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[Jack123]

i'm interested in buying a metal detector but am new to it all so am unsure of what i will need. i've seen a lot about the minelab x-terra detectors but don't know whether they will work for what i want to do. i want to do a bit of beach searching but also want to try my luck looking for gold in the goldfields of victoria. any advice would be much appreciated.
cheers jack

 

[UK Brian]

You should really ask on one of the Australian forums such as "Finders". For gold they will suggest one of the very expensive Minelab Pulse machines such as the SD or GPX because thats what you need as the mineralisation is so bad in many of the gold bearing areas.

For the beach a Minelab Sovereign will produce on both dry and wet sand.

Problem is detector prices are so high in Australia with import duties and this allows Minelab to sell their home produced machines at a much higher price than they otherwise might.

 

[Furious T]

Hi, a fellow named BT wrote many many articles about using the X Terra 70 in the Golden Triangle and he did find gold (mainly using the 18.75 kHz coils) but the gold was small and in most case , very close to the surface. He found small nuggets and small specimens. Many of his articles are in the Gold Gem and Treasure Magazine and one of the moderators put together a collection of his posts on the X Terra Forum. I cant remember his at any time suggesting that the X Terra was a replacement for the "proper" gold hunting machines which find all sized nuggets and specimens both shallow and deep. The X Terra is good on the beach, and it will find shallow gold in hot ground (e.g. Golden Triangle), so if that's all you want, then it would be an option. HH