GM2K - Gold The Others Miss?

[dig4gold]

21 hours ago, Norvic said:

I`ve been a wee busy using the GM2000 positively

Hi Norvic, So what can you share & show us from your experience using the GM 2k positively? Thanks in advance.

D4G

[Norvic]

D4G. The GM2000`s difficult ground handling capabilities for a VLF is amazing, back to the future for those of us who cut our teeth on VLFs.

 

[Aureous]

9 hours ago, Norvic said:

D4G. The GM2000`s difficult ground handling capabilities for a VLF is amazing, back to the future for those of us who cut our teeth on VLFs.

 

Yeah 'back to the future' for us old blokes. Like JP said 'its fun' 😄 

[Jonathan Porter]

On 10/31/2025 at 12:58 PM, Aureous said:

Yeah 'back to the future' for us old blokes. Like JP said 'its fun' 😄 

I’m loath to say I told you all, but hey I did tell you. 😊 

[Norvic]

3 hours ago, RONS DETECTORS MINELAB said:

but I can only guess there onto some really interesting and exciting advancements.

 

I have got 3 screaming larger 0.5gram shallow nuggets that to my thinking should have not been left by the Pi`s or ZVT before. Makes me wonder what the GM2Ks ground handling ability applied to the Pi`s and ZVT will achieve, sort of reverse to MLs initial claim of Pi like ground handling for a VLF. It may be simply a coil size "aberration". Are you folks getting such occasional shake head nuggets? 

[RONS DETECTORS MINELAB]

21 minutes ago, Norvic said:

Are you folks getting such occasional shake head nuggets? 

Yea, same things happened here, mostly in the ground that makes the 6000 moan do to hot pockets which I believe is masking the gold nuggets. The GM2000 handles these areas very well.

[EL NINO77]

7 hours ago, Norvic said:

I have got 3 screaming larger 0.5gram shallow nuggets that to my thinking should have not been left by the Pi`s or ZVT before. Makes me wonder what the GM2Ks ground handling ability applied to the Pi`s and ZVT will achieve, sort of reverse to MLs initial claim of Pi like ground handling for a VLF. It may be simply a coil size "aberration". Are you folks getting such occasional shake head nuggets? 

Norvic.. maybe the 3 found ..0.5 gram pieces of gold .. are exceptionally low in their time constant..even for their size../extra very low conductors -very low VDI target size/ ..or were masked by terrain mineralization, hot rocks.. and the like..
Extra very low conductors can be very poorly distinguishable for PI... and for VLF detectors the working frequency used is decisive.. and the difference between 45 kHz and 75 kHz can be decisive...

according to everyone, Gold Monster 2K can handle these pieces of gold..

In both cases, you would have to simulate similar terrain conditions where they were found and test other detectors..with which you detect..

It is not unlike detecting jewelry and very small coins in mineralization..

[Norvic]

1 hour ago, EL NINO77 said:

..or were masked by terrain mineralization, hot rocks.. and the like..

It probably is simply masked by terrain mineralization as it has occurred where the mineralization is very difficult and thus the GM2K separated the signals due more to coil size. I do know in that same ground the 6000 showed this same feature over the GPZ and to a lesser extent the Axiom and the E1500 over the 6000 that`s probably more so due to the different timings of the Pis. 

My initial thinking It could be related to the GM2Ks difficult ground handling ability being a step up from the Pi`s may be flawed, no doubt if its not ML will apply such to future PI`s if it can. The GM2Ks difficult ground handling ability is a big breakthrough for VLFs it seems to be more so the more difficult the ground is.

[Jeff McClendon]

So for me, the elephant in the room is GM2k versus Manticore both for ground handling and for hitting sub 0.1 to 0.01 gram gold which is mostly all that is left in many of the places I hunt.

My issue is hunting in moderate to high levels of USA magnetite from microscopic to golf ball sized.  Manticore settings and manual ground balancing can be adjusted to handle the microscopic to shotgun pellet sized magnetite. Anything larger can be dealt with using a boot scrape or magnet.

The preset timings on the GPX 6000 did not handle the same magnetite well at all unless I switched to the 14" DD coil but that made hitting smaller gold even harder.

So, can I trust that Minelab made the timings on the GM2k to work a lot better on moderate to high levels of USA magnetite than their timings for the GPX 6000 or do I have to gamble $2000 US in order to find out?