I cleared the connector by poking a small Phillips screwdriver through it. To ensure the bore was clean, I dunked the connector into some water and then blew it clean with my shop air compressor.

Your odds of going home with gold will be higher using the discrimination mode, even if you might have misread one of the targets you rejected.

The nugget sat there in plain sight, though it was covered in dirt, while hundreds of people had passed that way every day.

… I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Brent Weaver, Garrett’s chief design engineer to talk about gold-oriented detectors, how they work and how prospectors can get the most out of them.

Some of the gold is placer that was beat up as it traveled; however, quite a bit of the gold is pocket gold that is running along the surface in this area.