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A huge bonus to any Turkish company is their currency exchange rate. 32 Turkish Lira to 1 US$. Exports being their primary focus. Their inflation rate is seriously bad too... Their people seem to vote on a populist agenda, rather than fiscal common sense. But, their country is bountiful, produces great, cheap food, manufacturing industries are expanding and providing lots of jobs. Electricity prices are way better than the EU average too. So, as long as Turkey remains only an associate member of the EU and doesn't use the Euro as their currency, Nokta will remain a major player. Giving Minelab serious competition is always gonna be a bonus for us end-users.

Most likely a rehabbed drill site. All of the drill cuttings have been pushed aside with a dozer and the bags collected and dumped. Lots of these in the district. The discolorization is due to the drill cuttings being green such as diorite, serpentine or green shale. Often, Nickel deposits are in a green zone there I've noticed.

Everyone enjoys a new toy.... especially if it performs well and is cheaper than the overpriced alternatives. I agree, the hype and excitable banter is ho-hum. In the hands experience with the toy is all that matters. Hopefully, its not a long wait.

Said every hoarder, ever 😉 Saying that, if I could afford 10 detectors, I'd have em too...

Ive confirmed that the '14 Mile well' tenement mentioned is indeed the famous site out from Redcastle. Found a lot of gold there myself in years past. There has been a large patch found there with over 800 nuggets up to 2oz being recovered by the field crews. They have either been allowed to keep the gold or have sold it to the company in exchange for the 'mileage' that the find has produced in the stock market. Shares value in Iceni Gold has climbed nicely. Any map will show the budding prospector where the claypans are, NE of the 14 Mile, near the haul road. Mate of Mine in Laverton says the Iceni guys have been seen detecting near the road since late last year.

I left my 4 names for each detector...now the wait begins. At least the wait isn't long, only a couple weeks. Seems to suggest that they have working prototypes ready for field evaluation.....they just need a name to go on the box prior to shipping to the testers. My name is in the mix to be a field tester so hopefully we get news regarding their release prior to the Nthn Hemisphere's Summer.

Its about time, hopefully Nokta took notice of all the design and performance suggestions that we here on DP gave to Dilek a couple years ago. Legacy Minelab coil adoption, tracking/fixed GB, basic or advanced Fe Disc and a damned clock on the screen! 😁

With a sensitivity increase, you will get more reaction with hot rocks but the detector has less ground signal to deal with (its simply not sensing as much square cm/inches per swing) so you'll hear less general mineralization...unless your ground is filled with hot rocks lol.

It shouldn't be, the small size means there is less ground signal to deal with. If there's noise, there's a fault....which is usually in the bottom 1/4 of the coax cable or plug.

HOLY CRAP! Bargain of the century! I woulda jumped on that too 👍

The 2200's are a killer detector for deep gold, especially after being modded and use large coils. Un-modded, they are less sensitive to small gold...so a stock unit won't be as useful as a patch hunting machine. Curious as to how much $$ did you pay @Jin??? Sounds like a damn good package you got.

The Chinese have an Industry wholly focused on commercial espionage. Ex Chinese Spy Agency personnel have huge networks of agents that only infiltrate and steal codes, plans and docs via electronic means. They target defense and tech companies mainly. Fairly easy work for them and lucrative. Minelab/Codan have been a target in the past and I'd imagine Nokta has now become another target.

Did you use the target ID for all signals? Few ppl are saying that a huge majority of lead shot can be ignored because it displays as '00'. Anything higher is worth digging of course...

Yeah, always only 2 stacks because anything more than that is unnecessary. The more layers, the less benefits from having the flat-winding in the 1st place. The layers are separated by only a very thin isolation to keep the firmness when applying the wire. Another method for applying flat windings (if the wire length is only 10% over the coil shell capacity) is to coil or bundle leftover wire in a suitable spot. Not sure thats what X Coils have done though coz Ive never seen their GPX coils nor any scans. But Ive seen other manufacturers build trial coils using that method. Narrower Ellip shaped coils have less ground signal per sweep and hence sensitivity is enhanced for tiny targets. Simon, that probably explains the extra sensitivity you've experienced I reckon.

Before selecting any timing change, lower your gain as Steve suggests. The legacy GPX units ALL have receive gain only, NOT transmit (until you get them modded). ML's idea of 'gain' is akin to cranking open your ears, allowing more audio reception rather than any actual increase. Its a filter allowing more % of receive signal into your perception for your own ears/brain to determine audibly whats an actual signal and whats ground noise. Only modding accesses the transmit circuitry to allow actual gain.