Steve Herschbach

Hi Ron, I am not sure how my post could be construed as meaning that. It is a new model about to be introduced. All I was doing was linking to an earlier thread on the subject - one of my jobs as admin.

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Hi Jim, If a person used headphones in conjunction with the WM12 this is an option, or if they have extremely good hearing. Most of us need the speaker module to be nearer our ears, and in my case my hearing is much better in my left ear. So, shoulder mount under left ear.

My WM12 battery door has also torn off but I still use the piece as a plug. No joy from lots of Google searches trying to find an aftermarket replacement so far. Another item that should be available for purchase from Minelab dealers or from their website, but no. I have been wearing the WM12 just below my shoulder and have almost no drop outs, or so few they go unnoticed.

The Chaser was covered in quite some detail earlier at

From article at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/extraordinarily-rare-tudor-ring-found-9046824 "Scans at the British Museum showed the ring was 78-80% gold and confirmed the nature of the precious stones. The ring was classified as treasure but local museums were not able to raise the funds. Mr Rossiter agreed to split any proceeds from a sale with the landowner. Cheshire-based auctioneer Mark Littler advised him to sell directly to a collector rather than go through an auction. He said he brokered a sale with dealers Wartski, in Mayfair, who have been supplying the royal family with jewellery for generations. “I contacted them and negotiated a private treaty sale for a five figure sum for my client which was a great result,” Mr Littler said."

That is it strick. JW, the specimen was basically on the surface of an old tailing outwash area from an old mining pit. The material is now overgrown with trees and covered with a thick layer of duff (pine needles, bark, branches). It boomed on the GPZ and I honestly thought it was a can. A quick dig with my pick revealed it, and the first sight of the nearly 9 ounce chuck about stunned me. It was not until later that I found it was mostly quartz, but still, a pretty nice find. Picture below shows the excavation. Rick, in Australia specimens are usually just crushed (dollied) and the gold panned out. We have a better market for specimen gold and so this could be sold as is. Unfortunately the mass of quartz hides most of the contained gold so this is not a prime specimen. It would be better with less quartz showing more of the gold. If the quartz were pure white it also would be more valuable but it has darker mineral inclusions. Still, I have considered slicing it up to see if any good cabochon material can be obtained for jewelry purposes. I have also considered just soaking it in Whink as an experiment to see how many months it would take for very weak hydrofluoric acid to completely dissolve the quartz, leaving loose crystalline gold. For now doing nothing has been the easy option. This post promoted to an article

"PITTSBURGH — An Australian company is suing French company XP Metal Detectors and Massachusetts-based Detector Electronics Corp., citing alleged patent infringement. Minelab Electronics PTY LTD filed a complaint on Oct. 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania against the defendants, alleging that they infringed on the plaintiff's patent through their distribution of a metal detector." Details at http://pennrecord.com/stories/511025018-minelab-electronics-alleges-patent-infringement Case Docket https://dockets.justia.com/docket/pennsylvania/pawdce/2:2016cv01594/233955 and details https://www.unitedstatescourts.org/federal/pawd/233955/

"Minelab MEA General Trading LLC, the leading distributor of metal detectors and accessories throughout the Middle East and Africa continue to battle strongly against counterfeit products in order to protect their customers. On Thursday 13th October, 8am at Jebel Ali all seized counterfeit items from a recent action were destroyed and recycled in Minelab’s continuous efforts to locate, combat and terminate counterfeit products." Full story at http://www.me-newswire.net/news/18864/en

I used to be active on many forums and even a bit on Facebook for awhile, but I have slowly withdrawn from locations other than this website. It is safe to say that 99% of my internet activity going forward will be devoted to this website and forum. I have not posted on my Facebook page in over a year, have no Twitter account, etc. I really just do not use social media. However, I have been approving pretty much all Facebook friend requests for some time. That means my feed is getting all manner of posts on things I have no interest in and from people I have never met. The main problem though is people try and contact me on Facebook and I am rarely there to see the messages. I decided it was time to clean it up. I posted one last gold photo as a way of alerting people that the way to find me is via this website and forum. Here is the photo - a large California specimen surrounded by northern Nevada gold. Pretty much all found with the GPZ with the exception of one large nugget in lower left found with the ATX. The specimen weighs 8.75 Troy ounces and contains about 2.5 Troy ounces of gold.

Welcome to the forum! Sounds like a serial number. Can you post a photo of the coil and an end shot of the connector on the end of the cable? How many pins are there and are they male or female? The vast majority of Coiltek coil are for Minelab PI detectors (SD,GP, and GPX models) so that would be my best guess. There are a few other models however that it might fit. No way to know for sure without more information.

"A Tudor ring found in a muddy field by an amateur metal detector enthusiast has sold for an estimated £20,000. Lee Rossiter, 43, almost threw the item away after a detectorist pal said he thought it was costume jewellery. Full story and photos at https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1980419/amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-antique-tudor-ring-with-ebay-metal-detector/

There are no aftermarket coils for the GPZ 7000 Wes. Totally different technology than the PI coils I assume you are thinking of.

I apologize Rick; I guess I touched a nerve. I never said the coil does not work for you or your purposes. I have no idea why the GPZ is being drug into this. My intent was to applaud Coiltek coils being made that are TDI specific, and that is all.

Being an ATX owner I am kinda sorta tempted but I think the real solution for me personally going forward is no more detectors unless wireless audio is actually built into the detector. It just seems like a pretty basic criteria for any new high end detector at this point. So I will be interested in seeing what the new Garrett detector model looks like when the time comes. Presumably a refresh of the AT Pro? but just guessing.

I disagree. It was hit or miss using Coiltek coils designed for Minelab detectors on the White's TDI in the past, and in many cases the pulse delay had to be lowered to prevent overloads. Far better the coils be designed specifically for the machines they are to be used on. Thanks for the link Goldpick.

When referring to information from other websites, please link to it. Thanks! http://md-hunter.com/minelab-loses-coiltek-exclusive-new-2016/ I got a chuckle over how it is spun as Minelab losing their "exclusive" with Coiltek. Just like any other aftermarket coil manufacturer the only way to expand sales ultimately is to expand the number of brands supported. Especially true now that the Minelab PI lineup that was the real bread and butter for Coiltek has come to an end. I could not find these coils on the Coiltek website nor any mention of them at all anywhere else. Maybe Tom can confirm?

Very, VERY nice Rick - thanks for sharing those photos. Nugget size is often secondary to nugget quality and those are high quality specimens!

Sadly to date depth gauges only work on known calibrated targets like a dime. No use at all on naturally occurring and wildly varying targets.

Well, for a GPZ 1.9 grams is a large nugget when you can hit stuff down into the grain range. I have to assume it is that small stuff they are referring to - under a gram. Scary thought - trying to pinpoint a small nugget with this coil!

I never use 10 x 10 mode myself for the reasons you mention, just 20 x 20 or 100 x 100 for the big picture. I do indeed have many things I would change or improve but the focus of my articles is on what can be done with what we have. For example, in this day and age of cheap memory I sure would like to be able to hold more than 100 Findpoints in my unit at one time, and at least a full weeks worth of Geohunts. I may do a very detailed article on how to hack the GPZ and XChange databases directly at some time in the future but I keep hoping I can get Minelab to add an import/export function instead before then. The lack of import/export function is the number one thing holding the system back in my opinion.

Oops, I was posting as you were editing!

Hi Steve, I am guessing you are referring to XChange instead of the GPZ itself? The GPZ has the two options I outlined above for on screen display. However, once the information is imported into XChange you can also display in full decimal. No way to merge Geohunts without exporting the data, doing the merge manually, and then importing. With no built in export/import fundtion at this time this requires manipulating the database directly. Not a good idea unless you are familiar with such things but info needed to get a knoweledgeable person going on that can be found at

The Locations Format (CTX) or Coordinates Format (GPZ) lets you decide how to display Latitude and Longitude information. You may choose between Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (default) or Degrees, Minutes, Decimal. I believe Merton would like full decimal as opposed to a degrees, minutes, decimal mix.