GPX 4000 And Older GP Series Success Stories

I always wanted a Kilo.
My mate and I have been detecting ten years plus and we take it fairly seriously, getting away every chance we get. I don't show off the nuggets I get, but a few good friends get to see them. I've been reasonably successful over the years and have had my share of 3 and 5 ounce pieces but just recently one of my friends teased me that I'd never jagged a kilo. Now my mate and I have owned a good few Minelab detectors but we recently bought the new GP 3000, now let me tell you, that's a bonza machine. Runs really quiet and you can hear those faint little whispers. We decided to detect a spot that I recon every detector in Queensland has been over, and ours included, but I had a new big coil and I thought that the big coil and the GP together might be just what was needed. The morning was spent detecting and all we got was one small piece along with a few bullets. Stopped for lunch then try a spot just to the side of the main workings. After a while, I got a very faint signal that sounded just like another bullet. I dig away for a while then my mate comes over to lend a hand. We were in hard clay and gravel, the pick near bounced back at you so we took turns digging and pinpointing. As it happens, our pinpointing wasn't spot on with the big coil and we hit it with the pick,- ouch! one gouge. We finally unearthed it and I measured the depth at one hand spread less than the length of my pick, about 22 inches. Well I'd found my kilo piece. Final weight is 1520 grams and a pretty specimen at that.
By Queensland Sandy

	Thirty Two Ounces of Gold with the GP3000.
	This year we had our first trip to Western Australia. We had in mind to find a patch with some large nuggets. Both my husband Michael and I own GP3000's and have been pleased with their performance after owning the SD2000's and SD2100's. We started off in the flogged places and around diggings and could not believe our success. The trouble was we never got to go walking much because we could not walk away from gold even though the pieces were small. We met so many people who were disappointed this year after having success other years and they were really surprised when we told them we had found 1541 pieces giving us a total of thirty two ounces.
	Julie H, Australia

	The GP Extreme is the "King of Performance"
	The GP Extreme is the "King of Performance". It's the only machine I use... especially after unearthing a 9.1 ounce gold nugget at 28" deep in an area where conventional detectors have searched many times before.
	Rob A.

I give the GP3000 the THUMBS UP!
It does everything my trusty GP-Extreme does and more. Smoother threshold... Cleaner signal response... Better head-saver when going over large targets.. Even though I did not dig any deep targets on this trip, I could tell that this machine does have the same capabilities. Is it worth it to upgrade to the 3000???? For me, a nugget hunter, I want every advantage I can get. And if I am going to be out there doing this, then I want the best machine for the situation at hand. In my opinion that is the new GP3000 for the size of gold I am after and the areas I detect.
Gerry M - Idaho, USA

	MY FIRST NUGGET & A 40 GRAMMER!
	have owned my GP EXTREME for approximately eighteen months and admittedly it hasn't been used to the extent that it should have been. I was having little success, when a friend came up with the idea of going to the Golden Triangle in Victoria. A number of days went past and Norm was finding 1, 2 and 3 gram pieces every day and I had not found one piece, damn discouraging, but I kept at it. We were then given a 'tip' of a likely spot to try. I set up the machine and headed off into what I think must have been the biggest, widest and longest rubbish dump in the district. After digging up half a ton of rubbish, I was ready to head back to the car. "I will head towards that tree over there and then knock off" I said to myself. A few minutes later another signal, "more rubbish" I'm thinking. I start to dig the hole and a clump of clay came away from my pick. It was weighty, so I broke it in half and I was looking at what was my first significant find with a detector. My maiden nugget. When it was washed under the tap, back at the caravan park, 40.3 grams of pure gold my first nugget. I still sit and look in wonder at my nugget, asking how many people detected the nugget and continued to walk on thinking that it was more rubbish, leaving the 40 grammer for me. I have to say, dig every signal, because if you don't I will, and I might find a mate for my 40 grammer.
	Nugget

Unfortunately the finder wants to remain anonymous but has allowed us to show off these great finds

What a beauty - 55oz of glorious Western Australian gold.
Also found in the same area, these two weigh a further 58 ounces.
Total weight found from the patch was a little over 180 ounces.

Western Australian Gold Finds.

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