Steve Herschbach

Nice gold Mitchel, though I was sure hoping for you to find a one pound monster! What was the largest found while you were there?

Hi Tom, I never mind links to good related subject matter. Thanks for posting.

Hi Reg, I have no rules prohibiting links to other forums and in fact encourage people to please post them. I believe this is the one you are referring to http://z7.invisionfree.com/whitesgoldmaster/index.php?

From the Minelab Knowledge Base Article at https://www.minelab.com/__files/f/254884/KBA_26-1 GPZ 7000 Tips for Better Ground Balance.pdf "A ‘dust iron’ toroid suitable for the HF frequency band (e.g.1–30MHz with an initial permeability of between 6 and 10) has been carefully selected. It is recommended to use this specific Minelab accessory, only. Alternate ferrites may significantly degrade ground balance quality." Note the words "recommended" and "may". Certainly a substitute can be found if someone wanted to make the effort. Like other here though I don't see putting much effort onto it as being worthwhile. Presumably the dam will break at Minelab soon and we will be flooded with ferrite rings.

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.

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

Welcome to the forum! Everyone always likes to see photos of found gold. Thanks for joining and posting.

The bad news is the price of used Minelab detector for those that want to sell them just got driven into the dirt. That is good news though for those of you wanting to buy a used Minelab detector. A used GPX 4500 is now worth under $2000 and older models even less.

This is the detector that drove the African electronic gold rush. It has never stopped production but has been made for years by Minelab as an "Africa Only" model. This could be an indication that increased competition and lower gold prices has left Minelab with excess stock. Regardless, a very welcome move, as once you factor in the inclusion of a second coil at $2699 this is the obvious step up from the Garrett ATX at $2120 with a single coil.

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.

GPX is still the bang for the buck. Congratulations and thanks for posting!

That is some serious gold indeed. I am glad you are doing well Alan and hope it is just a start!

That goes for gold nuggets also! Them little ones add up. Thanks for posting Dean.

The Lobo will do just fine. http://www.detectorprospector.com/steves-mining-journal/metal-detecting-gold-ganes-creek-alaska.htm Use all metal mode if at all possible. If using disc mode in trashy area use no more than 1.5 - 2.0 on the disc setting. Just enough to get small ferrous to break up. Too much and you will tune out gold. You may lose a bit of depth in disc mode but beats digging a ton of junk. I like the ability to chest or belt mount the Lobo for hunting tailing piles for long hours. Just beware overstressing the cable where it meets the control box from bending and pulling too much. One of my hunting buddies from back in the day, Jeff with 17 dwt nugget found with Tesoro Lobo at Ganes Creek, Alaska on 2001

JP posted this video over a month ago at http://www.detectorprospector.com/forum/topic/1033-bogenes-settings/?p=10934 Since it is in another thread I decided to highlight it here in case somebody overlooked it. The video is just part of a detailed article on the subject JP did at https://www.minelab.com/emea/treasure-talk/using-the-gpz-7000-in-high-emi-conditions-and-audio-smoothing Be sure and check it out.

That is exactly the type of gold the GPZ excels on. Prickly/Porous gold. The operator still has to put the coil over it though - good work!

Quite the adventure indeed and a lot of hard work. I was going to flip the original photo but there are so many comments on it now I left it be. Here it is 180 degrees.

I would take a stock coil plus a larger coil. Big dredges were pretty good at getting the small gold so you are mainly looking for nuggets that were lost because they were too big. Think quarter ounce and larger. If possible I would also take a backup detector. Three weeks is a long time in Alaska and a detector failure after a week would put a damper on things. Cheap insurance for a big trip. Good luck!

Trees being non-magnetic they would be invisible in an aero magnetic survey.

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If not PI then multi frequency is the way to go for salt water. Minelab Sovereign, Explorers, E-TRAC, CTX and Fisher CZ detectors are safe popular choices.

The question in my mind is do you need the detector to be fully submersible or not? The first post implied yes, with two fully submersible detectors. Now with the Sovereign you are bringing a dry land/wading detector into the mix. That pretty much opens it up for anything. PI vs anything else is easy. For sheer power I always use a pulse induction detector UNLESS digging everything is a problem.

Wow, is that a chunk of gold in black rock? I can't wait to see it cleaned up and in a sharp closeup. I hope to get back out again soon. Life got in the way for a bit but I am finally getting freed up again. Very interesting piece, good going JP!

The SDC is the Gold Bug of pulse induction detectors. Sharp eyes never hurt either!

There currently is no import/export function and it is absolutely the number one thing limiting the usefulness of XChange and the GPS system as a whole. That said I think I may be able to hack the system via a script. Hacks already exist for the CTX 3030 that can be applied to the GPZ 7000 but they are more work than they are really worth and not something just anybody can do. Anyone interested can find details at Access and Export XChange Data and Direct GPS Track Data Extraction An issue related to this is using two computers. Let's say I use a home computer for most work with XChange and use it as the main data repository. Now I take a laptop onto the field, and because the GPZ fills up to the max with data I dump it all to XChange on the laptop and erase the GPZ. Now I have some data on the laptop and some on the home PC. How do I get it all onto the main PC? An export/import function makes that easy. And of course makes it easy to use with other programs or Google Earth. I honestly do not see people really getting fully on board with this until an export/import function is implemented. Since this could serve both the CTX and GPZ user base a simple hack via a script might be worth a few bucks to the person that develops it.