i Too am curious what other tech/indications made you dig a 30 foot deep hole?
Ok, before I answer I just wanna say I already know the various arguments against some of this technology. No matter what you say you're not going to convince me I shouldn't believe in this target. But I guess I'll share this info because you asked me and maybe it will help someone else find their mother load.
Step 1: I held two copper L-rods out in front of me and said "Point in the direction of the nearest buried gold treasure." Now, no matter what you choose to believe, the rods responded before I even finished my sentence and rotated in my hands at the same exact speed to point in a specific direction, in unison. All the while I'm putting forth great effort to hold my hands steady, so as not to influence the tilt or movement of the rods at all. When I walked in that direction, eventually the rods crossed. Even though I was quite sure it was not me that had made the rods respond in such a decisive way, this still wasn't enough to convince me to start digging.
Step 2: I brought an MFD (Molecular Frequency Discrimination) type of LRL detector to the area and set the frequency to a known gold frequency (5,250 hz). I placed the frequency generator several yards away from the target I had located and after about 30 seconds or so began walking in a circle around the FG with my L-rods held out in front of me. Once again, the rods crossed at a point that was perfectly in between the FG and my target. I walked away from the FG and tried walking over the same area between the FG and my target several times at different distances from the FG. The rods continued to cross on the same invisible line until I passed my target. This certainly added to my confidence in the target, but still was not enough to motivate me in to physical labor.
Step 3: I invited a guy who owns this (
Conrad X-3 Ultra Plus | Conrad Detectors ) to the site, to see if the device would produce any kind of visual image. This device is basically a Turkish copy of the OKM Rover C2. But the unique thing about it is they integrated a strong frequency generator, basically the detector has this (
Rayfinder gold detector long range locator - GDI-DETECTORS.COM ) built in to it, which the OKM Rover C2 does not have. This ended up being a very interesting day for a number of reasons. Number one, the owner of the device admitted to having absolutely zero dowsing ability. He would not even take my plain old copper L-rods and try it because he didn't want to be embarrassed. However, when holding the L-rods connected to the "amplifier box" that comes with the device, the L-rods are in fact very responsive for him. Now something to remember is that I did not share with him the location of the target I had identified. But sure enough, when he activated his FG, it produced a signal line to the exact same location. This of course was a major boost to the confidence I had in my target.
Step 4: After confirming the target with his FG. He did a scan of the identified target area. I believe the term for the technology the device uses to produce the visual image is "magnetometer". After scanning the target location we uploaded the scan in to the visualization software and saw that over area of the identified target the scan went from blues/greens (normal dirt) to a very dark red that formed a rectangular object. The dark red color code in the software is indicative of a dense metal object. Obviously this increased my confidence in the target even more. It was enough to begin digging. But after digging down to about 9 ft and still not finding any metal objects, doubt started to fill my mind.
Step 5: I invited another person to the site who owns a White's TM 808. Up until that point, all of the technology I had used to confirm the target had not yet reached what I would consider to be "tried and true" technology. But I figured, how can anyone doubt the White's TM 808? This is old school tech... Its easy to find true stories about people hitting the mother load with the White's. Sure enough, the White's detected a metal object directly over the target area and no where else in the surrounding area. This really served as a 100% confirmation to my mind. What are the odds that the White's is picking up a metal object only directly over my target location and no where else in the area if there is nothing there? This happening after all the other methods of locating and identifying the target, the odds must be astronomical.
But of course, there still exists a very small chance that its a false target. The goal is to dig to 40 ft before giving up.
