Tom Harris

The QED has vanished from the Goldsearch website!!

Look forward to hearing you speak Chris. Been listening for a lot of years on forums. Azavsfan. Your not going to Vegas, your going to a seminar on geological structures as they relate to earth quake preparedness. Tom

Steve and Chris Just wondering if either one of you gentleman will be putting on a seminar at this show. I am from Canada, but will be in Vegas that week, and would love a chance to hear you speak. It would be a nice break for you guys from the snow in Reno. Merry Christmas Tom

If you take a look at an analog detectors meter readings, i believe they are grouped based on conductivity. I was referring to how it applies to a detector, as apposed to the theory of current flow. When i saw the chart it reminded me of the chart in a little booklet called fisher intelligence put out by Tom Dankowski. Sorry ,didn't mean to get off the topic of the thread!

So if gold were alloyed with nickel and bronze, could it drag the reading on out detector into the iron range?

Hopefully you'll have another of these in feb/mar. when some of us northerners are wandering some what lost through the desert. Still looks pretty hot out there. Have fun boys and girls!! Tom

I think like Steve says, the best application is to scan quartz samples. I used mine to scan the dry moss on top of rocks, and it works pretty well because the moss doesn't tend to be over loaded with black sand. I didn't find any nuggets(yet) but did bind little pieces of aluminum so hopefully one of those will be a nugget. I tried to see if I could used it to track high concentrations of black sand, but never had any success with that. The one tip I would give if you are using it in a creek bed is, scan just above the surface of the gravel and if you get a signal(beep beep) hold the probe dead still over the target. Now move the probe toward the target. If you get a beep it's non ferrous, if you don't get a beep, hold it dead still again and then pull it away from the target. If you get a beep it's a hot rock(pebble) or a piece of iron. It's teadeous, but can be effective for crevicing. good luck Tom

Steve Thanks for that explanation. The 7 min. video with BC flipping the magnet over top of the coil now makes sense to me. It seems like such a simple thing but Mr. Candy is first again. He's the Steven Jobs of metal detectors, everybody is always trying to catch him. Tom

When I watched the introductory video, there were two spots were they implied that the GPZ is not a PI. At the 51/2 or so minute mark the moderator says in highly mineralized ground the GPZ is much better than a PI. I'm like you Steve, my eyes glaze over when I read the technical stuff but it sounds like this is new tech or a hybrid of some sort.

Steve Does it have any form of ferrous non ferrous disc. This will be the first technology that outperforms a Pi at depth, so its a all metal vlf that handles bad ground better than any before it. I wonder if it will work for the relic hunters?

WoW Keith!! As I was reading Steve's post, in the back of my mind I was thinking we never hear of C-Sope anymore. Bang! You post about Tesoro link. that would be interesting. The very first detector I owned was a CS6Pi.

Steve Did you do anything special to clean it or just water. You seem to have the same gift with a camera as you do with words. Great piece. Merry Christmas Tom

Would a Falcon MD20 work?

Hi Steve If you don't mind me asking, how did you have your GMT set up? Thanks Tom

Thanks Steve. Based on that I'll keep my gmt, Cz5 and maybe down the road get a used Tdi, Which I've always wanted to try.

Steve Do you think that detectors like the goldbug ll and the whites Gmt are becoming obsolete because of all the new 18 kHz units that seem to have enough sensitivity to detect the very tiny gold but also offer a lot more flexibility. I have the got the Gmt which I love but if the Xp Gmp was available in North America I would probably get that and not think I was loosing any gold ability. Tom

That's why listen to you Steve!

Deathray Your right I was thinking GMP, which I thought would be a great prospecting unit. Same freq 18khz, and speed 1/2 the price. Tom

Hi Ron Have you tried the 5" coil? I think keith Southern talks about having the reactivity at 1 or 2 for better audio in iron. I don't have one so not sure how that works. Tom

Hi Steve Just a note about the Deus. On Tom Dankowskis forum, he speaks more about the GMP as opposed to the Deus but I think it would apply. He said it is micro jewelry capable, and within a hair of being as sensitive at 18khz as a Gold Bug 11. It will be interesting to hear your findings. Great topic. Tom

Interesting colour chris, whats mixed with the gold? Tom

Sounds like your having a great time out there, hope the bugs aren't to bad yet. I was wondering Steve if you have tried your vlf on the tailings piles, or have you been using strictly PI. I was in Chicken the year before they had the pay to mine operation going, and thought I would have been back by now but hasn't happened. Super nice people. I feel a big nugget coming Steve. Keep digging those nails. Tom

I read on another forum that this detector was released months ago for the African market, well before the ATX was available. Any truth to that?

Great review Steve! Thanks. You can't be any more honest then that. I hope Garrett is listening.

Hi Gus Very nice piece. So when you look at a specimen like that, how is that value determined? It's probably not by weight I would think, but more as a piece of art, or is it a combination? Thanks Tom