Garrett Axiom 2nd Outing + A Few General Thoughts And Observations

[jasong]

Interesting stuff. There are some washes in AZ that are literally just black from magnetite, but are fairly shallow. They are in potentially big nugget gold bearing area too.

I tried both the GPZ and the 6000 in one of these areas with no luck at all. I'm curious if the Axiom can both cancel the magnetite out as well as hit gold still buried in magnetite laden sands. If so, that'd be pretty amazing since $14,000 worth of Minelab detectors couldn't do it. At least, not in any sort of way that I had the patience to detect. 

[Steve Herschbach]

2 minutes ago, jasong said:

I'm curious if the Axiom can both cancel the magnetite out as well as hit gold still buried in magnetite laden sands.

Yes. The only question is how well, not if it can do it. The Axiom has been tested in some of the thickest black sands anyone has ever seen. It balances out magnetite sands better than any detector I have ever used, bar none.

[jasong]

34 minutes ago, Steve Herschbach said:

Yes. The only question is how well, not if it can do it. The Axiom has been tested in some of the thickest black sands anyone has ever seen. It balances out magnetite sands better than any detector I have ever used, bar none.

That's kind of a big thing for some people. Man, I'd be investigating further and marketing that angle if I were Garrett...

It's stuff like that, combined with some discrim, coil selections, etc that can eventually add up and make the Axiom a more compelling unit to own than a 6000.

[Steve Herschbach]

Garrett has been taking a decidedly low key approach on the whole thing. There is a quiet confidence that as people get the detector it will sell itself. That it will only matter if it comes directly from genuine users, not some marketing machine. That’s the theory at least. Anyone that just grabs an Axiom out of the box and does a quick video on some test targets will be completely missing the versatility and capability available here. No, compare it in EMI. Compare it on hot rocks. Compare it on salt soil. Compare it in thick magnetite. Compare it on ferrous targets vs another PI. That’s when people will see there is more going on here than just a simple “which goes deeper” kind of thing.