Welcome to Treasure Talk, Minelab's metal detecting blog. We've handpicked our very best and most knowledgeable staff to present regular metal detecting blogs on topics close to their heart. Plus we're asking you to join in and make it a conversation.
Our chosen few will be sharing their product knowledge, detecting experience, personal tips and tricks and anything else they want to discuss that might be of interest to the detecting community.
So who are our chosen few? Let me introduce them...
Nenad has been with Minelab for 8 years and is based in Adelaide, Australia where he is our Customer and Technical Support Officer. He's a passionate gold prospector and beach hunter and has been a keen user of metal detectors since he was sixteen. He regularly contributes articles in the 'Minelab Times' (Minelab Times can be downloaded
here), and has written articles and stories for Australian Gold, Gem & Treasure magazine. Amongst his personal arsenal of detectors are a GPX-4500 and Sovereign GT, and uses an E-TRAC for the occasional coin shoot in the parklands.
Kevin has been with Minelab for 5 years but has been using Minelab metal detectors since the late 1980’s. Kevin is our Director of Dealer Development based in Prescott Arizona and spends most of his time working from his Minelab 'Nissan Xterra' truck that he calls his office. He is passionate about gold prospecting and has traveled to many locations around the world hunting the yellow metal. While we welcome your input, please don't get Kevin started on the gold he finds! (when he has the time to go metal detecting that is) Kevin's favorite metal detector is the GPX-4500, but he also shoots for coins and relics with an E-TRAC and carries an X-TERRA 705 with 2 coils everywhere he goes.
For our readers in Europe, Des needs no introduction, but for the rest... Des has been with Minelab for 11 years and is based in Cork, Ireland, where he is our Field Application Specialist. Des has produced many online videos (available at
MLOTV.com) and written a stack of articles for metal detecting magazines. He's a passionate detectorist, world traveler and avid outdoor fanatic with a bent for taking photos! Des's favorite detectors are the Musketeer, Sovereign’s, X-TERRA and the fantastic E-TRAC.
Phil has been with Minelab for 11 years and is based in Adelaide, Australia. Phil is part of our Engineering team and has been heavily involved with incorporating technologies such as MPS, DVT and SETA into the GP range of detectors. Whilst Phil has a stack of gold specimens in his office for testing, he's yet to find a piece of gold that he didn't bury an hour earlier!
I have been with Minelab for one year, based in Adelaide, Australia. I am part of our Marketing team and after finding my first piece of gold in less than 15 minutes using a GPX-4500, am warming to the idea of buying my own. Beginners luck, natural talent or an amazing detector, I'll let you decide.
So to start the conversation - What would you like us to write about? What would you like to know from Minelab that would make your detecting experiences even more rewarding?
Happy detecting,
Brenton O’Brien
P.S. To contribute you will need to create a Minelab login here.
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Comments
What would we like to Know ?
Well any extra tips and tricks i Guess. I personally would be interested whether their are any large coils in the pipeline for the E-TRAC for a bit of extra coverage of those large areas. I'd just like to add that anyone reading this thinking about buying the E-TRAC it really is the roles royce of discriminating detectors.
I don't swing a metal detector on a regular basis like many of you but I do get to see the detector from the inside out. I am in a rare position, where many of the people that buy the detectors that I help to create get to know the operation of those detectors better than I do.
Please participate freely in the discussions about each post as this can only help to improve the quality and the selection of the articles that we write here.
I'm away with my family at the moment but I might have an article on simplifying the E-TRAC audio for first timers up some time after I get back.
The range of commander coils are water resistant, but not waterproof. For example this means that they can get wet from rain and from moving through wet grass, but they cannot be submerged under water. There’s more information about Minelab coils in the Coil Selection Guide that can be downloaded from the Knowledge Base section of the website under technical notes.
Brenton O’Brien
You can find patterns for the E-TRAC on the E-TRAC product page under specifications. You can also download and share E-TRAC patters and settings at minelabowners.com.
Brenton
Well done Minelab... Jonathan Porter