Had an opportunity today to take the pro to gold country here in Aussie. Our guide had lived at the site for 26 years in the back of beyond, and had been averaging about an ounce of gold a day (or so he tells us) between excavating the river, and tunneling.Then married life got to him and now he just goes to his site when he can.Anyway, to the AT PRO. This was a good opportunity to try it out under these conditions.It ground balanced at 93-95 ,ran it on 5 sensitivity and it purred. It ran clean without much by way of falsing. Have no doubt it could have run a higher sensitivity. Got a couple of real strong signals, only to realize it was picking up my steel caps. had to have a chuckle to myself, these things arent idiot proof..... Got cut short on using the detector because it was time to go into the mineshaft. So yea, I was impressed at how it handled the conditions.And no.. I didnt find any gold
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AT Pro to gold mining area
- Thread starter vanner
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Thank you Vanner for the report in high mineralization country.
That is a very valuable report to us here in the States because the machine is so new and there is frost on the pumpkin.
Not knowing if we have many or any sites with the same GB, it is good to know the black box from Garrett can handle extremes of mineralization where others have failed.
When you say caps and you referring to what we call steel toes in boots?
Good on ya!
SJ
That is a very valuable report to us here in the States because the machine is so new and there is frost on the pumpkin.
Not knowing if we have many or any sites with the same GB, it is good to know the black box from Garrett can handle extremes of mineralization where others have failed.
When you say caps and you referring to what we call steel toes in boots?
Good on ya!
SJ
Uncle Willy
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That reminds me - I'll have to get my test nuggets out and see how it responds to different sizes and shapes. Should be a decent gold sniffer.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah a lot of beepers forget about those steel toes as their tector is driving them nuts. HA.
Bill
Bill
Uncle Willy
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Yeah me too. Even the metal eyelets will set one off.
Bill
Bill
I had better add that I was detecting in the rocky river bed which is where he had been excavating.Had been my main intention to also try it out in the mine shaft, but when we met him his first question was.... "did you bring torches"" (there was 3 of us). Guess what, none of us thought to bring a torch. So our trip through the mine was a bit tricky , with only him at the front having one. So I did carry my detector through the mine but had other things on my mind.After a turn off or two here and there, we got to the end the shaft. At this point he spots something and says "" oh thats not good....thats not safe"' ....so the thought of starting up the detector vanished.