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Prospecting - Undocumented Ground Mineralization Feature on 705

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grev

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Hello Everyone,
This is my first posting, how do you like me so far?
I have a new X-705 that I intend to use for nugget hunting along with my other placer mining activities.
While reading in the FAQ section, I read about the undocumented feature on the X-70/705 series that allows you to obtain readings of the ground mineralization level. I'm looking forward to trying out this feature on a couple dry creek beds in my area. From sampling, I know that I'm dealing with very fine gold, it would be great if this truly works at pinpointing the pay streaks with high blacksand concentrations.
My question - Has anyone here actually used this feature and found it to work well at locating black sand/placer gold pay streaks?
Thx,
Grev
 
Hi Grev
Welcome to a great forum. How are you doing I must say I would love to be able to obtain readings of the ground mineralization level.
I have had a X-70 and now a X-705 as for the feature on the X-70/705 series that allows you to obtain readings of the ground mineralization level I have not come across it I don't think you can as far as I can see . But it may be so.
Cheers Wally
 
Welcome to the forum. As you've figured out, the X-Terra has the ability to operate effectively in both conductive and/or magnetic ground. And as BarnacleBill described in that post you referenced, there is a procedure that will allow X-Terra users to "read" those properties in their soil. The question you asked is precisely what BB was referring to. A person should be able to increase the likelyhood of "finding gold" by hunting in areas with higher levels of iron (Fe3 O4) and black sand. Although this procedure won't find those areas for you, it will give you a numerical representation of the magnetic levels for the site you are testing. As such, you will be able to "increase your odds" by determining which areas are the "hottest", according to their magnetic properties. Hopefully someone will respond who lives in an area with conditions similar to yours. Unfortunately, I can't as I don't live near areas with those conditions. HH Randy
 
I cannot find that post in FAQFAQ's about how to do a ground phase reading on the X-70(5)'s to read the properties in the soil? Can anyone please give a link to it, and/or the proceedure on how to do it. Thanks!
 
General Reviews/Tests


BarnacleBill----Measuring your ground mineralization level using a hidden feature of the X70.


http://www.findmall.com/read.php?55,574329,574329#msg-574329
 
The simple answer to this question is no .If I ground balance my X terra I can have a ground balance reading of 27 which this number is way out to the actual soil mineralisation number..EG my MXT which does have a mineralisation feature will read 84 in the same spot which is very much accurate..
May be if a half dozen readings are done with both machines in different areas perhaps there could be a pattern to create another formula .
 
Ah, but its inverse on the X-terra, where the lower the number the more mineralized the soil (generally). There is a procedure on the MXT to determine the real ground mineralization, just as there is with the X-terra. The ground balancing number is not really a perfectly reliable way to measure it on any detector, or so I've read.
 
In my experience the GB numbers only indicate the type of mineralization... NOT the amount.

Tom
 
Thanks for all the comments to this post and to Digger for the added clarity and link to this feature.
I was really hoping to hear from someone who has used this feature specifically for pinpointing black sand (iron) concentrations in dry creek beds.
I'll need a few weeks of dry weather before I can try this out for myself. I hope to report back with my results for anyone who might be interested.
Grev
 
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