I get asked about settings for the 4500/5000 detectors constantly, so I put the settings I used as go-to in a table for my customers. They are conservative but work well. I see some very radical settings from time to...
As some of you who visit or call us regularly might already know, we had our store for sale for a short while as we wanted to retire back to our home town of Charters Towers. We have some projects...
In Queensland almost all land will need some sort of permission from the landowner to be able to go detecting or fossicking. You will need to organise this for yourself if you are expecting to be able to fossick in...
So you’d like to go metal detecting and you have so many questions and so few answers? I hope this basic guide might make it clearer for you.
Firstly I will ask you what you want to go looking for, coins and treasure or gold, and most people will say both.
From my perspective the gain setting is basically a sensitivity control. The manual tells us;
With a high Rx Gain setting the detector will pick up smaller and deeper targets, but may respond to unwanted interference and ground noise. A high Rx Gain setting is recommended for mild soil conditions and areas of low interferen
Why does the SDC2300 beat the more expensive Minelab PI detectors? To explain this we need to know a little about how these detectors work. The coil transmits a magnetic field generated by a pulse of current, or a series...
Our Townsville store address has recently changed as our lease expired and we have relocated to a more prominent and visible position. The new address is; Shop 11, 260 - 262 Charters Towers Road, Hermit Park, QLD 4812 This location...
The first thing I will ask you when you tell me “I’ve never done it but always wanted to” is “Do you want to look for gold or coins/treasure?” Most people want to look for gold so let’s take a look at the choices you may have.
Cairns Prospecting World is the new Minelab certified store situated in Bungalow, Cairns, and is a sister store to our Townsville Prospecting World store in Aitkenvale, Townsville. For a brief history, my wife and I ventured into business in 1999...
