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I have only used the EQX 900 with the Colitek 10x5 detecting two high EMI sites so have not fully explored this coil on non-EMI sites. Both of the stock EQX 900 Nox 11” & 6” coils detected both of the EMI sites and were stable at higher sensitivity settings. On the other hand, even with the sensitivity lowered to 15 the Coiltek did not completely settle down. My thoughts were the coil was hyper-sensitivity which could be a good thing on a different site. The Coiltek 10x5 was originally designed for the EQX 800 correct. After reading about the Algoforce E1500 ability to caliber different coils, I started to wonder if perhaps the Coiltek 10x5 is not fully calibered to the EQX 900. What do you think?

Anyone know why both these companies have stopped making several of the larger spiral wound coils almost at the same timeframe? Is there still not a demand for these coils. I was told they were short on the 6000 coils because of a parts shortage, but I am hoping that we can keep supporting the 5000 out there with the larger coils options. X-coils is still going strong though.

I probably need talking out of getting the 18" Mythtek coil.....considering I now use the M11 coil for my beach hunting and not the M15. My own beach tests show a very marginal depth advantage to the M15 over the M11. The weight penalty isn't too bad when using the M15 but a harness is needed for long beach sessions. I will sacrifice just about anything to get a depth advantage on our beaches. I know for certain that an extra couple of inches can often get past the soft deep sand and into the firm crushed shell layer where the gold rests. So I'm wondering what the Coiltek 18" is capable of. I should just shut up and buy one and then let everyone know of my results. It's $525 Aussie dollars....nearly 1kg in weight and will require a harness always. Coverage is secondary to me......can it punch comfortably deeper than the M15 on non mineralised beaches? If I was to take a well educated guess then it would be that the 18" may have a similar marginal depth advantage over the M15 (that the M15 has over the M11).....but I want to be wrong! Well we all believe advertising don't we.......so I snipped this from one of our bigger detector stores in Australia. It says there clear as day "Significantly outperforms the 15x12 Minelab coil with superior depth capabilities". But you guys are wise as always and I should just shut up and buy one........ 😬

Sat, Oct 19, 2024 – South Orange County, Southern California. Inaugural hunt with the Coiltek Mythtek 18 coil on the Manticore on a tall man’s lower rod by Steve’s Metal Detecting Rods. It has some weight to it and requires quite a bit of extra effort to keep it level and parallel to the sand. I hunted the wet slope, the towel line, the high and dry and the surf’s edge, seeing what I thought it could do or not do. Everything but the surf’s edge was a go. The huge coil acts like a sail in even the slightest wave action. Small irregularities in the sand also interfered with the swing and caused some noise as the coil bumped into the sand. Mode was Surf & Seawater, Audio was Enhanced and medium. Long Noise cancel and Sensitivity was my usual 30. (no EMI on this beach) This hunt was mainly just to see how it would react to my beach environment and my main interest was sensitivity and pinpointing. I have attached a picture of about a two hour meet and greet with coil vs beach. The coins were half from wet and half from towel line and up. I was digging everything that the coil hit on just to see what it was and how well it would pinpoint. The staples were not entirely a surprise as my M15 will hit on them too. The small goldish ring (that jumps to a magnet) was quite loud and measure about 8 inches down. The staples were at an unknown depth but even hard to find with my Carrot but the Mythtek kept saying that there was a target there. The two earring backs and the Stud earring (.925) were easy to hear and pinpoint. The Tiffany & Co 750 Heart bracelet was in the high and dry sand and turned out to be a Stainless Steel knockoff that will go in the baggie that contains my 8 counterfeit Cartier Love rings. LOL The laser etching was the first red flag and also, those bracelets are typically Yellow gold instead of White. My takeaways are: it is heavy, particularly when you have it extended out to take advantage of it’s ability to cover more area. You have to swing it slower in order to have good coil control. So you wind up losing some of the coverage advantage by taking longer to cover the same area. Still not sure if there is a depth advantage as I did not get the coil over anything that I would call deep. On a good note is that it is every bit as sensitive as the M coils from Minelab. It has it’s place for certain beach conditions but not sure it is for everyone and would probably recommend a sling or harness for any hunt over a couple of hours. Just my 2 cents, Joe

Hi Folks, Have you ever been out prospecting, noticed a quartz vein and run your detector over it with fingers crossed? I think we have all done it and generally move on as most of these veins or stringers are barren. Yesterday was a new adventure for Joe and I as we were getting into a new area that we had never detected. It was a small creek that had a history of containing gold with the surrounding hills being mined about 130 years ago. As we walked up the creek we found numerous rock bars and bedrock which contained beautiful and potential gold traps but they were all empty. Narrow veins of quartz crossed the creek at regular intervals and sections of the bank were quite mineralised giving us hope. There was evidence of human activity with the usual rusty steel and lead shot but the yellow stuff was not showing up. The plan was to move quickly upstream leap frogging each other until we found something that would pull us up. We wanted to reach an area close to a couple of hard rock mines that were situated on the hills above the gully. Each quartz vein we walked past was a magnet for the coil and a quick swipe with the detector confirmed what we always expected. After about an hour we hit a spot where a rock bar crossed the creek and there was the usual evidence of quartz stringing it’s way into each bank. I ran the 10x5 across one of these veins and was surprised to get a sweet signal. It was in a few inches of water and was surrounded by some really hard host rock. If it was to be gold, it would be a major effort to break up the quartz to release the target. As it was an exploration adventure, we decided to keep going and have a closer look on the way back. Here is a picture that I took which shows the narrow vein attached to the host rock. Unfortunately the light created an awful reflection that doesn’t clearly show what we were looking at. The vein is about 25mm wide and was visible for about 1m before disappearing into gravels. We continued upstream until we stopped for lunch. At this stage the rattle jars did not rattle and we were beginning to think that we may end up being skunked. After a break we continued on but at about 2:30 we decided to start heading back as it would take us an hour or so to get back to the ute. Joe finally got a signal that required a large rock to be moved as the target was under it. Being in water, it took a bit of work to retrieve but finally a nice little piece of gold popped out. The Coiltek 10x5 did a great job to pick up this target at good depth. Joe and I continued to work our way back until I finally had a hit and started digging out a small piece of gold. Joe at this point was about 20m further upstream and decided to stop so that his machine would not start sending my detector into a screaming fit. He detected up on the bank and also picked up a piece of gold. We decided that this area would need further investigation but not today. We had to keep moving. We finally made it back to the quartz vein and decided that we had to try to chip out the target. Joe started hacking away at the reef like a man possessed and after about 5 minutes we noticed that the target had moved. The small pieces of quartz that were chipped out started moving down stream over the host rock. It was acting a bit like a sluice with the light material washing away quickly. As the water cleared, a small piece of gold appeared. It should have been photographed at that point but when when gold is spotted, logic goes out the window. The gold was placed on the coil and photographed close to where it was removed. You can see the vein above the coil and some of the broken quartz on the right hand side. If you zoom in you may also see another piece of gold sitting on the bedrock. I didn’t know it was there at the time but the coil told the story a few minutes later. A small amount of gravel was then moved and Joe ran the 6000 over about 1m of the vein. Another two signals were detected indicating that more gold was present. And here’s the hard bit. We had to walk away as it was getting late and light was fading. Looks like another trip back to the creek is in order. We will take cold chisels, a hammer and crevice tools with us to make life a bit easier. Any thoughts or ideas as to how we approach this task would be appreciated as it’s going to be a difficult job recovering the gold. What do we do if there’s more gold deeper in the vein? This will obviously do our heads in but in a good way. Here is a pic of the gold we found yesterday. Not a lot but enough to create another interesting memory. I might try to video the next step as it’s a bit different to what we normally do. cheers Les

Coiltek coils are now available on Amazon direct from Coiltek. Amazon Link Amazon Australia Link This is looking to be the future of detecting, buying direct from manufacturers. Very helpful for people who don't have a nearby dealer or in countries with no dealer at all.

As I was doing some domestic chores this evening the thought rolled into my head: "What is the smallest coil that was made for the GPX 5000?" When I bought mine in 2010 it came with an 8" Commander coil that was a lot of fun to use. I've since been told that a fair number of them went bad. I think mine is bad now. So that leaves me with larger coils and I think the smallest 'nose' I have is on the Coiltek Platypus coil. That is not very small. What is a killer pointy coil or small coil for the 5000?

Looks like another great Coiltek coil is on its way.😱https://www.facebook.com/share/p/xBi9VKXuSEv8KU4Y/?mibextid=K35XfP

Most of you think I have all kinds of free time but the actuality of it is that my free time is very limited. Yes I sell detectors for a living and so keeping customers happy and income coming in is a must. As you seen the extra price of fuel makes for more of a challenge to get away and then trying to schedule the Field Training we offer along with testing of new and upcoming gear is challenging. To make things worse, we have had one of the wettest and most cool Springs in history here in Idaho and it seems about the time I plan for more testing a big storm rolls in. Anyway, I was able to put some time aside and run the new CoilTek GOLDHAWK (why do I keep wanting to call it GOLDENHAWK?) coil on my GPX-6000. I selected the 10" Ellip MONO as I knew the site had been pounded with a GPZ-7000 and a good year with the GPX-6000 and 11" MONO coil. I was not expecting much but either way, those are the sites that I want to test, the so called CLEANED OUT patches. It took all of a minute and 3 feet to find my 1st. The 10" Ellip MONO GOLDHAWK coil is lighter so I can hunt for longer periods of time. It's more compact and allows for hunting in tougher terrain and up against boulders and tree roots where nugget like to hide. It's greater sensitivity to smaller bits, certain specimens and or highly collectible wire gold. I won't go into detail of why a couple well known GPZ-7000 users missed this nugget and or how a veteran GPX-6000 user missed this nugget, but will say this. They missed it and I found it with the new compact 10" ELLIP MONO GOLDHAWK coil by CoilTek.

After watching Nenad’s newest video it made me think that we really need some stacked spiral coils like the 12x7” Exceed and the 10x5” Goldhawk for the Algoforce and the Legacy GPX-series to replace the Sadie and to also resolve the 12x8” Evo calibration issue. The 9” Elite seems to be doing well on the Algoforce but is still a pretty big coil for the tight areas we hunt for small gold. Maybe Nugget Finder and Coiltek can use the same coils footprint that the Exceed and Goldhawk use and wire it for the 5 pin coils, would’nt that be a great seller.

Has anyone got some hours in on the 18" Cointek coil on a salt water beach? Are you using it on the 800? 900? How has it been working for you? More depth than the 15"? Are you still getting tiny gold earrings and small link chains? What's the weight and noseheavyness like? Thanks.

So as we sit waiting impatiently for Minelab to bother to release the promised accessory coils for the Manticore it occurred to me that perhaps Coiltek already have the ball rolling in the background at least thinking about which coils they will make for it, assuming like the Nox and CTX Coiltek actually make coils for it. This means now might be the only opportunity we have to try and influence their decision as to which coils they provide.... So hopefully @Coiltek join the conversation and follow on with interest in our discussion. For me personally with Minelab releasing the 8x5.5" I'm not so sure I'd bother buying a 10x5" if they released that size, the 10x5" on the Nox series by Coiltek is a great coil, but with it being so similar in size to the standard offering for the Manticore and the standard coil being slightly smaller I'd personally buy the Minelab coil. I never bought the 14x9" as it seemed more designed for water hunters and was weighted for doing so and the 15" round although I would absolutely love to own that coil I thought it was possibly a bit heavy when compared to the 15x12" standard Minelab coil which I use the most on the Nox. On the CTX I love the 17x13" coil and use it a lot, rarely using the 11" coil so with the Manticore so far appearing to be a very deep machine too perhaps it would benefit from this size also, so in that case my decision would be the 17x13" For the Manticore, along with a 6.5x3.5" especially if it was a solid coil, perfect for prospecting and would be excellent for high trash coin and jewellery hunting too. I wouldn't buy a mid sized coil, the 11" stock does that job well enough. So feel free to do the poll, if I'm missing an obvious one let me know and I'll add it on, and please comment below about your choices and reasoning as I hope we can in some way influence which coils Coiltek make, or at least give them some information from a users perspective which coils we would prefer.

I don't often bother to enter competitions, and I recently entered a Coiltek one not because I was hoping or expecting to win, more so as I wanted to express my view on the Coiltek 10x5" GPX 6000 coil, I really like that coil and felt it deserved some praise and what better way to do it than by putting my view in their competition where many will read it. It's my first ever Coiltek competition entry, they hold regular competitions, I'm constantly seeing happy winners of their competitions. Either way, to my surprise I won and they sent me a nice Christmas gift package. This was from their newsletter. Detectorist Simon Muilwijk won a Coiltek merch pack for sharing this with us: “I've been very happy with the Coiltek 10x5" GPX 6000 coil, certainly the most sensitive coil available for the detector, runs nice and stable too,.” So, if anyone's thinking of entering one of their competitions, go for it, you may just win it. I didn't even hunt around for a gloat photo with a bigger bit of gold or anything to try and impress, I just put up my first gold find with it on the first day using it. And my gift package. Thanks @Coiltek, and most importantly, thanks for making the coils I want to use and having them available in a timely manner, keep it up! An even smaller coil for the 6000 in elliptical shape would be appreciated seeing the other one talked about may never exist, and replicating the Nox coils for the Manticore would be great, an even smaller elliptical for that would be perfect too, say a 6.5 x 3.5" solid coil for small gold sniping in creeks!

Good morning Folks,just bought a Coiltek 10''x5'' coil for the Nox,always have liked elliptical coils,so i have grabbed the opportunity and bought one,have never liked the stock coil and mainly have used the 6'' coil......my way of thinking the 10x5 coil will fit right in the middle between the stock coil and the 6'' one......mainly detect ploughed and rolled ground and also occasionally pasture albeit its not really the ideal coil for pasture,but it wont be long before its harvest time here in the UK so that could well be a good time to use this new coil. What are folks opinions on this Coiltek 10''x5'' coil i hope they are good and i have not wasted my money. Many thanks

https://www.facebook.com/Coiltek/ Available Nov. 29 for purchase. Looks like Coiltek is offering up a new 18" Coil for the Equinox Series & Xterra Pro. Looking forward to the reviews.

I'm looking for a quieter coil for my 6000. What is the difference between the 10"x5" ct and 9" round ct besides price and shape?

Today I got my Goldhawk 10x5 mono and gave it a thrash on my currently producing spot where my Xceed 12x7 has found me 64 bits for just over 8 grams in the last week or so. The spot has high EMI from powerlines which the 12x7 handled extremely well. The GPX6000 likes the Xceed 12x7 a lot, very quiet in these high EMI areas. As soon as I tried the Goldhawk 10x5, I noticed it couldn't handle the EMI anywhere near as well. Noisy to the point of just walking away, three frequency scans, dumb the detector down to manual 2 and it was still unbearable. This was a disappointment to say the least. I happily noticed the Earth-field Y axis noise wasn't present with the 10x5 as I'd demonstrated to myself a couple weeks ago with my friends coil. This is a huge bonus with this coil coz I can now basically 'harvest' all the old diggings and tailings for small gold that no-one else can hear. A couple others I know are doing just this with 20-30 bits per afternoon being an easy feat. A gram or two each day adds up quick. So, I gave up on the high EMI area and wandered an extra 30m away from the powerlines and began concentrating and adjusting the settings for noise and stability. This was an area I'd already flogged with the 6000 and the stock 11 mono. To my surprise, the end result was 45 bits of junk and 5 bits of gold for exactly 1 gram. Lead shot made up the lions share (38) of junk. I even found a broken bronze snake buckle at 10 inches! The extra sensitivity and depth on tiny targets makes this an outstanding coil. Very sharp and obvious signal quality, even on pinhead sized gold. I can recommend this coil to anyone who wants to harvest small gold on old diggings. There's a lot of it out there! I will certainly be using this coil a lot and keeping tabs.

Thought I would enter the Coiltek latest finds contest. Low & behold I won. I owe all of my writing abilities to Klunker. ? https://coiltek.com.au/why-you-should-never-let-a-friend-borrow-your-coil/

Hey Guys, It was brought to my attention that Coiltek is now direct selling against their own dealers in Australia. A customer asked if it effected the US market, but I told him I didn't even know they were doing such. Curious how it has affected the dealers in Australia, if any? I'm always curious when someone like Minelab will direct sale against their own dealers here in the US? I would think with all the hundreds of dealers/distributors here in the US that advertise on their own, have their own websites that drive sales, they wouldn't eliminate dealers/distributors, but could decide to just sell themselves. I hate to see this, but I guess business is business I always like the business structure of Manufactures and even their Distributors to not direct sell against their dealers, but for some products that is not the case here in the US either. Fingers crossed for all us dealers/distributors here in the good ole' USA. Rob

Update 1st off, I need to apologize for not showing his best pic, the one he sent me in Dec., my bad. It's the 2nd pic with all the nice picker nuggets. One of my customers is down southern US right now and has been using his Coiltek GoldHawk coils with much success. Here's a pic of gold he recovered on a hunt using the 10" Ellip. He says it's a great coil and better than the stock 11" but he wishes it was a little larger. I'll be updating with his picks of the GoldHawk 9" round and GoldHawk 14x9" as well soon. He needs a cover to protect his detector it looks like.

Can someone give me some information about this coil? I have seen a new one but I don't see much information about it on Youtube.

I would like to hear peoples opinions of the Coiltek 10"x 5" for the nox 800, for gold nugget hunting. I have the Minelab 6" and the stock 11", does it as I suspect sit between the two or is it just as sensitive on small gold as the 6" but gives the advantage of more coverage ? If so then does anyone think it may make the 6" and 11" redundant, or is the 11" better for depth. I apologize in advance for asking ' how long is a piece of string ' but I'm curious to hear from users how they rate it for small [less than 0.1 gram ] gold. Thanks.

I don't agree with the posts about the coiltek coil being better than the stock 11 inch. Last week i did a test comparing the two coils and found the coiltek no better than the 11 in finding small or any size nuggets. I went to a patch where i found 18 various size nuggets which i had gridded with the 11, North South and East West. The area i found the nuggets was approximately 80ftx60 ft. I gridded the same area with the Coiltex North South and East West and only found 3 small nuggets that were between two bushes and two rocks that were too narrow for the 11 to go in between. The whole rest of the area didn't produce any targets whatsoever which in my mind shows the Coiltek is not any better than the stock 11 in finding any size nuggets. I go along with that it works good in brushy areas or where you need a narrower coil to find nuggets in tight spots. If you think you're going to find nuggets in beat out patches the only way that is going to happen is if someone else didn't get their coil over them. Of course this is just my opinion after doing my test. Good Luck, Jim