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I understand it from NF website and a dealer here in US it is for their entire product line. Any remaining stock in the US will be available for sale, but when it is gone there is no replenishment available. The main US distributor is working with NF Australia to resolve the issue . I sure hope this is only temporary and not permanent. Any dealers want to chime in on what is happening? EDIT: PLEASE KEEP IT ON TOPIC AND YOUR POLITICAL VIEWS TO YOURSELF! STEVE H. WILL REMOVE THIS TOPIC FASTER THAN KLUNKERS WHITTY REPLY TO YOUR NEXT POST. 🤣

Anyone have experience with the Detech 6" Mono and/or Coiltek 6" Goldstalker Mono? Opinions?

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?

Hi all About 2 weeks ago I bought the Z Search 17x13 coil and I really like it. Very stable, not bump sensitive, great ground coverage and good depth. What I`ve mainly been digging is bird shot that there is no end of. Today I was detecting a high rubbish area and I got that signal that I like to hear. A sort of wobbly indistinct signal thats hard to pinpoint. Nearly always when I get that kind of signal it`s either a rusty piece of steel or a nugget, so today was my first piece with the 17x13. The deepest target I`ve dug so far was down 14-18" in hard gravel. How does a bullet get down that far in hard gravel? Anyway here is a picture of my first piece and the bullet. The nugget is a tad over 0.5 gram. Have a good one. Rolls

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.

I decided it was time to give a brief report about the use of my Algoforce up in the California Sierra Nevada mountains now that I've had it a couple of weeks. First off, I agree with most users that this machine is very nice to use with all of its outstanding features such as being light-weight, capable of using a variety of coils, very low succeptibility to EMI, a fantastic, easy-to-view screen, and some unique functions such as the non-motion pinpoint mode with ID. While I've only used this unit for about 12 hours total, I felt right at home using it from the get-go since its easy to understand the settings and target responses for a seasoned nugget detectorist like me. My dad, who has experience using his ML GPX 5000, used it for a couple of hours and once I showed him the very basics, he was off and running. He noted how super quiet it ran and how it was easy to swing. I primarily ran the Algoforce in some old hydrauilic pits in the high sierras. I did manage to find 1 nugget during that time. In general, I find large hydro pits to be the PITS for detecting due to them being obvious spots for detectorists to search for the past several decades. Not to mention they still contain an abundance of trash, nails, flat metal and wire being chief among it. I brought along my Nugget Finder coils, including the 8x6 Sadie original, 12x8 Evolution and 14x9 Evo. All calibrated in Ultra Fine timing with no problems. I could use them all at 22 sensitivity or a bit higher in the case of the Sadie and all ran stable and ground balanced just fine. After a brief test swing of each coil, I planned to settle on using the Sadie coil since I figured I'd primarily concentrate on areas with exposed or shallow bedrock. However, while quickly using the 12x8 Evo, I scored the nugget of my first trip. It was a .34gram flat piece with some rough texture, found at about 3.5in deep under some loose decomposed bedrock and just under the hardpan beneath. Not a bad start at all. I figured that was a good omen snagging a nugget so soon. But, alas that was the last nugget for me. I sent my brother and his ML GPX6000 to the spot and let him mop up the fairly contained area of bedrock while I wandered and tested audio settings on the Algo. My brother did find 4 tiny nuggets in the area around my initial find. I had him run his 11in coil in Auto+2 to have the best shot at finding any others. Of course he found 3 nuggets in the .06gram range each while I was off elsewhere so I couldn't compare signals with his Minelab. But, I went back to that spot once I heard he was having some success. Shortly after I was back, he got a very faint, but repeatale signal about 15ft upslope of where I'd found my gold. Using the NF Saidie 8x6 in Ultrafine/Hot, sens 23, I could also hear the signal he located using the Algoforce. Soft and faint, but definitely just the type of signal nugget hunters look for. Luckily, before digging the target, I remembered to test the pinpoint feature and check for an ID#. I got the coil centered and saw a "00" ID# and told my brother it was likely to be a shotgun pellet since those almost always tend to read a low number like that, whereas gold will ID as 01 or higher. WOW, imagine my surprise when about 1.5in down my brother pulled out a tiny, round nugget about 1/2 the size of the lead pellets we'd found in the area. I later weighed it and it came up at .095grams, so quite small. The irony, my first time using pinpoint ID and a "00" reading was actually gold! It goes to show, dig it all on sweet-sounding signals is best if you want to find gold reliably. I did later pinpoint 2 other soft targets and true to the "00" ID# both were pellets. I imagine the next 97 times I get a "00" will also be pellets, but I have to dig them all and can't skip them now that the first one was gold, haha. I'd include a few pictures of the Algo in action, along with the gold my brother and I found, but my phone had "location services" active, so word might get out where my brother got his .27 grams of gold in 4 nuggets and I got my whopper .34gram one. Can't have that, haha!

Looks like a new option is going to be available very soon, this seems a solid date not like the maybe sometime one day in the possible future Nugget Finder often does like with the GPX 6000 coils and originally the Z-search. This is from Miners Den New Nugget Finder coil incoming! Nugget Finder have just announced an exciting new coil for users of the AlgoForce E1500, E1500 Plus and modified minelab legacy GPX machines! The 13" x 9" Evo2 is a spiral / flat wound mono coil developed with the AlgoForce and modded GPX machines in mind, to ensure you can get the most out of the extreme sensitivity of your chosen machine! Set for release on July 1st, the initial numbers will be quite small so jump in and pre-order yours today and skip the queue! Hopefully the build consistency problems of the Mk2 Sadie are resolved on these as they can be pretty random if they calibrate in ultra fine on the Algoforce, a majority do but the odd Sadie Mk2 just won't calibrate. With any luck every coil is tested on the Algoforce before shipping to ensure this problem doesn't continue. Hopefully more sizes become available too as at the moment this is the only EVO coil they make., I still really like my 14x9" EVO and I'd rarher a 12x8" than a 13x9", I'm sure being slightly bigger the 13x9" is quieter than the 12x8" EVO though, 12x8" is really pushing the size limits of a full spiral coil I believe. It's so good to see more legacy GPX coils hitting the market and NF have a long history of making great legacy GPX coils

I just ordered one of these new NF coils from Rob for my GPZ 7000 and can't find any US nugget hunter reviews or results from the field. The 17" x 13" coil weighs the same as the GPZ 14" DOD coil, so it should be very effective when used with a bungee. I know they have just arrived in the US and JP mentioned on FB he has used them with good results...been very quiet. I heard Lunk is using one in AZ now.? Anybody got any info??? Bill

I figured I'd contact Nugget Finder to see what's going on with the other GPX 6000 coils, I quite like my Xceed 12x7" so intend to buy the 8x6" also, I think it'd be a weapon on the 6000. So, to save anyone else wasting Rohan's time replying to endless emails about when the coils will be available, I thought I'd post it here. This was his reply. Hi Simon Releasing the 16x10 is our priority at this stage, I don’t expect to have the 8x6 ready for sale until sometime in 2024. I understand these delays may be frustrating and I appreciate your patience. Regards Rohan Perhaps that means the 16x10" may be released this year, but the little guy is a fair while off yet, a shame as spring/summer (now) is when I do most of my detecting so I'll miss out this season. I'll stick to my GPZ and 8" X-Coil for the most powerful small coil detector for now.

Rumours have been swirling around for weeks on social media about Nugget Finder discontinuing their current line of GPX coils and thinking of remaking some of them in a new design to better suit modern detectors like the Algoforce, and the rumours are larger sizes are all discontinued permanently. I'm hearing the Sadie is completely discontinued with a new small coil coming in the way of the 12x7" by using the GPX 6000 Xceed coil housing which I've seen a Youtube video of someone testing that particular coil on the GPX 5000, that way at least it can be a spiral or semi spiral and more sensitive than the Sadie, as the spirals leave it in the dust. I was quite disappointed by the Sadies performance on my Algoforce and it's by no means the detectors fault, it works brilliantly with better coils, I bought it specifically for that detector, a brand new coil at the time I bought the detector so pretty disappointed to hear it's now a discontinued model due to problems, the feedback is it didn't work well with the modern GPX compatible detectors like the Algoforce, the other detectors that had problems with the current Nugget Finder GPX coils were the modified GPX's from the likes of Detectormods. Sure the coils were intended for the GPX in it's original form and worked well with it but I guess the volume of sales now are more from Algoforce users and perhaps the modded detector crowd as the mods now seem to have matured to be a very good performance enhancing product. Further rumours are Detectormods have been working with NF on this matter. I thought it was just rumours swirling yet it became too real to be rumours when I saw it on the Nugget Finder website. A dealer from the Prospectors Patch released a Facebook video confirming this is taking place, so that's why I'm now posting it as I hate supporting rumours, this gives it some credibility seeing NF aren't very good with communication, although their website has been updated to say the coils are discontinued except for the 12x8" EVO and 12" round but others have said that's just until it runs out., although I'd highly recommend not buying one for the Algoforce, lots of reports of the 12x8" in particular not working well. Not sure about the 12" but people did say older serial numbers worked well but not newer ones (this was part of the rumours) I know many don't use Facebook so here's the Prospectors Patch video on Youtube. Looks like it's the end of an era for the NF GPX coils, hopefully they can get a few models up to scratch like the 12x7" new shell design and the 12" round working well for the Algoforce and re-release them sometime in the future. I've been using my 14x9" EVO on the Algoforce and had no problems, always loved that coil, works as expected but it's an older serial number one that I've had a few years from my GPX, it seems the problems were newer serial numbers, again rumour I can't verify the validity of that, it could be all of them. Have any NF dealers or anyone on here heard more about this to enlighten us? On a side note, all mention of any other Xceed coils for the 6000 have been removed from their website too, so it looks like the other two sizes are possibly never coming out, bit disappointed in that, I wanted the little one.

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.

The police seized more than 40 kg of gold from a criminal group in the Chelyabinsk region Members of an interregional criminal group were detained in the Chelyabinsk region, Russia. They were engaged in the illegal extraction of native gold in several regions. The detainees were found to have gold nuggets and homemade bars. Their total weight exceeded 41 kg. The gold is worth about 300 million rubles. And it was sold in Yekaterinburg. Criminal cases have been opened on the fact of illegal circulation of precious metals, the press service of the FSB of Russia in the Chelyabinsk region reports.

Seems like I am pretty well outfitted these days. There is just not much I need when it comes to metal detecting. But I did just decide to go ahead and spring for a 25" Nugget Finder round mono coil for my GPX 5000. One of my main coils for the last few years has been an 18" Nugget Finder mono that Jonathan Porter gave me when Chris Ralph and I were in Australia. It was a coil I borrowed early on and then used nearly the whole month I was in Australia. I liked the overall combination of ground coverage and large nugget depth, yet it surprised me with how small a nugget it could still detect. JP saw how much I liked the coil and was kind enough to let me take it back to the States with me. I actually owned an earlier four spoked white version of the 25" coil that I used at Moore Creek a few times. I ultimately decided the coil was more than I wanted to swing and it was too big to pack into a suitcase for air travel. I sold it and have not missed it much. I spend so much time in brushy terrain and steep terrain that I rarely am someplace such a coil would be practical. What you need is flat, open, deep ground with a possibility of large gold. It turns out there are some places like that I will be visiting this summer. I decided a larger coil would be a good idea but was still worried about going too big. I considered the 20" mono, but it just did not seem like a large enough difference compared to the 18" to be worth the money I would be spending. So I decided to go all the way and go for the 25" Nugget Finder Advantage. I did prove to my satisfaction at Moore Creek that this huge coil can pull up large gold others miss. We had a flattened tailing pile next to the cabin that produced so many nuggets it was called the "Honey Hole". After one week of it getting pounded by the visitors I went up and flagged several deep, weak targets and then I cheated. I went and got the backhoe and dug them up! A 25" coil should actually come with a backhoe. Three out of five targets were nice nuggets a weeks worth of people carefully hunting had missed. At over two pounds I will not use this coil a lot, but I will give it a good go in relatively flat, open ground that has been hunted already to the point of being dead of targets. One decent nugget will pay for the coil so that will be the goal this summer - to at least find a nugget that pays for the coil. But maybe, just maybe, it will find something really noteworthy. I will report back when and if that happens. The new Nugget Finder 25" Advantage is a three spoked gray coil. These silly things are going for $629 these days. A good chunk of that goes to get the coil from Australia to the US and then to the dealer. The shipping cost on these coils is horrendous; they do not weigh much (37 ounces) but they bulk out something fierce when put in a box. I have not actually purchased the coil yet so if somebody has a used one they want to part with let me know. Looks like I need to take a good picture of one of these to post later. Nearly every photo on the internet is actually a smaller coil billed as a 25" and the few that look like they are 25" coils are watermarked. Photo of my new coil added 4/20/14

Has anyone tried the new 25 DD coil?

So recently Ive noticed that my NF 12x7 exceed has changed its "hot" pin pointing section. Ive always pinpointed in the top left corner. And recently Ive noticed that Im past and above all my targets when doing so. So at first I thought it was my Avantees. And poor latency. So I tried the stock headphones and then the machine's speaker itself. Same thing. Im still hitting targets overall. I tested the edges of the coil with a nugget both in my hand and on the ground. And its definitely not as hot on the top left where it used to be. Hottest place on the coil now is about 8 oclock. Any ideas?

AlgoForce E-1500 8*6 MK2 Coil, is it available in the Australian market?

I just went out to one of my local parks and checked the sand only. It is not a park I dig the grass unless there has been some rain on it. That means I'll only find recent drops. I've been on these same sands with the 800 several times and I think the Manticore so that would be two months ago. I'm sure others hunt this same area also. I've found one ring there in the past. I was a little bit surprised by the finds with the Algo/12" Evo. The new Mild setting worked well with reduced sensitivity to maybe 10 or so because this like some of the other parks I go to has equipment buried under it. One area gives my 800 fits. I have to listen through the noise. I went early so the number of kids there would be low but there was a guy who had a 3.5 year old, a 2 year old and a 6 month old! What a family. Mine are 6 and 3.5 so he really has his hands full. The things you see in the picture were found in about an hour. (I gave a couple of dimes to the older boys.) The compass is obviously a recent pocket drop. I was both glad and surprised to get the nails and wire out of the sand because most kids are barefoot when playing in this area. There was also a volleyball court. I think the nails were still there because they were mostly in the area with high EMI. I didn't spend enough time on the IDs of the targets. It was finding them to a depth of 8 inches or so but I don't want to dig much deeper than that anyway.

i have just purchsed a gpx 6000 and want to buy a nugget finder 12 7 eceed coil for it no one in the uk keeps them and every where else i have tried in usa and aus will not post them to the uk does any body on here know who will post them to the uk

Any word on the Nuggetfinder coils getting in the hands of eagerly waiting customers?

I might be in the market for a 12" NF Z-Search coil and my research shows me 3 different versions. Why is this and what are the changes or upgrades? It seems the US is not getting the newest black version? Your thoughts across the pond is ideal for my eyes and knowledge. If my knowledge gathering is correct, the 1st version is white with red decal. Then and what I'm seeing in USA is this white with black decal, see below. Finally and the newest version is black with red decal. I know Nugget Finder is a very well known and long time respected company but seeing 3 different color configurations has me scratching my head. Please help me those who know.

Can somebody help a 84 year old guy with some feed back, a little confused. Most people seem to like the 12x7 on the 6000 better than the stock 11" for various reasons, but I understand the 12x7 is not hot out to the edge of the coil, so it would not be good in a rocky or brushy situation. Seems like a deal breaker it your area is primarily rocks or brush. Am I missing something here? Also is the 12x7 better in hotter ground better than the 11"? So am I thinking right please? Thanks for any feedback