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Ace 250 as a gold nugget detector?

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ScottyD.C.O.

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Just curious if anyone has any experience using the 250 to snipe nuggets/ find black sands patches. If its not so good for that, is there an affordable prospecting detector out there? thanks for any experiences or input. Scott
 
G'day Scott.
The Ace 250 is not designed to find gold due to it having a fixed ground balance. I have seen a case where gold has been found with an Ace, however in the case in particular, the gold was picked up with a top end gold machine that couldn't properly locate the target; the Ace found it straight away.
If you are looking for an affordable gold hunting machine, then you will be looking at a VLF machine. It depends on what your budget is.
The Minelabs PI machines although very good at gold hunting, are cost prohibiting, however, the Garrett Infinium does very well and less than half the price.
Most detectors with an adjustable ground balance, will do OK for gold hunting, some will do it better than others though, and it will depend what you are looking for in a machine. I personally have no experience at gold hunting, but there are a couple of folks on this forum that do. They don't come on all the time, but if they do, hopefully they can give you some more input. You will need to give some more information though, so that we can help you with a greater degree of intelligence.
Mick Evans.
 
I experimented with the Ace in detecting gold. It is sensitive to small objects. I have some viles of gold flakes I collected panning in NC. I put a flake in one vile, two in the next, then three and then a nugget. I know it can pick up three flakes of gold at 2". If you put it over mineralized ground I wouldn't think the Ace could detect it. The Ace is a little negative on it's ground balance. The mineralized soil in W.Va. affects the Aces ability to detect smaller objects. Of course if it is a large piece of gold, the Ace would probably scream. Only if they would put a ground balance on the Ace.
 
I believe if a person is looking for gold flakes or nuggets then a detector built for that job is needed. Garrett builds a detector that is gold specific, the Scorpion. Looking at the controls and reading about it - it looks to me that it would do great as a coin machine also.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Surely if the Ace 250 can pick up a gold ring, I don't see why it couldnt pick up a gold nugget the size of a small coin.
But then I don't have any experience with nuggets.
What do the rest of you guys think?
 
I'm positive any detector will pick up a nugget the size of a coin. I think most nuggets are bb size or smaller in general. I just think if your hunting gold nuggets and flakes a designated detector will perform that job better. Just like in salt water or wet salt sand. That really takes a designated detector. But everything in between the 250 can handle.
 
Ian.
All detectors will pick up gold; the problem is though, what is in the ground with the gold. Where you find gold, you also find lots of other minerals in the ground. In other words, you need a detector that you can adjust the ground balance so that it is not picking up all the other minerals in the ground as well as the gold. There may be occasions where the ground balance will match the fixed settings on the Ace, but not normally. What will happen in most places, is that if you place the coil any where near the ground it will go berserk. There are some places in the world where this may not be such an issue like Alaska, but even there, it will still be an issue.
I hope this sheds some light for you.
Cheers.
Mick Evans.
 
Thank you all for your input, i live in oregon, and go to the highly mineralized patches (john day, canyon city, ect.) and pan & sluice for gold. Ive brought the old ace, and found that it reacts to everything, and that makes it hard to use there. Seems a gold detector would be better. BTW with sluice & pan just finding fines & flakes, but interested in a detector to use in the old dry creek & river beds, let me know what you think. thanks, Scott
 
The ace will find gold,most detectors will but if you are looking for the yella you need a dedicated machine,what i am trying to say is you need the best odds you can have for the task,I have used the ace to look for gold in austalian gold fields and had a lot of fun,mainly looking in and around old mineing camps where there is heaps of junk,plenty of old coins and relics but no gold,I thought i would be in with a chance being able to discriminate,a mate found a 3gm nugget at 4 inches with a gold detector and called me over,I ran the ace over it in all directions and couldnt hear it,pressd pinpoint and got ground noise from the mineralised soil and wasnt in with a chance,but if the ground wasnt so noisy it would have pinged it,Ive also use it in river beds where you can get good colour in a pan with some chunky specks to no avail,but you no what they say \you have to walk over it to find it/ :thumbup:
 
My thanks as well guys for the information.
Of course I should have realised about the ground balance.

Ian & Eileen
 
G'day Bazz.
It's good to see you posting again. I was kinda hoping that you Chris or Phil came in on this one.
I hope that your house didn't get singed by the fires a few months back. Man they were massive. I guess we've got to give full marks to the greenies for meddling in affairs that they don't comprehend though. I was talking to a local volunteer firefighter at work last week. We had a large fire here recently, which could have been put out within an hour, however, there was a greenie there that threatened to sue the drivers of the bull dozer's if they plowed a path wide enough for them to safely fight the fire. After a while ( a couple of days from memory) he said that it would be OK for the fire fighters to go in. The entire forest was destroyed as well as a number of farmers fields and a couple of sheds. It took them over 2 weeks and a very large sum of money to put it out.
Go Greens!:thumbdown:
Mick Evans.
 
Hi Mick,still in the land of the liveing,survived the fires and drought and back on track and can start getting out a bit more and have some fun,dont get me started on the greens,we should have open season on them,any way good to hear from you and i will start posting soon hope to catch up one day Barry.
 
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