Minelab X-Terra 70 : Down Under Prospecting

This video was tentatively designed as an introduction for new detectorists considering the use of the Minelab X-Terra 70 as a practical & easy-to-use Prospecting tool. It's also the result of my own longtime love of Prospecting, Wildlife & Photography ...and the pursuit of Native Gold. This detector is a very good All Rounder that can handle jewellery, coins, relics and even Gold Nuggets.

All elements (including music, effects, stills, video, editing, photographs, mattes and logos) were produced on the one ancient laptop with a dying video camera. *Special Thanks to my wife, Rena, for lending her voice, buying a microphone and for giving up the computer for two weeks to allow me to paste this together.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• X-Terra
• 70
• Minelab
• Metal
• Detector
• Detecting
• Gold
• Nuggets
• Prospecting
• Marco
• Nero
• Coils
• Australia
• Wildlife
• Animals

[fuugon]

what is the deppth of 5 x 10 coil???

[nerodesign000]

It may not sound particularly deep but I tend to get about 10 inches max with with the 10x5" DD HF coil + slightly shallower on highly mineralized ground. In theory, it can go a little deeper. The little 6" coil give me more depth, as does the 9" Concentric coil which goes about 14" deep.

[WinnipegBeardieBubba]

Would u suggest this one if someone cant get a Minelabe 4500 or Minelabe 5000

What type of Coil would u suggest if looking for gold in creeks and feilds.

[nerodesign000]

@WinnipegBeardieBubba - Yes, I would. It's a great compromise against the GPXs but you'll loose the depth advantage of those PI machines plus the VLF's like the X-Terra 70/705 are always a little noisier on the mineralized ground of the goldfields.

[majtymicke]

Very nice presentation! I wonder if I would get any decent finds here in Sweden (different soil) or in Greece where I go for my vacations

[nerodesign000]

You'll find all sorts of ancient relics in your homeland although Greece and Turkey have restrictions on using metal detectors so contact a local authority there before importing one.

[nick1f]

Wow, this movie was made so well, it's like any other professional movie out there. Congratulations!

[noosaslayer]

Hey mate, Nice vid. I'm interested in getting away with the family and heading inland to do some prospecting. For me the attitude has always been to get the best equipment to start with, say with prospecting the GPX5000, but is it really necessary? I'm going to be chasing gold and I'm happy to pay whatever it takes to give me the best chance of finding something, what are your thoughts?

J

[thepogues2640]

Nicely done.

[4202cvinc]

You mention that the coils are high frequency yet the guys in WA use the big ML detectors, the 3500-5000 and their success is based on low frequency detection. Your success speaks for itself, but I am curious about that difference. Fantastic vid. I would have problems concentrating on gold with all of those glorious herps around.

[4202cvinc]

Fantastic video, I was last In the "Land Down Under" looking for herps. We were in NT though. It would be hard to focus in your area, gold, herps, gold, herps. Especially flipping tin. I have watched videos from some of your countrymen zaqqaz22, and I got the impression that low frequency detectors (although very specialized) were the best for nugget detecting. Are you demonstrating the flexibilty if the x-terra 70? Clearly the minelab (if you truely know how to use it) is the gold standard.

[SuperSnoopy36]

This is a very well made video. Well done and thank you for sharing it.