First Few Hints From Dealers Appearing, Hinting At New Minelab Prospecting Detector

[Aureous]

Some chatter from various local and  international dealers are hinting at the imminent promo schedule of the promised 2nd Gold Prospecting detector from Minelab. I am suspecting its the long awaited GPZ7000 replacement. Alf Ianello (Codan CEO) promised its release before the end of this financial year and that time-frame only has 4 months to go. Given the release months in years gone by, I am betting on an April date, provided that all the tech and testing has been finalized. 'Leapfrog tech' level 2 bets are now open....

[phrunt]

Now's the time for Nokta to release theirs, they really have to beat ML to market on this one, they were aiming high, GPZ style performance although I'm sure they hinted at better performance so if they were to do that at a reasonable price it might take a lot of the wind out of the sails of any other release if people rush out and buy it especially seeing we've seen the design and it looks lighter.  

 

[kingswood]

My money is on a GPZ8000 with zvt but as light as the 6000. I may bite 🙂

[VicR]

Minelab have had their new product launch (GM2000) sales ( and profit margin!) sugar hit for this financial year - they will be looking to smooth out sales revenue into next financial year so I'm punting on sales starting to flow from July 2026 onward for any new gold machine. 

I think Kingswood is on the money - a lightweight GPZ with ZTV including new coil technology (to counter Z coils) and changes to audio.

[kingswood]

37 minutes ago, VicR said:

Minelab have had their new product launch (GM2000) sales ( and profit margin!) sugar hit for this financial year - they will be looking to smooth out sales revenue into next financial year so I'm punting on sales starting to flow from July 2026 onward for any new gold machine. 

I think Kingswood is on the money - a lightweight GPZ with ZTV including new coil technology (to counter Z coils) and changes to audio.

If its similar, I may not bite if its got a piddly small coil though....I have the 6000 for fly specks and the 7000 with the 19" for deeper stuff.

If minelab brought out an SD2000-A with one long deep pulse and updated components with good ground balancing and a bloody great big 24" mono...I would bite at that ha ha 🙂

[Aureous]

5 hours ago, phrunt said:

Now's the time for Nokta to release theirs

The European commentators are still suggesting 'Patent issues' are holding the release up...

[strick]

16 hours ago, Aureous said:

The European commentators are still suggesting 'Patent issues' are holding the release up...

Thats what I was thinking...they are waiting for the patents on the 7000 to expire? whats that another 4-5 years lol...then they can copy it and make it lighter etc...clearly Minelab is the big dog still when it comes to raw gold detectors...They just came out with the 2000...someone else could have done it if they were on the ball...We all are a product of our environment.. Minelab was birthed in a country full of raw gold  so they exceed in developing metal detectors that can find raw gold.

strick  

[Aureous]

6 minutes ago, strick said:

they are waiting for the patents on the 7000 to expire?

Nope. Because ML have (for the past several years) patented everything to a miniscule detail, the innovations and design of EVERY new detector by EVERY manufacturer has to be navigated like an orienteering exercise. Its a long standing focus of Minelab to delay and obscure every rival from bringing a 'good' detector to market before they can. The 'Patenting of everything' is their weapon. This is why they're always ahead and can charge whatever $$ they want. Also, their R&D dept is perhaps 5-10 years ahead of everyone else up until now....

[Aureous]

Something else that needs to be said, is that whatever detector this becomes, its NOT necessarily going to be called the GPZ8000. It might not even be ZVT pulse tech, but something else....although we should expect new patents being lodged if its new tech. Remember, Alf promised us 'Leapfrog' technology. So maybe its a new design, new naming concept as well. But, still more likely to be an evolution of ZVT methinks. As usual, we will see in due time....