Dances With Doves

I stuck out in Arizona in 2002 at the private Johnson mine near Stanton.We met the owner at Camp at a event in Stanton and got permission.I did not now what I was doing but it was really fun trying.

Did any one ever try the Yukon in Canada? 9 states by beat up will be tough to beat.I bet Gerry is close.

I found one in tailing pilings from sniping the creeks with my friend in N Y and if I did not bring the detector would not have gotten it.To be clear I am talking about natural gold.

To put in a better way.How many of you would buy a Minelab multi freq. detector that was dedicated mostly for gold nuggets with single freq. options available too.

It seems that the AT Gold with the Nel snake coil make a pretty good combo if you had to use that machine for Nuggets.Our Gerry did a video for Garrett using the 4.5'' sniper coil for the AT Gold and was finding #9 shot.Not bad for an 18kz machine.

It seems they are all sold out so you are right about not lowering the price.This machine really is a hot machine.I like my Gmx in tot lots and on certain beaches.I will try it on the cleaner sandbars in lake Ontario and save the close in iron spots for the Nox.It did get me one gold earring a in posts past in the jewelry section.The only machine that has not paid for itself yet.My AT gold and Infinium did it in under 10 hunts.

How much would the LTX cost?Plus would you lower the price on 24k. Remember your in charge!

Hi Steve.You were a good business man and a top notch gold prospector with a detector.If you were in total charge of Garrett in the metal detecting for raw gold department what would you do now since they now have Whites too.You are looking at the whole world market which seems to be big. I think you would first would want to get the 24k/Gmx going again.

Do you think any of the Whites tech. can help them in this matter since it seems they were working on the Apex before they bought Whites ?

Do you think Garrett should come out with a AT multi freq. gold machine with single freq. options in a dedicated gold machine and beat minelab in producing the first one since much is spent on gold machines in other countries where people do it for a living(Africa and etc.}.The Nox is not a dedicated machine but a all purpose machine even though it does a great job on small gold. A Garrett machine still holds the world record for biggest nugget so Minelab still has something to beat.

With all the talk of Minelab dominating the prospecting part of metal detecting lately how often has any one used a Garrett for gold prospecting in the last few years?

Time changes everything.The xterra was a popular machine a few years ago but since the Nox came out there are not many people that use it much anymore.There was a lot of comparison between that and the At pro.At pro won for being waterproof and the xterra for being more versatile. For turf hunting I would take the X-terra any day.The Apex is a different and new machine with better beach performance at a good price so it will take away from AT Pro sales.The Nox- Vanquish machines have taken more then there share of the market and that is we are today.All of my friends that turf hunt are using the Nox today.The Apex type machines will be the AT Pros of yesterday if they keep improving it.

Has anyone found a gold nugget using the Apex yet?

I was always seeing on the xterra forum about the desire of a small 6'' 3kz coil for silver in trash. Randy Horton pushed for it and it was finally made by coiltech at a price of $189 back then and even named after him(DIGGER). They even had coitech make 15'' coils for all 3 freq. The only thing they didn't have was a 10'' 3kz coil which would have been a hit with that machine.Maybe the Nox coils have a lot of tech in them and Minelab does not want anyone else making them.Maybe Minelab needs a coil division that focuses on different coils for it's machines

Do you think this machine will be able to hit a tenth of a grain gold nugget? That would be impressive for a gold PI machine.

I see OBN just posted on friendly forum so that is a great sign to me.I hope he makes a fast and full recovery.

He came over my house to show it to me and when he dropped it in my hand it felt like he dropped a shotgun slug in it.That ring was made as strong as a brick house.

I think so.

I am just curios since I don't nugget hunt.It seems that those bigger nuggets are like silver halves and now are harder to find compared to the past when they were more abundant.

It is on this forum now and you can see it at jewelry forum under Relic Ray.

I only went real nugget hunting one time in Stanton,Arizona in march 2002 because the late Charlie Wilson of Wilson metal detectors took us as guests for a week.I was using a Minelab gold machine he lent me that ran at 3 different freq.You had to choose one.I really envy you guys that get to do this in your area.I loved doing it even though I found no gold since i was new at this type of hunting.The owner of the Johnson mine even gave us permission to hunt his land which I thank him for.I met Chris Gholson and his father and they were fantastic people.

That was the ring a was talking about before in a different thread.Find of a lifetime and I think it is a collectible ring because of the markings.

Is my X-terra in the prospect mode threshold base or filtered also?

How about offering the Nox 800 with the 11'' coil plus the 6'' coil for $999 plus with a pin pointer as a winter special in the USA.With all the money the government is given out it would be a good time to do it.

If the Nox had a threshhold based all metal how would that make it better then what it has now?