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Whites MXT automatically adjust to ground mineralization

Just thought I would drop you a note and tell you that both the Minelab Advantage and the Whites MXT are doing well for me. I have attached a couple pictures of some Spring 2004 finds from one of my favorite sites. You will see quite a variety of coins from Seated and Barber silver to Indian Cents and Shield and V Liberty nickels. This area was used as an old picnic ground years ago, but it is now just a corn field. Makes for an interesting spring each year as the farmer tills the soil and churns up coins from generations past. It seems that no matter how long a silver coin has been buried here, it comes out of the ground looking brand new. Even the chemical herbicides and insecticides that are applied to the crops each year don't seem to effect the silver coins. That does not hold true for nickels and copper cents. Notice how the Indians have darkened with a beautiful patina, but the nickels are corroded to the point that they are barely distinguishable. You can make out the V or 5 on the back, but difficult to read the dates on some of them.

By studying the MXT, I have actually learned something this Spring. We all know that soil mineralization varies from place to place. We should also know that to get the most out of your detector, you need to balance the machine to the specific ground you are hunting. For nearly 30 years, I used manual tuned machines and thought I had been doing that. Until I bought my MXT with the Visual Display Indicator, I had no idea how much variance there was. When I go to a yard or park, the first thing I check with the MXT is ground readings. Here in my part of the Country, they generally read in the 50's to mid 60's. That is until you find a place that fertilizes or uses chemicals to affect plant growth. If they are fertilizing their flowers, readings can jump to the 70's within a few steps. I don't have to adjust the machine because it automatically does that for me by simply pumping the coil a couple times. But it makes me wonder how many coins I left behind in old flower beds of those abandoned home sites with other machines that were not tuned to be operating at peak performance? Maybe I should make some plans to revisit all those sites! Thanks and enjoy the pictures. Randy

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