cobill

1 hour ago, mn90403 said:

I don't want any of the Red Head step-child jokes here (I am one) but come on Minelab ...

Yep, I've been on the pre-order list for 4 months now...there goes my June detector training trip to NNV!  Maybe Fall or ???

WTG Minelab.

Bill

Found this posted today on "GPX 6000 Fault" topic on Gold Prospecting Australia forum from deepblue:

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=609151#p609151

I just received my GPX6000 back from Minelab they did a very good job on the repairs and a quick turn around. The problem wasn't there originally but came over time. Every now and then a bump of the coil would cause the GPX6000 to turn off or shut down with an error message coil error.
Then after a while turning on the machine would reset it and it would be ok for sometime it the next bump. Thinking that it was the coil it was changed out for the 14" DD from the 11" Mono. Didn't make any difference to which coil was being used. The Battery was checked and maintained a full charge. I did notice a one point when the Display was gently tapped the machine shutdown with the coil error message displayed.
Kept on trying all different options to get the GPX6000 working continuously but to no joy.
Took the GPX6000 back to where I purchased it and they arranged for a warranty repair, turns out it was a loose or badly fitting connection between the boards. I had heard of this problem before guess it just lucky to get one.
Took it out today for a test on I'm very impressed with the repair and machine it runs perfect scored 8 pieces in an hour 1 piece was in a rock over 6" down no visible gold to see but found it when I crushed it.
Thanks again to Minelab service for a great job. 
cheers db

This is from the ML meeting:

On 5/26/2021 at 10:18 AM, cobill said:

I've heard each dealer is only getting 2 - 3 GPX 6000 units each at the end of the month, same for June and July...lots of demand, limited supply.☹️

Maybe the container carrying the US bound GPX 6000 is on the bottom of this cargo with over 300 containers! I've heard each dealer is only getting 2 - 3 GPX 6000 units each at the end of the month, same for June and July...lots of demand, limited supply.☹️

Bill

Gerry, 

Thanks for posting the WY gold. Looks like I need to make some new friends in WY, probably around the Atlantic City area.😂

Bill

15 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

When I am out there, if the rain is enough to soak a road, watch out. The lake bottom silts turn to snot, and you will slide off a road in a heartbeat. Flash flooding is not impossible. I take extra supplies with me now, and told my wife if the rain gets serious, I’m not moving until it’s safe. I tried twice to keep going when I should have not, and frankly it was stupid. Scared myself silly, and just got real lucky. Not worth it.

The snot will plaster the bottom of your rig with a thick layer that will set up with asphalt like consistency when it dries, and will take an hour of close high pressure washing to remove. Vehicle gets a lot heavier!

I try hard to avoid those conditions now, but the weather forecasting is worthless, as the hills make their own weather. What we are talking about often is massive thunderstorm activity. Stuff pops up out of nowhere in an hour. Believe nothing and be ready for anything.

Yes, 

The Rye Patch slippery snot got me several years ago and I started going sideways down a hill by the north end of the reservoir. Very dangerous and I spent an hour at the car wash in Winnemucca before heading home.😂

Bill

Latest OZ post from Jen Walsh on FB. The GPX 6000 is seeing reef gold, maybe it can find what Gerry is looking for!

Bill

Gerry, 

FB is full of haters and that is why I just posted your excellent article and told them "Class is in session".

Latest video from Nenad.

19 hours ago, Gerry in Idaho said:

I would have replied sooner, but was actually in NV over the weekend testing some new MD'ing toys

Gerry, 

Does this mean that the GPX 6000 has landed in the USA?😀

Bill

Well, I got tired of waiting for ML to offer a smaller GPZ coil and ordered an X-coil. I've never done any electronics soldering before and followed Simon's and Rick's detailed instructions, along with Chet's new procedures to make a patch lead using my 19" GPZ coil. I ordered the required plugs and accessories for the project. Took my time, checked with my ohm meter as detailed in the instructions, secured with double-walled heat shrink and everything worked perfectly on my 15" x 10" coil and the GPZ 19" coil worked great....nothing trashed or disabled. 

Bill

P.S. Latest on FB X-Coils page. WOW!

Even JP stated "Pretty impressive"! Rick Bryant using an X-coil 17" concentric. Some are saying the new concentrics will work as well as the new GPX 6000.

"Rechaining an old patch. Another 2.5 grams today in 8 pieces with the 17 CC, including another crumb that won't move the scales that read to 0.01 grams  Clear signal at 1 inch in HY Normal and still there in Difficult. Gobsmacked at how good this coil is "

Here is a YT video on the 12" Z Search coil vs 14" GPZ coil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHgCTdnQcU

Some of the latest FB postings by Jen Walsh with her new GPX 6000 on Chicks with Picks Australia-

From Wayne Barry :  I walked over my 34 grammer a foot deep on at least 3 occasions with GPZ7000 and 12 inch nugget finder coil and didn't hear anything. But tonight checking out an old favourite spot .a boom beautiful sweat gold tone loud and clear .GPX6000. 30 gold targets since Saturday arvo I'm with Jen on this note .my new go too machine

Wayne Barry

  Absolutely  everything found today had been gone over with a 7 , 45, 23 .. nothing 

The 6000 has opened up the ground 

https://www.facebook.com/ChicksWithPicksAustralia/videos/516256916215137

Just in from Australia, GPX 6000 11" coil found 25 gram nugget at 600 mm (23.6") deep. Looks like it can go deep!

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=34961&p=25

Bill

Where is the 8" lower rod?

3 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

I think JP summed it up nicely. Yeah, 6000 gives Monster run for the money, but I still bet on Monster for the tiniest bits.

Yeah, the 6000 gives the 7000 a run for the money, but I still bet on the GPZ for the deepest bits.

For me 6000 is SDC that should have been, in regular box, with swappable coils. And better ability to obtain a smooth threshold while retaining power. SDC is more compact, fully submersible, less expensive, and will kill hot rocks that will bother 6000. But for me there is no comparison. Maybe an SDC owner that has Coiltek coils, but not really. That’s an aftermarket kludge, and looks it.

So you could say the 6000 is like an SDC done up like a normal detector. But for me in my mind it’s “GPZ Lite” as the 6000 audio responses largely mirror GPZ responses as far as hot rocks and salt, though the 6000 handles salt way better. But anyone used to a GPZ will find 6000 familiar, just easier and smoother.

It’s all very straight forward, with the only calculus here one to be made by people weighing 6000 vs 7000. For the power users, it will come up GPZ or GPZ plus 6000! For people like me.... 6000 all the way. I’m enough older than JP that our paths have now parted ways. Power guys are more in JP camp, I’m more in retiree camp, slowing down, and the GPX 6000 was made for me. Perfect detector at perfect time of my life. It’s 6000 + Equinox for me, 100% covered for anything. 6000 first, Equinox for trash and the tiniest bits (also gives Monster a run for the money there).

All I can say is I let the 7000 go when 6000 entered radar, have not regretted it yet. In fact after yesterday, I’m happier than ever. Just spent a day digging Nevada nuggets, my shiny new GPX 6000 is no longer a gold virgin! Dig some more today.... report soon. I think I’m ungagged 

Steve, 

You got my attention at "happier than ever"! Let us know how that elusive 17" coil works for deeper targets...it may just reduce the GPZ edge on deeper bits. WOW, so excited I pre-ordered a GPX 6000 and traded in my GPZ, this is going to be a game changer for those of us in retiree camp and slowing down.😄   Thanks Gerry McMullen.

No more: Heavy detector, ML harness with struts, ferrite to GB, GB decision of Auto, Semi-Auto or Manual, trying to maintain proper coil control with a heavy coil, not being able to scrape the ground, X signal and saturation signal confusing the detector, wet salt signals that make the detector go crazy, etc, etc, etc. I'm FREE!

Bill 

24 minutes ago, jasong said:

Finally some actual measurements...thank you very much to these fellows! Add me to the impressed list as well, I think the 6000 had a better response on the big deep nugget with both coils, and clearly better response on the smaller, shallow stuff. 

Definitely curious how they both do in Normal and at high gains now.

Jason, just an FYI, found this comment on FB GPZ 7000 users of Australia from Andy Laurenson:

So far (3 evenings work) I am extremely impressed with the 6000. Going over salty ground that I avoided with the 7000 and have found 2 nice specimens and 2 sub 1gram nuggets.

Nenad also mentioned that the GPX 6000 worked well in wet clay soils when he was field testing.

Bill

Latest Q & A on GPX 6000 from Nenad.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=34961&p=23

Q. So Nenad, now the 6000 is released can you tell us how the Geo-Sense works?
Also, how do you compare it to a 5000 and SDC?
Cheers

A. No idea how Geo-sense works from a technical point of view, only know that it does.
It picks up the same type of gold the SDC likes, but at better depth. I got a faint signal with the 6000, scraped the surface and the signal was louder. Checked with the SDC and nothing. Scraped off 2 inches of ground and the 6000 was singing at this point. Tried the SDC again, and it now got a faint threshold rise. I dug it out, and then couldn't find it in the dirt with the SDC. I grabbed the 6000 and it clearly saw the target, and it ended up being a 0.3g bit with a lot of personality.

Re the 5000 if the gold is of a solid or waterworn nature, then it'll be able to hold it's head high against the 6000. But on spongy / reefy stuff, it doesn't stand a chance. Some of the gold I've found with the 6000 I tested on the 5000 and 4500 later, in all timings, and the best I could get was "something" in the audio while rubbing the target on the coil. And these were bits found at 4 inches on the 6000. Hopefully I can demonstrate this in future videos.

FB GPX 6000 is showing many interesting finds including this one from Ian Butler.

"GPX6000 Gold - Target about 17" deep, could get approx 10" - 12" above surface. GPX5000 in fine got response but not as defined. GPZ7000 gave less response approx 8" above ground in HY/difficult but performed better in General/difficult."   

Another Nenad video.

14 hours ago, mn90403 said:

This was proven to me quite conclusively at one of Gerry's metal detecting classes.  He took several different detectors, gold nuggets and specimens and passed them over the different coils in AIR TESTS and not all the nuggets could be seen.  You can only imagine what is not seen by even the best detectorists with some salt and mineralization.

Mitchel, 

Great post about gold detectors. I also attended Gerry's classes, many times in the past, and his AIR TESTS proved to the entire class at Rye Patch that you need more than one detector to find all of the different types/sizes of nuggets(tiny, specimen, crystalline, wiry, paper thin, 1+ ounce, etc.) He had the GPZ, GPX 5000, SDC and a GBII with a small coil that detected a nugget at almost 2'. Maybe that's why I bought several detectors from him over the years.😀

Best training ever!

Bill 

Looks like the GPX 6000 can find the tiny gold and the large gold in Australia!

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?id=34961&p=23

Hey mate 8 nuggets today from a patch i've been flogging since 2002.Thought there would be bugger all left but there they were, nice bright signals.
Amazing machine quiet in hot ground,light and if it's metallic you'll hear it.I found a 1.34g nugget nearly 11 measured inches in depth and the signal was loud and clear.Have fun with it when it arrives.

Remember this marketing strategy, the Geico Caveman. GPX 6000, so easy even a caveman can find gold!😂

On 4/1/2021 at 6:33 PM, Jonathan Porter said:

OMG WTF is going on in the world? Is this instant gratification, social media ‘add water and stir’ the dominant driving force now rather than someone actually having runs on the board? I say this with no wish of offending the social media effort makers reading this forum who are striving to hit that magical viral effect this type of interaction craves, but blow me down with a feather how can someone who has generated more views than actual hours in the field be a mover and shaker when it comes to imparting actual informed information on a subject as complex as a metal detector?

Achieving 100 000 views does not automatically insert someone into “detextspurt” category it just means they managaed to create something that was entertaining to a whole heap of clueless people!! I get the entertainment concept behind this type of interaction but just having an opinion for its own sake is not going to help people seeking real information!!

Maybe I’m NOW just an old dinosaur who’s resistant to change and feels threatened by a brave new world? But seriously whenever any of these viral vids touch on a subject I’m well versed in I find myself cringing 😬 in embarrassment. Talk about “Fake news!!!” 

I think Steve has made a good call on this, it’s better to just let this thing play out take a back seat and get on with my year. It’s a Minelab and fundamentally its DNA pedigree is flowing freely regardless of how many “Detextspurts” they engage!! Who knows maybe that’s the thinking behind the whole concept, such blind confidence in their product that they can be as fluid as they like on all other levels? God I feel old right now!! 😔 

JP

 

I finally figured out what's going on with Marketing and it's called "Influencer Marketing". I fell into the spell while on another forum and this guy did influence viewer's purchasing decisions and the company sold alot of their product in a 5-day period. He was rewarded with a brand new top-of-the line model, something new to promote! He was not an expert in the industry, but viewers followed his posts and his audience grew.

In our article, What is an Influencer we defined an influencer as being someone who has:

• the power to affect the purchasing decisions of others because of his or her authority, knowledge, position, or relationship with his or her audience.
• a following in a distinct niche, with whom he or she actively engages. The size of the following depends on the size of his/her topic of the niche.

One of the biggest mistakes that traditional media makes is a failure to see the difference between celebrities and online influencers.

Bill

This video was just posted from Detexpert featuring Debbie Smikoski from Minelab USA.

Bill