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All you really need is 1 small nugget find to check off the list. Be sure to take many pics, enjoy the local traditions and live life my friend. Congratulations on your dream adventure coming together.

We all know Minelab are always working on their next generation detectors, be they coin/relic/gold or dedicated gold, as Gerry mentioned elsewhere. I'm guessing that the next GPZ detector will be revealed at the upcoming Minelab dealer conference in Oz, May of 2025. I believe that to be a reasonable prediction, as the 7000 is so long in the tooth now, and Minelab's next flagship gold detector is long overdue.

Getting skunked at old sites is very rare for me. Say Rye Patch for example, I do not think I could hunt a day and not find gold. That's how confident I am about RP and my skill level with the detectors I feel give me best chance for RP and the size of remaining gold. Now when I go prospecting for new ground, the skunk happens more than success. That's exactly why they call it Prospecting and not Gold Finding. Man the terrain you guys swing is so much different than what I'm used to. Moss, steep terrain, heavy vegetation, probably high humidity......and then the trash. So, what does mean to seasoned veteran detectorists? There is a really good probability of gold still being there for those who want to work for it. With all those detractors, most folks give up to soon. Mindset - It's most important and I am glad you mentioned that Tom. When the mind starts wandering, the body is aching and your ears start missing those weak signals, or your Sweep gets lazy...You just missed that nugget. It's time for a break and then a fresh start. Thanks for sharing and sorry you got the skunk at a proven site. It happens to the best of us on occasion and that's part of why we cherish even those little nuggets we find.

I understand as the 7000 came out with a free goldmonster, so dealers stock up, then the next month they do a 25% of 7000 sale. Now you have to sell off your stock at cost. The Manticore 30% off sale probably caught many dealers that had a inventory at the old price. Wish we had an agreement that gave us a warning about sales a few months prior so we do not overstock. I have been doing more drop shipping lately to avoid this dilemma, but this also has its downside. When is the new gold release coming out Gerry, you mentioned soon?

A Garrett Storm hint? Check out the photo above, there’s a wooden post on the hillside right, the post has a beveled top. Could this be a “mining claim marker” ?

The GPX-5000 has not been on our price list since last year and all stock was depleted about that time frame also. This new shipment came in from who knows where, but no word on if it’s a one time offering or if they have more coming. I would take a wild guess and say they are trying to move 5000’s wherever they can to deplete inventories to be able to put out a new release at some point in time.

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So they bring back a detector that came out in 2010 and a detector that was selling new a few years ago for under $4000 and decide to raise the price on it, but yet they are dropping the price on many other newer detectors. One thing about Minelab is the consistent inconsistent pricing. They wonder why dealers don't want to order in bulk...because they have no protection. It would not surprise me to see Minelab drop the price under $3000 a few months from now. I'll wait for the new one coming out soon or use my trusty Garrett Axiom that can find the majority of remaining gold better than a 5000 and it's cheaper. Just my own opinion. For those who used to have a 5000 and liked it and now want to get a new one, I guess now is your chance. You just have to pay more. They'll probably say, cost of inflation went up. Good luck selling them Ron, but I would not be sitting on a bunch of them.

A Walker is a favorite.

Thank you for the response, I was using all terrain general.

@AureousI have just checked the detailed geo map. yes, they are bedrock outcrops and map said Czc🙄..any prospective? See where red pins are 😁

Interesting. I had a gpx 4500 with 12" evo, 14x9 evo and 15" evo. I now have a gpz and gpx 6000. I have both NF Z search coils. The NF evos I found pretty noisy and difficult to tame, but never really gave the standard bundle wound coils a fair go. One of my mates in WA also used the Coiltek 14" and one of the Romainian coils and reverted back to the 11" bundle wound commander and swears by it. I have had excellent results with the 12" NF, I don't need more sensitivity, I have the 6k for that, I need stability. I find the 12" quieter than the standard 14x13 and of course lighter and better balanced. I often thought about going down the x coil path, but if it's really only going to give more sensitivity, it's not what I'm looking for. Thanks for sharing Phrunt.

Cool finds pile . Make it 2 votes , I thought that big piece was from a bell too. 🧐

When I updated to 1.14 for the first beta version, the high tones in Beast Mode were barely audible compared to the low tones. So I updated a second time and it corrected the problem. It makes me wonder if sometimes an update might come through incomplete. I have no idea whether that is possible or if it was something I was doing wrong but it seems to be working properly now.

By comparison: Nokta Makro LiOn batteries: 6 month warranty XP LiOn batteries: 2 year warranty

In Russia it is not customary to photograph nuggets; many times I have seen nuggets over 30 grams melted and cut into pieces. It's not entirely legal here or make jewelry

We found WWI medallion.. from 1916 - medallion who is given for credits in minimum service od 3 months in battle..

It was unbelievable the amount of blank and live rounds we found. From .45 to 50 cal. We would empty the powder, put in coffee can and then light the powder. The brass we would sell for scrap. Even found a fired tank round and fired artillery round. At one camp someone found a frag grenade. Fortunately it didn't have a fuse or powder! A few times a fuse/detonator to a mine would be found. On one trip a guy had a tire blown off from driving over one. Found a 5 gal gas can buried several feet down. Couldn't figure out why it was buried. Tons of coins! Sometimes just lying on the surface. Someone even lost a 1803 large cent. And, a replica of a 1857 CA gold coin.

John was a good friend of our family. He lived down the road from my parents the past 20 years or so. We were very saddened, we were on the way down to Tombstone when we got a call from his wife. He was a great friend and wonderful human being. It was always a treat to be able to spend time with him. Unfortunately I was only on a handful of hunts with him. Rest in Peace Goldmaster!

I know someone wanting to learn their Invenio Pro. The video you posted now shows unavailable. Do you know if your friend re-posted it or his user name on YouTube so I could find it? Thanks in advance, Mark B. Vail, AZ

Kind of funny but it’s just a bad picture. The one in the back is probably a Time Ranger Pro. The one on the right is probably an F75. Because they do YouTube, they probably have additional audio devices plugged in giving a different silhouette.

Please help those people see the light.. At the very least the marketing person should be flogged repeatedly by all office staff until they can recognize the difference between a Garrett detector and an FTP device.

When the ZSearch came out, my detecting mate and I decided to do some testing. He was using the stock coil and I had the 12” attached. We both used the same settings and searched some old workings for gold. We both agreed that if either one of us had something that might develop into a signal, the other person would be called over before even a boot scrape was made to confirm it. The area had been recently raked and was therefore a pleasure to detect. After about 20 minutes, I picked up a soft but repeatable signal. I called Joe over and he had a listen and confirmed that it was a definite target. We then swapped machines and ran his stock coil over the target. There was absolutely nothing to be heard. The target was recovered from a depth of about 7”. It was a good dig for a .5g nugget. A second target about ten minutes later gave the same result. We were both impressed and amazed at the sensitivity of the coil. For the next month or so we continued to test on live targets on every trip. The results were so impressive that Joe ended up buying one for himself. There were times that the stock coil did really well on big, deeper targets but you would expect that due to its larger footprint. The Nuggetfinder coil will find much smaller pieces than the stock coil when the gold is shallow. Although we would prefer to only find big chunks, the small pieces do add up. A couple of years ago when detecting in Western Australia, one member of the detecting group I was with offered me $1500 cash to sell him my 2 year old ZSearch. He and most of the group were impressed with how it consistently produced good number and deep, solid pieces of gold.

Just bought mine last week with the sale price…same hardware:

Great round-up of the training, Gerry. Always happy to help out getting your customers up and running with their gold nugget detectors; it was a really good class with great students, lots of fun and fantastic weather to boot.