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xterra 70 or eureka gold

I have an X Terra 70, but not the Eureka Gold...From articles I've read I know it is possible to find gold with the X Terra 70, but unless you are detecting in an area which is particularly suited to a VLF machine, then you could,t expect to get great depth with the X Terra...but it can find small pieces at shallow depths. Being a multi purpose machine the X Terra seems to be designed to by good at a few jobs, and it is very good for normal coin hunting, and is pretty good at beach hunting. The Eureka Gold is especially designed for gold hunting...it also is a VLF machine, but offers a choice of 3 different frequencies: 6.4 kHz (for maximum depth) 20kHz for general detecting and 60kHz for going after the very small stuff. It is a specialised detector built for gold detecting, so if that's all you want to use it for, then that would seem to be the better choice. Good luck.
 
I have an X Terra 70, but not the Eureka Gold...From articles I've read I know it is possible to find gold with the X Terra 70, but unless you are detecting in an area which is particularly suited to a VLF machine, then you couldn't expect to get great depth with the X Terra...but it can find small pieces at shallow depths. Being a multi purpose machine the X Terra seems to be designed to by good at a few jobs, and it is very good for normal coin hunting, and is pretty good at beach hunting. The Eureka Gold is especially designed for gold hunting...it also is a VLF machine, but offers a choice of 3 different frequencies: 6.4 kHz (for maximum depth) 20kHz for general detecting and 60kHz for going after the very small stuff. It is a specialised detector built for gold detecting, so if that's all you want to use it for, then that would seem to be the better choice. Good luck.
 
I contacted Minelab and they said the Eureka Gold and X-Terra 70 in Prospecting Mode have the same performance.

But the Eureka Gold is more specialized and has some more options though. Now the X-705 has Off-Set Tracking which the Eureka Gold does not have.

The Eureka Gold is a very good VLF machine and alot of people get the round CoilTek 15" DD WOT for it is what Rob Allison said on his Nuggethunting Forum, from Rob's Detector Sales in Arizona.

If I was after gold nuggets only, then I would spend a little more and get a White's TDI Pro(PI-Pulse Induction) rather than a Eureka Gold(VLF).

PI machines are more expensive, get more depth on larger gold nuggets and can handle bad mineralized ground better but have poor discrimination. But VLF's are less expensive, can detect porous, wire, fine gold specimens, and grain sized gold better than PI's, and also have much better discrimination.
 
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