I m about to take my first prospecting road trip. I have been a metal detecting enthusiast for about 27 years here in pennsylvania , also in connecticut and florida.However, I have never prospected.I have purchased sluices,pans ,tools and even a GPAA membership. I also purchased a used fisher gold bug. My question is.. is my whites 6000di pro sl worth taking along or should I just leave it home? Not even sure where Im going yet.Could sure use some help and advice in that category too. THANKS .....HARRY
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Harry,
Check out my posts for research helps. To me they really help me pinpoint areas to check and those I have followed up on have been exceedingly accurate.
Mark
Hope this isn't too late: Take the White's along as a back-up. Also, if you get into an area where you want to do some relic hunting (building foundations, old cabin site, bottle dump, etc.) then the White's will better serve you.
Joe
harry boord > Lucky JoeNovember 10, 2009 at 1:34am
Yea. I figured on taking it along just in case. Thanks for the reply . Harry
You said that you have purchased a used Gold Bug, is this a Gold Bug or a Gold Bug 2?
I would think if you got your coil on the White's 6000 over a gold nugget of at least a gram or better it would sound off if the gold was not masked by mineralization or to deep, but the Gold Bug being designed primarily for finding gold would sound off better, the Gold Bug 2 would sound off even more so and on much smaller gold as it operates on a much higher frequency than either the Gold Bug or the White's 6000, the higher the frequency the better a VLF detector will detect gold/nonferrous metals, and especially small gold.
Ferrous metals respond better to lower frequencies.
If you are going to any areas that have highly mineralized soils/hotrocks you may have trouble with any VLF detector but you could still get lucky and find gold, it would be better to use a PI detector but you would have to dig most all signals as most PI can't discriminate out iron, but you will get greater depth with a PI detector as much as 24" to 30" with most PIs, the plus with a VLF is that you can discriminate the iron out, but as you know the depth will be at most 8" maybe a little more if your lucky, or using a big coil.
The Gold Bug operates on 19.2 kHz.
The Gold Bug 2 operates on 71.01 kHz.
The White's 6000 Pro SL operates on 6.59 kHz.
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just pm me
Check out my posts for research helps. To me they really help me pinpoint areas to check and those I have followed up on have been exceedingly accurate.
Mark
Hope this isn't too late: Take the White's along as a back-up. Also, if you get into an area where you want to do some relic hunting (building foundations, old cabin site, bottle dump, etc.) then the White's will better serve you.
Joe
Harry
You said that you have purchased a used Gold Bug, is this a Gold Bug or a Gold Bug 2?
I would think if you got your coil on the White's 6000 over a gold nugget of at least a gram or better it would sound off if the gold was not masked by mineralization or to deep, but the Gold Bug being designed primarily for finding gold would sound off better, the Gold Bug 2 would sound off even more so and on much smaller gold as it operates on a much higher frequency than either the Gold Bug or the White's 6000, the higher the frequency the better a VLF detector will detect gold/nonferrous metals, and especially small gold.
Ferrous metals respond better to lower frequencies.
If you are going to any areas that have highly mineralized soils/hotrocks you may have trouble with any VLF detector but you could still get lucky and find gold, it would be better to use a PI detector but you would have to dig most all signals as most PI can't discriminate out iron, but you will get greater depth with a PI detector as much as 24" to 30" with most PIs, the plus with a VLF is that you can discriminate the iron out, but as you know the depth will be at most 8" maybe a little more if your lucky, or using a big coil.
The Gold Bug operates on 19.2 kHz.
The Gold Bug 2 operates on 71.01 kHz.
The White's 6000 Pro SL operates on 6.59 kHz.
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