Can The GM2000 Replace The 6000? - A Vid By Stormy

[PeterInSa]

 

To me an Interesting Vid.

Am interested in a 2000 as I think it will compliment my 6, however am wary that ML will soon introduce a Blue tooth/headphone set up similar to my Nox 800, along with the larger coil, after I have purchased my unit ( at the same price? simliar to the Algoforce and the Algrforce Pro),  as I think in Australia the GM2000 has not been warmly accepted and sales are most likely not meeting target. ( Maybe because its Summer, the off season)

 

[Desert Dawg]

I really like the new GM2000, Its like a GB2 on steroids, however I wouldn't give up my pi since its got way more depth for different areas. I think a guy needs both machines to cover areas well. 

[Aureous]

It wont replace the 6000 but it will benefit from the 10x6 coil being released. Right now, its a cleanup detector, not a prospecting detector like the 6000. But it finds gold that the 6000 cannot hear and its paying dividends for every user that I know. I use nothing else coz it makes me $100-$200 every afternoon I take it out. My local dealer tells me that he has sold 'hundreds' of them so if that equates to a sales failure, then ML must have ridiculously high sales targets 

[Jeff McClendon]

I have used my GM2000 only 5 times since I got it. On three gold prospecting hunts I came home with gold each time totaling almost 8 grams. I have used it twice for micro jewelry hunting and came home with micro gold jewelry once.

Micro jewelry hunting, I am getting 7" to 8" of depth even with accurate target information in mineralized dirt on gram to 7 gram sized coin targets using the 5" DD coil. I can't imagine that the larger 10X6" coil is going to go much deeper. All of the places I hunt for gold with the GM2000 don't have bedrock/false bedrock at 8" deep, so I will still need a good PI like the GPX 6000 to reach larger, deeper targets.

For the small stuff that is sub gram and less than 5" deep, at least for me, I won't be using a PI for those kinds of targets anymore especially when the GM2000 10X6" coil is available for better coverage.

I dumped my GPX6000 years ago. It just wasn't made for where I hunt. Axiom handles the ground and the EMI here much better. Not knocking the 6000 one bit since I really liked it and I wish it worked well here. Same for the SDC2300.

I really hoped that Minelab or somebody would make a smaller DD coil for the 6000 to handle higher levels of magnetite and the EMI here.

Instead they made the GM2000 with two DD coils and I couldn't be happier. The GM2000 is just what I have been waiting for and a whole lot more.

 

[PeterInSa]

Jeff, I notice that you have a Manticore, I have watched a friend use one on a oval, digging up coins with its very informative screen information an know that it can identify very small gold as well, for someone who does not own a 2000 or a Manticore, the purchase of one or the other ( have used a Nox 800 for trashie areas in the goldfields) its only recently that I have looked seriously at the 2000.

Appreciate your comments on the 2000 Vs Manticore in the goldfields.

[Jeff McClendon]

I can't speak for the goldfields where you are.

Here in Colorado, the Manticore sensitivity has to be turned down so it won't go off on every small speck of magnetite. GM2000 is very quiet on those bits of magnetite and can give me a lot more clear information about hot rocks also. 

Personally, I prefer the PI type audio responses on the GM2000 versus the default prospecting mode VLF type VCO responses on the Manticore. At least the Manticore's audio theme and number of tones can be changed if someone doesn't like VCO audio. Manticore also has the 2D screen. Most of the small gold I find here gets squished into the top left corner of the 2D screen and shows up as iron/ground noise so it is often hard to see those target plots. Only larger gold shows up clearly as a non ferrous target. GM2000 won't register the same small gold with any screen information. It just gives audio responses only but if the audio response is high-low/high-low I am investigating that target with at least a boot scrape. Manticore doesn't give that kind of audio information on near edge of detection targets.  

For coin and jewelry hunting the Manticore is unbelievably good and the only VLF that I would rather use over the Manticore for gold prospecting is the GM2000.

[phrunt]

I would never consider the GM2000 to be a replacement for the 6000, not even remotely close, different machines entirely with different skill sets, as much as marketing has used the letters PI in association with the GM, it's not a PI.

I can see where the two might be compared through, the 6000 is the closest PI to VLF performance on small gold.  The GM is the closest VLF to handling the reasonably bad ground the 6000 can handle.

 

[Norvic]

The GM2000 complements the 6K but it will not surprise me at all if ML develops it further and a future GM does indeed challenge the 6K/Pis. Both are serious productive gold magnets in the right hands.