Mate. In the soil were in you can ground balance till your blue in the face. And yes I have seen all the other videos your talking about , I have tried to replicate the settings in our WA goldfields soil. I am telling you now. Unless the gold is right on the surface or is half a gram or more you won’t hear it. Auto 1 won’t go deep, auto 2 is to noisy. The highest manual you can run is manual 6 and it’s not enough to penetrate to any depth. I didn’t get this monster yesterday I got 2 of them when they first came out. I have have plenty of times to try all the settings and ground balancing methods you can think of. If you have never been to WA then you don’t have the experience with soil that is basically iron rust. Don’t worry I find plenty of gold “ounces” Not with the monster though.

I hope you have found plenty of gold with the GM1000.

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@@caremir what did you recommend here🤣 Bill finding a bit of screen wire. Recommend one of your own videos finding gold and I’ll have a look at it.

Learn to ground balance it before you make a claim

Tell me what claim I am making?

I ground balance it. I know how to do it. You see how you go in Clermont. Ground balancing on auto one can help. It’s not going to help much in all metal mode. As long as your swinging the detector the micro processor is adjusting to the ground. It’s just that in heavily mineralised soil like WA you have to turn the sensitivity down so far it misses gold. When you are on gold bearing ground and all you are finding is junk. Maybe your missing gold. As far as the cost goes, Mine lab don’t make and sell the SDC and the Gpz because the GM 1000 can do as good a job. They sell them because they work where the monster won’t. If you see the narrative of my story, it’s got nothing to with Victorian or Qld goldfields. It’s about using a GM in Western Australian soil. I prefer to find gold when I go detecting. I find plenty. Sadly not with the monster. I bought two of them when I thought like it would do the job. After your trip please let me know how you went. If you do well I will be happy for you.

Bill Southern is in Arizona not Western Australia, You mustn’t live in Western Australia and own a Gold Monster.

No, from victoria.. sd2000/gp3000 and a GM. i was using Bill southern as a example of the ground balancing technique.

@@goldfools5445 Arizona has some hot grounds comparable to Australia's soils.

@@jmyazzie08 that’s true. That’s why when Bill Southern is detecting on shallow bedrock and creek washes, he uses the gold monster. When hunting the deeper mineralised ground he uses the SDC 2300 or the GPZ 7000.

Because it wasn’t picking anything up.

Thanks for watching. I admit I could have done this video better and I was having a problem with the sound on the phone. Never the less, the pont of the video was to show the real life problems that people face when choosing the Goldmonster to detect in heavily mineralised soil. It was to help people understand what they are going to face if they chose this machine for their prospecting trip to Western Australia.

@@goldfools5445 I agree. Your video and your point was hopefully understood. I really like this hobby of prospecting. I haven't found anything of size yet. I seem to have found almost every led bullet know to man..... lol.. want some..... lol.... keep up the good work..... and thank you for sharing. Daniel...

I know of some prospectors who go by sound instead of the metal indicator, as there’s a slight difference in sound they make and if you can pick up on it you don’t necessarily have to dig up everything, but on the otherhand sometimes they sound alike and so can be indistinguishable

Yes I do. I’ll just go and find real gold with the 7000.

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Agree 100%

Which machine would suit a serious beginner in FNQ?

@@benwoodbridge4967 sdc2300 is a great beginner machine gpx6000 is expensive but it's probably the best. Easy to use to.

Yes. That’s what I would recommend. You can set secondhand ones for under $3,000

Cheers. We’re going out again at Easter. Hopefully can make another video.

All detectors are over priced if you see them as the worlds most expensive bits of plastic. That’s not the point though, is it. The pi detectors are good value by way of producing more finds. You ask “who can afford the 5k to spend” It’s those that know the spend is worth it. Check out my other videos. The 7000 has paid it self off many times, and I still have it. So maybe many times more. The monster didn’t even find its worth in three years.

How do you keep manually adjusting it? You only have the sensitivity to play with. As I showed, auto loses the chirping and the gold. Lowering the sensitivity also looses the gold. I could hear the gold on high manual setting but only because I knew it was there. If I was just sweeping over this ground the detector the sound would have been lost in the cacophony of other noises. My point is, and I will reiterate. This video is not about the monsters ability to find gold, it’s about this machine being recommended to beginner prospectors in the WA goldfields. In pipe clay and quarts piles it works good. It is also good on shallow bedrock. I had two of these machines and spent a lot of time learning how to use it and mastering the sounds. It’s no beginners machine when hunting in iron ore. I don’t have a GPX either, it’s a GPZ.

@@goldfools5445 you turn the machine sensitivity down and ground balance it over a metre square area until you find the highest sensitivity level that you can run with the machine stable. Your not ground balancing it properly and if you knew the monster you would either run it as I described or on auto 2 full bars lit up Auto 1 is shit. You ground balance it properly on auto 2 and see what happens mate. Hope this helps. Remember is a VLF. Cheers Bruce

@@BruceschultzAU next time I am out there , I will do as you say. I will then try it on various gold targets I find with the 7000. I will video the results.

@@goldfools5445 that will get thousands of Veiws . It's worth a go mate

@@BruceschultzAU was gonna say the same thing. He just picked it up, turned it on and started detecting. No balance not adjusting the instrument what so ever. And he wonders why it was making random beeps… obviously because it wasn’t balanced

If you want a detector that’s good at everything. The GPZ 7000. It can find small gold shallow and big gold deep. It probably can’t find as small as the SDC or GM1000 but it will find a 1 gram at 8 inches, the others can’t. It will find a 1 ounce at two feet. The others can’t. A well tuned GPX will probably find the deeper targets but might struggle on the very small bits. So my conclusion is the GPZ 7000 is the best all round machine currently available. Something new could come out tomorrow and be better, who knows. The GPX 6000 is still to be tested.

@@goldfools5445 Thanks for the great info, I'm stuck in Japan for next 2 months but be back WA and want to prospect with my children, one of each be the go so we can have a turn

@@MrDJE1970 just remember, the detector is only a small part in finding gold. You have be in the right place too.

True

The Surfing Prospector No worries. Thanks.

Please send a link of how to do it. Show me how you ground balance and how fast you detect. Finding gold would be good too.

Sure can.

Back to the drawing board for gold monster, unbelievable.

This machine is for quartz, mild clays and bedrock. It’s a poor performer in mineralised ground.

I fully understand. I regret buying mine for general gold detecting. There are certain situations it can be useful.

@@goldfools5445 the SDC2300 is the Perfect Machine for Serious first time Gold Prospectors in Australia . I just wish it said VLF on the box of the Gold Monster 1000 but in saying that it is probably best VLF metal detector out There today

Will take the monster next trip and I’ll do what people have asked for. I’ll put the results in another video.

I am not working on bedrock or pipe clay. If you read the description, it says . Why the GM1000 is unsuitable in Western Australian goldfields. I am not interested in sand grain sized nuggets either. VLF detectors are not good in ironised ground as they have no way to regulate, except to reduce the magnetic response. Which in turn makes them ineffective in deeper ground. If you have success with your GM I am happy for you. I will try all the things you suggested as I wish I could make it work better. I will let you know with a new video I am going to make the next time we are on our lease.

Ok. I have only had two of them for years. I know how to ground balance them. Read the description before you comment. I didn’t say they don’t work, I said they don’t work in West Australian goldfields soil. I mean they don’t work good enough to be a useful detector in these highly mineralised ground.

Well you pump the coil in different places then you throw a couple swings until the machine is balanced.....didn't look like you did that...you just swung that shit around my dude and definitely weren't giving the machine a chance............just saying yes the other machines are better machines.....but good monster works just fine for what it's made to do.....find smaller nuggets in shallower depth

Do you prospect in the goldfields of Western Australia?

That was the whole point of the video. I never said the GM isn’t a good machine. I said, it is recommended as a first detector to scout the Australian bush for deep nuggets, by people on Facebook. My point was this. As you have pointed out, it’s not suitable for this purpose. That’s all I was saying. I know how to use the monster, I use it when I need. I bought mine when they first came out. I know it’s uses and limitations.

It’s not quite that simple. I have been working with this machine for four years. I have tried all the recommended ground balance steps and more. Even Minelab state this machine is not suitable in the WA goldfields. The main gist of this video is a warning to those thinking of purchasing this machine to hunt gold in WA, on the recommendation of people on Facebook forums from people who probably don’t own one, have never been in the WA goldfields. More than likely have never found a speck of gold in their lives. See where I’m coming from.😁💪

It’s very limited in highly mineralised ground.