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Having the 6000 so automated may turn out to be a smart decision for them, it sold like hot cakes being the new kid on the block with high small gold sensitivity and now they can release a GPX 7000 in the future with all the configuration options back again and market it like it's for professional prospectors. The 6000 is very big box no dealer friendly though, that's a very good point Jason, I find these days detectors like the CTX, Equinox and Manticore are just as difficult to learn as the earlier GPX series, have plenty of options and configuration changes to enhance or reduce performance should you get it wrong. The GPZ is certainly no harder to understand all its settings than an Equinox, probably easier. They're dumbing down the gold detectors while making the general-purpose VLF's harder to use and understand, maybe they think the gold detector demographic would benefit from easier to use detectors 🙂 The reality is they were designed around the African gold rush, these people don't care about settings, they want to get out there and get the gold quick, it's not a hobby, it's an income that puts food on the table, and a table there in the first place. That's why the 6000 and GM1000 were easy to use, not a big box store plan.

Yes, well Minelab did say they would make a 10" for the 7000. They then ended up saying it couldn't be done. They lied. The Russian made X coils sorted that out. They even made an 8" for the 7000. So yes, Minelab lied to make people buy more detectors. That is their business model. D4G

That’s a good question. I felt the same way about the 7000 not having small coils, all about making you have to buy multiple detectors I would think.

Ok, I just played around with my sP01 and the AlgoForce 1500. Actually it doesn't require the Algo but any detector without a wireless system or Bluetooth. I'm using an external transmitter but I only have one of them. It just happens to be a 1Mii. Since I only have one of them my question was how do I make the sP01 work? When I use it with my 7000 I connect the WM12 to the 7000 wirelessly. The WM12 is then wired to the sP01. The sP01 then has an output for speaker or headphones and then you hear it. All the wires are with the harness/detectorist and you can set the detector down and dig. Not having a WM12 (receiver) for the Algo and the Algo not having an internal Bluetooth makes for a different hookup. I can 'make it work' if I wire the Algo to the sP01 with the small jack and an adapter on the sP01. That is on the 'in' side. I can then take another adapter and plug in the Bluetooth transmitter. When I turn this on I get volume from both the detector and the sP01. The sP01 sounds much better to me in Mode 2 and switch selector 2. Now all the wires are with the detector and I can use wireless headphones and put the wires in a little side pouch. I hope Doc's cover has room. This may also act as a bit of counterbalance on the Algo as well.

Doc, was kind enough to send me his new DALAS (Detector Air Lift System) and it arrived Friday right at Mother’s Day Weekend. Now, I’m sure my Wife Robin is like many other Wives on the Forum and tends to think the entire Weekend is about being Pampered. I didn’t open Doc’s Parcel till mid day Saturday…after feeling the sting of Mother’s Day Weekend kickoff in “The Biggest Little City In The World.” Yes, the Granite Countertop had a burn mark under the box! I ran out to my 1/3 rd of the garage digging thru all my Backpacks and Military gear trying to find a stand alone Harness System. Not finding what I wanted I settled back to my Minelab Harness that I have my Hip Stick attached to for ever. All this time, Robin was thinking I was cleaning up my part of the 3 Car Garage. End result, it did look better! 😂 Now following Doc’s Video and written Supplemental Instructions, it was time to hit up Robin to mark the Struts and Rod to drill the screws in for the Back Paddle. I ran out to the garage to fit with my Minelab Harness and attach my GPZ 7000 to it. I called Robin out from behind her Mother’s Day Weekend Book reading for the final upper Strut marking to set the screws. She did comment about my straightening up my workbench. Adjusted to my liking, I set the screws. As you can see, my Minelab Harness is well equipped with my GPZ 7000 Ferrite Ring, Wireless holder, TP Holder w/Matches and one extra Water Bottle and noise maker to let the many BigFoots and Aliens know I’m happy to be out in the middle of no-where! With both my Hip Stick and the new DALAS set up side by side, it was easy to switch back and forth to test the end result. It’s was nearly like Night and Day with my test swinging in the backyard with the DALAS winning hands down. But, this wasn’t Real World testing! I loaded up my truck and Monday headed out to Rye Patch. The week prior, I was out swinging with my Old Buddy Rudy patch hunting. I was swinging my 6000 and it was struggling with the damp ground and windy conditions and Rudy, decided to use his 7000 because of the conditions the 6000 was struggling with. He dug up a nice one! Arrived, unloaded and met up with another Buddy Art from Pennsylvania. Art, has become quite the prospector over the years with several nuggets to show me as we caught up. He too, is Ex-Military and armed with a GPX 6000. We loaded up in my little Red Buggy and set off into the Desert. As you can see, I’ve been well trained during my Military Career to bring everything you need to win the battle. There is one item, that will not be on my Harness anymore and that is the Hip Stick! Yes, I did swing the 7000 for a few hours. The 7000, is a much heavier detector than the 6000, as you may know. with the DALAS and the use of Doc’s Swing Arm i didn’t have to have my arm in the 7000’s Arm Cuff, just on the handle and later I could just put a couple fingers on the back end of the Arm Cuff to rise and lower the 7000 to match the terrain and use the swing arm to swing the 7000. Wow! The 7000 Beast was under control. The DALAS does pull the back of your pants out (not down) and I had to have my Minelab Harness above the Back Paddle of the DALAS for full benefit. The added feature on a hot windy day of detecting in the High Plains is just add weight to top rod for cooling effect 😂. Now, which detector is my main detector, the GPX 6000. The GPZ 7000, is my backup detector and is mainly used for deep nugget patches or last swinging of new patches, nowadays. With the current conditions on some of the ground in Northern Nevada having it coupled to the DALAS was a welcome to a smooth threshold. Until the next Hunt, LuckyLundy

In Minelab's defence, they're far more refined detectors upon release, the Manticore's had an update, I suspect that will be it, I can't see it needing another, although I'd like a bit more target ID stability but that's the nature of the "beast" by the sounds of it. They got it very close to right upon release. I would imagine an update will come for the 900, for it start it creates a flurry of interest in the detector which is good for marketing reasons. I'm in a way happy my Manticore won't receive endless modifications and updates, and updates to updates, I'd rather learn it and feel confident knowing it without having to deal with that. Never hurts to email service@minelab.com.au with the problems you think need fixed and see what they think about the likelihood of an update, they flat out told me no they're not going to fix a bug the GPZ 7000 has when I asked, where switching from difficult to normal sometimes drops audio until you turn it off and on again although they're very aware of the issue.

Easy, by making a good product, word of mouth is the most powerful advertising. Seeing what other people are using helps make buying decisions, sponsoring TV shows like Aussie Gold Hunters works extremely well for exposure and brand awareness. Having product in high traffic retail stores is another method of exposure that works well and they're already working their way into doing that. Someone who wants high end machines like the 6000 and 7000 already would have a pretty good idea they want it before marching into a shop to buy it I would think and the lower priced detectors are well suited to a retail off the shelf purchase, along with online. The thing is, it has to be there for people to buy it, so they need to get their product into more stores, not less.

X-Coils and modifications I’m guessing are the best of the best for performance if one is willing to go down this expensive and risky route. But I am not finding any information on comparisons with the X-coils being used on Minelab’s top deep seeking detectors, one being the modded GPX-5000 against the GPZ-7000 using the 15” X-Coil concentric or any closely sized X-Coils. Not sure if anyone has both these detectors or if they have had the opportunity to compare these two different setups but I know this is an interesting question for the serious professionals, any information or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Hey, these video are pretty darn good if I don't say so myself. Some nice gold. ALL LEGITIMATE finds. I do not plant gold to make videos! (My videos are pretty much unedited except for the beginning where I am usually cussing because the tripod won't stay level. LOL) I try to make them instructional. These videos were back in 2016 and 2017 the GPZ was relatively new and I was finding gold like crazy. Some interesting things the newbies might learn from these videos. Just tips, and tricks. Like how to pinpoint with a GPZ 7000. Bet some people still insist you can't pinpoint with a GPZ7000. YES YOU CAN. I can't believe that I never uploaded them to YouTube. I was too busy having a blast with the GPZ7000 I guess. Here's a video I just uploaded. This video tells you how to pinpoint a nugget with a GPZ7000 when you have it out of the hole. Doc

Yesterday it was time to go for a gold hunt. I took the AlgoForce 1500 with the Commander/11/DD and the Nugget Finder/8x6 Sadie. I also took my GPZ 7000 and new to me 10" Xcoil. Thursday I only used the Algo. The first half of the day was with the DD because it was on from beach hunting and the second half I put on the Sadie as I had done in New Zealand with Simon. The location was in Southern California at a spot that has been well hunted and 2/3rds of the time I get skunked! I can't depend on the area to give me gold. Only one area out of many has produced for me. I didn't start in that area with the Algo. I tried a couple of new 'hills' with a friend. We both got trash but no gold. We started about 8 and at mid day we moved to a third location and I put on the Sadie. I continued to find trash. I would go for long stretches of no trash working locations where I was told others found nuggets. No trash sometimes means that it has been thoroughly worked. This is an example of the trash the Algo will see. My hearing is bad so I use headphones, but my hunting partner used the Algo a bit and could also hear these targets while I was on the headphones, and he could of course hear with them on and on the speaker. After the third stop he had found 5 pieces with his 6000 in a different location than where I was hunting. At the end of the day we took his smallest piece and buried it to test the Algo. I tested it much like the video that is posted using the 4 different gold settings. It let me learn more of the Algo's capabilities. I did not make a video of that 15-minute session as it was impromptu and would be incomplete. I'm still a bit jet lagged from my New Zealand trip so we called it a day and I went to go sleep in my 4Runner. I was out from sundown to 4 AM and didn't get out detecting until 6:30 or so. It was a little cool and no wind, but it was warm compared to New Zealand. I had slept near that area where I had found gold in the past. It was time to give the Big Dog a walk about. The 10" round Xcoil was ready to work. My partner of the day before said 'that is a good combination' and you'll find gold with that. This was my first use and I agree. I've found many pieces of gold with its cousin a 15" CC coil but it can't fit around many of these little plants and bushes. The 10" is very well suited for it. I wish I had one for the Algo. We discovered that the 11" Commander DD (only operating on half according to Simon) has touch sensitivity at the point the wire enters the coil. It was not a problem on the beach but it was a problem when hitting the low little bushes in the desert. I'm in search of a bigger coil than the Sadie to make it see a bit deeper and because my coils are damaged in some ways. The Algos DNA is in looking for small nuggets and to put on a small nugget coil makes it a double whammy when patch hunting I'd say. Well, the Xcoil doesn't have that problem and it senses things way off the coil. When the coil is over a target it is very definitive and much easier to pinpoint than the 15CC. Here is the trash I was finding with it. Note some of the same trash but also note the tiny bbs. The ground feedback is better. Both detectors were not bothered by hot rocks. I had more hot rocks in New Zealand. (Don't tell Simon.) This posting is not meant to be a comparison posting. I'm giving the details so that it gives context to the next part of the day. I wanted to find some gold and I could feel that it was going to warm up and I wasn't going to last and I wanted to use my new coil so I did. About an hour into the morning hunt I had collected a bit of trash (some is lost) when I came upon a target that sounded like more trash, but it wasn't. I looked in the scoop and it was a nice nugget. It was only down a couple of inches in dry sand in a place where nuggets are supposed to be. It was at the bottom of a little swail/previous water drainage. This area had been thoroughly detected. How was this missed? One of my first thoughts was I wished I was using the Algo. I just wanted to find a nugget with it. Maybe it would be the first in the states? I don't know. There are probable a few others here. My next thought was ... I could 'act' like the Algo found it. Nah, that is not what happened. So, I did the next best thing. I hiked back half a mile to the 4Runner, got the Algo and reburied the nugget. Could the algo see it now? You betcha. I took a picture of the setting first. After I took this picture I used my phone to create a "What if I had been using the Algo video!" After I redetected this nugget I used the Algo to search the area. I found one piece of trash that is in a video. I didn't make a YouTube of that yet. If someone wants to see it let me know. Other than the piece of trash, everything was gone. I went back over the Algo area with the Xcoil and did not find anything 'missed' by the Algo. Shortly after I decided to leave even tho it was only 10 AM. I didn't want to deal with Friday traffic. It's not possible to get all of the experience in but this is an idea. It is a nice, rough nugget! I see Goofy in it.

Quick, not sure if you’ve swung a GPZ 7000 with the Hip Stick on extended hours and combined days on a hunt! The Hip Stick does pull on your Shoulder. Doc’s DALAS transfers that stress to the Waist Line Clip. As a beat up old guy, I’m looking forward for that Slow Boat! Rick

So for 9 yrs you've been holding out and making us old guys wear our bodies down, run out of steam and then quit the hunt early. You've probably been using it the whole time, until your friends called you out "extortion ". You had no choice then, so the cat is out of the bag. One of my biggest issues with the GPZ-7000, weight....and that attempt at their exoskeleton harness. Doc, Minelab just needs to put you on their payroll so we get the right fit, feel, tools and accessories from the get-go. Now, I'm excited about swinging that Beasty 7 again... when I have Dalas. I'm sure it's not going to cost $1000 like those coils so many folks purchased, just so they could swinging the 7 again. Looking forward to it. BTW, when Michelle and I come visit Vegas, we'll be in the pool, your pool.

Packing an .06, shells, a 7000 and my recovered nuggets all day long? I think I'd rather get et by a bear.

We live up high on a hillside in a canyon town in So. Cal. My wife has cultivated unbelievable gardens; we live in beauty. I got to terrace the hillsides on our property when I was younger, but that had to stop - yup back problems. But now, years later, I still go out and detect with my 7000, I've strengthened my back and know what not to do. But I always wear a back brace when I sweep, rake or mop. Eight years ago, my wife came with me for two nights camping up in the Mother Lode in breathtakingly beautiful country. As we were leaving I heard her say to herself "okay I've done that." Now, I often say her idea of being in the great outdoors is cracking the window open in our hotel room. Funny thread Doc.

Thanks Phrunt. I wish I could run in normal. The difference is quite pronounced but you can only do what you can do. I forgot to mention that the sensitivity was knocked back to about 15 after starting in 18. The variation in mineralisation was quite pronounced over a relatively short distance and made a significant difference in how both machines coped with the ground. As always, the 7000 in the morning is a bit like me, we both need a coffee and a bit of time to warm up before we can operate properly.

Hi Folks, Just thought I’d give a bit of feedback on the 8” X Coil that I pinned to the 7000. Yesterday was its maiden voyage into our local gold country and Joe and I were keen to see how it performed in the field. We decided to go back to a creek bed that was mainly dry to see if we could scratch out a few targets and do some comparison work between this coil and the 10x5 Coiltek that was swinging on the end of Joes 6000. After burying a few targets the day before and running both machines over them, we already had a bit of an idea as to how it would perform but nothing beats detecting in a real situation to see how a machine/ coil combination works. I purchased this coil so that I could give my daughter the 6000 when she comes out detecting and I could then use the zed with a small coil to work through old workings or around rock bars. The 12” ZSearch is a great coil but is a bit too large for this type of work (especially with the thick undergrowth that now exists in our gold fields.) The first thing I noticed was the weight of the coil. It is reasonably heavy for its size. It is of a similar weight to the 12” coil and I’m guessing it is full to the brim with wire. On the Zed it is well balanced and it swings nicely with minimal effort. External build quality looks quite good and it appears that it should be able to cope with a good workout. Joe and I decided to walk the gully well past where we detected on the last trip and see if there was any gold present higher upstream. The first issue with the X Coil is that it’s not waterproof so I was restricted to dry rock bars and banks. Joe was able to do the shallow pools and submerged bars to ensure that we had all bases covered. The area where we started to detect was highly mineralised with hot rocks and noisy ground upsetting both machines. Threshold was stable but false signals due to the ground were an issue until we moved downstream. Apart from a couple of bits of rubbish, nothing of any real interest turned up. We slowly worked our way down stream until we got to an area that had produced some gold on a previous trip. The zed was behaving a bit like a hyperactive kid that had been fed a handful of red lollies. In other words, it was running like a 6000. In a funny, twisted sort of way, it was a good feeling as I knew the coil was right on the edge and was super sensitive. As we had detected this area before, we knew that we had to make a bigger effort to reach difficult spots, move a few rocks and fallen vegetation etc to see if we could uncover something of interest. Joe started detecting a yellow clay bank as it was a good trap for gold during a flood. I decided to try an steep area that was well above the stream bed where there was evidence of past working by the old timers. At the base of a cliff face, I noticed a couple of undercut areas which were gouged out by last years floods. I was able to get my detector coil into one of these holes by lying flat on the ground and reaching forward through some flood debris in order to swing the detector. A very faint moan hit the headphones which wasn’t surprising at all as the hole had a lot of red mineralised soil in the cavity. It sounded just like every other broad, false signal that I’d been getting during the morning from similar material but as per usual, a check was in order. The pick was used to drag out about 6” of this dirt. It was soft and not compacted in any way which indicated it was recently deposited. When the detector was placed back into the hole, the signal had sharpened up and I knew that I had something metallic. I wish now that I’d called Joe over before any material was moved so that we could have done a bit of a comparison between the machines. My gut feeling is that the 6 would not have heard anything at all but we will never know for sure. Eventually I dragged out a nice little nugget of about 3/4 gram. When I ran the machine over the spoils, a signal was detected and another small piece was recovered. Joe picked up a couple of small pieces that were barely a signal so he didn’t call me over to check. You know the ones I’m talking about. “Is that a signal?” One small scratch with the pick and then it screams at you. The typical 6000 small gold scenario. I started detecting a high vertical bank that had washed away badly last year. When I placed the coil under a tree root, the machine screamed loudly in protest. I knew it had to be junk or a shallow piece of gold. One careful scrape with the pick and it fell into the scoop. Couldn’t believe my luck when a nice little half grammer winked at me. No skill in that one. A kids detector could have found it. But in saying that, no one had put a coil in that location before so I took it with a smile. After a brief stop for lunch, we continued to slowly move towards our starting point. I picked up the zed and took one step forward before getting a nice little double “bleep”. It was pointless getting the 6000 to run over that target as it was quite a shallow, dig me signal. Turned out to be a 0.08g piece at a depth of about 1.5”. It was good to see that the coil could pick up bits of fluff with ease. I decided to follow Joe and work the same clay bank that he had just detected to see if there was a deeper target to find. Normally, that wouldn’t be a good idea as Joe is very good on the detector and rarely leaves even a scrap for his mate. About 3 metres from where I picked up the little nugget, I ran the X Coil over some vegetation that had been partially washed away by flood water. I could see the clay bank was about 5 inches under the exposed roots of a small bush. To my surprise, I picked up a signal when the coil passed over the area. The vegetation was pulled out of the way and this is what I saw: Before it was moved, I called Joe over for a look. It was a beautiful little sunbaker. Joe passed his coil over the top of the nugget and lost the signal at about 4”. The process was repeated with the X Coil. It still gave a faint signal at about 5.5”. That was the first bit of information that demonstrated some of the X Coils potential. The piece weighed in at 0.095 grams which is pretty small. Joe picked up a couple of micro bits on a bank during our walk towards the car. He finally found a slight but repeatable signal that he thought might be a good test for the new coil. He put back the scrape of material that the pick had removed and the X Coil was then directed across the area. In all honesty, there was very little evidence of a signal at all. There may have been something but under normal detecting conditions, it would not have stopped me. When the scrape material was removed, a faint signal was heard. It ended up being a really small piece of shot and showed how good the 10x5 coil attached to the 6000 is when the gold size gets really small. It was a day that was hard work and didn’t prove anything much at all except that the X Coil is capable of finding small gold at good depth. Will it compete with the 6000? In some situations depending on gold size and depth, it may do well. In others where the gold is really small and shallow, the situation may be different. From yesterdays trip I could say with confidence that the zed/ X Coil combination is one that I will use in many of our future adventures. Will try updating comparisons as we test over time. Here is a pic of the gold that it found on its first outing. And our tally for the day.

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I don't like their marketing charts at all, they're manipulative, they don't declare which coil they 5000 is using, nor do they mention changing coils on it would change the results, they make out that the 5000 performance doesn't change and the result it had in their testing are the final results. The same goes for the 7000 although that's more satisfactory as the aftermarket coils for it are not official products. I'd rather they not did these performance charts for marketing. I'm sure when the new detector comes along it's chart will demonstrate it's better than what currently exists, in the form where the current models are lacking intentionally to make the new model look better. 🙂 I'd rather they just verbalized it saying what's improved, how it's improved and why they improved it. For example, for the 6000 they could say they've improved performance on small gold and specimen gold, along with lightening up the detector and improving its resistance to EMI over the existing GPX series. This would all be very truthful and stuff any owner of it would be able to clearly see as beneficial when they buy it. They could use marketing to bling it up and add a lot more benefits too. As for testing, it seems not long after release JP at least was commenting on the issue, the more the end users were pointing it out the more obvious it became there was something wrong. Minelab likely said they think there might be an audio feedback loop going on and they're investigating it, still took a long time to resolve, but we are all happy they did. Some days mine ran a dream, the next I was being punished pushing noise cancel all the time, factory resetting over and over again or just turning it off, waiting 5 minutes and turning it on with a factory reset to calm it down. The fact it had good days makes you think perhaps it's just environmental EMI and a detector running on edge, but you could replicate the same problems in very low sensitivity. It turned out it was poorly shielded inductors so changing inductors to better ones resolved it, I believe due to this every model with the old inductors is affected to some degree, now all new ones use the new brand inductor. If the testers spent their time in headphones, they likely wouldn't notice it as it was nowhere near as bad with headphones, and who would think by using a speaker you would change the detectors stability, it probably wasn't tested on speaker much, the speakers also not loud enough for noisy environments, I hunt near rivers a lot, can never use the speaker, far too quiet. They should have had a GM1000 speaker in it. I don't think Minelab will make a similar mistake in the future, the best people to test a product for a fault like this is the engineers working on it, not a detectorist. How is a detector user going to know what's normal or not when it comes to wild behaviour, yes, they can point out it was noisy or seemed to have unusual EMI issues on certain days, but the engineer would be the one that would know something is truly up if they were using it when it happened. It's an engineering issue, not likely a tester issue. The engineers missed the fault.

It’s been doable for ages and suggested for longer. White’s could have stuck a MXT and TDI SL circuit boards in one box and switched between them, and still been lighter than a GPZ 7000. The main thing would be designing a coil that could run well in both PI mode and VLF mode. Not a huge hurdle really as a PI can run almost any configuration - it’s the VLF side that’s pickier so design for that as the priority. Now obviously an MXT board and a TDI SL board today would be way, way smaller than what Whites made. Think more like Manticore plus AlgoForce E1500 together in a single package. Both could easily fit in something about the size of an Axiom. As you say, two separate detectors in one housing with ability to switch between the two. Obvious idea, brought up many times. So why has nobody done it? Lack of outside the box thinking at the majors that has them thinking this or that, but not both. At one time it was just a too klunky option really, but with today’s smaller circuit boards and more powerful batteries much more feasible.

Most certainly is LITE. The detector with the small coil is lite'er and the cost of the unit itself is lite'er on the pocket. Actually, one of the blessing of the Axiom is how much lite'er it is when compared to the competition and then most certainly lite'er on the wallet vs those others. Did I tell you I found more gold with the Axiom in 2022 and 2023 than I did with my GPX-6000 and GPZ-7000 combined. I won't even mention what a couple of my Field Staff did. Let's just say, many folks assume and wear blinders. I realized my blinder mistake many years ago, so now I keep an open mind and let the results dictate my preference. In no way am I saying the Axiom will always outperform my GPZ, but with the added features, it sure shines through in many applications. Can't argue results, that's for sure.

Hello All, I'm listing this for a friend that does not have access to the internet. He purchased a new GPZ 7000 about 2 years ago, but never was able to get it into the field. He put the unit together, but never was able to get it out of the house. If you have any interest, please contact Brian at 520-904-9025 (Southern Arizona area) to chat with him about it and pricing. I'm sure he's willing to make someone a deal, but remember he purchased it at $8000+. Thanks! Rob

Thank you Gerry & Phrunt. While the 6000 has been a shambles & a frustration for many, I somehow have not had issues with mine. Touch wood. We do know who the tester were Gerry. Maybe they were just not aware of the issues at that time or ML did ignore them. JP did promote it as being highly strung & on the edge due to the nature of the beast & its heightened sensitivity & jittery nature therefore etc etc. I am not a Minelab basher as such as I have loved all my ML machines. I just don't like their business model antics in controlling their market share/domination & take my hat off to the likes of X coils who developed a work around for the chip on the 7000 & have obviously made a heap of very good coils that has called ML out on their say so that a 10" coil wasn't physically possible to make with the amount of wire winding required in the small space of a 10" coil. Despite them saying they would make a 10" coil. X coils pumped out not only a 10" but also an 8" coil & many more. The CC's being from what I have seen a huge hit. Left egg on ML's face & has basically called them out as liars. @Phrunt. I find it interesting that the bit of gold you did find while detecting with Mitchel was found with the 6000 & an aftermarket coil despite your favoritism being with the 7000 & 8" X coil that found you nothing. While you showed that video of your patch clean up at the area you took Mitchel too with the 7000 & 8" X coil. Who is to say that the 6000 wouldn't have found those with the 10x5 Goldhawk coil in among those thyme bushes? I have to admit that the 15" CC seems very impressive. D4G

I have no issues with Simon and many others showing frustration with the GPX-6000, Minelab earned it. Why did not the original Field Testers notify Minelab of the issues? Maybe they did and Minelab turned a cheek, we will never know. This I know for a fact. I complained about the issues to Minelab USA and was lied to. I also sent an email and to this day have yet to get a reply. Not sure if the folks at Minelab USA has any say anymore, but they did back in the 90's when I first started promoting Minelab. Now you might call me a sour Minelab Dealer, but at the same time, I promote the heck out of their detectors and show more pics of gold success than most other dealers who sell the same product. I love their technologies and performances. I also appreciate the 3 year warranty as for many years it was only 2 yrs. I don't appreciate their strategies of price points. I say this as I have been one trying to sell their detectors for near 30 yrs. Why not offer the same detectors at 1/2 the price (still more than the competition) and sell twice as many. Then come out with new versions every 3 to 4 yrs (like they did back in the early days) instead of waiting 9 years (based on GPZ-7000). Back to the next new big detector from Minelab. It will happen and probably as Lunk mentioned (during the May 2025 Worldwide Conference. What do I hope for? A detector with GPZ-7000 depth on solid gold, with the lighter coils, size and ergonomics of a GPX-6000 and also have Sensitivity of specimen gold, Discrimination and Fine Tuning that the Axiom has and then price this package at $4999 US. I would think gold could be around $2500 US an oz and we could sell twice as many detectors. Only time will tell.

Sad you got a dud & also lost 12 months of critical detecting time. Especially as your friend got one quite early as we both got one about the same time as we were communicating a bit at that time. He got 12 months on you & most likely on the ground you have been doing as well. That is my point with the "early bird gets the worm" comment in my earlier post. Also that ML honour their warranties so any issues they will sort out. From memory you were so frustrated with your dud out of the box that you bashed it & it came to life. Whether that was good or bad & that maybe you should have sent it back under warranty, you will never know. I guess by going public that you bashed it would void your warranty anyway. Not everybody in detecting world is evil or has evil intent. That is most likely not the right way to word it but I am referring to X coils (the non evil party) & again those that went down that path, & obviously as it turned out against Minelabs wishes & many others, the early bird again got the worm. I am one that didn't go down that path but most definitely see its benefits. Despite all the fallout from that saga if it wasn't for X coils pushing minelabs hand we wouldn't have the NF Z search coils that so many go on about being better than the ML coils for the 7000. Any innervation, no matter who or where it comes from, has to benefit us detector/coil users. I think we are now all up to speed on Minelabs business model of mining the miners & ham stringing their detector/coil combinations in regards to aftermarket coils that don't get their approval.... for obvious financial reasons to them & their detector sales. Competition is good & are other manufacturers now going to get a good slice of the pie or is it too late with gold getting harder to find by the day. Despite its high price at the moment, the glory days are over & we are just struggling along on the vapour of an oily rag. D4G

Garrett just informed us happy folks in USA, the proven Axiom is now available in the US in the same LITE package they have been offering in Australia. I know this detector well as many of you seen the posts of Success picks my Field Staff/I have shared the last year. Yes I feel it's the best priced high performance PI detector on the market in the USA at this time. Yes it has features my GPX-6000 and GPZ-7000 do not. If you don't think it can find small gold, sorry you are mistaken. It's incredible at the small stuff, just ask Steve H or Lunk. Now's your chance to get this detector for $1000 less. Don't forget, since I am a VET myself, I offer the full 15% to those Veteran customers, as you earned it. Veterans supporting Veterans. Semper Fi. Picks of Success (below) when we were testing different prototypes. Happy Hunting. Gerry