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49 minutes ago, GotAU? said:

Can you imagine how infuriating prospecting would be if a detector was more sensitive to small(er) gold than a GM 1000?  Would it be worth digging all those individual fruit fly sized turds up, especially the deep ones? ?

I don't think depth will come into it but I could be wrong. I have been before. I don't generally go out of my way to detect the fly Sh#t size gold but when I do it is just for a bit of fun & any gold is better than no gold...right? I have both the GM 1000 & the Nox 800 & have a few spots on bedrock that have this size gold trapped up in it. Scrape & detect type stuff bringing more to light. The gold does have to be very close & even touching the coil but the Nox 800 gets my vote for getting the tiniest of bits. Even way down in the negative numbers. Sometimes there is no reading at all but just a very slight crackle in the audio.

I know a few folk, new to detecting, that couldn't get their heads around the nox. Sold it & got a GM 1000 & due to it simplicity of use love it.

G4G

On 1/25/2021 at 10:24 AM, afreakofnature said:

Yeah i love my sdc too!  It would be hard to have to sell that for the X6

Couldn't you just sell some of the gold you have found with your SDC to buy the X6?

G4G

On 1/23/2021 at 2:48 PM, Gerry in Idaho said:

The EQ-800 has found me more gold in the last 3 years than my GPZ-7000 and SDC-2300 combined. 

What do you put that down to Gerry?

On 1/23/2021 at 2:21 PM, Gerry in Idaho said:

GB-2 with a small 6" Ellip will go down in history...well deserved too.

Hell yer....I have the GM 1000, Nox 800 with 6" coil, Whites GMT & I still love my GB2 & that rock solid little sniper coil.

Minelab have always been a step ahead in technology. That is a fact. Well in my book anyway. People  gripe about ergonomics, weight, shaft lengths, coil sizes & options of coils or there lack of.  At the end of the day their detectors are tops & leading the pack. Have done for a while. We have seen in recent times the demise of Whites & Tesoro. Others may possibly follow. But Minelab will still be there.

1 hour ago, Gold Catcher said:

Apparently, the Middle East and Africa machine is also slightly different than the regular one. I find this hard to believe. We shall see.

Slightly different in what way/ways?

11 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

No, just the 6000. There is no 7500. Just asked her.

I think Jason was just being sarcastic. 

On 1/23/2021 at 9:52 AM, Steve Herschbach said:

I learned that if the GPZ signals, something was there, so I did find if I was methodical with the scoop I'd eventually find a flake. But I also admit a few times I was tired and not as patient and just let them go. No big loss.

Too true that. ?

G4G

Thanks Gold Catcher but I 'live' in manual ground balance & smoothing's off & have a good understanding of how to run my Zed at the top end of sensitivity that seems to work for me. We are all different as are our ground conditions & what we can or cant get away with.

Happy hunting.

G4G

3 hours ago, Gold Catcher said:

That is the amazing fact about the GPZ, that it remains super sensitive for small nuggets as well (HY/normal/smoothing off that is). Now, recovering those tiny bits with the 14 in coil is a different story. 

Many times I have got a very faint but positive stop me in my tracks signal with the GPZ. As soon as I have disturbed & moved the gold in the ground. Always very shallow so obviously a small piece. Maybe broken the gold 'halo' surrounding the small piece of gold the signal has gone. No matter how carefully I try to pick the signal up again I haven't been able to. But I knew what I heard & knew something was there.

Bring on the Gold monster & I find it. Tiny bit of gold.

G4G

40 minutes ago, Jonathan Porter said:

The key is none of us know what gold is actually still in the ground until ML bring something out that reveals the opportunity. The ground has secrets and ML have an uncanny ability at unlocking those secrets by developing new opportunities even when users are skeptical.

Have to agree with that. ?

18 hours ago, VicR said:

While didnt Minelab include the GPZ7000 in their comparison chart?

Or the Nox 800

9 hours ago, araratgold said:

Performance chart, impressive if true !

It gets a 5 star rating on the three smallest pieces & only a 4 star rating on the biggest. Have I missed something here? I would have thought the bigger ones would have been off the chart.?

G4G

Was that an XT 18000 you were using?

To answer your question re finding of a 10 gram nugget...... Gosh, they are like hens teeth today but that isn't to say they are not out there. The 'shallow' ones have well & truly been picked off. Today they maybe just down out of reach at the moment with todays ever improving technology. It is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string?. The real gold is in the journey of trying to find one. Enjoy the journey, just as you did in your post. Best of luck.

G4G 

That is cool.?