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Going on a prospecting trip soon and need a little advice on what to take and use .. the ground we work is bad and has lots of hot rocks anyway I can get a loan of a detector and was told to pick one . Gold Bug 2 .. MXT with DD Coil ..or Tesoro ST .. Whats the better detector to use?? and why? Thanks for your help.
I want to answer this question, but I don't want to sound like I am parcel to the MXT. Let me start by saying I no nothing about the Tesoro ST, but I also don't know any prospectors that use it ether. Now lets go to the Fisher Gold Bug II, It is a great gold machine, But with that said, you have to be experienced with it to know what it is telling you. The Gold Bug does not have a display screen and you stated that there was allot of hot rocks so you would be doing allot of unnecessary digging It also operates on a higher frequency 71 kHz which will let you find a piece of gold the size of a pin head at a foot deep. By stating allot of hot rocks that tells me it will be shallow bed rock, you will not need the depth. Now the MXT is also a great gold machine it was designed after the famous GMT. The only difference in the GMT and MXT in prospecting mode is the GMT operates on 48 kHz where the MXT operates on 14 kHz, that just means smaller grains of gold at deeper depth. But you are not going to need depth. If you are not experienced in metal detecting or prospecting then the MXT will be the machine of choice, it has a display screen that tells you if it is a hot rock or not, it also tells you the probability of iron or not. The automatic ground balance keeps the detector perfectly balanced even in the harsh grounds of prospecting areas. The MXT is three detectors in one and you never know you might come across a old home site or miners cabin that you might want to hunt while prospecting. I have been prospecting for over twenty years I have used both the Fisher Gold Bug and the Whites GMT and now when I go on a nugget hunt I use the MXT, its my weapon of choice, I have found even though it isn't designed just for prospecting it is a far better and allot more versatile of a detector to have in the Field with you. And lets face the facts YOU DO NOT NEED DEPTH TO FIND GOLD. 80% of all gold found is in shallow bed rock areas, unless you are hard rock mining......MXT + 6 X 10 DD = GMT...... Good luck on your trip and let us know how you did no matter what detector you take...................................Got The Itch.........You Will Catch It............
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