dig4gold

Hi Phrunt. Don't you have a 15"CC X coil for your GPZ 7000. Have you not tried that at this spot you speak of? From what I have read I would think the 7000 with 15"CC would be better than a 15"CC on the 5000. The bonus of this coil for the GPX's is that no adapter is required. Plug & play. D4G

I think you will find that most gold detectorists finds have changed over the years. Especially in over all weight. May be finding more individual pieces but way smaller. That equals more work & effort for less reward money wise. Not to mention the cost of new high end gold detectors & accessories. D4G

Hi JP. Long time between drinks. Thought you must have fallen off the planet. Why so long a time for your wise words of wisdom that are always appreciated? What you said about the 12x7 above. Probably why I prefer the ML 11" in our very mild New Zealand soil conditions. Only using the 12x7 where I can't get the 11" into. I also find the edge sensitivity on the 11" better than on the 12x7. Having you explain the 12x7 being designed from the ground up, was there a pun intended there?, to work in hot variable soils etc. Now makes sense to me & why I found the 11" better in my ground conditions. I like how you make a point about ground conditions, IF conditions allow, & In super quiet soils.... In the past this seemed to go unknown by many as I saw many people reply to posts done by some who ran there detectors in full max gain & hot settings that people were basically calling them liars, & that just isn't possible. It all came down to very mild ground compared to hot mineralised ground. A mild hot rock on a string.... Thank you for that tip, I will give that a go. Would a ferrite ring do the same? Thanks & welcome back. D4G

Discrimination just means you leave signals in the ground undug believing it is non gold. The only way you are going to know 100% for sure is to dig all signals. That has how it has been for many of us over the years, digging all signals. How many of you have dug an ugly signal "knowing" it was not going to be gold only to be very pleasantly surprised? I bet too many times, & now why you still dig all signals. The other bonus of digging all signals first time around, even if it is junk, is to remove it from the ground. That way when you come back over that ground again with the new kid on the block, maybe for the 2nd or third time or even more, that" junk" target won't be there for you having to deal with it again. I don't believe it is possible to have a 100% accurate discrimination in a gold detector because of the fact that the gold purity in nature is never the same from location to location. Plus the fact that iron/ironstone in nature is often related to gold, if not even attached to it or coating it. The only way would be for the detector to tell you the total metallic elements & there amounts contained in the item detected. Maybe one day that will be possible. Like Phrunt said, You will never know what you didn't dig. Personally, I can't live with that. I have to know. Then I can sleep easy knowing I haven't left gold in the ground. D4G

Yep.....👍 D4G

That is why we are always wanting the next release detector/coil. They bring old haunts back to life. All be it with the 6000 mostly smaller/deeper gold. The fun thing is we all have our old patches that had seemed to of dried up until the new kid on the block comes to being. Then it is game on again..... for a while. Then we are waiting for another "new kid on the block". The bigger gold though does seem to have become very scarce. D4G

I agree with Phrunt, as we both live on the South Island of New Zealand, I at the top end & he towards the bottom end. Our ground being very mild I too favoure manual 10 over the Auto settings, threshold on & usually get away with full max sensitivity but not always. D4G

Hey Norvic. He would need to make, or have made, an adapter to do that. Might be against his grain. D4G

To remotely get an understanding you need to study the geology of your areas & learn how the land developed & gold formed, & how & why the mountains grew & from what. Tectonic plates, faulting & folding. Glaciation that has come & gone a few times, advance & retreat, destroying mountains & eroding the quartz gold reefs liberating & depositing the gold. Ancient river channels & glacial material, gold bearing, lifted to thousands of feet above sea level. Can be a real mind f%*k but that is how the gold got to where you describe. The study of that is fascinating in its self & most people that love chasing gold love geology too. The two go hand in hand & for good reason. D4G

Minelabs business model is not to release upgraded "technology" in new release models in really giant steps. But to do it a tiny step at a time to milk more money from customers with each "new" release. Mining the miners. Take a look at the GP Extreme through to the GPX 5000. Pretty much the same platform with small improvements to each unit but a hefty top end price per "new" detector. We were lucky that the coils were interchangeable. Not like now. D4G

Is Australia "still" the homeland of Minelab? D4G

Nice. Good for you & happy for you. D4G

I'm just using my one off the 7000 complete with harness & using the swing arm as well. D4G

It is a strange thing this believe or non believe of happenings from the other side. There are many things that happen that have no logical explanation except to put it down to the paranormal or visitor's from the other side. It is something I believe should not be scoffed at. If what you are telling us actually happened, & more than once or twice, & isn't made up for your "story", then you will have your own thoughts on the matter. "They" obviously mean you no harm but it would be un nerving. The mind is a powerful thing & it is how you process what you have "witnessed" as to how you react to it. Interesting, & like you say, you could write a book on that subject alone. Maybe you should. D4G

Thanks for the great read Gerry. I always value what you have to say. D4G

Best you do then... I am sure you would come back with a whopper stuck in your gob. 🙂 D4G

Ghosts from the past..... D4G

Ooooh.... Bugger. D4G

Cats out of the bag now. D4G

Now that is interesting. D4G

In your photo of the connection to the main shaft, am I reading correctly that the white pvc pipe has made in NZ on it? So we do make some stuff here. Well I'll be damned. D4G

Must be the same for electric vehicles too as they say the slow home charger is better for the battery life than the fast public charging stations. Also I read that only charging to 80% is also better for the battery. D4G

Woody even made an EMI filter that I ran on my GP3000. I swear it worked as I detected in a high EMI area very close to a small town & cell phone tower & also suffered from solar influence on clear sunny days. The reason I say I swear it worked is that it quietened down my detector instantly & I found more gold. Can't ask for more than that despite being told by some ML disciples that it was just snake oil. The truth for me was in my results. Enough said. I also did the ground balancing push button mod on the handle of my 3000. Surprise surprise, the same thing happened from ML on the release of 3500 & all other gpx's after that. D4G

I remember when the SD2000 first came out & there were people tripping over each other getting one. That detector started a gold rush with the big deep gold it was finding, being able to punch through the mineralisation. Even using the mineralisation to get the depth. I remember the shock horror from people when only a few months later ML released the 2100. That caused un uproar from those that had just purchased the 2000. ML responded by saying that in future upgrades can be added to earlier models. How right they were, but of course they didn't do it to an existing owners earlier model detector. You had to buy the new one. Bit like ML promising to make a 10" coil for the Zed. That never happened either. They lied & said it couldn't be done. Funny how X coils came out with not only a 10" but also an 8" from what I have seen. D4G

An excavator, but no guarantees. Just blind stabbing. D4G