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@phrunt Hey Simon, ya thinking you should have never left Queensland? Steve seems to like the insane heat up there, a Kiwi who only seems to prospect when its 35c or higher. I'm outta there when it gets above 28c, I dunno how he does it....

As I said previous, nobody gets it all.....some ppl are very pro, some are sloppy. Take a look at Joe Legendre's Youtube videos, his recent few are very instructional on this very topic: Prospecting 101

Crikey Dickin's! ....Steve is at it again at Palmerville

Hmmmm, lets see it with a small coil and a .1gm bit of gold. Made by Eastern Europeans for deep coin/relic hunting so I cant imagine it would be any good for gold prospecting.... but who knows? Just have to wait for Simon @phrunt to buy one and he'll let us know lol

Ya never get it all. I can recall such instances where kilos of gold has been recovered later, on the tenement itself or on nearby exploration licenses. Where X marks the spot, the Y's and Z's can still provide results.

Cheers mate, The current big fire is about 50km from me, its likely to flare up into something bigger today and we're expecting more dry lightning today too which is a bigger worry, sparking further fires. Will be keeping a close eye on it all for sure. Check your pumps and hoses and keep your water supply full. Fingers crossed, it doesnt evolve into a disaster day....

Just a general reply, thanking the others for their feedback, tests and trials so we don't have to 'do the hard yards' ourselves. They should all be awarded the 'Order of the gold guinea pig, 1st class' for their efforts 😉

@Ethan in Adelaide , the point being, if a 'dead tenement' has mines or not, there will be a paper trail outlining the work done previous. Smaller tenements will pinpoint the likelihood of alluvial gold being present ....like someone found a patch and decided to peg it to work with machinery.

I thought the exact same thing, this is what I wanted from the ML tech I spoke to. Except I also wanted a sheathed extension wire from the internal shield as well. Woody is only trying to mirror the exact same method that the orig ML engineer intended..... I agree though, the effort he went through could have easily been avoided by use of a bit of fuse wire, extra graphite paint and some masking tape. Coil the last bit of fuse wire around the lock-nut collar so that the nut could contact it (after the nut was sanded to remove the annodizing coating). He has since uploaded another 2 vids including a field test (of sorts).

Woody has added another shorter video update on his progress....

No arguments that the 6000 is 'fairly good' with EMI handling, how it achieves this without a connected shield seems quite a mystery. Just Imagine it being as good as the E1500 with a proper shield? Ever since I bought a 6000, I was experimenting with an add-on copper foil shield and asked if the ML tech could one day add an active shield wire from the active internal graphite paint shield and poke it through somewhere so I could connect it. His dithering on the subject is now explained....there aint none! So I have only added an exterior passive shield onto another (interior)passive shield! A difference is noticed, but not hugely... Will be interesting to see how Woody's 6000's perform AFTER an active shield is added.....

In his long-winded video, he finds that there is nothing connecting the PCB to the shield, the confirmation that 2 components are replaced to fix the speaker EMI issue, the graphite paint is very patchy (and has no screen wire embedded to average it) and after doing '5 or 6', he confirms that they are all the same. I agree with him, it seems extremely odd to have only a passive shield and hope that the detector can combat EMI. Something's not right methinks....

Sigh.... a great pity coz it was a great idea and no-one else has done this since....

Every ' dead tenement' has almost always already gotten a re-application over it before it even expires. But, those tenements will take months to determine who gets it (often more than one mining/exploration company or individual will have applied for it) and in the mean time, it is now 'pending ground' and open to anyone to prospect on it without permission. There will also be documentation at the Mines Dept, outlining the work that the previous owner did. This gives the budding prospector lots of info to point them in the right direction as to where on the tenement the gold actually is. The gold that a mining company is chasing aint necessarily the same gold we're after.

Lucky for us, we got our terrific Guinea Pigs @phrunt @Norvic and @Nedkelly doing the hard yards for us and Algoforce. As Steve said, wait a few months with all new manufacturer products so that others can iron out the bugs and offer solutions. Its absolutely wonderful that a new company is so keen to offer solutions, bug fixes and repairs with swift responses. Because of this, maybe the 6 month wait is unnecessary with the E1500?

@PhaseTech do you sell those supersede picks still? Not on your website

Guessing this was a basic BFO type, no ground balance. Small parts count, be interesting to see what components are still avail or the nearest counterpart to suit. No real practical applications anymore, except maybe using for building work, scanning walls for unknown metal bolts, screws, elec wiring, plumbing etc

All my thoughts and best wishes to you CPT. A speedy and full recovery :-)

There are a few murmurs of discontent floating around regarding the E1500 in hot ground and I was hoping to see some actual field reviews of this detector, but apart from a couple short remarks and Simon's testing.....NOTHING. If I am to part with my $$ to buy one, I'd rather hear from an actual user here in Australia first.

$225 for a 10Ah battery is in no way cheap. At best 4x what its worth. Not in any universe nor planet would I spend more than $50 for that size....'bomb proof' or not. It doesnt do anything that a basic Chinese 10Ah powerbank wouldn't do for our needs. All the extra 'bells n whistles' look like pure wank. But then, Im just a grumpy, pragmatic, lonely old bast%#d lol.

Yeah the video contained all of the BS and wank of a Minelab Ad...which is what made me imagine they were a subsidiary company lol Plus the price of course 😉

If it was half that price, I might be tempted. Not a subsidiary of Minelab are they? 😉

There is a large variation in coil resistance between bundle and flat-wound coils. I'm guessing that this is what is being adjusted for via calibration.

Could be many factors that lead to it being undeveloped. Bruce knows his stuff but who knows? I have my doubts that Woody is onto something but time will tell....

You're not the only one to think this Simon. When my 6000 was sent in for the speaker audio fix, I asked the technician if I could later on, get an external screen grounded internally. He said the screen 'Is checked for connection' and functionality and an external one seemed unnecessary to him. So it may be a rather common fault. Mine was also better with EMI afterwards.