New Minelab Pi Announcement Date 2020

[nugget hunter nz]

I wonder if any detector company's will look into GPR sonar for detecting making fast wave sonar tuned to bounce back off gold this would give massive depth improvements. Whether the tech or knowledge is there yet who knows.. They already use it to find large stashes etc 

[jasong]

51 minutes ago, WesD said:

I hear you Jason, I don't see just a repackaged 7000 being a big hit unless they have a price drop comparable with the Equinox. But that just doesn't seem like Minelab style for their big gun gold detector.

I agree, that's about the price that it'd have to be to get me to buy a repackaged 7000. But even then, I'm not sure I'd buy it personally...?

It'll be interesting to see just how much lighter the NF coils are (and how affordable). Because a repackaged GPZ might not have a ton of new customers if the new machine ended up the same weight as an old 7000+NF coil. Especially if the repackaged GPZ lacked coil selection and required a NF purchase on top anyways. The coil is the big weight problem, not the electronics housing. 

I do know a lot of people have sold their GPZ's due to the weight issue, so maybe there would be a lot re-buying?

But who am I kidding...  I want a dream machine and I'd personally take a salt-cancelling Boat Anchor 8000 with another 40% sensitivity boost and a stock 17x12 elliptical for $2500 any day over that! 

[Aureous]

5 hours ago, nugget hunter nz said:

I wonder if any detector company's will look into GPR sonar for detecting making fast wave sonar tuned to bounce back off gold this would give massive depth improvements. Whether the tech or knowledge is there yet who knows.. They already use it to find large stashes etc 

GPR for use on the goldfields and versions thereof were trialed, developed, altered, modified and re-trialed many times over the years and all failed to live up to expectations due to the mineralized ground conditions. 1st one I saw was back in the 90's. Various European and US companies attempted it.

[madtuna]

14 minutes ago, Aureous said:

GPR for use on the goldfields and versions thereof were trialed, developed, altered, modified and re-trialed many times over the years and all failed to live up to expectations due to the mineralized ground conditions. 1st one I saw was back in the 90's. Various European and US companies attempted it.

And numerous European and Chinese companies still flog them off at prices that make a GPZ look like pocket money.

They swear they are the ultimate for gold detecting and people with either more money than brains, or no money and a bank loan with unrealistic dreams still buy them.

I'm yet to hear of one actually work to detect nuggets.

[AussieMatt]

Minelab have a dual sensor detector with GPR

 

[Aureous]

yes thats a multi IQ machine with a narrow band GPR...Called the MDS10 nowadays. Still not for gold prospecting unfortunately....

[MannyScoot]

I saved everything to buy a GPX 4500 ....... I can't believe it took me a long time to be able to get one in the year 2020 ...... So if there is a new release Minelab PI I should have it by the year 2030 ....... which will make me ..... 65 years old ......

[Nevada Brian]

On 1/17/2020 at 3:22 AM, nugget hunter nz said:

So I was verified today by someone I cant name for obvious reasons that minelab will be anoucing a new pi in May at the ballerat dealers conference whay that pi is is a unknown it could be a new sdc a new gpx or new gpz that we have to wait and see but I'm excited either way and hoping I won't have to sell my house for it 

I’m not sure when the dealer conference is or if it already happened, but is there any new information on this topic?
Thanks,

Brian

[noob]

A PI with discrimination perhaps?