Eqx 06 Coil Review For Gold Prospecting

[mn90403]

1 hour ago, DolanDave said:

Lunk,

  Thanks for the report, and congrats on the great gold with that 6" coil dude. I also got a 6" for my nox800, love the NOX compared to the CTX, which I used for years. It hits great on gold, and have found some nice old coins and artifacts in the desert with it also.

  Neat little trick I learned not to long ago, from the prospecting, park, and field modes,  if you are getting an iffy signal, like nickels, or even trash, place the machine in all metal mode and pump coil above target, a trashy target will usually dip into the negative, as your gold and nickels will usually stay in the 1 and above.

Dave

 

Dave,

I like this 'trick' but I have to tell you I have a couple of poker chips with pieces of gold on them.  One of them shows 6-7 on the Nox with the 6" and 11" coil.  When I pump on them they will go negative!  I was sold these test chips years ago at a GPAA show in Vegas.

I have found a specimen with the 11" that does not waver from 1.  I was hoping to find more 1s out in Barstow over the weekend but nada.

Mitchel 

[DolanDave]

32 minutes ago, mn90403 said:

Dave,

I like this 'trick' but I have to tell you I have a couple of poker chips with pieces of gold on them.  One of them shows 6-7 on the Nox with the 6" and 11" coil.  When I pump on them they will go negative!  I was sold these test chips years ago at a GPAA show in Vegas.

I have found a specimen with the 11" that does not waver from 1.  I was hoping to find more 1s out in Barstow over the weekend but nada.

Mitchel 

Those darn Vegas Chips ... ? , are you going on that private tour with Jim Straight near Randsburg? Bet you could find some nice little pieces there ?

[mn90403]

Dave,

Jim and his friend have a plan to show a few people what caused gold to be in the Randsburg area.  It is a geology field trip of sorts, kinda like Ray Mills does in Redding.  (I hope Ray is ok.  I haven't heard from him after the fire.  I left a message.)  You don't take a detector or a dry washer with you.

I'm hoping I'll be one of the lucky ones that is invited but many more requests have been made than time they have available to them.

Mitchel

[Lunk]

4 hours ago, mn90403 said:

 

I'd like to know more about your settings before I try to 'detail' my experiences.

 

Mitchel, I haven’t strayed too far from the stock settings of Gold 1. I hunt in the all-metal “horseshoe “ mode unless the hot rocks get too plentiful, in which case I changed the discrimination pattern to reject only -7, -8 and -9, while accepting everything else. I’ve also set both Iron Bias and Threshold Level to zero.

Hopefully you’ll break your dry spell soon.

[DolanDave]

22 hours ago, mn90403 said:

Dave,

Jim and his friend have a plan to show a few people what caused gold to be in the Randsburg area.  It is a geology field trip of sorts, kinda like Ray Mills does in Redding.  (I hope Ray is ok.  I haven't heard from him after the fire.  I left a message.)  You don't take a detector or a dry washer with you.

I'm hoping I'll be one of the lucky ones that is invited but many more requests have been made than time they have available to them.

Mitchel

Jim knows exactly where the Mojave Nugget was found out there.... hope he gives the pointy finger to someone ?

[Lunk]

21 hours ago, kiwijw said:

Hi there Lunk, Did you try Gold 2 mode at all? I haven't, but will next time out with it. Cheers

Good luck out there. Or should that be, Good Lunk out there. 

JW   

JW, I do have Gold 2 on my user button with, the same settings as Gold 1, so that I can toggle back and forth for comparisons on targets. Perhaps it’s just the ground I’m hunting in, but I haven’t noticed much difference between the two modes so far.

[geof_junk]

Now that is the type of answer I like to see, well set out and all the details. 

Well done phrunt

[Lunk]

Yes, good point Simon; no wonder I wasn’t noticing a difference between the two.?

[Lunk]

On 8/21/2018 at 9:47 PM, phrunt said:

The only difference between Gold 1 and Gold 2 is the recovery speed, everything else is exactly the same.  

My understanding is the lower recovery speed may give more depth but sweep speed would need to be slower too.  I'm going to try it out next time I'm gold hunting.

If you've made them the same settings Lunk, they'll be the same mode if you changed the recovery speed of Gold 2 to match Gold 1.

Currently being discussed here

 

Was just looking at the same page in my users manual, and it shows all settings - even the recovery speed - are exactly the same between Gold 1 & Gold 2; perhaps it’s been updated since I downloaded it?