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  • Changing Lives

    Changing Lives

    I would like to thank Minelab for the best products, I’m South Sudanese by nationality. Living in Ouagadougou Burkina Faso as a refugee, GPX 5000 and GPX-4500 are the wonderful and best metal d…

  • A Curious Find

    A Curious Find

    I found this cast bronze piece in my back yard. I am hoping someone can give me an idea as to what it might be.…

  • Grand Slam of Nickels

    Grand Slam of Nickels

    I went to a house built in 1900 on Saturday. The owner said it had been metal detecting a couple times. I went extremely slow and used TTF to pull out every non-ferrous signal. The yard was very tras…

  • Father & Son First Find

    Father & Son First Find

    It was the first time out with the new GPX 5000. My son and I had just had a full day training as it was the first time detecting. We hadn’t found gold at the training area and we were wanting t…

  • First Silver

    First Silver

    I just picked up a Minelab E-TRAC as an upgrade about a week ago. This is my first silver score with the new machine. I hunted in a spot that I thought I had picked clean, and at 10 inches depth, out…

  • The E-TRAC Does It Again

    The E-TRAC Does It Again

    My E-TRAC never ever ceases to amaze me. Went out to spend the day on fields the we have detected for a number of years with a colleague. We did not expect to find much given the number of times we h…

  • First Gold Score EVER!

    First Gold Score EVER!

    I just upgraded to the Minelab E-TRAC about a week ago. I was out hunting in a very high trash local park the other day and found this 10K gold filled ring. It's the first piece of gold I've ever foun…

  • GPX 5000 Finds Meteorite

    GPX 5000 Finds Meteorite

    I uncovered this beautifully preserved meteorite with my GPX 5000 in north-western Arizona. It weighs 115-grams and is classified as an L4 ordinary chondrite. Radiocarbon tests conducted at the Unive…

  • My 9 Copper Day

    My 9 Copper Day

    So my day began with selling popcorn at the local post office with my son for Cub Scouts. While there his mentor in school came by. A sweet older woman whom my son loves. I asked her where she lived…