RONS DETECTORS MINELAB

Ron 208-739-8079

Still have a bunch of shafts.

Dropped the price on the GPX-5000 with warranty to $2900 Sold! Sold all the other detectors and Doc’s screamer pack.

I have found that the using good plow disks with a double thickness for the tip and then half the thickness for the scraper/root cutter end gives the pick a lighter weight and better balance as shown in the pictures. Also I don’t wear the tips out for a good while. The narrower the pick tip the better at getting into deep crevices. Only bad thing is how dangerous these picks are when they miss the mark and don’t go where intended.

Like New GPX-5000 with 2 1/2 years Warranty $2900 shipped. Sold! Lots of GPX miscellaneous shafts, coils, battery systems plus other stuff.

Definitely looks like the GM-2000 engineers have done quite a bit of secret sauce work under the hood. GM-2000 Box says: Let advanced automatic sensitivity optimiise performance with over 10,000 dynamic settings. WoW that’s a lot going on ! Some further readings on previous gold detector technological advancements.

I have run the 22" Goldstalker Mono and the Detech 18" Concentric coils, did not compare these two against the NF coils, but did find both these coils where not to my liking due to low performance when compared to other NF coils and I also noticed the lack of build quality on the Detech so I moved on to just using the NF coils and never looked back.

Nugget Finder made some deep large target penetrating coils with two different sizes, one being the 19” Evo and the other a 25” If you’re soil mineralization isn’t to bad then these coils mentioned above our what I would call about as good as it gets for depth for the Legacy GPX series. Ron

Depends on how disseminated the gold is and the ground mineralization on what detector would be best for the job you’re describing. High end gold VLF’s will hear gold to around 1/10 of a grain in low mineralized ground conditions, but add some mineralization and these same VLF’s will be saturated with ground noise masking faint gold signals except for maybe some larger pieces dependent on how hot the ground mineralization is. The new GM2000 VLF? has done very well in mineralized ground conditions and retains its ability to still hear VLF size gold, but the GM2000 also does not have the depth capability of a PI on multi gram size nuggets in hot ground. Most quartz gold is in benign Calciite or Quartz seems or pockets, so if you’re country host rock isn’t black slates or moderately mineralized then you might be OK with sticking to your GB 2 as it excels in these benign areas on the smaller gold. On the flip side Pulse induction do much better in mineralized ground conditions and the GPX-6000 with a 10x5” coil can hit .3 grain pieces if they are in a solid formation and not to spongy. The Algoforce comes in second on small gold sensitivity with its 10x5” coil and then the Axiom falls in last to hit on these smaller type pieces. The Axiom if offered with a smaller coil would probably close this gap on smaller pieces but so far they have not offered any smaller coil options as of yet. The GPX-6000 & Axiom both do better than the Algoforce on pieces of bigger sizes due to the timings offered with them. Price willing to pay for a detector should always be based off of your expected possible gold returns with what you buy. I learned this lesson the hard way as I kept using a GB 2 which was great on quartz dumps, so I was refusing to spend the money to upgrade about 20 years ago to a PI but then watched my friend clean house around me with a 3500 on some deep placer grounds. So having both a VLF and a PI/ZVT is needed to get the best of both worlds. Ron

Like my friend says he’s not planning on selling his GM2000 as it’s a keeper, so don’t matter what it looks like. 😊 Ron

Doc, I added this topic as there was some thoughts on the design development of the GM2000 covers expressed.here. Thanks for working on this, Ron

Looks like when in benign settings and turned off it will revert to the default upon restart. Otherwise it retains last settings.

Great find and decent condition, thanks for sharing your story, really inspiring for sure.

So far so good from the people that I have sold them to, but not sure if all these customers have had a chance to really put them to the test yet. Probably still a little early to tell except for the ones that have already been mentioned in the other post. Ron