Minelab 6000 On Ground Hunted With 7000

[davsgold]

On 6/3/2023 at 4:45 PM, davsgold said:

we certainly have had x-coils in the vicinity and close to this spot, whether or not exactly over it I can't be sure, but there were some detector holes from last year in and around this spot, not sure if they were ours or not though,

cheers dave 

and another spot that I have been getting small gold from that was very close to or had been gone over somewhat last year with the Zed and the 17"cc x-coil.

So the last two days on this next patch had yielded 32 bits of gold so far and have another go at it today to see if there might be a few more.

[phrunt]

Well done Dave, onto a good thing there and getting plenty of bits.  Your experience buying a GPX 6000 should have been what everyone's was, you held off into a month or so ago and bought a new build one so you appear to have little to worry about with the quality of it and all the problems us early adopters faced.  I waited a year and that wasn't even enough 🙂

 

[davsgold]

5 hours ago, phrunt said:

Well done Dave, onto a good thing there and getting plenty of bits.  Your experience buying a GPX 6000 should have been what everyone's was, you held off into a month or so ago and bought a new build one so you appear to have little to worry about with the quality of it and all the problems us early adopters faced.  I waited a year and that wasn't even enough 🙂

 

thanks Simon, and yes I'm glad I waited to buy the 6000 it seems this one is going very well, very happy with it, and that same patch in the previous post that was up 32 bits of gold is now on 62 bits of gold after today when I got 30 more for the day, well it was a short day, just 4 hours as the wind was very bad, like up 60km/h gusts.

I put up with it for as long as I could and have another go tomorrow.

todays gold was 4.5 grams for 30 bits, and the 6000 now has 50.1 grams for just under 3 weeks of use

cheers dave

[afreakofnature]

This is similar success i have seen running the 6k over Zed covered ground.

[dig4gold]

5 hours ago, afreakofnature said:

This is similar success i have seen running the 6k over Zed covered ground.

Is that with X coils or the standard ML 14" on your GPZ?

D4G

 

[phrunt]

40 minutes ago, dig4gold said:

Is that with X coils or the standard ML 14" on your GPZ?

D4G

I think the only X-coils competitive with the 6000 on small gold sensitivity (how small they can detect) are the 8" and 15" Concentric, the 10" isn't too far off but I'd give it to the 6000 and the 12" spiral is possibly better especially when it comes to depth on the little bits.  Each detector has it's strong points and the 6000 will do better on some gold and one of the listed X-coils would do better on other gold.   The 6000's really set the bar for small gold performance with a non-VLF detector.

I personally think the 11" is the best small gold coil for the 6000 out of the coils I've tried so far having a slight edge on tiny gold over the Coiltek 10x5" with the 11" giving more depth.  The 10x5" has the size benefit when required though.

My picks for the 7000 would be the 8", 12" Spiral and 15" CC when it comes to small gold at depth and if I'm after depth in my soil at least I believe I'd likely do better with the 7000 but I'm lucky and can run it in normal.  In difficult who knows, maybe the 6000 wins.

Dave might be able to shed some insight seeing he's an 8" coil owner and in these difficult red WA soils.

[Nedkelly]

The 9" round coiltek goldhawk coil is my favourite for the 6000, super quiet,  excellent depth and sensitivity. I find I can run it with a lot more sensitivity than the 11" coil. I always run in difficult , after much testing there's not much difference between it and normal,  running way quieter and immune to most hot rocks. If I find I'm in an area with bad hot rocks I use the quick track button to ground balance on the hot rock, and that usually helps get rid of them .Next choice is the 12"x7"exceed for a bit more ground coverage.  Can't wait to try the 16"x10" exceed. 

[GR Guy]

20 minutes ago, Nedkelly said:

The 9" round coiltek goldhawk coil is my favourite for the 6000, super quiet,  excellent depth and sensitivity. 

Spot on - all the testing I’ve done has the 9”  Goldhawk as the best performed on both depth and sensitivity.

[Nedkelly]

Yep same, lots of people bypass the 9" round in favour of an elliptical coil , which I think is a big mistake. I know I'm missing the crumbs that the smaller ellipticals can get but the way I look at it is you gotta leave a few crumbs for the mice otherwise they go looking for the cake.🤣

[davsgold]

3 hours ago, phrunt said:

Dave might be able to shed some insight seeing he's an 8" coil owner and in these difficult red WA soils.

For the first 10 days of using the 6000 on like for like ground with the 7000 using the 8" x-coil there was very little difference in the amount of gold found between the two machines, the 6000 found 30.7 grams for that time and the 7000 found 29 grams for the same time, that was in WA out from Kalgoorlie.

this is the type of ground there, this ground has been gone over on previous years with the 7000 and various x-coils and the 6000 still got 30.7 grams for 10 days and this is the first time I have used it, brand new straight out of the box 

some bits were quite deep but still gave a signal ever so slight, and what I was doing some of the time here was using normal (straight lines) and if I got a signal then switch back to difficult (wriggly lines) and if an even slightest of alight signal I would dig and it would be gold, if no signal at all in difficult it would turn out to be a hot rock in normal

Veronica holding a bag of species from this area and our camp site

 

cheers dave