Axiom Gold

[Steve Herschbach]

My part in all this is basically done now, because of the weather, if nothing else. I've put well over 200 hours on the Axiom in the last year, in Nevada, California, Alaska, and Australia. Garrett has implemented a lot of my suggestions, so working with them has been a pleasure in that regard. I think it is a better product for the effort. Gerry has me for total weight, but I've no doubt found more gold nuggets than anyone with the Axiom so far, with a couple ounces of mostly small stuff in my vial now. Now comes the sit back and see part for me, as I am truly as curious to see how the Axiom is received by the general public. In large part though, it is Africa that matters a lot more than the U.S. or even Australia. Results there will be far more opaque to most of us, but it is there that the real success of the Axiom will be gauged by Garrett.

2.57 ounces of gold I found with Axiom in last year. 20.33 grams Nevada and California in upper left, 13.15 grams Australia in upper right, and 36.61 grams Alaska along bottom. The nugget in upper left a gorgeous California 1/4 oz specimen. Smallest nuggets around 0.02 grams.

The largest nugget I found was a 10 grammer up at Nome, Alaska. I ended up leaving it with the miners, so it is not pictured with the total, but as found below. The dark coating is manganese oxide, and could be removed with acid. I encouraged the miners to leave it as is as it’s different. I dubbed it “The Black Pearl.” 

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Gold found by Steve with Garrett Axiom

Better picture of that 1/4 oz California nugget

And my largest with the Axiom so far, the 10 gram "Black Pearl" from my trip to Alaska. This is the nugget to beat in 2023. 

Edited just now by Steve Herschbach

[beatup]

Well Done and good on you Steve , Thanks for sharing .

[Matt4gold]

That's quite a mix in that haul you have there Steve.  Good to see the Axiom is hitting on all sizes of nuggets.  Thanks for sharing.  

[phrunt]

The sweet smell of competition, love it.

That's a very nice assortment of nuggets of all shapes of sizes, not only that hearing of people finding their first nuggets with it within a short time frame of use means it's clearly not difficult to use or understand which should be a big bonus for the African market that appears to like simple to use machines that just work with little understanding of why or how, a true tool for the job at hand.  Simplicity without over doing it.

[davsgold]

very nice gold there Steve, well done, and well done Axiom as well

cheers dave

[abenson]

Nice job Steve. I'm glad Garrett had an open mind to your suggestions and then implemented them. Rare these days for a company to actually listen to it's customers. Looking forward to getting ahold of one in the Spring as the weather now is to the point that I won't be able to use one until then.

[Aureous]

Sad to say, but the Australian market will not reflect the actual quality and performance of the Axiom. The US$-AU$ exchange rate will simply kill it. With Minelab's strangle-hold on the market here, the cost for those wanting 'a change' against the current ML range will be prohibitive. Perhaps Africa will be the same.... Great design and it deserves to be popular. Its just that  the rest of the world wont be able to afford it.

[Kostas 13]

although I don't deal with gold nuggets, thank you very much for the very nice information you provide us. Hopefully in the future the post will be able to work with a variety of different diameter coils.

[Steve Herschbach]

59 minutes ago, Aureous said:

Sad to say, but the Australian market will not reflect the actual quality and performance of the Axiom. The US$-AU$ exchange rate will simply kill it. With Minelab's strangle-hold on the market here, the cost for those wanting 'a change' against the current ML range will be prohibitive. Perhaps Africa will be the same.... Great design and it deserves to be popular. Its just that  the rest of the world wont be able to afford it.

I thought so also until I was at the rally in Oz. The Axiom does cost less than the 6000 there, and I talked to plenty of people who were going to buy one. It may not make a dent in Minelab there per se, but they will definitely make some sales.

[phrunt]

Yep, looking like about $7385 AUD now, so just under the going sort of $7999 price of the 6000.

Perhaps if the USD falls back down to earth at some point they'll be able to reduce the price a bit more to be more in line with the price differences seen in the US between the Axiom and GPX although I don't expect the price difference to ever be that good where the Axiom is significantly cheaper than the 6000.

Another way to look at it is the USA customers pay significantly higher pricing for the GPX at about $9200 AUD.