Gold Dust Ernie Jr

Ok great! That's it... that is what I was looking for! The upgrades for the Deus 1 (for shallow gold prospecting) are in the ORX and a gold focused detectorest will not benefit from spending (more money purchasing and coiling up the D1).

PH: If I know the size distribution of the gold in the area I'm working then choosing a detector to hunt with is much easier. If I'm in a new area and completely lost as to what might be there... I just have to start taking random shots in the dark. (looking for smaller gold shallow and larger pieces of gold deeper). Looking for indicator minerals, panning, sampling and using published research information, maps, lay of the land, ect and my favorite... talking to people who know the area and know where to start. The promise of simultaneous multi-frequency vlf detectors to hit small gold shallow and hit larger gold deeper all on the same pass has my attention. Because time is money and the person who covers the most ground with the best metal detectors has the best chance for success. ( Not withstanding a newbie who has beginners luck squarely on his or her side). Any metal detector that has a modern ARM Cortex microcontroler in it... has my deep interest. Any detector can send a sine wave frequency or a pulse to a coil and induce a magnetic field. It's the ability of the Rx coil and the frequency analizer in the microcontroller to disect and interpret the returning signals from the metal objects (using high performance mathematics)... that's the revolution we are all buying into. ... and the best part is... we haven't even seen our first smart detector yet that learns from the targets it finds how to interpret what the next target might be. As a detectorist... all I care about is funding my additiction to finding silver and gold and being able to search for all other precious metals just so I can keep buying more stuff. Right now I'm hoping the evolution and elite coils take pulse induction to the next level (for picking up smaller pieces of gold shallow and still being able to hit some larger pieces deep without halving to switch to a larger coil). Starting with the 8X12 then adding the 9X14.... and when a smaller Sadie size Evolution coil comes out snab it up also.

No I don't, not yet... but I was thinking about getting one because of the 9 and 9.5 HF coils on small gold. (and even small gold jewelry((tot lot gold)). My belief was the Deus 2 held better performance in hotter soil and if I had to pick between the two detectors (which fortunately I don't)... the ability to operate in hotter soil on the D2 is a huge tipping factor. I was hopping maybe the Deus 1 had been updated and improved to operate in hotter soils. (Even though that's probably not even possible or realistic). If I were in Austrailia... I would just get laughed at for thinking a 40-48 kHz vlf was gona one up everybody out in the goldfields, but I'm after gold in the United States... that I can catch in my drywasher, or sluice boxes or highbanker and when I'm not in the goldfield, then I'm after gold and silver in anyplace I think I can get permission to hunt. After reading your comment... (which is greatly appreciated by the way... as are all your comments!) I'm gona re-focus my attention on the D2 for now. For me... it's never about which metal detector am I gona get. It's always about which one am I gona get next and I can see owning every XP that comes down the pipe including all of their gold pans.

I landed here looking for any improvements that have been made to the Deus I since the advent and release of the Deus II. For small gold in the ground the Deus I with its HF coils hits small gold better than the Deus II. So now we're stuck because we want the small gold sensitivity of the Deus I with all of the new improvements of the Deus II. I have a Garrett GM 24K... so why do I think need another small gold vlf? Well at 48 kHz the 24K is gona struggle in hot soil... where a multi-frequency can be adjusted lower to a). Hit larger gold deeper. b). Operate in hotter soil conditions. I can (if the gold is large enough) break out my TDI SL and see what I can hit or the DFX or MXT. I still have a gap in the vlf frequencies between 19 kHz (GB Pro) and 48 kHz that I would to someday like to cover. Even though the future is pulse induction detectors that can hit a wide range of gold targets like the Axium and the 6,000 all backed up by a Goldmaster 24K or GoldMonster on micro gold I could see myself owning a 900 someday.

"If somebody can get Bruce Candy to chime in... then I think we would have the Mother of all Pulse Induction threads ever created on planet earth!" ...Because (with this thread) we already have the thread of the Century (Does Anyone want to open this can of Worms?) right here on "Detector Prospector! If you want to understand how to beep deep... well you've come the right place! Then we hear from the Imortal and Immutable Jim McCulloch... "Oh ya... I sold a 24K to a fisherman and showed him where to go... and 8 weeks later he shows up with well 4 pounds of gold!..." I called the Goldmaster and the TDI SL the Dynamic Duo of gold prospecting machines... and now we have the 24K and the Axium and the GPX 6000 and the Goldmonster 1000... wo hoo! We're not their just yet... but we are getting there!

My (David Johnson) GMT E Series hits a one dollar piece of Alaskan gold in the air near the stock coil (1.5 to 2"s). That's 1/2000th of an ounce). It has the stock coil plus the 14" DD and 14" mono coil...and is run with Doc's. Swinigy Thingy and Queegee to help swing the heavy coils. The larger coils were purchased primarily to look for drywasher setups and patch accumulations in the desert southwest and in Colorado, ect. And to find larger and deeper peices of gold. Will my new Garrett GM24K outperform it's predisessor ? Too early to tell... but If I didn't think so... well I wouldn't have bought it! Right now we are watching the Garrett GM 24K outperform the Goldmonster 1000 on both depth and sensitivity to small gold and defenatly running past the GM in hotter mineralized soils. (All in living color on You Tube for everyone to see).

Who makes and sells the 14×8 for the 24K?

1. You need a map. 2. You need a whiteout pen and india ink pen to put a number on your rocks. Then GPS number where the rock came from, then put the rock number on your map and in your notebook with gps/and rock description and photo. Other wise you will just have a box of very nice rocks and some very nice rock pictures. When you have your rocks assayed the (which is very expensive)... you will know where the best rocks came from (were they were picked up from). And their data set will be in your notebook. To get the metal out of the rocks in the photo display they will have to all be crushed to powder (which is very expensive), then the metal will have to be chemically extracted from the powder. All beyond the scope and ability of the weekend miner. The rules and regulations prevent all small operators from developing new mining projects in most all of the 50 US States. I would look for mechanically seperatable course gold in surface gravel instead that you can either sluce or dry wash to seperate from the host stratum and even at that we are all getting rulled and regulated out of business by the governments. I asked the BLM in Wyoming if I could use a gas powered auger to drill 2" inch holes for my claim marker posts and they said no. No operating of mechanized equipment without a bonded permit.

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