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I've been hunting an old park lately. An old-timer told me where the folks used to have their summer get-togethers, so I decided to hunt the area. Pretty promising so far. All this, plus dozens of old cents. 3 quarters in one hole.

Source................> ****Australia**** Australian Exam Sample.pdf First Part.......... 1. Australia is as wide as the distance between London to Moscow. 2. The biggest property in Australia is bigger than Belgium. 3. More than 85% of Australians live within 50km of the coast. 4. In 1880, Melbourne was the richest city in the world. 5. Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman, earns $1 million every half hour, or $598 every second. 6. In 1892, a group of 200 Australians unhappy with the government tried to start an offshoot colony in Paraguay to be called ‘New Australia’. 7. The first photos from the 1969 moon landing were beamed to the rest of the world from Honeysuckle Tracking Station, near Canberra. 8. Australia was the second country in the world to allow women to vote (New Zealand was first). 9. Each week, 70 tourists overstay their visas. 10. In 1856, stonemasons took action to ensure a standard of 8-hour working days, which then became recognised worldwide. 11. Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke set a world record for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Hawke later suggested that this was the reason for his great political success. 12. The world’s oldest fossil, which is about 3.4 billion years old, was found in Australia. 13. Australia is very sparsely populated: The UK has 248.25 persons per square kilometre, while Australia has only 2.66 persons per square kilometre. 14. Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts. 15. Australia has the highest electricity prices in the world. 16. There were over one million feral camels in outback Australia, until the government launched the $19m Feral Camel Management Program, which aims to keep the pest problem under control. More than 60 more in PDF or Link

17. Bigger Jackrabbits than Texas but Australia call’s them Kangaroos. Chuck

Hi folks! Long time lurker, first time member here. I live down in the hills of south central Indiana and get to enjoy easy access to some of the better-known gold prospecting spots in the state. I've also started getting into the metal detecting hobby recently, and am really enjoying taking my Equinox 800 out to the local schools and parks, and to whatever private permissions I'm able to obtain. Can't say I'm an expert by any means, but I've booked a few pickers on the gold prospecting front and a little bit of silver on the detecting side. Looking forward to reading and learning from all the experienced posters here!

I took mine outside of town for about 20 minutes earlier today. Cell tower about 2 miles away one direction, power lines about 2 miles the other direction, town about 5 miles away. Helicopter flew over once. Still chatters, way more than I'd like, but didn't lose stability entirely like it often does. Walked around with it for 10 mins, then left it sitting on the ground for 10 mins. Didn't have headphone with me to compare with. Still detects my S22 when off, against the right side of the case. Basically where that reddish wire is at in the photo that goes back towards the speaker. Anyways, was usable here, even if quite chattery, but this isn't where I detect for gold and location seems to make a big difference. Gonna be a bit till I can get to the Goldfields still.

As we all know the GPX 6000 coil ears have cracking problems, quite a number of people after hearing of it and inspecting their coils found they had cracks they didn't even know about. It's been said they revised the plastic they use to make the coils to prevent the cracking, but has anyone been able to find out the date this took place? Is it very recent I wonder or did they do it some time ago? Much like the speaker EMI problem every coil before a certain date is going to have the dodgy plastic formula. I've had my coil replaced recently under warranty for being noisy but it wasn't replaced with a new date code coil, in fact the coil I got it replaced with is likely older than my 6000 as I only bought my 6000 in May of this year and I was provided a replacement coil from 2021 by the looks of the writing on the coils package. If anyone finds out the date of the plastic change that'd be appreciated although I guess Minelab likes to keep this stuff secret to stop people wanting their stuff fixed/replaced.

Mines in at the repair center now getting done, I'll be able to report back in a few days how the "fix" performs.

Wyoming Territory beat everyone by a good margin (1869). We were the first government in the world to grant full voting rights plus right to hold political office to women. It was insisted upon in our application for statehood in 1890 too and carried into our acceptance into the Union (all other states rescinded these rights to apply for statehood). There was nothing in the act banning native women or women of color from voting but in practice back then, who knows. Our motto is "the equality state" for that reason though. True we were only a territory and then state, not a country, but NZ and AUS were self governing colonies, which in ways was similar to a territory and state.

Crikey, GJ I think most of us OZ prospectors would be deported for failing. I got the Bob Hawke one and RRs 17........

I'm trying my best to share the knowledge as Minelab USA provided it to us. I found out the other day, those of us who enjoy the Equinox 600 and Equinox 800, their waterproof headphones are 100% compatible with the Manticore. Now this is interesting. The wireless headphones are not the ML 80's as is on the Equinox. They are also not the ML 100's as we have on the GPX-6000. Something new for us and probably better than the others. Let's hope. Today (Oct. 18th) we get to see what's Included. I realize this does not answer all questions but at least it gives us an idea that we'll be getting our initial shipments of a simple package similar to the Equinox 800. It will come with detector, an 11" DD coil with cover and wireless headphones with case. Anyone see anything missing that you expected? Again, if you have not put your name on a list, let me know. Just like with many other detectors in the past, I usually order more than most and get them to customers sooner. My 25 year Minelab track record speaks for itself. Thanks, Gerry

To be fair, this is as much a detecting learning curve for me as it is a Deus II learning curve, but as I have been wading through all this, I have been helped immensely by most everyone on this forum who is much more knowledgable and experienced than I am. I can't express my gratitude enough for all the help freely given here. I'd be lost without it. I felt I'd reached a wall or plateau in my learning as many do when learning new things, but recently I made a break through that was directly related to advice given here and insights from another fellow who I is on another forum but I don't know if he is a member here. Many of you probably know him as NWGA on Youtube and Rattlehead on the other forum, and you may be familiar with his Silver Slayer program for the D2 based on Fast. And I should add the following is just my experience in my local soil so be aware and take that into consideration. Now let me first say that I have really come to like the Fast program on the D2 for use in my local park hunting, but I have never really done any cherry picking. I always thought that notching would just make me miss something good. I usually use very low discrimination and no notch and dig everything that sounds good and go into a park and grid like mad until I get worn out. I've also set up a wide open version of the stock Fast program with PWM Audio version of Pitch Tones, Discrim at 6.8, and B-Caps and Silencer at 0, and it has opened up my hearing for all kinds of targets including some really tiny ones. This program and testing a lot of various good and bad targets in air and ground has helped me recognize the nuances of many different target sounds. The only down side is I dig a ton of trash because no matter how good I think I'm getting at recognizing trash a lot of it still fools me. Enter the Silver Slayer... I tried this program a few months ago and was worried about missing targets so I stopped using it. Let's face it, if you notch, you CAN miss good targets. In my recent learning growth, I have begun to notice a pattern to where many types of targets fall on the VDI and audio scale on the D2. This is becoming very helpful in making dig/no dig decisions, but my overall impulse is just to dig. I have a hard time walking past a good sounding target even if I know it is trash (and it usually is). So a few days ago I decided to get outside of my box and try cherry picking one more time just to try something different. My local detecting club members, some of whom have been hunting since the 70s, all say the parks have been detected out for older coins long ago, and I haven't found any evidence to the contrary. I had a few hours to play on Saturday morning so I decided to load up the Silver Slayer program again and go to one of the older parks in town just to see if it could find anything interesting. This park is still very active and hunted by locals regularly. As I stepped onto the grass I noticed right away how quiet it was in the headphones. This park is packed with can slaw, pull tabs, and old iron and trash from the demolished houses that stood there from the 1800s to the 1960s. It wasn't long until the coins started popping up. I ended up with a 1993 quarter with a Zincoln penny fused on top of it, 5 more Zincolns, 4 modern pennies, 1 copper Memorial & 3 Wheat pennies from the 1950s, 6 nickels (3 of them were early 1960s), 5 dimes dating from 2020 back to 1967, and a 1945 silver Mercury dime (my 3rd silver coin found in the wild with the Deus 2!) I must admit, I didn't worry too much about what I might be missing because I was just having too much fun. It's possible I missed something good but I wasn't digging nearly the same amount of trash I normally do so I just didn't care. I was just hunting coins and I hit silver. There is something really special going on with the way the D2 handles notching and I want to learn more about that. It was a freeing experience for me. Of course I won't use the SS program all the time but for the sheer joy of coin hunting, I highly recommend you give it a try if you're into that sort of thing. 😎

Hey Guys, Just a FYI for you. Keith at Detector Center called and official said they are doing the "speaker mod." You will need to contact Detector Center and have a ticket created so they know it's coming to them. Give them a call, let them know and then ship it to them. Hope this helps, Rob

Esther Hobart Morris Esther Hobart Morris Died April 2, 1902 (aged 87) Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S. Nationality American Occupation Justice of the peace Known for being the first female judge in the United States of America.

Note the date of this patent for ML coil shielding. United States Patent Candy ( 10 ) Patent No .: US 11,454,736 B2 ( 45 ) Date of Patent : Sep. 27 9 ,2022 ......Patent Link.....

June 1 1937 This chest was about five feet in length by three feet in width and about three feet in depth. It was made of a dark hardwood and there were three locks securing the slightly rounded lid. The weight was such that John and I were unable to budge it. It took John several attempts to break the locks and he ended up shooting them off which damaged the trunk somewhat. When we lifted the old lid there was a rotted yellow and red cloth near the top. We carefully lifted off the cloth and there were some very old drawings on some kind of parchment that we were not able to completely make out. The chest smelled musty and was slightly damp. Beneath the parchment was a row of what looked to be fittings for swords. We removed them and there was a well fitted piece of hardwood protecting the lower contents. John and I carefully lifted it out and set it on the surface. Sarge was watching the drift opening as well as watching us. The entire bottom half of the chest was packed full of loose silver and gold coins. Some were blank while others had strange markings. What appeared to be a crescent was found struck into some of them. Others were blank. The quantity was massive. We stood over the chest too stunned to say a word. Finally I told Sarge to come over and have a quick look see. He let out a soft whistle in amazement. We would need to unload the contents and get everything to a safe place. The problem was that there are few safe places out here. TO BE CONTINUED ....................

Jackpot! Old picnic grounds can be great sites. Years ago I was at an huge regional park and a park ranger came up to me while I was detecting, and started talking to me, asking me about the hobby and as he was wrapping up his conversation he asked me if I had my detecting permit (required for this particular park system) and I showed it to him. I think that made him happy, so he told me to come to his office during business hours and he'd give me a copy of the original park map. I did and that turned out to be a bonanza, as many of the sites had been moved/changed/abandoned. After checking out a few of them, we detected on spot that was an old scout/church picnic/camp area and it was loaded with silver. The guy I was hunting with then and I dug over 100 silver coins in a month, it was really unbelievable. Also the silver to copper cent ratio was something like 2:1, so for every two wheat cents we dug you got one silver coin. We also got silver flatware, silver jewelry and one gold ring, and lots of neat old scouting things. This particular site didn't start until around 1940, so no really old silver, I can imagine if it had been 30-40 years older we'd been digging seateds and barbers 🙂

Way to go Cap'n! Nice Merc and wheats and nickels! Next time I'm in a trashy area that isn't a relic field I'll try that. Gotta write stuff down soon if there is ever a D2 update, but I'll wait for the smoke to die down before doing it, V0.1.7 is working well for me. Why won't I use SS in a relic area? Consider this story from my last post: "I was walking towards Chase and bam..." What I didn't write there was his comment: "I've been digging 🤬 75s all morning and you get a civil war button?" 😀 He ended up getting a couple nice buttons anyway, heck my Dandy was an 89 or some such. There are a lot of small can bits and junk metal in that spot. Some of it hits the 90s... 🤔 Now that aside, if I used that program at one of my campground permissions it might really be interesting. Thanks for the proof! I'm using BC filter up to at least 3 to push out some of the iron that falses, but an ax head was a beautiful 71, and square nails were in the 70s too. 😵 Noticed your iron and bottle caps. 🤔 Great to see you out there getting the silver. You might have to go "all metal" to get the gold, that 14k gold chain in Virginia Beach was no joke, kinda scared me. 🤪 D2 was totally blind to it just dropped in the sand in front of me. Probably one of the most important things I've been told about detecting so far came from @dogodog, who said: "If you're not digging foil, you're not finding gold" 🙂

Already on the list with you Gerry. Hope you get a bunch of them in the first shipment! I'm wanting the 8x5.5 coil too. Hope they are available soon after the Manticore ships. - Dave Affleck

I thought it was still that way today? Interesting reads.

Hi all! With the final injection mold associated with the Deus II shaft project (for the locking remote control mount) now entering the production process, the project is nearing completion. I expect this final mold to be complete in about 6 weeks, give or take, with the molded mounts then arriving a couple of weeks later. With the production of all other parts needed to begin building the first batch of shafts already in progress, I am ready at this time to begin to assemble a formal “wait list” for folks who are interested in purchasing. At first, these shafts will be of one main configuration, with a couple of optional add-ons available. MAIN CONFIGURATION: This shaft configuration will be available at an introductory price of $229 plus shipping ($20 shipping within the lower 48 states; additional for Alaska/Hawaii customers, and international shipments). This configuration will consist of be a black, three-piece, collapsible carbon-fiber shaft, with locking remote-control mount, and custom carbon-fiber arm cuff. ADD-ON #1 -- For an additional $20, the shaft can be produced in a “counterweight-ready” configuration (that would allow it to be used with one of my carbon-fiber counterweights, to improve the balance of the shaft) ADD-ON #2 -- For an additional $20, the shaft can be produced to allow the antenna cable to be run inside the shaft; the antenna would enter through an oval opening on the underside of the lower rod, and exit through an oval opening on the middle shaft section, just “forward” of the handle. Note that when the antenna wire is being used in the “inside the shaft” manner, the wire protruding/exiting from the middle shaft section will prevent the collapse of the middle shaft back through the handle (i.e. into fully collapsed “transport” mode). The wire would have to be retracted back into the inside of the middle shaft section, for full shaft collapse. I have many customers’ names tentatively included on an “unofficial” wait list at this point. Though some will likely not follow through for inclusion on the “official” list, the number of names may still exceed the number of shafts being produced in the first production run (32 shafts). Still, subsequent production runs will follow quickly on the heels of the first run, and so I welcome anyone with interest to have your name added to the wait list. EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED YOUR INTEREST TO ME IN THE PAST, please confirm with me that you would like to be added to the “official” list. The list will be first come, first served, UNLESS you have already been added to the “unofficial” list, in which case your place in line WOULD be maintained. To confirm your interest in being placed on the wait list, PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL at steve@stevesdetectorrods.com. ONLY an email to my email address, will be counted as a request to be placed on the list. Thank you very much, to all of those who have expressed interest, and a particular thank you to those who urged me to pursue the project, who offered suggestions and improvements along the way, and to those who gave of their time to field-test the shaft and help bring it to its current, advanced stage of development. I am VERY pleased with how this shaft has turned out, with numerous improvements – some small, and some more subtle – that have been incorporated into the design. I think the shaft will be well-received, and highly regarded. THANKS! Steve Goss www.stevesdetectorrods.com email: steve@stevesdetectorrods.com

Have thought they were some bigger kind of grasshopper!?🙄 😁

Thanks NCT! The rein guide is a new one for me too, I'm getting quite a collection of them. Surprised no one freaked out about the bronze toes... 😏 🤔 That's the allure of relic hunting, you never know what you're going to find, and some of it is priceless. Certainly the experience is.

"I was hoping someone like RNB made an even better one" I doubt you will get one much better, a small amount is possible. Minelab have used a good quality cell in the Equinox, 5000 mAh is at the top end of capacity for a 26650 size. I have seen 5500mAh quoted from Vape and flashlight manufacturers: https://www.ecoluxshopdirect.co.uk/soshine-26650-5500mah-battery-protected https://www.orbtronic.com/26650-battery-protected-li-ion These two are protected, unprotected cells are what you really want, especially considering the space aspect - protected cells are typically 1mm longer. Anything claiming over 5500 mAh is most likely fraudulent, especially if the 'brand' is UltraFire/SuperFire/CatchOnFire etc.

Thank for all your feed back , Maybe a design flaw was a bit of a harsh statement as I totally agree it's a fantastic machine. It's just me not wanting to take my machine apart for transportation (lazy? probably but I am fussy) I agree buy removing the lower stem it reduces the overall size of the detector to be very compact but I defiantly want the bag to be able to close as over here in the UK it rains a lot and the detector isn't the only thing in the bag. wet sandwiches are not very tasty 🙂 I now know that the control box can be removed from the handle, so I am in the process of designing / fabricating a new shaft with foldable handle , without cutting up my original shaft. I will post pictures when I complete it for you all to see.

Welcome to the forum and glad to see you here. Really looking forward to seeing some of your finds when you get a chance. Good luck and good hunting.

Rich, OH, yes, I remember that, very well! Moving from the "Explorer" way of doing things, over to the E-Trac's (and then CTX's) approach, i.e. "normalize FE numbers of 'good' targets to the '12-line' thing," was not something I liked, at all. With the Explorer, I found that you could glean information NOT ONLY from the behavior of the CO number of a target, but also from the way the FE number behaved (changed) on a deeper target. That ability (watching FE behavior),"went away," of course, with the E-Trac (and CTX) with all good targets forced/normalized to 12 FE. As for the discrimination, I haven't seen any videos of the details of how the disc. screen will work, but it's not clear in my mind. The way I like to run the Explorer (and CTX) is to set "iron bias" to disc. out higher ferrous values (I set my iron bias at 20 on the Explorer, so that anything above 20 FE was disced out). I'm not sure how you would do that, on the M-Core, unless you would disc. out a strip at the top of the screen, AND a strip at the bottom of the screen? With that said, I have always run the Equinox with NO disc, and just set my iron volume low, to "hear" the iron, but at a softer, less intrusive volume. Ironically, pertinent to this discussion, I took the CTX out today for the first time in ages, just for grins. And after running "no disc" for so long on the Equinox, having the "bottom of the screen" (i.e. high FE targets) discriminated on the CTX, was surprisingly odd! I did it that way for SO long, using FBS machines, but going back to that, after running no disc on the Equinox, was just really strange! I forgot how running FBS machines that way, results in SO much "nulling" of the threshold, and I felt like as a result, I was really missing alot of information due to not being able to at least HEAR the iron targets (instead, just a "blank" in the threshold). In areas with alot of iron, and thus the threshold blanked nearly continuously, I felt rather "blind," so to speak. I had forgotten that particular nuance, of running FBS machines set up in that way, and it became clear very quickly that I MUCH prefer to "hear" the iron, as opposed to a threshold null. SO, moral of the story, it will depend, for me, upon how "good" the audio is on the M-Core, as to how I set it up; I would MUCH prefer to "hear" the iron, which as I mentioned, I DO, on the Equinox. BUT -- that was never an option on an Explorer, and with the CTX, the only way to do it is to run "combined mode" audio. But, the problem there, and it's why I don't use that mode on the CTX, is that you CAN'T RUN "FULL" CONDUCTIVE TONES, if you select that mode. Instead, you are limited to only four "tone bins" for your "conductive" targets, and that was a no-go. I loved the idea that I could listen to the iron targets, BUT -- HATED the idea that in doing so, I was restricted to only four conductive-tone "bins." Had they given me the option of the full 35 conductive tones, PLUS ferrous tones, that would have definitely been the way I would have run the CTX audio. HOPEFULLY, we have an option like that, on the M-Core. Steve

Sounds like you live in an interesting area. Welcome from East Texas.

Hey, welcome to a fun and informative forum. Had two stints in Ind back in my working days, one in Lafayette, and the other in Evansville. Youngest son, in fact, was born in Lafayette. Good luck with your gold and silver endeavors. HH Jim Tn

Doesn't Sarge or John own a farm? I don't understand why they haven't used that farm for a place to bury some of that loot. Of course you would want to make sure that no one follows you lol. Seems like no matter what precautions you take in this story somebody is watching you. How in the heck Jed let someone sneak up on him and shoot him in the back of the head while he was burying his gold is almost unbelieveable. Good story though man! Keep up the good work and thank you!

Welcome, glacialgold, from a fellow Hoosier detectorist! It can be tough sledding around here for both gold and silver, but just like everywhere if you can find the unkown (to others) locations there's still some good finds to be had. Sounds like you've found a few places which haven't been cleaned out.

Alright. After that little interlude I thought I would do a comparison. I am not in any way trying to stir anything up with these three photos below. I love and regularly use (and backpack) all three detectors. The backpack being used is just like any middle school to high school age child's 20" (51 cm) tall backpack that can be purchased at Walmart or any "Big Box" store that sells school supplies. I usually use my Minelab backpack which is 26" tall when I am gold prospecting and need to carry an extra detector and gear. Otherwise, for local coin/jewelry/relic hunting day trips, a backpack like this works fine even if I am riding a bicycle. The Deus 2, Equinox and Legend all fit easily inside. I did not remove the coils from their lower shaft, nor did I remove the control units or even disconnect the coil connectors from the Equinox and Legend control boxes. All I did was remove the lower shaft for each unit. I can remove these three detectors from the backpack, put the lower shafts back in and be up and running in less than a minute. So, whether there is a design flaw or a huge difference.........you be the judge. Deus 2 Equinox (with TeleKnox collapsible shaft) Legend

Thanks! Part of the fun of finding stuff like this is sharing it, especially the odd things. To anyone new here I hope it provides inspiration, and shows that you don't have to have done this for a long time to find awesome stuff. You just have to do some research, be nice to people who own these lands, and get out there. The rest is luck.

Thanks everyone for the congrats. 🙂 Frankly I'm as excited by the Dandy button, it's way older than the Cavalry button. They were in use from the 1770s to the early 1800s. At 34mm (1-1/4 inches for those of you who abhor the metric system like I do) it's the largest one I've ever found. One side of the house is where we found colonial items and a large cent, the back (used to be the front until they moved the road) was all 19th century. The right side of the house seems to be a mix of both. There are other areas that have or may have more colonial stuff. At some point I may try to find out what was along the part of the road that is now gone. https://metaldetectingtips.com/what-is-a-dandy-button/

You got some good recommendations, so here's my 2 cents worth...stick with what you get, and REALLY learn it. Put in the hours, don't let your mind tell you, you should have got "X". Keep at it, learn it's nuances, figure out with time what your favorite type of detecting is, and eventually...if you get the bug...you will maybe upgrade. With that said, hard to beat a Nox 600, unless your in a gold bearing area, and want to nuggetshoot. If you want to buy used first, to get the most bang for your buck, stick with buying from known people...like the forum members here. I've bought and sold dozens of detectors over the years, only 1 bad incident, and that was dude not including an extra coil that he advertised, actually still have, and use the detector. Good luck!

The basic garrett panning Kit can be found online for $29.95, hard to go wrong with it.

Well it’s finally about to happen. Minelab has updated US dealers with a confirmed Price $1599 and Part #. YIPPIE!!!! This must mean that things are starting to come along and hopefully we see/hear updates more frequently as the production moves along. I’m looking forward to this new model and finding out how good it really is. My Staff members and I will be doing our part using it in a variety of states, terrains, hunting styles and situations so we can come up with our own conclusions of how it stacks up to the competition. We also provide this hard earned and sometime long hours of use.. info to our customers to help them make the right choice for their next detector investment. Here's a bone for you all who already own the EQUINOX and waterproof headphones. YES they will work on the Manticore as well. Not many dealers are as well rounded in a variety of metal detecting hunts of different treasures as my Field Experts. We’re also the same guys who’s been offering “Metal Detector Basics” for the new and “Advanced Gold Detector Training” for the Nugget Hunters for the last 25 yrs. I’m pleased to announce we’ll be doing the same with the Manticore and those customers who purchase from us. Be sure to view my website Calendar of Events right after the New Year to see what options we provide for you in 2023. And again, Gerry’s Detectors will be offering the 15% Military Discount to all active and prior US Military. As a Veteran myself, I feel privileged to honor and help those who have served, to get the next detector in your hands. You earned it and so might as well take part in the additional savings. Here’s some of what we have learned so far. Overview MANTICORE with Multi-IQ+ is the most powerful, fastest, and precise metal detector in Minelab’s history. Interestingly, they did not say it’s equal to the Equinox, E-Trac or even CTX-3030. Boy that’s a pretty bold statement, but as always Minelab has been able to back it up, so I expect nothing less. The heart of MANTICORE is its super-charged Simultaneous Multi-Frequency (MULTI-IQ+) engine. This feat of innovation generates an incredible 50% power increase over the best-selling detector series of all time: EQUINOX. I wonder how much depth increase (if any) that will equate to? When combined with advanced 2D Target Identification (ID) and rich audio options, the detectorist has every bit of vital information arriving at their eyes and ears. I’m thinking more to the ID system of the very popular E-Trac and CTX 3030, which I missed on the Equinox. MANTICORE is an unrivalled detecting experience that pushes the boundaries of detecting to deliver more power, more depth, and more finds. Yet to be confirmed, but with Minelab Engineering track record, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time, maybe even days/or weeks? More info MULTI IQ+: Minelab’s revolutionary technology has 50% more power than traditional models and is the highest-powered simultaneous multi-frequency machine on the market. FAST RESPONSE: Identify your targets quickly and confidently to efficiently sort between trash and treasure with exceptional target separation performance. POWERFUL 2D ID MAP: Identify your targets with greater visual and audible target insights. ENHANCED DISCRIMINATION: Exceptionally accurate target ID allows you to accept or reject finds quickly and confidently. WIRELESS AUDIO: Clearly detect with audio controls set specifically for you in order to identify targets confidently, reduce noise and identify trash. ULTIMATE SEARCH MODES: Over 10+ preset search modes allow you to set the stage for success, with the ability to customize up to 10 unique modes tailored to your specific needs. UNRIVALLED CONSTRUCTION & WATERPROOF: Powerful yet lightweight, Manticore weighs only 1.3 kg (2.9 lbs.) and includes a three-piece, compact Carbon-Fiber shaft system. Waterproof up to 16 ft (5 m). INTUITIVE CONTROL: The large LCD panel allows for easy viewing and clear navigation control. BOOSTED EMI IMMUNITY: In challenging environments, improved EMI rejection uses higher sensitivity to isolate targets. CHOICE OF COILS: Comes with the M11 (11″ Round Double-D coil) and choose from M8 (8 x 5.5″ Elliptical Double-D) and M15 (15 x 12″ Elliptical Double-D) coils. LIGHTING & VIBRATION: Detect even when the sun goes down with features such as Control Box Flashlight, Display Backlight with Auto Adjust, Backlit Keypad and Handgrip Vibration. CLEAR AUDIO: Built in external speaker allows for crystal-clear audio and comes with Low Latency Wireless Headphones. BUILT TO LAST: A three-year warranty with software upgrade capability allows detection far into the future. I’ve been warned that the detector release could be similar to that of the Equinox series. Those units came into the US in small allotments and then were divided amongst the dealers and how many we ordered. I assure you and just like with the Equinox rollout, I should be able to get more units to my customers faster than many others. Getting on my Pre Order List should be your priority so be sure to email me at gerrys1det@gmail.com No money down needed at this time. So it looks as if Minelab has taken some features from 3 of their top selling/performing VLF type detectors (E-Trac, CTX 3030, Equinox) and combined them with new technologies and improvements for the ultimate do it all detector. From someone who has had fantastic results and success with all 3 of those models and most recently the Equinox, I’m extremely excited. Just take a quick peak of Equinox treasures I shared in the few pics, just to give you folks an idea of what I’m expecting and then some. Some of my eye/ear catching from above info we've been provided so far.... - VIBRATION Mode built into the handle. I actually look forward to this feature and know of a few folks who will be very happy. They have taken this from the pinpointers and I feel it’s a nice bonus to have. Hopefully the rest of you enjoy it as much. - 2.9 pounds is the advertised weight. Heck that’s fantastic as it’s now even lighter than my Equinox. I’m a big fan of carbon fiber as well and glad to see they went this way for the Manticore. No more issues for us guys in the salt water for hours at a time. - Coil size selection. I’m a big fan of the small 6” round for the EQ and CTX and even bigger fan of the small 6” Ellip found on my VLF type gold detectors. Minelab says a new 8 x 5.5” semi ellip. Pretty excited for this one as many of us like the ellip and the heel/toe pin pointing and into rocks/brush and other tight areas. I’d hope CoilTek is working on a smaller coil as well as a 15” round for ultimate depth. Did I mention that we just don't sell detectors, we live with them? Looking forward to earning your business and helping you become successful. Thanks, Gerry 208-345-8898 Gerry's Detectors www.gerrysdetectors.com Gold Nugget Detector Field Training

I used the Tarsacci today for the first time in a while. The drought has dried up a local swimming pool that was in use upto the 1940s. The place is all but forgotten and all grown up in thick brush. There is some open area that normally holds water with a hard bottom under the mud. The mud is dry enough to walk on but still wet under the surface. The mud is pretty conductive. I tried The Legend and it was only stabile in M3 or Beach MW. I needed to get deeper so went back with the Tarsacci. It ran perfect. 6.4 kHz, GB 590, Salt 27, Sens 9, TH 0. I dug a few targets, mostly simi interesting junk. The best was a large pocket knife at 15” in pretty good condition.

This subject comes up so often it is time to get it into its own thread so I can just link to it in the future. It is best to think of metal detectors made for prospecting as "nugget detectors" as that is the truth of the matter. Nuggets have some size to them. Metal detectors are electromagnetic devices, and as such can detect items that are conductive and non-magnetic, like gold, or non-conductive but magnetic, like magnetite. Or both, like metallic iron. When dealing with gold you are dealing only with conductivity. The more conductive the mass, the easier it is to detect. In general what this means is bigger is better. Any detector has a limit to how small an item it can detect. Here is the kicker. Multiple undetectable targets do not add up to create a detectable target. I do not know how many times I've seen or been told of people throwing a vial of small gold on the ground and running a detector over it and declaring the detector will not find gold because it does not pick up the vial of gold. Or people thinking the detector has a problem. Let us say that on a scale of 0 - 10 zero represents an undetectable piece of gold, and 10 one that really beeps. 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 still equals zero. So lots of tiny gold is just as undetectable as a single piece of tiny gold. You need a single conductive mass. Fine gold usually has a coating, and putting a bunch of fine gold in a vial still results in little or no signal. If the gold is super clean and packed tightly you will get a weak signal. Melt it all together, and now it goes beep. Another way to look at it is take some fine gold and pour it in a pile. Get a multimeter and test your little pile of gold for conductivity. It is hard to get much current if any through a loose pile of gold. So bottom line is you might have 5 ounces of fine gold right under your feet, and you will walk right over it with your metal detector. Rich gold ore where the gold is finely dispersed in the rock will be hard to detect or undetectable. Wiry or spongy masses of gold are hard to detect. Jewelry hunters run into this when trying to detect lost necklaces. A fine chain is very hard to detect as each link is undetectable and the connection between the links is poor enough the signals does not add up to much. Often all you can detect is the clasp. Rings even display this issue if the weld breaks. A complete ring really gives a great signal. Break the ring, it will be very hard to detect. Now once an item is detectable, it does add up. 10 + 10 = 20 so two large nuggets in the same spot are easier to detect than each by itself. If each link in the gold chain can be detected, then it will add up into a more detectable target. A fun trick with target id detectors is to tape 5 nickels together and run them under the coil. They will read as 25 cents! It's hard enough to detect loose items in air tests. It becomes impossible in saltwater.

Pictures are hard to identify from and I am no meteorite expert but it looks like a rhyolite crystal tuff or flow. Rhyolite is the volcanic (extrusive) equivalent of granite (igneous). It can vary in color. The phenocrysts (crystals) look like feldspars and quartz. Some appear to be broken, that implies erupted. I don’t see fiamme which are flattened pumice that look like a wispy or flame like structure(s). The real way to tell is if the groundmass is crystalline, it will be very small or aphanatic, meaning no small crystals. Groundmass with small crystals means near surface cooling. No crystals means erupted.

CPT_GhostLight -- thanks for the kind words! Whenever you decide to add it to your list, let me know, and I'll add your name to mine, LOL! 🙂 Thank you! Steve

Were they though? Sure, the old detectors were not made obsolete, they still work as well as they ever did.... but for most people now they just sit in the cupboard rarely used replaced by multi frequency machines thanks to the Nox kicking it off, and owning the market. Other companies have been forced to jump on the band wagon making their detectors SMF too or they knew they would struggle to sell detectors with the Nox being the dominant force in the market. Obsolete may have been too strong of a word, but one thing is for sure the Nox shook up the market to an extraordinary level. Good things come from that though, it woke up the sleepy competition, XP had sat on the Deus since 2009, over a decade, Garrett popped out with the Apex after sitting there on the ACE series since 2004 so the Apex was a big jump for them in that series. Their flagship AT series were no better really, they had and are still sitting on them since 2010.. all these are well over a decade of absolutely nothing. Now Nokta Makro are a different story, they seemed to pump out a new detector every 6 months to a year, but never a simultaneous multi frequency until the Nox forced their hand, they had to make one and out pops the Legend. Obsolete maybe questionable but one things for sure, the other manufacturers seemed to be worried enough about it to act on it after decades of doing nothing as if their detectors were obsolete, and perhaps they were.

God made the Earth and rested God made all the plants and animals then rested God made man and rested God made woman and God are man has rested since Joke for the day Chuck

If you have an Equinox 800 I encourage you to test it on a medium or large gold chain using the Gold 2 mode. Yes, gold chains are hard to find but of my 6 detectors the Nox in Gold 2 (and 6" coil) is the only one that will find gold chains at 4-5 inches deep. Unfortunately, Gold 2 doesn't work in the wet salt beach sand so my gold chains have been found in fresh water.

Many thanks for reading the story. I think Jed got careless. He drank way too much whisky.

It's always exciting when a new machine opens up a pounded site, congrats looks like your on the pay dirt 👍

I would be very careful sending via USPS. Earlier this year, I sent El Dorado 3/4 of an ounce of small pickers and my Platinum wedding band. I hired him make me an exact replica of my plat band with gold I found. He made it sent it back with the remaining gold. Insured it for $2k, but it was actually value of $4k. We had a bunch of pictures of everything. Package disappeared in the USPS distribution center in North Carolina. It's a long story and I finally received the package empty of all contents with the USPS admitting it was in their possession when the contents were removed. Filed a claim. Denied. Filed 2 appeals to the highest level. Denied. Only option left is to hire a lawyer, but that will cost more than $4k. Found out it's very common for packages with insurance to disappear. It has been a nightmare to deal with. From now on I will only ship via fedex. Going through this ordeal I learned that UPS does not have good claims either and I was told by a local jeweler that they only use fedex due to theft and insurance.

Well he did his best to review a model that he couldn't turn on 😮 🤪

I ended up with a Minelab 6" coil, and its been doing great. Thanks for everyones advice.

Some more yellow stuff today. This time from a different area. 13.4g, biggest piece is 3.1g.