El Dorado

Personally, I don't buy a detector very often, but it sure is fun to watch all the hype. I was in a local mining shop this morning. A customer walked in and headed for the detector display. Then he asked why they did not have a new ATX for sale. His comment when he found out the dealer only sold White's was that the ATX is now the worlds best detector and put all the rest to shame. I asked him where he got his info from.. He said it was common knowledge across the internet and that he heard that the Minelab engineers were jumping ship and heading over to Garret. Steve, there is so much hype out there now it is crazy......Same guy told me that the ATX will hands down beat any Minelab or Whites on any nuggets. I asked him what some of his ATX finds were and he told me he did not have one nor had he ever even used one, or even a Minelab.......like I said there is just way to much hype out there, but sure is fun to watch and listen to.

I paid $225 for it in the frame.......

As soon as it was put up for public sale, I purchased a pinch of gold pickers from the wreck. It now resides framed one wall in the house. The value of this tiny amount of gold has increased tenfold or more.

I was also fortunate to have handled and photographed one of the largest and most beautiful nuggets recovered from the wreck.......

Can't wait to hear about the field testing........

Yes Steve, it was the 5" round coil.

Yes

Great sluice!

We were in variable moderately warm to hot ground and the Ground Grab worked just fine.  It ground balanced much better than the GB2 was able to do.

While out on the Sawtooth adventure, Dee tried a GB Pro 5" coil on her F-75. Guess what.... it worked! Steve, any comments about that?

Steve

So just to get this straight in my mind. The GB Pro and the GB DP are exactly the same except for the included coils?

It's so great that folks like you, Chris and Don Robinson put forth so much personal energy into things like this

Norm.......We all know that poor snake is not poisonous and besides that you cant kill one with a Chicom knockoff detector, it would break swinging it that way!  Yup, I'm finally back home to peees pooor weather, but much needed. 

I see your computer/picture skills have improved

Holy moly batman that is some juicy looking ground! WTG

Klunker, what are we going to do with you... Always out playing when work beckons! Good luck with the 705 and the great site you get to work on! How old were the buildings?

Steve, thanks for the time and effort involved to put such a great comparison into print!

I bet that place is a ball to dredge, I'm very jealous......

I recently purchased a new product and found that it works so well I thought I would share. For those of us that use a Minelab we all know how sensitive the coil wire to the box attachment is. There have been a number of attempts to solve this and most use the handle mount to add something that grabs the coil wire. None of those approaches solves the issue of shaft flex and will help but still allow some falseing. This new approach mounts directly to the control box and stops the coil wire from moving when the shaft flexes. I used it for a full day and had zero falseing on my 4500. Too bad Minelab does not put a much better connection on their machines, but this will work till they do. Bill Southern at Nuggetshooter.com sells them and they retail for $42.00.

At the Tucson Gem And Mineral show I saw many crystal pieces for sale that did not even have weight mentioned, some could have only been a few grams at best and some maybe an oz, but many had prices of $10-20K! A company called Kristalle had many of them.....

Nice, thanks for posting the pics

A bad situation for those that need the water. That being said, I will be sniping some later in the season myself, might as well take advantage of the low water!

WOWZAPALOOZA!

I think all the issues were with the knobs, I did not keep the paperwork from fisher. I do know for sure the ground balance adjustment knob had issues. It's 100% now and that is all that I cared about! Fisher service is great!

Here is one of those mystery nuggets coming to public life

Gold Prospectors Magazine

I just sent mine back to Fisher for that and an issue with the GB knob. I don't know what they did, but it's fine now. It did not take that long for the to fix.

Loads of fantastic info and really fast. Thanks for the feedback.... Looks like a set of Nugget Busters will be the choice.