mellifluous17 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Hello! I am somewhat new to metal detecting. I live around the Waco Texas area and Have a creek that runs behind my house that is a deep run off with caliche, quarts veins and lots of iron and pyrite. Have not found any gold yet. Any suggestions. I have a new gpz 7000 that still gives a lot of ground noise which may be due to all the iron????? That may be part of problems. Any suggestions would be helpful : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klunker Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Welcome! The 7000 can be as complicated as you want to make it but I like simple, being so myself. So here are some things to try that may get you to a good starting point. Turn the danged thing on. wait until you get a tone in your headphones or speaker. bypass the green quick start page. Most here will disagree with this but I can explain why later. set gold mode to fine gold set ground type to difficult. set noise cancel to auto and let it do it's thing. set sensitivity to about mid range 10 to 12. set volume to where you like it. set threshold pitch where you like it. set volume limit about half way. set audio smoothing to high. set ground balance to auto and swing the coil close to the ground (where there are no targets) while the auto ground balance is working. leave the ground balance in auto This should give you a pretty quiet detector with above average performance compared to other detectors. When you get a bit more familiar with the 7000, start tweaking things more to your liking (tones and volumes) and ground balance, ground type and sensitivity for better performance. A 7000 working poorly is still a very good detector but one set up well and in experienced hands can be fantastic. You should also see if you can find any mining history in your area. I do a lot of "prospecting" indoors. This forum is likely the best there is for getting excellent information about detectors and detecting. Best of luck to you in 2020. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Herschbach Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Good advice above. You may also want to try a version of Lunk's Smooth Settings, which like klunker's above rely on a version of the high audio smoothing being engaged. Lunk's Latest Smooth Settings Older Version of Lunk's Smooth Settings Welcome to the forum and Happy New year! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryC/Oregon Coast Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Welcome to the Forum! I especially like this quote "You should also see if you can find any mining history in your area", especially where your creek runs. GaryC/Oregon Coast 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Dawg Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I grew up about 25 miles south of where your at, same there, plenty of quartz, etc but not much gold. https://www.goldrushnuggets.com/goldintexas.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifluous17 Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 Thanks all great help!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacky Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Is the creek a known gold producer? If not you may want to start with panning in the creek to see if you can find small trace amounts of gold, pinhead sized flakes, flour gold, etc. If you can't find any small gold in the creek the chance of finding detector sized gold is slim to none. That's true where I'm at anyway. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Ben Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Or you could look for meteorites!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 9 hours ago, klunker said: set gold mode to fine gold ??? Sounds like a 5000 setting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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