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Hi, I just returned from a ten day trip in the Gasgoyne area of Western Australia. The first seven days were spent going over new ground patch hunting without any luck then ground I know has produced for the bread and butter gold. There is over 50 bits the largest being four grams and a few nice specimens.

I have been hunting with the GPZ for quite some time now. So I the am use to the GPZ being noisy it's like running the GPX 4500 very very hot or (maxing out). On this particular day the ground was saturated and as I dug down to recover a target I never hit any dry dirt. The GPZ will find the gold in wet conditions if you listen to what it's telling you through the noise. A proper ground balance and using the ferrite ring is a key part. On this outing I recovered 8.8 DWT and the largest being 5.4 DWT. The quarter ounce piece was at thirteen inches and broad signal. Happy Hunting, Road Dog

I thought Klunker was out in the fields prospecting. Seems he is the new face for the minelab zed 7000.

Thanks again guys, it's why we hunt is right !! We all know those big ones are out there...we have to go through a lot of trash, and some small nuggets here and there....but the big ones are a surprise. Kind of like pulling the hand on the slot machine....we get fed a little here and there, but just once a while we get that " ohhh my Gosh " nugget. The feelin can't be beat and a memory for ever....

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-florida-family-finds-rare-gold-coin-20150727-story.html http://youtu.be/vtDOdvhjlrE

It's back!! GPX4500 - brand new and at a bargain price. Now you can own the former top of the line for a great price. This and an SDC would set you back about half of what a GPZ costs. http://forums.nuggethunting.com/index.php?/topic/11573-minelab-gpx-4500-now-available-again-from-robs-detector-sales/

Crickey, I thought he was ambidextrous.

Well, all I can say is if White's does not care about their own new detectors I do not guess that anyone else will either. I have never seen such a lack of interest in a new detector from a major manufacturer. There are interested potential buyers, just no interest from dealers or White's themselves. I have no interest in buying a low price detector myself but I do post threads about them in case others are interested. It is telling that this thread is by far the only one going on any forum with any information at all. White's own forum at http://forums.whiteselectronics.com has barely any mention of the new models. Findmall just started a new forum on the Treasuremasters at Link deleted since Findmall Forum update broke all old links and so presumably that will be the place to watch going forward for any discussion of the new models. But if this is how the new administration at White's thinks you introduce a new detector they are in real trouble.

A pal of mine just sold an SDC2300 for $2000 (asking - don't know if he got that much) on Craigslist in Phoenix. Guess it's not only the price of gold that is dropping. It's not just gold detectors however. I have bought and sold a couple of dozen detectors in the past 18 months or so and the price of used detectors is really "soft" right now. I just got offered four absolutely beautiful Italian Suits in my size at a gas station in Abu Dhabi for $800 - so I guess things are tough all over - but that's another story!

Just my opinion, but I have run the GPZ over a wide variety of different types of ground and I am not really sure it's necessary in most US goldfields. If you are running in auto ground balance as many prospectors do, the machine eventually loses the information as new ground data replaces old. The only way to hold the ferrite info is to run in fixed. Honestly the only ground balance issues I have experienced with the 7000 are in salty ground and I have not been back to those spots since getting the ferrite ring.

don't feel bad, Scott...you are in bad company...I asked Minelab to send me one they said talk to the dealer the dealer was told to talk to the distributor and so on and so on...still waiting. They know who bought GPZ's and they have the addresses...why not send them pdq and skip the BS???? fred

Thanks Paul, although shortened by bad weather it was a good trip. I run a Zed and it didn't like the lightening (distant) over the last couple of days. The settings I find that suit me in the very highly mineralized ground I detect are High Yield/ Difficult with the Sensitivity on 12-15, Threshold 26, smoothing off and manual ground balance. The standout requirement is to swing slow, very slow, on ground that you know produces. They are noisy settings and I worry about missing the quite deep one but the Zed is noisy with any settings it seems. On one spot where I picked up about twenty pieces for six grams I tried Bogenes setting on several signals, the response would still pull you up but the above settings produced a much clearer signal. Nothing at any real depth, the deepest just three inches.

Could be a "she`ll be right" problem by Minelab, but SS I was given one by my dealer months ago, no prompting and I`ve not used it, no need GPZ runs AOK in my country. So bugger Minelab, slackos, PM me your address and I`ll post mine over. Gotta keep you out searching for those virgin patches.

Scott and Steve, I've experienced one of their 'shipping gaps' which seems to be a problem. Maybe it is an Australian mindset of 'we'll get around to it' but for my part when someone tells you that you are going to have something sent and you don't get it in a couple of weeks, then you follow-up on it and find out they 'forgot' and they tell you that you will have it in two days ... they should never rely on USPS or Ground FedEx. Send the darn stuff overnight or two day and be prompt about it because you have had a customer wait (in my case over a month) ... it does seem to be a part of their corporate culture now. I need to add that my two days for the 'make up' shipping is at least 2 days late now. I'm dealing with both Ireland and Chicago on this one. Mitchel

Hi Scott, I recalled a previous post by you about this at https://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/1041-ground-balancing-the-gpz-7000-in-saltyalkali-or-saturable-ground/?p=11102 and was shocked to see that date was June 11th! Over a month and a half? That's nuts. Looks like you fell through the cracks - let's see if your post gets some action.

Road dog , nice going on detecting those nuggets,congrats to you.

Very, very nice. It is why we hunt!

Fact is nothing can touch a GPX with big round coils for deep big juans! Nice one!