Falcon Gold Probes: Anyone know about it?

[UncleVinnys]

Has anyone here used or know about the Falcon Gold Probe?
It is a hand-held unit for small specks and nuggets.

Anyone use it? Know about it? Recommend it?

At $200, it seems like a reasonable "starter unit" for a TH-er just getting
started on the prospecting bug.
Any ideas??

 

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[Seden]

I had one and loved it for finding small pickers in my concentrates. It's not made for a treasure hunter, it's true purpose is for looking for the smallest of gold in rock and that it does very well. If your a placer miner it's useless in the field due to the interference caused by black sand. Way more black sand than gold in any given placer deposit so I found that by putting down a thin layer of concentrates in a plastic gold pan I could scan back and forth across it and find the little gold pieces.

If you're a treasure hunter you're not going to get much depth out of it and best served by getting a Pulse Induction pin pointing probe.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Randy

 

[UncleVinnys]

Thanks, Randy, that helps.
I am not into nugget hunting, YET, anyway.
There is a lot of gold in Folsom, lots of tailings, and
quartz rock outcroppings, and I thought I'd get something that
I can just give a scan to the exposed quartz, and see if there's
anything worth picking up.

I've been looking at these places, and I can find a bit of quartz
every now and then that has just a speck of gold on it, when
viewed through an eye loupe. Got about 5 teentsy-weentsy
specimens like that.

 

[Eu_citzen]

I have one not ideal if you want to cover a lot of ground or go for the deep nuggets. I don't think it's worth it it's to limited.
Go and get a GMT or Gold bug Ii instead.