Our Experience With The GM1000

[Jen58]

Hi everyone

 

Well I did buy a goldmonster 1000  :D  Thankyou Luckystrikegold.com.au  for all your help 

Now i havent done much with it yet. 

 I don't seem to be able to detach my sdc2300 from myself 

Anyway

My brother Tony has given it a couple of goes..

One spot he cleaned up what gold he could with his gpx5000 and sdc2300

He managed to find two tiny pieces with the GM1000 there. one piece of gold with each coil..

 

He found the Discrimination worked well.. although this monster will ping the hot rocks.. this spot was full of 

Hot rocks! It would tune some out after swinging a few times over the hot rock, some hot rocks persisted!!

 

Tony found the more he used the GM1000 the more he liked it.. he said if the sensitivity is turned up too far

It made the GM1000 noisy. He also found that at times if you swung too fast the GM1000 couldnt keep up.

Was no problem though, just slow your swing speed down.  :D 

 

As he was using it.. he noticed that he could tell what would be junk or not.  Well almost  :lol:  those shotty pellets could even fool the GM1000 ..

 we think it depended on the shape and size of those darn shot pellets 

The rust at this other spot . we didn't put it in the thick of those tins and rust..

Bit of over kill

 

the discrimination worked really well.  Where there was the odd larger rusty can or flakes of rust

 

Can you see the Gold??

 

More playing with it too be done.. 

would I use it full time.. no ... as i still prefere my PI machines 

The GM1000 Is another tool for cleaning up where we know there is tiny shallow gold to be had..

Its lightweight, easy too use..

 

Part 2

Hi all

 

Well it was bloody freezing here yesterday.. the sun was nice, the darn wind cut through like it was coming straight off the south pole brrrrrr.. 

so we didn't detect lol

 

Today we did though

Took the goldmonster for a walk over near some of those tin cans and rust

 

Going through the old timers camp.. as you know over time thier tin cans travel far and wide

Tiny flakes of rust everywhere

Plus there was an blacksmith at this camp as well.. horse shoes and nails

 

I had first go with it

We didnt have it in discrimination mode.. using the 10x6 coil, on mild ground, granite sand, greenstone, quartz, and the odd laterite..  also just watched the gold side of the scale. The sensitivity set at 6

It liked a button.. pellets.. A bottle top.. an old bit of a light

When we swung it over the small bits of rust the scale went to the left.. so we knew it was junk..

We could see the rust as well  lol

All i could get was the pellets and rust.. oh and the button  

 

Then Mike had a turn 

Walking around through the old timers camp. Nope reckons thats junk. More junk.. more junk.. oh look a big piece of junk.. a bully beef tin  lol

Then he says.. have a different sound here...  the gm1000 reckons this may be gold

 

" i said it reckoned the pellets were gold as well  lol"

 

it was Gold alright this time.. he found his first piece of gold with the GM1000 today a point 2 of a gram

 

I didnt take a picture of all the junk we dug up..  it loves those shotty pellets!

 

So we have the old bit of a light, from a car i guess. Couple of bits of lead.. a button.. the bottle cap, and the gold sitting on top of it.

 

I reckon for the $$$$ its not a bad little VLF machine.. 

it loves shotty pellets, actually all non ferrous ojbects. Lol

I may find a gold sovereign one day! Cool..... I can only hope. 

 

[Steve Herschbach]

Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to type that all up Jen. I needed a little pick me up and you just provided it!

[Jen58]

Well another day with the GM1000
My brother came over this afternoon and asked if he could have another go with the GM

Sensitivity set at 6 ... all metal mode... 10x6 coil
Working in the trashy area near camp
He found his first bit of gold near our van

Near this 40 foot hole

We then left him to his detecting, and went back to a patch we are working.
we thought it's time to get back to camp, as we saw the sunset.. looks like another great day for tomorrow 

Once back at camp Tony showed us how he went with the GM
He said he was having a ball going through the trash..  oh my you need patience for that here.. lol
The gold is on part of an old pocket knife.. 0.53 grams

[ophirboy]

G,day Jen58 , just seeing those photos makes me want to head west and sit around the campfire at night and sip a nice port. My favoured way to use the discrimination feature in the Aussie soil is to use the detector in all metal mode and differentiate by sound alone in the first instance , and then when I get a promising signal I scoop it out off the hole and flatten it with my boot . I then switch to discrimination mode and scan the target that I know is only an inch or so under the coil . I can then be confident that the target is probable. probable "what" is then the next issue and as you point out that's more likely to be shotgun pellet or a brass eyelet or something just as annoying . However the PI detectors also love them too especially the sdc 2300 , The good thing is those tiny pellets are the best indicator that a detector operator has that he is doing everything right and a piece of gold is just waiting for his coil to pass over it . I just wish I was out in red dirt blue sky country with you. 

[Rege-PA]

1 hour ago, ophirboy said:

and then when I get a promising signal I scoop it out off the hole and flatten it with my boot

Great technique Ophirboy!

Reminds me of the opening scene in Fury Road where Mad Max stomps on the lizard and eats it LOL Must be an Aussie thing!

[ophirboy]

I don't know about eating lizards Rege but I had a goanna run up me one day and I had to pry his claws of my head. And I've seen a few feral boys out there but no looneys in grocopters like mad max 1 , what we are seeing is people using drones to scout locations in the bush more often and if the price of petrol or gas as you yanks say keeps going up we may start chasing tankers as well. As Steve has found out , The most  annoying Australian trait is the knocker who fails to appreciate anybody else's point of view and as we have a saying here "wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire"These people are there own worst enemy and miss out on a wealth of information that could turn them in to better prospectors and more importantly  better people,  as the Administrator would say "A Hex on them ".

[Jen58]

My like button don't work.  I reckon its my ipad

thanks all

OPhirboy ... we do it pretty much the same way. Flatten the dirt.. If anyone can find those annoying little shotty pellets, there's bound to be a little nuggy around somewhere, just a matter of swinging over one.

Red dirt and blue skies, its a beautiful country