I have recently purchased a Minelab SDC 2300 from Pilbara Prospecting Supplies and left for a short trip to the Pilbara.
I am writing because I am so impressed with the machine and its performance.
Within minutes of tuning and using it, I found my first small nugget of gold.
As I hadn’t been prospecting for approximately 8 years I was quite surprised and thought someone had missed a piece.
To my amazement, I found another 8 small nuggets within another 30 minutes.
Obviously others had missed this little patch.
I moved onto an area that I knew had been well worked, even with the Minelab 5000 series.
To my amazement, I again started picking up small pieces of gold. I thought to myself, this is some machine.
Thereafter, it didn’t matter where I tried the detector, I could pick up small pieces of gold.
At times, I would dig ten targets and then go back with the detector scoop them into a bucket and pan them, thinking it might be quicker.
It wasn’t the case.
I felt that the machine was not giving me the depth that I would like but I was happy that each time I went detecting I found gold almost immediately. It got to the point that if I didn’t find a small piece of gold within 5 minutes I was disappointed.
On one occasion, I took it into a creek and found a nice granite bar trap which I went across and got a strong signal from and dug out just under a one ounce piece.
There was one occasion that occurred with the machine after locating a target I laid the detector on the ground and started to pass the dirt across the coil but the machine completely shut down and restarted. It did this on several occasions on that day but has not done it since.
John – WA, Australia