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You have to go to the USA Minelab site, not the worldwide one, I guess soon they'll redirect USA customers to the US site. Here's a link. Minelab GPX 6000 All Gold Detector with 11” Monoloop & 14” Double-D Waterproof Coils This is quite funny, you click on their find a store thing, and it's absolutely swapped by big box and chain stores. Alaska Mining and Diving was extremely lucky, I guess the name put it first before it got swallowed up.

Not sure if this is the right section to put this in. But, I am wondering if there are any metal detectorists in the Inland Empire that would be willing to link up and do some Coin and Jewelry detecting here locally (parks, beaches, old homesteads, etc) and also do some gold detecting out near the high desert areas of Barstow and Randsburg? I'm open to other areas, too. Also looking for a meteorite hunting partner as well. Truth be told, I currently drive a 2018 Toyota Camry. So, the local hunting I can get to with no problem. I can even get out to the desert areas. HOWEVER, once I get to the desert, I can't venture too far off-road. So, hoping to find someone with better off-road capabilities that I can meet in the area out there and possibly ride with them out to the detecting sites. Compensation will be provided. If this is the wrong section for this, I apologize in advance.

It would be interesting to test some of these that I have on some sites like you are describing Jeff, I honestly feel three of the ones I have would probably surprise you, just how good they are, and as I said it would be interesting for sure to do side by side comparisons with you and get your thoughts on them, if I were detecting salt water beaches i would probably have a different take on things but I do not, I do have areas with heavy magnetite and heavy salt content and I can only base what I see on the ground I detect, i do have a few hot rocks I deal with but very few where I use the beep and digs, the beep and digs I am only using to detect coins and jewelry and a few relics.

So, is this something that they are already doing here in the United States? I was just on the Minelab website earlier today reading about the GPX 6000 and did not see any options to buy from the website. It still had the button showing where to buy from local dealers. Just wondering if I'm missing something.

Sorry I'm in Austin Texas

I found this little guy in a parking lot.. its completely clear besides has inclusions in it, and at a certain angle you can see rainbow colors. Also looking at it from the top down it has 4 corners..when you put a light under it

Honestly, I hunt like the video demonstrated for days on end whether it is at a "ghost town" site like the one in the video or even just hunting on some of the park sites in my area. Granted, I did have the recovery speed a little higher at that site than I normally use on less nail polluted sites which does shorten the length of the audio response. So for me, it's not just about the digital versus hybrid versus analog audio. It's more about can these Tesoro like detectors actually hunt some of the sites I go to? At sites like that where there are thousands of nails, unknown hundreds of thousands of hot rocks which VLFs will give a response on and ground mineralization from magnetite that is off the scale, if I choose to use a VLF, it has to have really good simultaneous multi frequency operation in order to have half of chance at determining that there is actually a non ferrous target under the coil, way before any audio response. Otherwise, a single frequency detector no matter how good it is will just call that zinc sitting on or near the surface as mostly or totally an iron target. That was the issue that I had using the Lobo Super Traq and Vaquero at that site along with many other single frequency detectors. The Tesoro's discrimination circuitry simply could not function at that site due to being next to impossible to ground balance on the magnetite mineralization and the amounts of iron trash. Many other single frequency multi tone capable detectors would call coin sized and smaller surface non-ferrous targets iron due to similar poor ground handling or just give an overload response even with their coils lifted off the ground. This is why I would be very interested in an SMF Deep Tech.

I thought you already had one @Norvic? Or has it been replaced under warranty?

So after almost 5-weeks, my Snake arrived today. I got a bit nervous when I was provided a tracking #, but after a week, it was still in Ukraine with no updates. Then of course I felt guilty worrying about such a trivial thing considering what those folks are going through. First impression was the high build quality; it looks very well made. The cable is significantly thicker and feels more like rubber than vinyl. Just a quality look and feel. I'm no detector expert and the Legend is only my second detector (First was a new Compass Judge 1 which I still have), but I wanted to do a quick air test comparison with the stock 6" (LG15) just to satisfy myself that Snake was at least a good as the stock coil. I used V1.11, factory default Gold mode with sensitivity at 25 and 28, and Threshold at 12 and 9, just to see if I could hear the signal better at one vs the other. I used a plastic ruler from the face of the coil and moved the specimen with my hand. The placer gold specimen weighed .15 g, was more round than flake, and was taped to a sticky note. The first thing I noticed was the Snake really popped; the tone was extremely crisp compared to the 6". The tone on the 6" seemed "longer", more muddled and almost a double tone. They both hit hard out to just beyond 2" and both faded fast beyond 2 1/4". The signal on the Snake was still obvious out to 2 1/2" and the 6" a bit less. The higher Sens setting on the Snake got it an extra 1\4" (2 3/4") while the 6" saw little or no improvement. The Threshold setting seemed to have no effect, though the 6" signal at max range and 28 Sens MAY have been just slightly clearer. I'm not sure how much value this simple test has, but it has convinced me that overall, the Snake is better suited to my usage and I'm glad I bought it. What I'm not sure about is whether the Snake is actually hitting a little deeper than the 6", or because the Snake's signal is so sharp and defined, you can just hear it deeper above the noise. Guess it doesn't matter. Can't wait to go hunting!

I have one arriving next week too. - Dave

What you just stated about audio quality is spot on appreciate Jeff doing the Video but honestly would anyone have got down and investigated that target, based on the audio or target IDs, with these analogs when they lock onto a non ferrous target there is no clipping with an occasional good tone the tones from these analogs is a good solid hit with no clipping, it is all in the audio for me, I do not have to try to decipher what they are telling me as Jeff stated I also am not against the fully digital detectors at all, and yes I would also be very interested in a SMF Vista X also I guess it all boils down to which type of detector gives someone the most satisfaction and makes detecting the most fun for someone and for me personally that is the beep and digs right now

Good test, thanks for showing at least one of these newer detectors can kind of pull non ferrous targets through crap like that, I still have my fully digital detectors but with the Analogs I am having fun and as I have said for me personally that is what detecting is supposed to be fun, not frustrating.

This one's dedicated to my good friend Conor.

A bit ... when you are PUBLIC with a Stock Price there are forces at work that require PROFITS and sometimes the strategies for profit have adverse consequences. Customers can buy other products if it isn't a monopoly.

May 6 2003 A Blood Curdling Cry We all got to working on the trail early this morning. We are making good progress. Around noon we stopped work to have lunch. Paul pointed up in the direction of the canyon and told us no one had ever worked an entire Summer there as far as he knew. As a matter of fact, he said he hadn’t heard of anyone working or exploring there for years with the exception being himself. He admitted that even he could not bring himself to stay in that canyon for more than a week without getting out for a break. Between the heat and the critters it was more than most could handle. Paul did say there may be people going in and out of the area in secret. We would have to keep our eyes open for any trouble. Unfortunately we are used to that. By dusk we were tired and ready for supper. As we headed back towards camp we all of a sudden heard the most blood curdling cry you could imagine. It came from the direction of Dreamwind Canyon. I couldn’t tell if it was an animal or human. It made my skin crawl. Clay asked Paul what he thought it was. He shook his head and said coming from there it could be damn near anything. Whatever it was it sounded like it just got murdered. It creeped me out knowing Paul and I were just in there yesterday. When we got back to camp Jacob had supper ready once again. We told him about the cry and he didn’t make much of it. He just flatly stated that’s why we carry guns out here. I just have a bad feeling about this deal. I can’t get that sound out of my head. TO BE CONTINUED ............

Oceania gold, is now in a battle with a large number of New Zealand music artists trying to prevent it from mining gold under conservation land. OceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold) is a gold mining and exploration company based in Vancouver, Canada and Brisbane, Australia. OceanaGold operates the Haile Gold Mine in the United States, the Didipio Mine in the Philippines, and the Macraes and Waihi mines in New Zealand. It is publicly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker "OGC" and was formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. A fight over mining under conservation land is heating up in the Coromandel between Oceania Gold and Martin Donoghue who leading a cohort of musicians into the fray. A video on the story can be seen here. And the News story on it here. This is the area here, the big hole in the ground towards the bottom left is the existing Waihi gold mine that Mitchel visited recently, and they want to underground mine the spot at the end of the access portal under the national park area, must be very productive ground as it looks a very expensive operation. They claim 1.5 million ounces of gold is there. I don't know much about it all, but a big fight is going on over it by the sounds of it.

I have a near Mint GTI 2500 that was donated to MD4V.org. If anyone is interested in giving a tax deductible donation for it, please message me. Thanks!

Yes, real life is the real test. I actually have some hope that DeepTech will consider a SMF unit. Whether it gets produced depends on a lot of things, including the possibility of being sued. DeepTech listened to user suggestions for a lower frequency machine and coincidence or not, introduced the Abyss.

D4AU, I`ve weakened and swung over to the dark side, should have a brand new non defective 6K in my mits Monday. Need trouser braces this week. 😉

I hate to love em, if their gold detectors weren`t so bloody productive, I`d boycott em. 😉

What I found interesting was they were saying the ground was really hot, and I have no doubt's it likely was, but the Algoforce barely needed balanced, in fact when he did balance it went to 50/51 or 51/50, so basically neutral with 50/50 being default, looks like he could have ran all day in that spot without balancing at all, unless its variable but it didn't seem to care, never did I notice in his video the balance numbers changing. It's surprising the ground the Algo can handle without ground balancing often. I expected it to be like the QED where you need to regularly keep it adjusted but it does tend to handle ground better. This is it on extremely salty soil, the balance reads 50/00 I could run it in this area even though the salt levels change dramatically without constant ground balancing, although it would likely benefit on tiny gold with regular balaicng it wasn't getting ground feedback after doing the initial balance to the area. I'd been messing around with coils so this one wasn't calibrated so I have to calibrate it in the video, hard to hold two buttons down with one hand with the other holding the phone to record 🙂 I'd like to see the Algo at work in highly variable ground in OZ to see how it goes, I think it'd be pretty good at handling it without throwing the balance out too much, as the two bars at the top show you when you need to balance as they expand out, you'll notice in Ed's video that's not happening, he doesn't need to balance often at all. The reason that larger pellet he found had the 7 ID was highly likely because it was not a lead pellet. It's the lead pellets that ID at 00. He did quite well with that video, and what he demonstrated was a typical experience a new user to the detector would have. Everything I saw in that video was genuine, the only slight thing was he lifted the Algo on their air tests over the 3 bits of gold, he ran the 6000 right over them not lifting showing the air depths just the response near touching them, the 6000 would have won in that if he lifted it but it's obviously a much more expensive detector.

Is Codan to blame for this? D4G

As to whether the video I made is a 2D test or not…. I would label it a 2.5. Some of those targets are on the same plane and some aren’t. The hot rocks at that video site can sound off from several inches below the surface and so can the nails. I am swinging my coil more than inch off the surface so I won’t bump into anything. The penny is almost an inch below some of the nails. So, definitely not exactly on the same plane. I too would be very interested in a Deep Tech SMF.

I should have my 9" Tuesday. I'm looking forward to using it a few places. Should be a great gold nugget coil IMO. Good middle of the road coil for most anything from parks to relic hunting.

ahh yes, the battery is high up on the shaft too with a long cord. That could destroy that idea, I forgot too.