Golden Mask, a well-known Bulgarian manufacturer of metal detectors, has launched its most powerful metal detector to date—the Golden Mask 4Xtreme. This 2024 release is designed to cater to both professional treasure hunters and beginners alike, offering unparalleled depth and speed in a user-friendly package. Continue reading
A nail board test is not always a simple trick. You just can’t up and swing your machine over the images of nails and coins. Any test must provide you with some information, approve or reject something… Let’s have a look at a Minelab Vanquish 340 nail board test. It’s a really difficult test for metal detectors! Continue reading
Quest has released a new metal detector 2020 – the Quest Q30. Here’s the test of the Q30 ability to separate close together targets. Continue reading
During the past 10,000 years, gold has been the hardest currency of all. And it’s within just the last 200 years that people invented modern paper currency. Has it been good? Certainly not. In times past, any gold coin holder was always by far on top of the situation. Today… The price of physical gold has been jumping in the range of $869-$1,900 paper money per ounce over the last 10 years. But if you have a metal detector, you are still able to rejoice in gold. Here below is the very case: 60.66 grams of gold nuggets in just one outing – equivalent to $2,528, the XP ORX machine has covered its cost. Continue reading
The so called “not diggable” signal can be given by anything – by both a rusty nail and a gold coin, everything depends on your machine and your experience. Below is a case in point, let’s take a look at a comparative test between two metal detectors: the DeepTech Vista Smart Plus operating at 15 kHz vs the DeepTech Vista Gold Gain working on 30 kHz. The test is being conducted in highly mineralized soil. Test target: a gold coin. Here you will find the answer to the why-does-a-detector-need-a-high-frequency question. Notice how the unit running at 15 kHz is detecting the coin. How often do you hear such signals while hunting? It’s the real classic of not diggable audio response! Continue reading