HerrUU Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 I've been looking at the Ground Suppression option we now have in version 1.10. If I read it correctly this helps stabilizing the detector on highly mineralized soil, right? Now my question is, how do I know I have highly mineralised soil? I hunt on arable farmland here in Belgium and this soil has been farmed for a long long time (oldest reference I found is 1750 but even then it was already farmed for centuries) and in the last 100 years a lot of fertilizer has been used. I wonder if this can result in mineralized soil? What is mineralized soil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrUU Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 Partially answering my own question, I found this great link on mineralization. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_ Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Check out page 14 of the v1.09 Legend manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrUU Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 I did but it's not a lot of information. Found several pieces of cokes this afternoon in the field and did some tests with the GS settings but it didn't do much. There's a lot of interference here, I wonder if cellphone coverage has anything to do with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digalicious Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 A good way to determine if the issue is interference, is to try the SF modes. If the noise decreases when in SF modes, the problem is interference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrUU Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 Thanks, it does actually so it's interference 🤔No wonder, we have some of the best 5G coverage of Europe here. Technology does have it's disadvanteges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSMITH Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 On 2/12/2023 at 3:13 AM, HerrUU said: I've been looking at the Ground Suppression option we now have in version 1.10. If I read it correctly this helps stabilizing the detector on highly mineralized soil, right? Now my question is, how do I know I have highly mineralised soil? I hunt on arable farmland here in Belgium and this soil has been farmed for a long long time (oldest reference I found is 1750 but even then it was already farmed for centuries) and in the last 100 years a lot of fertilizer has been used. I wonder if this can result in mineralized soil? What is mineralized soil? Switch on the Mineralization meter on your Legend that meter will tell you how mineralized your ground is, the mineralization meter was added in the 1.09 version, when the Mineral meter is active you will no longer have a ferro check, because when you activate the mineral meter in the Legend it changes the ferro check into a mineralization meter this is how you activate the mineral meter hit the ground balance button and then click the horseshoe button you will now see GI (Ground Indicator) on the Legend screen to change back to the ferro check do the same thing as when you activated the mineral meter only now you will see FC (Ferro Check) on the Legend screen the left side of the mineral meter is (Iron Particles) in the ground the right side of the mineral meter is (Salt Content) in the ground Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacialgold Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 16 hours ago, DSMITH said: Switch on the Mineralization meter on your Legend that meter will tell you how mineralized your ground is, the mineralization meter was added in the 1.09 version, when the Mineral meter is active you will no longer have a ferro check, because when you activate the mineral meter in the Legend it changes the ferro check into a mineralization meter this is how you activate the mineral meter hit the ground balance button and then click the horseshoe button you will now see GI (Ground Indicator) on the Legend screen to change back to the ferro check do the same thing as when you activated the mineral meter only now you will see FC (Ferro Check) on the Legend screen the left side of the mineral meter is (Iron Particles) in the ground the right side of the mineral meter is (Salt Content) in the ground Haven't tried this feature out in the wild, but it's what I'm wanting to use on the Legend for finding black sand deposits in the local creeks. High reading to the right = good place to dig/sample. Maybe flag readings across a 100 ft stretch of creek as a proxy indicator of where the gold deposits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSMITH Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 2 hours ago, glacialgold said: Haven't tried this feature out in the wild, but it's what I'm wanting to use on the Legend for finding black sand deposits in the local creeks. High reading to the right = good place to dig/sample. Maybe flag readings across a 100 ft stretch of creek as a proxy indicator of where the gold deposits. I actually use the Mineral meter for the same thing you suggested it also allows you to follow the black sand I.E Magnetite, as well as the salt content The meter reading to the right is for salt content the Left is for iron particle content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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