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GPZ 7000 Video from Minelab
- Thread starter Dan(NM)
- Start date
golden money
New member
Yep,
found the price. 10.700 Au. which becomes 8400. US. plus what ever else gets tacked on.........
found the price. 10.700 Au. which becomes 8400. US. plus what ever else gets tacked on.........
Great vid, thanks for the link there Dan..well done!..
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A guy can appreciate the engineering/strategy of such a device, the thinking behind its deep engineering purpose and all..in the right hands of course..definitely not a 'starter rig'.... truely a top end rig for gold nugget hunters...inspirational and thought provoking vid to watch.....still...
Limited 'customer' market one would suspect? Learning curve has got to be a real bitch no? For that kind of cash, a fellow would have to be a very experienced nugget hunter, have a focus on same in a pristine gold bearing area and be spry enough to chase every 2' deep signal in 100 degree heat?...strictly speaking from an ROI standpoint, maybe a guy would be better off booking a season at a Carribean resort and hunting with an Excal? ...Unless hunting for the brother of a 3' deep 'Welcome Stranger'? Who would want to even try to master the Zed 7k?
At which point, some kid with an Ace 250, digging a big null with a garden rake has just a good a chance as anybody? Help me understand the marketing/benefit/ROI behind such a powerful rig for this kind of upfront jack and commitment!...lots of bells and whistles displayed, which are techy and cool, but in the end, for an in field gold hunter guy, its all about the gold in pouch, and that means either 'luck+work' not so much as 'tech + money' no?
I certainly do appreciate the effort and tech behind this 'Zed 7k' rig....its just that nigh on a few weeks ago, some barefoot dirt pig farmer in China eyeballed a 17lb gold nugget right on top of the ground!, I had to read about it on Yahoo, adding a further layer of indignation! Its events like this that drives a guy like me nuts!...
Somebody please jump in and talk some sense to me... Gold and time wait for nobody! Add to that, standard beach and water scenery are generally a whole lot more appealing than what awaits a fellow hunting a stray sub oz nugget out in the puckerbrush!...less heat and snakes generally, although the rising sun sheds light on typically similar outcomes...at least a beach hunter with an Ace 250 may have an outside chance at scoring some strange, that is, if he can look presentable and talk a bit of game..Nobody running a 'Zed 7k' would ever dare sweep a beach right? In the scheme of things, this 'Zed 7k' fills a very small end user niche, waaaay out in the puckerbrush, to a 'lost dutchman' type of character, all out of money and no desire to see another Human for years, living on the fumes of dreams ...in fact, using this parameter,..I'm a buyer!...
Mud
..A guy can appreciate the engineering/strategy of such a device, the thinking behind its deep engineering purpose and all..in the right hands of course..definitely not a 'starter rig'.... truely a top end rig for gold nugget hunters...inspirational and thought provoking vid to watch.....still...
Limited 'customer' market one would suspect? Learning curve has got to be a real bitch no? For that kind of cash, a fellow would have to be a very experienced nugget hunter, have a focus on same in a pristine gold bearing area and be spry enough to chase every 2' deep signal in 100 degree heat?...strictly speaking from an ROI standpoint, maybe a guy would be better off booking a season at a Carribean resort and hunting with an Excal? ...Unless hunting for the brother of a 3' deep 'Welcome Stranger'? Who would want to even try to master the Zed 7k?
At which point, some kid with an Ace 250, digging a big null with a garden rake has just a good a chance as anybody? Help me understand the marketing/benefit/ROI behind such a powerful rig for this kind of upfront jack and commitment!...lots of bells and whistles displayed, which are techy and cool, but in the end, for an in field gold hunter guy, its all about the gold in pouch, and that means either 'luck+work' not so much as 'tech + money' no?
I certainly do appreciate the effort and tech behind this 'Zed 7k' rig....its just that nigh on a few weeks ago, some barefoot dirt pig farmer in China eyeballed a 17lb gold nugget right on top of the ground!, I had to read about it on Yahoo, adding a further layer of indignation! Its events like this that drives a guy like me nuts!...
Somebody please jump in and talk some sense to me... Gold and time wait for nobody! Add to that, standard beach and water scenery are generally a whole lot more appealing than what awaits a fellow hunting a stray sub oz nugget out in the puckerbrush!...less heat and snakes generally, although the rising sun sheds light on typically similar outcomes...at least a beach hunter with an Ace 250 may have an outside chance at scoring some strange, that is, if he can look presentable and talk a bit of game..Nobody running a 'Zed 7k' would ever dare sweep a beach right? In the scheme of things, this 'Zed 7k' fills a very small end user niche, waaaay out in the puckerbrush, to a 'lost dutchman' type of character, all out of money and no desire to see another Human for years, living on the fumes of dreams ...in fact, using this parameter,..I'm a buyer!... Mud
coinhunterseth
Member
I'll bet they'll sell more gpx 5000s than those, that's a ridiculous price! Relic hunters don't gain anything because there isn't any iron disc shown in the description.
Fishers Ghost
New member
Well the official release price in Australia is 10,700AUD. := 8319USD heh: Is this the end of Codan?
Not seeing it...looks like Minelab took all the recommended upgrade requests for the CTX3030 and put them into another high dollar machine that operates on the original CTX design platform; color screen, stability in a closed coil configuration, greater sensitivity to small gold, maximum depth, etc. Didn't Minelab just introduce a new PI detector that was meant to be their premium gold finder? 
Fishers Ghost
New member
coinhunterseth said:
Relic hunters tend to be in the dig it all brigade because a lot of good relics are made from iron and so they seldom use disc.
It's a complete flip around from Minelabs traditional design gold detectors.
Lighter and more versatile functions and more power.......what a combination.
The most outstanding ability is that it can detect, large nuggets at least 40% deeper.
If you think about it, that extra 40% depth that it can see in, is being overlooked by the GPX5000 and most of the Minleab gold detector predecessors and other gold detectors.
So if one was to detect over an area that was detected to death before and did not have the use of machinery to remove the top layer of the soil by grading it,
to reduce the soil by another 40% in depth then the only way to get deeper would be to use the GPZ7000.
It's going to open up a new field that will make this detector worth the money they ask.
It's a gamble to purchase one for finding gold, but when has it ever been otherwise and it does not make other detectors useless.
If the facts are true, then it simply means that other detectors will not find a big nugget as deep.
That's the "sizzle" that buying and using the GPZ7000 will be banked on. ....finding gold deeper, more reliably in new place and old places that other detectors have not been able to detect at the depth it can.
It's the way I see it and just my opinion.
david di
Lighter and more versatile functions and more power.......what a combination.
The most outstanding ability is that it can detect, large nuggets at least 40% deeper.
If you think about it, that extra 40% depth that it can see in, is being overlooked by the GPX5000 and most of the Minleab gold detector predecessors and other gold detectors.
So if one was to detect over an area that was detected to death before and did not have the use of machinery to remove the top layer of the soil by grading it,
to reduce the soil by another 40% in depth then the only way to get deeper would be to use the GPZ7000.
It's going to open up a new field that will make this detector worth the money they ask.
It's a gamble to purchase one for finding gold, but when has it ever been otherwise and it does not make other detectors useless.
If the facts are true, then it simply means that other detectors will not find a big nugget as deep.
That's the "sizzle" that buying and using the GPZ7000 will be banked on. ....finding gold deeper, more reliably in new place and old places that other detectors have not been able to detect at the depth it can.
It's the way I see it and just my opinion.
david di