Cibola owners, have you had any problems with mineralization?

[Macaco]

Hi All,

I've been reading that the Cibola may not work well in heavily mineralized soil since it's a fixed GB machine.

What's interesting to me is this link to 'Gary's Detecting', a UK detecting website, where they say that the Cibola handles "badly mineralised soil" very well. If you scroll down a little past half way on the page you'll see the kind of soil they're talking about:

Gary's Detecting Cibola test.

A lot of people are posting that the Vaquero is better for hot soil than the Cibola. I believe it's true that the manual GB Vaquero would be better in some extreme conditions but how bad does the soil have to be to prevent the Cibola from working well?

What I'm interested in knowing is if Cibola users have ever had a situation where their machine choked or didn't work well over hot ground.

Thanks.

 

[gregl01]

Nope, not yet. My area in the northeast has pretty mild ground, I suppose some areas may give it fits though. I agree if they use it with success in England thats a pretty good test for it.
Greg

 

[Macaco]

Could be the Cibola handles black sand OK but maybe has trouble with other mineral concentrations. Like salt or alkali or acidic compounds maybe?

 

[d-2]

If I get around a salt lick that someone has put out around their deer stand I will get small pops and crakles on it but as far as having problems in mineralized soil I havent had a bit of problem. I am crazy about my Cibola...d2

 

[Macaco]

I imagine any detector would get squirrely if it went over a salt lick.

The Cibola sounds like a great machine. I am pretty much decided on getting one.

What coils to you use with yours?

 

[RobRcer]

the wet sand, you get falses like crazy. There is quite a bit of black sand around here. It somewhat works if you turn the sens. down to like 1 or 2. lol I just use the Cibola for land or dry sand. The Excalibur is my main detector for wetsand, water and even some dry sand. JMHO

Robert

 

[Macaco]

I use a SovereignXS for the beach. I'm planning on getting a Cibola for land hunting only.

Are you encountering black sand on land or just at the beach?

Even my Excalibur and Sovereign choke on black sand if it's concentrated enough.

 

[RobRcer]

n/t

 

[saika]

I used one on some fairly hot sand last summer, wet and dry fresh water beach with lots of black sand. It worked very well, better than any other machine that I had used up to that point. The biggest thing that I feel I need to mention is that turning down the sens doesn't loose you that much depth at all. At sens 1 or 2 I was still easily hauling dimes out from 7" plus. This just goes back to the old addage that the sens button is the most misused feature of a metal detector.

 

[Macaco]

Thanks for posting the response.

The majority of land hunting I do is over very mild ground. On occasion I will be in areas in California that do have some black sand but not in heavy concentrations.