Pogmahon
Graeme
I've started this thread for anyone interested in sharing their experiences in heavily mineralised areas.
Im running the white elliptical whilst gold prospecting, settings vary of course but to start with it's
Frequency =77Khz
GB either manual using the ground grab feature or tracking if the soil is highly variable. If i get a positive target i go back to manual until it's pinpointed.
Sensitivity is default at 90 but have found it can make the coil extremely sensitive and chirpy. Even an empty hand passed close to the coil will trigger a response.
Generally speaking i keep a close eye on the mineralisation bar as I've found this can help differentiate between a target and a hot patch of soil. Eg. Was in Creswick yesterday and soil mineralisation was ranging from 74-90 in less than a few steps. Pretty hard to keep up unless flicking over to tracking and i noticed that regardless of actual GB number the mineralisation bar could be quite low or full scale. Lots of false signals and head scratching trying to figure out what was going on (my 2 mates with PIs were having lots of false signals also). long story short, if the signal was concentrated and mineralisation bar was 1/2 scale or higher it would invariably be a pocket of fine red clay/dust with no target.
Final thoughts are that the Deus can do what's claimed and handle this type of ground, as for penetration, i dug plenty of trash including a shot gun pellet at around 2" and some much deeper ferrous which seemed to be partial square headed nail pieces. No gold so far.
I hope you guys find this post of some interest and ill be very interested to hear how others are going with the HF coils on gold.
Cheers Graeme
Im running the white elliptical whilst gold prospecting, settings vary of course but to start with it's
Frequency =77Khz
GB either manual using the ground grab feature or tracking if the soil is highly variable. If i get a positive target i go back to manual until it's pinpointed.
Sensitivity is default at 90 but have found it can make the coil extremely sensitive and chirpy. Even an empty hand passed close to the coil will trigger a response.
Generally speaking i keep a close eye on the mineralisation bar as I've found this can help differentiate between a target and a hot patch of soil. Eg. Was in Creswick yesterday and soil mineralisation was ranging from 74-90 in less than a few steps. Pretty hard to keep up unless flicking over to tracking and i noticed that regardless of actual GB number the mineralisation bar could be quite low or full scale. Lots of false signals and head scratching trying to figure out what was going on (my 2 mates with PIs were having lots of false signals also). long story short, if the signal was concentrated and mineralisation bar was 1/2 scale or higher it would invariably be a pocket of fine red clay/dust with no target.
Final thoughts are that the Deus can do what's claimed and handle this type of ground, as for penetration, i dug plenty of trash including a shot gun pellet at around 2" and some much deeper ferrous which seemed to be partial square headed nail pieces. No gold so far.
I hope you guys find this post of some interest and ill be very interested to hear how others are going with the HF coils on gold.
Cheers Graeme