Minelab Gold monster 2000 out today!

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Minelab Gold monster 2000 out today!

https://bigboyshobbies.net/minelab-gold-monster-2000

 

[Smigo]

Just got one. Love it. Works like a dream where other VLFs are utterly useless.

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Glad to hear you like it! We are getting unbelievable reports on the same thing!

 

[Smigo]

Glad to hear you like it! We are getting unbelievable reports on the same thing!

Im in Australia and can't believe how well it works in really bad ground.
If id never heard of it and someone gave me a go on it id think I was using a full Pulse Induction detector.
The depth on tiny pieces in heavily mineralised ground with ironstone gravels covering them is ridiculous.
Absolutely love it.
You'll sell a heap of these when people clue up to just how good they really are.

 

[jmaclen]

Same results here in the USA. Ground noise, magnetite, hot rock and iron responses are minimized to a very manageable level and are easy to recognize as are small non -ferrous targets.

Some have wondered about using this detector for saltwater beaches. It is not waterproof, has no salt or beach mode and only comes with a 5” round coil. A 10X5” coil will be released later. It might work at a beach but a fully waterproof Minelab or other detector with a dedicated Beach mode makes more sense to me.

Having “gold” in its name doesn’t mean gold jewelry. Micro jewelry maybe.

This detector is made for gold nugget prospecting.

 

[BobOso]

I have issues with small bits of iron, as they seem to ring up on the gold side. So far 20% lead, 10% brass fragments, and 70% iron bits, no gold, but still trying.

 

[BobOso]

One of it's biggest failures, and any gold machine is the ability to stay put. You spend $2000 - $6000 on a machine that keeps tipping over when you put it down, you get annoyed. Smaller coils like the monster, the more they tip. In the desert, the ground is very uneven, so I made a folding stand.(3D printed)

 

[Smigo]

I have issues with small bits of iron, as they seem to ring up on the gold side. So far 20% lead, 10% brass fragments, and 70% iron bits, no gold, but still trying.

Great machine but the echo wave and ID only work as good as the ground allows it to.
Where I am in the Golden Triangle in Victoria Australia I regularly see it give an iron sound to tiny bits of gold due to the mineralisation. Its a feature thats neither here nor there in my opinion but may work better in less variable ground than I detect in. Depth for tiny bits like 0.03 of a gram is ridiculous at a few to five centimeters deep in the worst ground around with ironstone scree covering it. The detector itself is brilliant.
Agree its top heavy and wants to tip but I never put mine on the ground and do all my recovery standing up. I take advantage of its natural tendency to flip over when you hold the stem below the control box allowing it to. Then my dirt with the target in it gets transferred from my scraper end of my pick to the coil bottom. Takes just a minute to do. Its Electronic Panning at its finest.
Top pic it pings little bits like this easy in highly mineralised red clay.

This tiny bit was inside a clump of clay which I dug up and broke up on the coil bottom.

A typical few hours on flogged to death surface ground.

 

[jmaclen]

I get some intermittent iron responses on non-ferrous targets including small gold too due to the extreme magnetite mineralization here. BUT, if the target IDs are between 0 and 10 with some gold chance indicator going to the right, I am digging that target no matter what.

 

[Smigo]

I get some intermittent iron responses on non-ferrous targets including small gold too due to the extreme magnetite mineralization here. BUT, if the target IDs are between 0 and 10 with some gold chance indicator going to the right, I am digging that target no matter what.

Fair enough, I dig em all regardless. Had too many where everything said bad target and it was gold. I pay no attention to anything number wise nor echo wave sounds. Dig everything.

 

[BobOso]

Great machine but the echo wave and ID only work as good as the ground allows it to.
Where I am in the Golden Triangle in Victoria Australia I regularly see it give an iron sound to tiny bits of gold due to the mineralisation. Its a feature thats neither here nor there in my opinion but may work better in less variable ground than I detect in. Depth for tiny bits like 0.03 of a gram is ridiculous at a few to five centimeters deep in the worst ground around with ironstone scree covering it. The detector itself is brilliant.
Agree its top heavy and wants to tip but I never put mine on the ground and do all my recovery standing up. I take advantage of its natural tendency to flip over when you hold the stem below the control box allowing it to. Then my dirt with the target in it gets transferred from my scraper end of my pick to the coil bottom. Takes just a minute to do. Its Electronic Panning at its finest.
Top pic it pings little bits like this easy in highly mineralised red clay.
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This tiny bit was inside a clump of clay which I dug up and broke up on the coil bottom.
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A typical few hours on flogged to death surface ground.
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Nice, but unfortunately for me I have to kneel when I dig, my back has been fused, bending very much is not in the cards for me.