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14 hours ago, Lunk said:

Then I started to notice something quite amazing to me; the iron targets - even the tiniest ones - were making a subtle "boing" type of a response like a negative hot rock, whereas the nonferrous targets were more zippy and lacked that subtle boing quality. After a while, I found that I no longer needed to look at the gold chance indicator to determine whether a target was ferrous or not, just by relying on the sounds;

Good write up Lunk.  I found that part interesting about the audio response from ferrous and non ferrous targets.  I`m thinking that once a person was comfortable with the different response for ferrous and non ferrous the detector could always be run in "deep". Dave

1 hour ago, Steve Herschbach said:

The 10" coil will hit gold nearly as small as the 5" coil. My personal take on the GM1000 is that I will use it almost exclusively with the 10" coil as a highly sensitive reconnaissance detector.

Thanks for that answer Steve re 5" vs 10".  After using the 14"  coil for over 2 years I don`t think I could ever go to a 5".  I`ve got a mate that has orderd the 1000 and I`m pretty sure he will only ever use the 5".  Hopefully I will get out for a detect with him not long after the detector comes out, but I`ll be looking at it wth the idea of using the 10".  Dave

Mate congratulations with the gold and you`ve got great scenery there in the background 

Terrific looking pieces there Dave.   The acid does bring them up well 

Very nice pieces there Chris. A great result for sorting through the trash 

On 07/04/2017 at 10:47 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

*Initial availability may be limited in some regions due to the unexpected high demand. Please contact your local dealer for specific price and availability information. We will be doing our best to get detectors into the hands of our valued customers as soon as we possibly can.

Hey Minelab.  I believe you have a typo there.  I imagine it`s meant to say "expected high demand" .  cheers Dave

http://www.minelab.com/usa/customer-care/product-notices?article=309482

Thanks Chris, very interesting 

Mate very nice piece.  Well done 

14 mate.

Hey JW.   I have another quartz speci that I got about 30 years ago with a 60khz Whites GoldMaster that sg`s at 13 grams of gold, and it has heaps of gold visible, a 5000 can not hear it at all, the 7000 can hear it at about 6" and the 2300 can hear it a little deeper.
No mate today I was using the 14".  My settings were gain 7, target volume 6, high yield and difficult ground, and the only setting I played around with on the 7000 was general gold mode.  General can hear it but not quite as deep as high yield.
cheers Dave

Steve what is the formula for 50-50?

I got out to Tarnagulla today for a detect and I got 2 little specimens and then I finished off the day with this beauty. I was using the 7000 with JP`s recommended conservitive settings and this sounded like a very deep target.  I was surprised when I moved it about 5" down.  What really excited me about this one was I did some testing and the 2300 can get it at about 8" and the 7000 can only get it at 6". That in itself told me there was a fair bit of gold in it. I suspect a 5000 would struggle to hear it.  This speci is predominately quartz but it has a thin layer of ironstone around it.  In the first 2 photos are the only two pieces that are readily visible but under high magnification there are at least 100 pinpoints of gold visible all around it.   I have no idea how much the ironstone mucks up the SG, but the sg for quartz says there is 28.649 grams of gold in this piece.   I`m not going to drop this one in acid till my mate waves his 5000 over it. I`m hoping there is going to be a heap of gold visible once the ironstone is gone.  cheers Dave

Hey Norvic.   When I read your post this morning I had never heard of the Gold Striker so I googled it and the top two results were this.   Not detecting but it looks like a hell of a lot of fun.   (hope you don`t mind Steve)

2 hours ago, fredmason said:

There are special jackets and special places for those three....

"they're coming to get me aha, they're coming to get me aha"  a pretty old song from my crazy drywaller days...

fred

Hey Fred.  Did know there was a sequel to that song?  And yes, it`s as bad as the original was. cheers Dave

Garret A2B.   I no longer own the detector, I traded it in on the Minelab 16000 Ground Tracker, but I still have the very first piece I ever found and I found it with the A2B.

Very nice gold there mate, well done 

A very nice find Dave.    well done 

This is a specimen I got last week with the 7000 and 14" coil at about 5-6" and it readily sticks to a magnet. The total weight of this piece is 0.85 gram so there is not a hell of a lot of gold in it, and I figured the 19" coil would struggle to hear it, but with JP`s deep gold settings, the 19 can hear it about 4" away .  It should look good when it`s been acid cleaned.

15 hours ago, Steve Herschbach said:

There are places where there is no big gold. Many placer districts just have the smaller stuff, that's it. That is the basic fact some people have to deal with. Buying a big coil won't put big nuggets in ground where they don't exist.

I agree with these comments Steve.
 I really didn`t think that buying this big coil was going to change much for me, and I said so to most of my detecting mates before I bought the coil, but because I detect maybe 320 days a year I thought "what the hell, it`s only another 1300". 
 When I bought the 7000 I didn`t all of a sudden start pinging multi ounce nuggets all over the place that were out of reach of the 5000, but I have been able to pay for the 7000 AND the 19" coil from the small stuff I have found with the 7000.  
My advice to anybody that has a 7000 but as of yet has not bought the 19" coil, if you didn`t start getting bigger deeper pieces when you got the 7000, nothing is likely to change just because you buy the 19" coil.  Dave

Steve running the settings in that clip of JP`s you still get the birdshot but not anywhere near as much as you would using the 14" high yield difficult. Unfortunately, I still haven`t found any reason that I would recommend this coil.  I think this coil could do very well in the wide open spaces of WA, but the assurance in the advertising find more gold bigger, deeper and quicker, the people that wrote that obviously didn`t use the coil in my kneck of the woods.   But having said that, once I got used to the weight, I quite like using this coil and I will continue to use it about 50% of the time, `cause there`s gotta be a big bit waiting for me somewhere.          (I hope)  Dave
 

Very nice finds there mate, well done 

Years ago I read an article about asteroid mining and they were discussing the possability of "parking" the asteroid they want to mine in earths trojan points which are 60º leading and trailing earths orbit.  Once they place the asteroid in the right spot it will stay there for ever and then they can mine it at their leasure.       And sorry Steve, I couldn`t help myself, there is a scene in that clip you put up where it almost looks like she is disconnecting HAL. Dave

Yeh Chris, like I said, I thought it was a big ask, but I was hoping that Minelab had been able to pull a rabbit out of a hat and the Monster would be able to reject birdshot.   And even though the monster is only going to be I`m guessing around the 1.2k AUD, I can`t see me buying one if it`s going to get me more birdshot than the 2300 is able to get.
 Thanks Randy Lunn, your comment gave me a good laugh. 
cheers Dave

I have bought the last three major releases from Minelab on the first day but I`m not jumping in on the first day with the Monster.    When I first got the 2300 I used it almost exclusively for about 6 months and found over 1000 pieces of gold with it for an average weight of 0.1318 gram per piece.  My biggest piece with the 2300 was a speci with 10.75 grams of gold.  But the thing that finally wore me down with the 2300 was the amount of birdshot you get in Victoria.   The first day I used the 2300 I got about 40 bird shot and I think five pieces of gold. The birdshot has taken all the enjoyment out of the 2300 for me.
What I would really like to see in the Gold Monster 1000 is that the discrimination rejects most of the birdshot.   I realize that`s probably a big ask, but with the amount of money Minelab throw at R&D maybe they have come up with someway to do it.     This is a very small sample of the birdshot I have recovered.  cheers Dave

What a fantastic way to get to work    I wish I had one of those