My CTX3030 will not hit on small Gold Particals

[toolmanbutch]

I will be buying a new Detector if I can get advice on what will hit on very small Gold Particles. And will also hit on Nuggets and other types of metal like silver. My 3030 is Excellent for larger items but will not hit on flakes or sand size Gold. I do not want to Sluice for gold, I like walking. So any advice would be great.

 

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[MrMikeJackie]

I'm not sure a detector exists that can pickup flakes and flour gold, especially a CTX.

 

[JackalopeZL1]

If you are searching for "prospecting" style gold there is probably not a worse machine for it than a ctx. The ctx is one of the very best for coins and gold rings but not small gold..

 

[Tom_in_CA]

As JackalopeZL1 says: The 3030 is a coin/relic machine. Not a prospecting/nugget machines. There are specialty nugget machine that can get nuggets down to the size of pin heads and smaller. And there are cross-over machines that are designed to try to do both venues (yet will excel in neither arena).

Ironically, a machine "capable of sounding the bells of notre dame on pinhead sized targets" is NOT what the coin/relic guy wants ! If a machine is sensitive enough to find every single BB, birdshot, speck, staple, pushpin, etc..., then you would go bonkers in a ghost-townsy site.

Thus you have the wrong machine for nuggets.

 

[toolmanbutch]

Sooooooooooo Anyone have Recommendations on what might be a good machine?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

3030 is not designed to find tiny gold particles, it will hit on 1/2 gram but not on grains of gold.


I recommend the GPX 4500, 4800 or 5000 and if money is not an issue the GPZ7000.

 

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