Help with Whites Spectrum XLT...Prospecting tips

[Crashcrew]

I've just got a White's Spectrum XLT and I'm in an area with a lot of gold and a history of people back to the 1700's. I just don't know if I should trust the prospecting setting (basically all metal mode but the VDI only gives a number when it finds gold)? I know that no machine can just specifically find gold but any suggestions would help a fellow out. Also if anyone is in the Durango, Colorado area and wants to come out and MD with me and teach me a few things is welcome to come out to the ranch.

 

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[cudamark]

No all that great a prospecting machine. Much better for relics, coins, jewelry. I never had any luck with mine prospecting for gold. It will find the bigger nuggets, but no way it will find the tiny rice grain stuff like a Gold Bug will. If you insist on using it, I'd get a small coil and use the coin/jewelry program and add/subtract numbers based on the location. Run as high a sensitivity as you can without it falsing. Some areas you may have ground balance and hot rock problems, so, you may be forced into using the prospecting mode.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

As mark says, it does have a "prospecting" mode, so you *could* find nuggets down to pinhead size . But there are much superior prospecting nugget machines than that. That machine was primarily made as a coin/relic machine. And BTW, a little "dated" at that.