Gold with the MXT Pro?

[skateteacher]

A bad of dirt fishing is better than a good day at work.

I love metal detecting. Being outside and knowing that the next step and swing could bring me a prize keeps me going.

Dave

 

[gold_geologist2011]

Definitely! Not to mention the beautiful weather for this time of year!!

 

[jimmy]

Congratulations, I believe you have found that the MXT can punch through really bad ground as we all here said it would, the fact that you read the nickel and while hunting also found a few coins and digging some hot rocks means you are getting it right ! You can be sure if you had put your coil over a 1/2 gram picker you would have heard it. Now it's just a matter of covering more ground and learning to read the lay of the land, look for depressions, move some bigger rocks aside if possible and if you can find some exposed bed rock get that coil over the sand filled low areas and fractures on the bedrock. Be sure to take a flat blade screw driver and small paint brush for cleaning out those spots. There are many other handy tools that will allow you to better clean a fracture of its contents, I think you have learned a lot in a short time and are well on your way now, just remember slow and low is always better. Hope to cya out in the field, Jimmy

 

[gold_geologist2011]

Yep, im pretty certain that I would have heard the gold if my coil went over it. Some bedrock was exposed and my detector didnt pick up anything. Of course that area had been dredged before and that's the main reason why the bedrock was there...This creek has been hit HARD but I was hoping to find that one piece that no one else found. That's why I was going a slow speed and making sure to overlap the strokes of the coil some. I cant wait to get out where there's still gold to be picked up with a detector. Darn detectorists these days....They're like buzzards

 

[jmario]

Found this excellent video on using the MXT for prospecting tailings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAEGXPzj6Rc&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL4DAA87786DDF6757

The man is a great teacher gives easy to follow advice.

 

[gold_geologist2011]

I've watched this video a couple of times before but now that i've used the detector in prospecting mode I can truely see how beneficial this video is!

 

[johnedoe]

The MXT uses the GMT circuitry and is a very good gold machine, it operates at a lower frequency (14 kHz) than the GMT (50kHz) so is not as sensitive to the smaller targets but that's OK with me...... I want to be able to see what I am hunting......

Here is an engineering report about the MXT....... MXT Engineering Report

 

[nevadamxt]

intresting read and i find myself using it less and less in g.b. mode and almost always in ground lock for where i live at ground reading almost always at 82 average