Best detector for small gold

[grazzze]

Been looking at Gold Bug 2,Trying to find the best and easiest detector for small gold.Also can they pick up coins.Thanks

 

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[Slowtaknow]

Just seen some advertising for the nokta au gold finder i believe it's called, seems to be the pick for desert gold. Any thoughts on it?

 

[Terry Soloman]

Small Gold - Minelab Gold Monster 1000 / Fisher Goldbug II / Whites GMT

Small Gold & Coins - Minelab Equinox 800 / Tesoro Lobo Super Traq

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Been looking at Gold Bug 2,Trying to find the best and easiest detector for small gold.Also can they pick up coins.Thanks

Be aware that ANY machine, designed for pinhead sized nuggets, will easily find coins. I mean ... go figure, if they are sensitive enough to find grain of rice and pinhead sized nuggets, than a coin-sized object will be NO PROBLEM too, doh

But be aware, that if you have a strict "nugget machine", that ....... they might have p*ss-P**r discrimination. In other words, you might have no way to knock out iron (beyond the first couple of inches anyhow). Or if you have a machine that promises to be a cross-over (ie.: go back and forth between venues), then be aware: There are going to be compromises in each depth. Eg.: there will be better nugget machines, and there will be better coin machines.

Because, when you think of it, the goals of each venue are practically OPPOSED to each other. A nugget guy WANTS the "bells of notre dame" to ring over each staple, pushpin, speck, pinhead, etc... Whereas the coin/relic guy DOESN'T want to hear all that junk. Thus machines are designed, from the ground-up, for their purpose. So if a machine touts ability to go back and forth between both venues, then, ... rest assured: There are going to be compromises.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Before the Equinox 800 Tom, I would have agreed with you. Minelab has hit a home run with the Equinox - a true "All Purpose" machine!

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Before the Equinox 800 Tom, I would have agreed with you. Minelab has hit a home run with the Equinox - a true "All Purpose" machine!

Ha. Well .... even with the Nox 800: There was compromises made. So there will be better nugget machines than the Nox 800. And there will be better coin/relic machines than the Nox 800. But yes, it's a *better* compromise.

Some of the other past cross-over attempts in the industry were wimpy in one, or both departments.

 

[cactusman]

The Fisher Gold Bug 2 is probably the best small gold metal detector around. It'll pick up coins easily, but it's made more for gold nugget hunting. It also does extremely well on meteorites if you ever get the urge to hunt for space rocks.

If you want to hunt coins too, maybe buy a basic machine just for that purpose. When I was getting back into the hobby after an absence that's exactly what I did and I never regretted it for a second.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Be aware that ANY machine, designed for pinhead sized nuggets, will easily find coins. I mean ... go figure, if they are sensitive enough to find grain of rice and pinhead sized nuggets, than a coin-sized object will be NO PROBLEM too, doh

But be aware, that if you have a strict "nugget machine", that ....... they might have p*ss-P**r discrimination. In other words, you might have no way to knock out iron (beyond the first couple of inches anyhow). Or if you have a machine that promises to be a cross-over (ie.: go back and forth between venues), then be aware: There are going to be compromises in each depth. Eg.: there will be better nugget machines, and there will be better coin machines.

Because, when you think of it, the goals of each venue are practically OPPOSED to each other. A nugget guy WANTS the "bells of notre dame" to ring over each staple, pushpin, speck, pinhead, etc... Whereas the coin/relic guy DOESN'T want to hear all that junk. Thus machines are designed, from the ground-up, for their purpose. So if a machine touts ability to go back and forth between both venues, then, ... rest assured: There are going to be compromises.

With iron being a heavy material it would be in cracks and crevices along with gold so I don't think you would want to notch out or discriminate out iron otherwise you are probably going to miss out on gold.IMO

 

[Professor of Engineering]

I do not know if it is the best , but I sure have found a lot of very small, medium and large gold with the Tesoro Outlaw. Now it doesn't compare (i believe) with some of the more expensive gold machines as others have mentioned.

 

[Jim in Idaho]

Before the Equinox 800 Tom, I would have agreed with you. Minelab has hit a home run with the Equinox - a true "All Purpose" machine!

Not to mention White's GM 24K...it has very good iron discrimination, along with great sensitivity to really small gold.
Jim

 

[Iffy Signals]

Anyone mention the Deus with HF coils?

 

[Gare]

I would think the BEST detector for SMALL gold would be a MINELAB GPZ 7000 Anyone agree with me ?