Steve Herschbach Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Back in July we were speculating on a new Minelab trademark filing for Geo Sense PI. Looks like now we have an inkling what that was about and that it is related to the upcoming GPX 6000 model. Here are a couple tidbits gleaned from the full Codan 2020 Annual Report: JANUARY 2021 UPDATE - Minelab GPX 6000 Revealed! page 6: "Minelab will soon release an exciting new GPX® gold detector which will draw upon the best features of the GPX 5000™ and SDC 2300®." page 14: "Minelab will soon release a new GPX® detector which introduces an ease of use technology, GeoSense Pulse Induction, and will sit within the premium end of our gold detector product portfolio." Minelab GPX 6000 Data & Reviews Minelab GPX 6000 Accessories and Spare Parts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatup Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Very Interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 8 hours ago, phrunt said: It sounds increasingly like Geosense is a better form of automatic ground balance that perhaps automatically adjusts your sensitivity and settings to suit conditions if enabled. Nothing here folks. Everyone on this forum wants to tweak things and not rely upon 'automatic' settings. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasong Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Probably pinpointing assistance, target on-screen visualization, and better ground balancing. I posted these as a guess when this Geosense logo was first registered, but worth revisiting since it still adds up. See this patent for "ease of use" regarding what sounds like target pinpointing and spatial visualization, maybe even with multiple targets on screen simultaneously. And this other patent to see how this might incorporate ground balancing too. Going one further, check out the patent just granted a few weeks ago. So with depth analysis, we might get some kind of 3D target in-ground visualization coming eventually assuming this stuff isn't just for their military machines? The filing date was early enough it could maybe make it into a 6000? Depending how accurate it is, that sort of thing can lead to a sort of target discrimination in places where certain trash tends to be shallow and nuggets tend to be deeper, or if it can provide some basic target geometry information. And the whole thing also makes me wonder if they might be trying for target size/geometry visualization too, though accuracy would really make the difference between that being useful and just being a curious gadget function. Totally off in the weeds guessing here though so it's moot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mn90403 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 If you take it to a flogged patch ... what will you see? They must have seen something in testing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Catcher Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 I wonder how the 3D visualization, that they have for the military applications, would work on those tiny 0.05 g nuggets that you can barely even hear? Unless of course you hunt in Au and shoot for those monster nuggets that we always see here on the pics. 🙂 Perhaps the word "Geo" refers more to better ground sensing as Simon points out. But we shall see. I still think some sort of discrimination, like a supercharged version of the GM iron meter, would go a very long way and that you can use at your discretion. This would differentiate to the SDC and GPZ. Perhaps for this purpose the Geosense technology could be supportive. This would open up the use of a high end gold machine in super trashy ground, something right now only the GM can do with limited reach. In areas where tens of thousands of miners worked for decades a useful iron probability meter on a high end gold machine would surely come in handy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Catcher Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 And once they figure out how to discriminate lead from gold they can set the price for the machine to whatever dollar value they want and not worry about sales.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skookum Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 To follow their own marketing terminology, what would the experienced user say are the best features for the SDC and the GPX 5000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamid Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 I want to see something new from Minelab that release an unit for the experts. No “auto”any more. JANUARY 2021 UPDATE - Minelab GPX 6000 Revealed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieMatt Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Skookum said: To follow their own marketing terminology, what would the experienced user say are the best features for the SDC and the GPX 5000? SDC2300 - MPF (multi period fast) pulse induction, ease of set up/use GPX4500/5000 - large coil selection (DD, Mono, Concentric); multiple timings; multiple settings for ground balance & audio; ability to operate + set up manually for more experienced users or in presets/auto tracking for those wanting an easier set up + operation; manually adjustable rx gain/stabiliser; tuning manually adjustable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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