I have both the GPX 6000 and the Equinox 800. The Equinox 800 is actually quite impressive on gold for a VLF detector. It’s not on par with the 6000 but no VLF is.
Thanks for the video Jenko, with the Nox 800 if you allow in some negative numbers from (-4 to 40), it will hit those iffy clipped ones no problems. As you seen with the Manticore it registered the gold on the ferrous line once you got a little bit away from it. The Nox works the same way, you need to allow the negatives numbers in to find the smaller pieces. I have found lots of small pieces with my 800... but I would have missed half of them had I left the discrimination at 0. Cheers for showing us the Manticore on the gold.
Just a heads up as well re: Manticore - although I don't have my test pieces of gold on hand, I snipped a beesd!ck size piece of lead from an old .177 airgun pellet I found at the property I'm on, and tested it with that. At 18 sensitivity it was screaming within an inch. My guess by size of the piece I cut, and comparing to the test nuggets I have used in the past, should be a 0.02g ish piece of lead. It's pretty darn sensitive, one of the guys from Miners Den Bendigo tested it before it was released and found a ton of birdshot in his testing. Always a good measure for small gold pieces, because *almost* any VLF detector should be able to find 1g pieces of gold with the right coil. It's when you get smaller that it becomes a game of inches.
Would'nt it be much better to start an air test from up high and lower it instead of blasting or fouling the machine at point blank to start? The machines could be ground adjusting themselves a small degree on the initial repeated shock. It would have been good to put the .8g nugget at 6" down and run the manitcore with an audible threshold to compare to the 6000. Anyway, it is good to see a comparison. Thanks for posting.
@@jenkosgoldadventures To add to @chrisc8856 comment. Starting an air test near the coil may initiate Auto/Tracking Ground Balance and filter out the artifact/target. Filtering the artifact out, will cause you to loose some detection depth. Air Test Procedure for the Minelab Manticore: 1) Start with a low Recovery Speed and increase it as necessary. Noise Cancel after each adjustment. 2) Begin with a high Sensitivity value that is not chirpy, Noise Cancel, Ground Balance. Try to increase Sensitivity again, Noise Cancel again. 3) Don't use Auto/Tracking Ground Balance for an Air Test. Because you are repeatably sweeping the artifact past the coil, you may be training the Auto/Tracking Ground Balance to filter out the artifact. Instead use Manual Ground Balance. On high mineralized soils, sweep the coil over the ground to Manual Ground Balance, don't pump it. You can also manually set the Ground Balance value yourself. 3) Begin the air test with the artifact far away from the coil, advance the artifact toward the coil.
@@pigeonbloodruby5330 I use the nox 800 in auto and never missed a target. I detect on beaches with black sand and in search of native gold, and the mineralization changes are fast and abrupt, it is better that the machine work more than me
@@fatangold Sounds like tough conditions to hunt in. Please note that my comment was not in anyway suggesting this was a technique for detecting in the real world. My comments are suggestions of how to conduct an Air Test. This comment is the one I was hoping you would take into consideration for future Air Testing: 3) Begin the air test with the artifact far away from the coil, advance the artifact toward the coil. Tks!
Hi mate, just looking to get a detector myself. I’m in Bundaberg, I’m wondering if there are any gold places to go around here. I enjoyed your video…might go for the manticore if I can use it around here. Cheers…(subbed).
Around Rosedale there’s been gold found I believe. Mt Perry is also worth a look. If you have a detector shop in town I’d talk to them. Otherwise Clermont would be a 7 hour drive for you.
@@jenkosgoldadventures , ok thanks mate. I really appreciate you answering my question. I’ll have a look around town to see who is selling detectors. Thanks again.
No problem at all. If you haven’t already got it download the Australian geology travel maps on your phone. It’s has a 7 day free trial otherwise it’s $12 per year and you can down load gold overlays as well. It’s a great app I wouldn’t detect without it. Search it on RU-vid
@@jenkosgoldadventures , wow, thanks for the tip….I’m way behind the scenes when it comes to metal detecting now, the last one I had was a Garrett gti 2500 way back in the early 2000s in Scotland. It was a good detector in those days but nothing like the ones available now. Can I ask another quick question please, how do you know that you can detect on a piece of land? Does it have it on the app you mentioned. I wouldn’t like to just wander on to someone’s claim…that would really piss them off. Thanks again mate, cheers.
The app can mark mine leases and you definitely can’t detect on them. The best spot around the area is Clermont where they have GPA’s General Permission Areas. All you need is a Qld fossicking license available online. Other then that you can knock on doors and ask for permission. You still require a fossicking license for fossicking in Qld doesn’t matter where you go.
If you are thinking of selling your Nox 800 based on its performance on the nuggets in this video compared to Manticore.......the Nox 800 was not setup for optimum performance since the entire iron and boderline ferrous/non ferrous target IDs were rejected. Manticore had all target IDs accepted which makes a big difference.
