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Detecting Micro Nuggets with the Gold Bug 2
- Thread starter steve herschbach
- Start date
I now see the NEW Gold Bug is out. BUT unfortunatly it has 20 kHz with only a Manual-GB and Grab GB which is not good.
Also lightweight, thin, and compact with a 0-99 TID screen which is good.
No Auto-GB like the Gold Strike had.
I would rather buy a Minelab X-Terra 705(with 10x5" DD) instead in that case. The NEW Gold Bug is a bit of a dissapointment in my opinion.
Along with the Manual-GB it should have had an extra Auto-GB mode and also for finding micron gold a higher kHz at about 45 kHz or so, or maybe a dual or triple frequency like the Whites Spectra V3 or Eureka Gold.
Also lightweight, thin, and compact with a 0-99 TID screen which is good.
No Auto-GB like the Gold Strike had.
I would rather buy a Minelab X-Terra 705(with 10x5" DD) instead in that case. The NEW Gold Bug is a bit of a dissapointment in my opinion.
Along with the Manual-GB it should have had an extra Auto-GB mode and also for finding micron gold a higher kHz at about 45 kHz or so, or maybe a dual or triple frequency like the Whites Spectra V3 or Eureka Gold.
steve herschbach
New member
Hi David,
I think you missed the point - which is to offer good nugget performance under $500. Yeah the X-Terra 705 has more features, but it costs more. And its highest frequency (with optional coil) is less than this new Gold Bug.
I prefer manual ground balance myself.
Steve Herschbach
I think you missed the point - which is to offer good nugget performance under $500. Yeah the X-Terra 705 has more features, but it costs more. And its highest frequency (with optional coil) is less than this new Gold Bug.
I prefer manual ground balance myself.
Steve Herschbach
Steve in Idaho
New member
The gold bug II will find smaller pieces of gold with the small 6" coil than the Xterra will with there smaill coil. Just keep the GB II ground balanced correctly.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
Hi David.
The Ground Grab ground balancing feature is a automatic ground balance. Instead of calling it "Auto GB", they have chosen to call it Ground Grab. Works like any other auto ground balance function on the market today where you hold a button and pump the coil and the detector sets itself. Much better user interface than all the others though, because you can see the ground reference number and your detectors reference number and you can see when they match. Typical New Fisher ground balance interface that makes ground canceling a non-event. In the all metal mode you can see AND hear it. It doesn't get any better than that. It is EXTREMELY easy to get a dead on ground cancel, offset it, monitor it and control it as needed.
You compare it to the Xterra, but the Xterra has a very limited GB range. In magnetic ground you are going to be at the extreme edge of the available gb range (personal experience). On the Gold Bug (as on the F5) you will find that the gb range is very expanded. Highly magnetic ground cancelling will be well below the end of the available range. 20kHz will be fine with the dual gain and threshold controls. My F5 running at 7.8 kHz with a high positive threshold (+7 through +9) is at least as hot on very small non-ferrous items as the Xterra 70(705). I can only imagine what it will be like at 20kHz.
Plus the FE304 readout will let you track your paystreak if placering. I asked FTP engineers about this because the trend had been to go to a more condenced readout, but I was told the Gold Bug will also have an expanded range for the FE304 meter.
It is my understanding that the new Gold Bug isn't a replacement for the higher freq GoldBug II.
Micron gold?
HH
Mike
The Ground Grab ground balancing feature is a automatic ground balance. Instead of calling it "Auto GB", they have chosen to call it Ground Grab. Works like any other auto ground balance function on the market today where you hold a button and pump the coil and the detector sets itself. Much better user interface than all the others though, because you can see the ground reference number and your detectors reference number and you can see when they match. Typical New Fisher ground balance interface that makes ground canceling a non-event. In the all metal mode you can see AND hear it. It doesn't get any better than that. It is EXTREMELY easy to get a dead on ground cancel, offset it, monitor it and control it as needed.
You compare it to the Xterra, but the Xterra has a very limited GB range. In magnetic ground you are going to be at the extreme edge of the available gb range (personal experience). On the Gold Bug (as on the F5) you will find that the gb range is very expanded. Highly magnetic ground cancelling will be well below the end of the available range. 20kHz will be fine with the dual gain and threshold controls. My F5 running at 7.8 kHz with a high positive threshold (+7 through +9) is at least as hot on very small non-ferrous items as the Xterra 70(705). I can only imagine what it will be like at 20kHz.
Plus the FE304 readout will let you track your paystreak if placering. I asked FTP engineers about this because the trend had been to go to a more condenced readout, but I was told the Gold Bug will also have an expanded range for the FE304 meter.
It is my understanding that the new Gold Bug isn't a replacement for the higher freq GoldBug II.
Micron gold?
HH
Mike
bcsmith_92233-gb2
New member
"Plus the FE304 readout will let you track your paystreak if placer hunting"
Hi Mike,
I purchased my gb2 for exactly that purpose...
i conceded early here in the imperial valley,ca. that small gold flakes& grains.. was all there was to be found.
no pickers, no nuggets just dust and broken grains or flakes.
I was looking to a garret infinium ls to do clean up on washes to clear walls of sizeable nuggets deep into bank walls
and to sweep clean embedded quartzs viens we so often come across.
So.. your saying this New goldbug @ 20 khz gets more depth at lower freq on bigger gold and tracks the black sands in which in desert washes should be most concentrated over the granular & flakes of gold.
The new readout FE-304 allow me to feed the drywasher lots of micron gold as long as i stay on track with the FE-304?
or did i miss it?
thanks bc-
.
Hi Mike,
I purchased my gb2 for exactly that purpose...
i conceded early here in the imperial valley,ca. that small gold flakes& grains.. was all there was to be found.
no pickers, no nuggets just dust and broken grains or flakes.
I was looking to a garret infinium ls to do clean up on washes to clear walls of sizeable nuggets deep into bank walls
and to sweep clean embedded quartzs viens we so often come across.
So.. your saying this New goldbug @ 20 khz gets more depth at lower freq on bigger gold and tracks the black sands in which in desert washes should be most concentrated over the granular & flakes of gold.
The new readout FE-304 allow me to feed the drywasher lots of micron gold as long as i stay on track with the FE-304?
or did i miss it?
thanks bc-
.
Mike Hillis
Well-known member
The FE304 graph will keep you into the highest concentrations of black sand. You could then feed your washer and cook your mercury to you hearts content, knowing that you were in the right places 
I bought a used Goldbug version 2.9 to see first hand how it performed. The FE304 graph is expanded. The FE304 meter on my F5 was maxed out, at the same site, the Goldbug's FE304 meter ran 5 bars. So there is good resolution for tracking and following/mapping the hot spots.
I didn't keep the Goldbug very long as it was a buy and try to satisfy a curiosity more than anything. My F5 meets all my gold hunting needs.
HH
Mike
I bought a used Goldbug version 2.9 to see first hand how it performed. The FE304 graph is expanded. The FE304 meter on my F5 was maxed out, at the same site, the Goldbug's FE304 meter ran 5 bars. So there is good resolution for tracking and following/mapping the hot spots.
I didn't keep the Goldbug very long as it was a buy and try to satisfy a curiosity more than anything. My F5 meets all my gold hunting needs.
HH
Mike