of the early miners perished from the arsenic in the sulfide ore that forms the source rock for the gold.

The Examiner allowed discovery of new reefs at the weekend. Without it they would have lain undiscovered. You wouldn't be able to use an SD2000 Minelab MD even if the reef approached about 4 feet below the surface, due to the heavy forest undergrowth. Positioning gravimeters and magnetometers would also be difficult. The most recent miners probably followed the original adits in and assayed as they went using knowhow. They also seem to have missed another section, though the geologist mentioned another reef that had not been touched in this vicinity. If you want to find gold, take a Rangertell locator to an old mine. You will detect that work has been done directly on the reef or furtive attempts have been made to locate it. Sometimes you can detect swathes of gold bearing strata they appear to have missed. You might even find a stash or two that some miner secreted in the middle of the night as the temptation became too much for him and the path back impossible.

This represented a full comparison project for Rangertell. Without using any geological information apart from the R-T units we surveyed the entire mine and drew a dimensional map of the leads and pipes. We then compared our map in person with the work of the geologist who worked on the mine. There was a very good correlation between our plotting and the original dimensions used by the geologist. This represented more evidence that the Examiner was a vital geological mining tool that not only detects gold but can be used to define the dimensions and stratigraphy of the find.. We determined the nature of the seams by walking along the open cut on both sides and within, moving away until the antenna straightened again after detecting a gold seam. This proportional waning of the antenna allowed us to compose a map, which was surprisingly accurate when compared with the original map used by the mining company.