dig4gold

Do you really expect to hear back from Minelab? D4G

It is just a story don't forget..... D4G

Now that is interesting....Car keys spring top mind. So too does my cell phone which is in my rear right pocket turned off, though that might not matter that it is turned off. I swing my detector with my right arm. Early in the days of having my 6000 I noticed every time I put it down & picked it up that it made a grumble. I just put that down to the coil cable movement as the coil sat on the ground & the coil cable movement as the shaft pivoted with cable connected to it & the coil detecting that cable motion. Both setting it down & lifting it up. I have not encountered any crazy noises with the box sitting on the ground & I am coming up to one year of using it. So far, touch wood, I have had no issues with coil or detector. I do tremble with fear every time I go out just waiting for something to happen with all I have seen about others experiences. D4G

That seems to be the opposite of what others have found the case to be. Seems odd. Any reason you chose the 14x9 when that size isn't much different in surface area to the 11" round? What are your thoughts on the 17"? Nice to find some gold though. I am enjoying your thread. Thanks for the adventure. D4G

Hello JP, Have you used any of the Coiltek coils for the 6000? Thanks. D4G

I guess a 17" coil is going to get the best depth on a deeper bit of gold, especially at 4.6 grams at 13-14 inches over the other coil sizes. The Zed factor would have an influence as well. Might have been up on edge & so presenting a narrower surface. Would have been interesting to see how the 6000's 14" DD might have done & even the 11" mono. Steve, had you been over that area with the stock ML coil on your Zed? A 4.6 gram slug of gold is not too shabby a find these days. Well done & thanks for not digging the signal when you first got it. Makes for a much fairer comparison. I am a firm believer in the halo effect from my experiences. Thanks for your report. D4G

Gerry said, "then maybe it had a bigger brother." Gezz... I would be happy with a smaller brother. What a find. What a hum dinger. D4G

Seems you had your mind made up where you were going to mount your magnet before asking the question. In your 2nd to last photo with the magnet sticking that far out is just crazy. Must be close on half an inch. That wouldn't last 5 minutes in ground I dig into. I have mine recessed into the end of the handle & has been in there for years with no issues. Have even had the pick blade rebuilt a few times due to wearing down. I also use my pick as a walking stick & the magnet has handled that just fine. I guess what we can take from this is the differing ground we all have to deal with & while this way & position of the magnet may work for you then that is great. So no hard & fast answer & we all work out what is going to suit us individually. D4G

The steeper the slope could be the chance of bigger heavier gold getting caught up in a crack or crevice too & remaining there. More detectable than the smaller gold. D4G

Try crushing up some quartz & panning it. D4G

Is this your full time "work" or just a spare time hobby? You most certainly earn every bit of gold you are getting. D4G

Hi GS, I did mean Jed from Ghost miners initial posts that we were lead to believe was from "Jed's" journal & so thinking it was real & factual. When he came clean & said it was fabricated by his own words & putting his own spin on it I lost interest. The endless violence was a put off too. The world doesn't need that. Sorry if I insulted you. D4G

Might have to nickname you "Jed". LOL 🙂 D4G

Nice to see some finds. I was going to say you should change your avatar name to goldseeker 6000 but then see you are still using your 5000. No gold is easy gold & you deserve all you are getting. Thanks for sharing. D4G

Well done Aureous. Do you have to travel very far to get to your gold grounds. Fuel costs these days are another large cost in chasing gold that many seem to not mention but becomes part of the equation when talking about gold finds paying the way. Phrunt, just out of interest have you made your GPZ pay for itself before thinking of gold finds paying for your 6000? D4G

& Coil by the looks of it. D4G

My first ounce with the 6000 here in New Zealand was 31.16 grams in 305 pieces. That reflects our small kiwi gold. Just over .1 of a gram average. That's lots of digging & that's not counting the rubbish digs. By far most of it was with the 11" & a few with the 14". I don't have the 17" as there are not many places I could swing it where I detect. Same really with the 14" as I haven't used that coil much but where I have I got a few bits. Have been using the 6000 for over 6 months & have had no issues except for the shaft twist. I like it. D4G

To get the chip & from what I have been reading all along since X coils became a thing, you can still use the coil that the chip came from by putting a connector back on to the cable so the chip is still there via the adapter. If you have access to X coils then you have the ability to still use the minelab coils as well as the X coils. Best of both worlds. What is so hard to understand about that? As we have seen there are issues so it isn't for every body. But it is a choice if you so choose. D4G

This is all just fiction..... right? D4G

Although this has a bitter sweet ending there is some good stuff in this from Bill. Always is in his videos. He tells it & shows it how it is out in the field. For those of you that struggle with the ratty threshold with the 11" mono he covers this & I thought he had his detector running pretty damn nice. D4G

But... have you even tried the 14" DD? You will never know if you have never tried it. It is what it is there for & you have paid for it as part of your 6000 kit. The 14" will go deeper than a smaller coil & you may surprise yourself with its ability. Why are you so reluctant to use it? D4G

Have you tried the 14" DD in your EMI areas? Instead of pushing the mono continually to try to get it to a point where you don't appear you will ever be happy with it because of EMI. That is what the DD is for. I think you have more than proved to yourself, & us, that the 11" mono isn't happy in the environment you continue to keep tying it. D4G

I may have missed something here, but if gold is Au$84.85 a gram, as it was/is today, multiply that by 40 grams = Au$3394.00 Apparently a GPX 6000 is around Au$8000.00 How do you work out it owes you only 40 grams? D4G

Maybe the chicks on the beach in their bikinis are the game & the detecting is just an excuse for getting among them. Do you wear dark glasses? 😂 D4G

Personally I don't think it needs a booster. Audio is plenty loud enough. D4G