Aureous

Most serious analysts expect gold to breach US$5,000 per ounce in 2026 and silver continues its massive surge by breaching US$100 an ounce 'within weeks' and heading to US$200 per ounce before the end of the year. Buy silver and keep the gold you find.

Ive stopped doing the bag thing, because Ive settled on a good, narrow scoop (Minelab GoFind) and when its a tiny, iffy signal I keep the coil still on the ground and switch over to normal or even Benign and swipe the scoop across the coil again.....even the tiniest targets are thus recovered. No need to carry around a bagful of dirt anymore.... Plus, it gets a bit depressing at the end of the day when you get nothing in your pan but tiny rust flakes and ratshot 😁

Yes, its the top heavy thing, without an aftermarket stand, it falls over just by looking at it.... 🙄 Terrific that you've decided to make a battery housing cover as well...I am so relieved and thankful! Anxiously waiting with cash in hand 🙂

Its not target response speed, its ground mineral effect-retune speed. The processor is handling this to keep the threshold as stable as possible and eliminate any hotrocks or other mineral effects to a minimum. As with every other high frequency IB detector, when you slow down the retune speed, the sensitivity and depth increases.

Yes its easy to hear the 'ground groan' indicating a much slower retune speed. There simply isnt any when in difficult.

The software and code used in the GM2K IS THE DIFFERENCE. Modern processors with extra speed and power can do much more than previously thought possible. ML have utilized this to the max, the FBS-BBS type time domain ground signal analysis for gold prospecting soil types has probably only been possible in the past few years. A sh*tload of field data would have been needed to gauge the coding needed to achieve this. A lot of time and $$ spent. We are reaping the rewards, esp as the gold price is so high. Im only a couple grams away from doubling the 'price of entry' into the GM2K club.

So, that contradicts what Minelab staff and dealers were saying before and after the release. Who are we to believe? The changing between difficult and normal seems to suggest a frequency change because of the increase in sensitivity and mineralization handling but it could be a change of stability-retune and coil current too.... questions unanswered...

It wont replace the 6000 but it will benefit from the 10x6 coil being released. Right now, its a cleanup detector, not a prospecting detector like the 6000. But it finds gold that the 6000 cannot hear and its paying dividends for every user that I know. I use nothing else coz it makes me $100-$200 every afternoon I take it out. My local dealer tells me that he has sold 'hundreds' of them so if that equates to a sales failure, then ML must have ridiculously high sales targets

Huge gold deposits dont mean much if the mine life is 20+ years. The economics of mining mean that just because the gold is inferred, doesnt mean the gold CAN be mined. The only thing that affects the gold price is a large amount being dumped on the market quickly. No mine can achieve that nowadays.

Difficult in manual 8 is what I run 90% of the time, coz the threshold is at its most stable and smooth. Makes the faint signals more obvious...So even the A2 option can select the smoothest variable as well lol. Damn nice specie Jeff!

This would mean a complete engineering re-design, NOT a 3D print option. The dual coil idea would interfere with each other unless it was a DD coil only with switching and even then, the requirements between what an IB coil needs and a PI coil needs so far as the null-tune spacing would result in a poor compromise. Overall....not possible.

Disappointed that the battery housing isnt protected. Super simple addition, just a one velcro tabbed wrap around with the slot for the upright. I still want a set of course, my GM2K is getting some serious dirt and scratch issues from so much use. @Doc if you aren't going to make the set with the battery housing cover, can you supply a small piece of the required cloth so we can make one ourselves? Not trying to be a smartass, just practical. I will buy a set regardless....

Aside from Simons comments, any warranty would be voided by such action also, provided the detector was still within its warranty period. There would be some weight savings in some cases, but the shielding issue would need to be solved especially.

Echo wave audio is nice, handy and sensible. BUT, its the FBS/BBS time-domain ground noise filter that makes the GM2K the absolute beast. Get rid of the noise and the gold is now heard. That is THE KEY tech that adds all the $$ to my pocket and makes the crazy AU$3K price tag worth it. If I had better weather back in November, I could have paid for my GM2K with gold found in about 3 weeks. In the end, it took 6 weeks. Faster than my GPX6000 (12 weeks I think) but then the price of the detector and the gold were vastly different.

Yep, everyone else is playing 'catch up'....years behind. The one obvious thing that Minelab get right every time, is R&D to push the tech envelope.