GM2000 High Altitude Gold Specie

[Jeff McClendon]

Made it up to a high altitude site today. Temps were in the low 40s F with 20 mph winds. Not too much snow but the ground was wet and partially frozen. 

I was hunting tailings piles. There are hundreds of them at this big site. 

Goldmonster 2000 was fantastic. Gave clear indications of what the probable target was going to be whether iron/steel, magnetite, hot rocks or non ferrous. I was hunting in Difficult, A2 with Echo Wave audio ON. After a few minutes of digging a couple of hot rocks and a couple of square nails and a piece of rusted tin, I had their numbers and audio responses figured out and just investigated any target with no target ID or with a target ID below 13. So, I was doing selective target gold prospecting which actually worked today with the GM2000. Saved me a lot of time which I didn’t have much of because it’s a 5 hour drive round trip.

The 7.32 gram specie was 4” deep with a square nail in the same hole. The 5” coil was able to isolate both targets. The square nail was bouncing around in the 40s to 50s target ID with all iron in the ferrous chance bar and it had ferrous, threshold and really high tone audio. Specie was reading 07 to 08 and was mostly all non ferrous in the ferrous chance bar with the really high tone audio.

Goldmonster had zero issues ground balancing or running well on this hot, wet ground. A2 automatic sensitivity was 7 or 8 throughout the hunt using Difficult.

 

 

 

[mn90403]

That is a great result.  We just got back from a couple of days at a spot in Southern California which is a similar 5 hour round trip drive.  We got three little nuggets.  .016, .029, .069

[mn90403]

We dug too many tiny wires but will now trust the numbers and dig better targets like you did.

[mn90403]

What do you estimate the gold weight to be?

[Jeff McClendon]

4 to 5 grams.

9 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

What do you estimate the gold weight to be?

 

[Jeff McClendon]

I dig wire, small boot tacks, plenty of lead and brass fragments and it’s no big deal. They are all valid targets that will register as non ferrous. 

I read online complaints that iron/steel was having all three kinds of audio using Echo Wave. Well duh, rusted iron and steel will always do that using Multi IQ until the target is on the surface. Luckily there are other tools on GM2000 that can confirm a targets identity since we have consistent target IDs and the ferrous chance bar to give more tell tale information.

[Aureous]

2 hours ago, Jeff McClendon said:

Goldmonster had zero issues ground balancing or running well on this hot, wet ground. A2 automatic sensitivity was 7 or 8 throughout the hunt using Difficult.

Difficult in manual 8 is what I run 90% of the time, coz the threshold is at its most stable and smooth. Makes the faint signals more obvious...So even the A2 option can select the smoothest variable  as well lol. Damn nice specie Jeff! 

[cobill]

@Jeff McClendon great speci find for CO. Did the GM 2000 show both the ferrous and non-ferrous signals while sweeping, was it the audio that alerted you or when you removed the nail you re-swept the hole? Looking at buying a GM 2000(currently out of stock at ML) and reading posts.

[Jeff McClendon]

2 hours ago, cobill said:

@Jeff McClendon great speci find for CO. Did the GM 2000 show both the ferrous and non-ferrous signals while sweeping,

2 hours ago, cobill said:

was it the audio that alerted you

or when you removed the nail you re-swept the hole? Looking at buying a GM 2000(currently out of stock at ML) and reading posts.

"The 7.32 gram specie was 4” deep with a square nail in the same hole. The 5” coil was able to isolate both targets. The square nail was bouncing around in the 40s to 50s target ID with all iron in the ferrous chance bar and it had ferrous, threshold and really high tone audio. Specie was reading 07 to 08 and was mostly all non ferrous in the ferrous chance bar with the really high tone audio.

It was definitely the audio that alerted me. 

The square nail fragment was shallower than the specie and I could hear both target's audio response patterns very clearly and separately before I even did a boot scrape.

In an area like I was hunting in with snow, ice, difficult footing due to tailings piles, lots of elevation changes and me being almost 70 years old......., the last thing I am doing is constantly looking at a screen.

That is what I like so much about the Goldmonster 2000. I get a ton of information just from the audio responses. Even if I was just using the standard detection threshold tone audio and not Echo Wave Audio, the GM2000 responds with clear, repeatable tone pitch patterns similar to a pulse induction detector for ferrous, non ferrous and hot rock targets that I can depend on because they are being filtered through Multi AU technology. Overlay those threshold tone audio response patterns with Echo Wave Audio and it's a no brainer.

I have watched entire 20 to 30 minute YouTube videos by some very famous USA reviewers. Very few of them have even mentioned these tone pitch patterns even though they are clearly audible in their videos especially when recovering targets sweeping the GM2000 coil with a scoop. The same goes for many of the posters on this forum who have written pages of stuff about the GM2000 and never mentioned it. Bill Southern at "Nugget Shooter" and Adam at "I Brake For Bedrock" have mentioned these PI like audio responses as has Lunk on this forum. 

Maybe people just can't hear them or they are more focused on what is on the GM2000 screen or they are swinging the GM2000 so fast that those audio response patterns are obliterated. 

Some of those reviewers who have not mentioned the PI type audio patterns are finding plenty of gold with the GM2000 so hearing them is obviously not necessary for success.

I heard them in the first 5 minutes of using the GM2000 and have depended on them for the primary target recognition/discrimination ever since with the Gold Chance Indicator, target IDs and the extreme high tone of the Echo Wave Audio as supporting information.