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Lunk, Do you have spots to use this upgrade in the West? Mitchel

Good on you or anyone that can find such a location. Thanks for sharing some of your thrill and excitement with us over it. It's not ours but we are along for a little bit of the ride. We still have your sense of the unknown rather than a final total. Try to save some of your personal thoughts on audio/video for your friends or even us later. All of a sudden WHAM!!!! That is what it is ALL about. Mitchel

How can anyone enjoy THIS? That is a LOVE sort of thing I would say. My goodness ... I wish sometimes ...

As a result of the Minelab 7000 firmware update I had reason to revisit Xchange2. My story is that I had my main copy of Xchange2 on a computer that crashed. My backup laptop included a copy that didn't support the 3030 and 7000. I didn't want to loose the 3030 data so I renamed some files. When I used Google Chrome to go to Minelab and download the Xchange2 program a popup came from Google and said this was a fishing site or malware site and could not download the Xchange2 program. I had to open the Microsoft Edge (Exchange Browser) and get the file and install it that way. Has anyone had Google Chrome block a Minelab download? Mitchel

Probably more than ironic Scott ... The Forum knows!

Au, You are way scared of nothing. You can make this detector sound like the Monster (no threshold) and still find more gold than just about any detector ever made. I have a 5000 and this is way more simple than that ever was. Soil timings? Are you serious ... I was only getting lucky with that machine on the small stuff. It was even hard to find meteorites with it. The 2300 is easy also but not quite loud enough for me. It needs a boost. Mitchel

Chunky stuff! Thanks for a look. She should get a Find of The Month from Minelab! Mitchel

That is the nugget you found that made you make up the story, right? The 'poison' got into his system anyway. I wish we had something to scale to know how big that snake was!

This morning I was greeted by a message from Google. It asked me to review my privacy settings. Many of us share photos and links and some are posted on forums with a link from Google Photos. Location can be important on some pictures. You don't want to give up your patch without knowing it. There is the ability to disable geo location. You may want to review it. Here is the setting: Remove geo location in items shared by link Affects items shared by link but not by other means. Mitchel

Their videos will never be the same.

Well done sir.

Lunk, Thanks. When you published that report I didn't really 'understand' the Monster language. Now I do even if I don't own one. If you can track out an ironstone and by some chance get an indication of a little gold in that rock ... Hopefully more people will reread your report you linked to me. Thanks again. Mitchel

It seems that you are given enough sensitivity that it can be overloaded. Probably better than underloaded. How is the discrimination? We have an area where the ironstones sound just like gold to the 7000 and we have to dig everything. Would the monster tell me the difference between an ironstone (grabbed by a magnet just like steel) and gold? What if that ironstone had trace amounts of gold in it? Mitchel

Scott, It sounds so easy to use ... even your dog could use it! Mitchel

Norvic, I was praising Lunk's ability and knowledge to go where gold is. Now that he is there with a Monster he had some fun with it. He's also given it a review as a GB2 expert and I like what he has to say. I also like what you say about the Monster and I'll try to disregard you are promoting a down under company! (We already know you are a homer.) Mitchel

No, I'm not talking about politics and being a Moveon.org trainer. I'm talking about resistivity detecting. Electrical resistivity tomography From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) or electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes. If the electrodes are suspended in the boreholes, deeper sections can be investigated. It is closely related to the medical imaging technique electrical impedance tomography (EIT), and mathematically is the same inverse problem. In contrast to medical EIT however ERT is essentially a direct current method. A related geophysical method, induced polarization, measures the transient response. The technique evolved from techniques of electrical prospecting that predate digital computers, where layers or anomalies were sought rather than images. Early work on the mathematical problem in the 1930s assumed a layered medium (see for example Langer, Slichter). Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov who is best known for his work on regularization of inverse problems also worked on this problem. He explains in detail how to solve the ERT problem in a simple case of 2-layered medium. During the 1940s he collaborated with geophysicists and without the aid of computers they discovered large deposits of copper. As a result, they were awarded a State Prize of Soviet Union. Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, the "father of ERT" When adequate computers became widely available the inverse problem of ERT could be solved numerically, and the work of Loke and Barker at Birmingham University was among the first such solution, and their approach is still widely used. With the advancement in the field of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) from 1D to 2D and now-a- days 3D, ERT has explored many fields. The applications of ERT include fault investigation, ground water table investigation, soil moisture content determination and many others. In industrial process imaging ERT can be used in a similar fashion to medical EIT, to image the distribution of conductivity in mixing vessels and pipes. In this context it is usually called Electrical Resistance Tomography, emphasising the quantity that is measured rather than imaged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_resistivity_tomography Here is one unit being offered by Kellyco. https://www.kellycodetectors.com/blog/find-gold-resistivity?utm_source=email&utm_medium=BlogBUTTON&utm_content=BlogGoldResistivity&utm_campaign=MSTRBlogGoldResistivity20170624&utm_term=Lead_SuperBowlGiveaway2016 Mitchel

Ah Lunkster ... you can find gold with ANYTHING! Good detecting. Mitchel

Richard, Most of the 'salesmen' in our industry would be out of business in very short order if they didn't help us find more. I always spend time at my local stores and local clubs no matter where I buy. They give me tips and hints and locations where and how to hunt. The learning curve is too high for me to do this alone. Mitchel

Nice job. Will you ever have to go back there again? Mitchel

Richard, Do you know anyone who is searching these areas already? Do you have a local metal detecting shop where you can ask them what people find in your area? What are they finding? What is of value? What is the predominant junk you want to avoid? I search in two primary areas of Southern California. I search on the beach and I need discrimination. It also needs to be usable in salt water. The other area I search is the desert for gold nuggets. (This requires a different type of machine.) Mitchel

Thanks for the posting. We NEED eye candy. Mitchel

I would ask the question about what part of Texas are you in? It may sound like you are in East Texas which from my understanding would have more potential relics to find. Some of the relics up that way could be Civil War, right? I guess you could have some battle field relics in the south also and not just modern coins. These 'uses' would be different than just coin and jewelry hunting on some of the gulf beaches. Mitchel

Here is a great video with some people we know from the forum added for eye candy!

He is home. His stuff is over here some place.

Why should we expect a 'maxed out' detector to be smooth? Change the way you use it or use it at the normal or conservative settings. All of my Minelabs give me this choice. SE Pro, 3030, 7000, 2300, etc ... Friends of mine that are good with GB2s get them modded. It is a circuit board 'fix.' They also tell me that anyone who is not an expert with a normal GB2 should not and in some cases will not get modded. As to the coil bumping issue ... have Miner John make a 'nerf' coil cover so that when you scrap or bump it the 'bump' is not heard. Maybe this would also fix the grounding noise. I put one of the lexan plates under my 19" coil (mounted on picture hangers) and it has eliminated this noise because the coil can no longer touch the ground! Mitchel