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Has lots of good information to help beginners find gold with a metal detector. So it's to his benefit if you buy the book, get excited about detecting and buy a Garrett metal detector. However, it includes plenty of hype; it's not as easy as the author makes it sound. The author's major business is selling metal detectors (he manufactures them). I still recommend buying the book if you like prospecting and have time and patience and are not afraid of lots of hard work.Go for it. Have fun out there.
This book contains very little genuine information. It basically says that Garret's patented pan and detector are the best suited for gold prospection.It develops at length the setting of the ground balance of the detector which is famous for its difficulty to use.
I have not ground it up to do an assay on it yet. He said it is not the Having it is the FINDING that makes his day brighter. Still I like to think it has GOLD inside of it. I retired from a 9-5 job in 1990. I would not lie to you for this report. My preferred method is to use a Metal Detector. Where would you be if that call never would have been made.
I have a collection of books written by Charles Garrett. I love to find gold. All of them on different ways to use a Metal Detector to find gold or other items of great value. I know one thing listening to him tell about using a metal detector has made me a much better fossicker.
I asked Bill Gates one time Why with all his money he still kept going after even more. This book is into the finding of GOLD like I have said it has a shine like no other. The first thing I found with my latest Infinium LS metal detector was a bracket off of a lawn mower or some such. The second item I found with it was how ever a small 1 inch by 1/2 inch by 1/3 inch piece of quartz that had some metals inside of it. Still if it has a great history behind it. I do have some of his detectors and I love them. I was 40 years old. I for one really like listening to Charles Garrett tell us how to find gold or any metal with a detector.
Now you might think that a silver dime is not worth much. I could have been the dime someones father used to call your mother and ask her to marry him. I also love it that he is not bad mouthing other metal detectors to try to make his detectors seem better. Which is how they say it in New Zealand.73dray
Prospecting information is presented that is useful and informative
And I felt I was unable to translate many of their instructions to generic terms (for use with any brand metal detector).Early on you are advised that terms are defined in the glossary. It appears that the editor of the book was in a great rush, or extremely inexperienced. Well, OK, but it still has an uncomfortable feel to it. And although the authors disclaim any purpose to sell their products, they refer to them exclusively on the grounds that they are most familiar with them. The authors have so much enthusiasm for their topic that I truly wanted to write a positive review, but unfortunately their enthusiasm is the only redeeming quality of the book. But it would be better titled as a companion to one of the Garret manufactured metal detectors. There are several passages that are repeated verbatim in different chapters and you are left wondering if you have somehow read the current chapter already. Ground balancing (canceling) is treated the same way.
The editor was found, and seems to be mostly associated with the works of Garret and Lagal.Was it worth the price. This is basic to didactic writing. True, you can learn some things about searching for gold with a metal detector. I could not find any reference to RAM publications on the web. But they should also be defined in the text so that one does not have to continually stop reading and refer to the glossary. For example, the term "placer" is used many times before it is defined. I suppose, as I at least felt the excitement of hunting for gold. I still hope to find a book on using the metal detector as a hobby that is a better-written "how to" book that speaks in generic terms about metal detectors.
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