I Tried the Minelab GPX 6000 Metal Detector!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2024
- Join me alongside my mate Andrew AKA The Coffee Bush Kid, as he lets me try out his fancy new Minelab GPX 6000 metal detector on the search for some gold. Come along with us for our usual banter as I get a taste of the realities of gold prospecting.
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Hi, I’m Mish and I’m a metal detectorist, treasure hunter and underwater diving enthusiast from the southern coastline of Australia! My TH-cam channel covers beach, land and underwater metal detecting with occasional camping and diving adventures. I like to clean up the environment as I go and always remove trash while looking for treasures.
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QUESTION: Prospectors, what gold-specific metal detectors do you use, and why?
Sdc2300, Portable, waterproof and very simple to use.
4500 as it's what I could afford lol, but it's also a tried and reliable unit, also I have a Gold Monster 1000 which is great for mullock heaps and creeks 👹🤓
Just bought my first 4500 (2nd hand). Went with this after a lot of research. Classic and trusted machine with heaps of coil options.
Have found yellow stuff with the Legend too!
Modded 5000...because it beats all other detectors...
a 6000 with 9inch Coiltex coil.... it was very good in WA goldfields this winter...
Good to see you back, Mish and Hi to Andrew. Thanks for teaching me to watch out for mine shaft holes in old mining areas, Cheers. Have a nice day. 😊👍
That mine shaft hole under the bush was deceptively deep, deep enough that we would not have been able to climb back out. A lot of shafts get covered up by sticks etc as well (false bottoms), so you really have to watch where you walk at all times. Cheers :)
@DirtFishMish Thanks for the heads up, Mish. I haven't had any experience hunting in mining areas before. 😊🙏👍
Hey my friend! I'm always stunned by how different the terrain is there vs. here.
I honestly don't mind where or what you detect, I love watching whether you find gold, relics, coins or lead. Also, the scenery out bush is beautiful.
Thank you so much :)
25 AUGUST 2023 ... Fridays in Paradise aren't the same without you, Mish!... Take care and God bless you and yours! ❤
Thank you, Tana - I did start on a video for yesterday, but am simply overwhelmed with tasks at the moment, managing my passed family member’s estate. Hoping to get the vid sorted in the next few days if time is on my side. 😊 ❤️
@@DirtFishMish Any time is the right time, Mish. Take care of yourself, first. ♥️
interesting seeing how a new machine works. Enjoy watching, as always.
They're a very different beast to my usual machines, and certainly a lot more patience required but I could see it being quite relaxing! Cheers :)
The 6000 is a great machine finds some pretty small gold. Great video Mish
Good to see you out in the bush having a laugh !
If we're not having a laugh, it's not worth going! hehe. Cheers :)
You are a great stand alone content creator but it’s always fun to see, (and hear) CBK in your videos. Thank you so much.
Thank you, I absolutely love it when we get to head out detecting together - being mates from across a state, it doesn't happen too often. Cheers :)
wow cant believe how dry the ground is under the first layer of soil. top show mish and coffee kid.
It wouldn't be dry anymore, we filmed this one just before winter really kicked in. Keen to go back - but maybe I'd best pick up a machine of my own first. Cheers mate :)
Look at us go. That brings back good memories. The banter is goldier than gold. Hope you are well. Try to take you to a better spot next time 😁👍
It's a shame the weather was against us, we couldn't even reach the '2 hour tolerance' mark. Thanks again for letting me borrow the new toy, it was a great learning experience. I'll choose my own weapon soon, and then I can release you from pick duties. Cheers mate :)
More of these 👍🏼 the 6000 is an amazing machine.
Welcome back , great to see you two working together. Thanks for sharing..Cheers
Thank you Kevin :)
Glad your back ! What a good way to get your mind off of your problems. And yes love seeing you and Andrew in more video s. Fun day!!!
Thanks Pat! We filmed this one just before winter hit, but I finally had time to put it together for TH-cam. There's still one more collab up the sleeve which I hope to get out this month sometime. Then I'd better go on some more adventures. Cheers :)
As an ex hunter and now a prospector I’m constantly cursing myself for all the lead I put out there and now I’m cleaning it up one buckshot at a time. 😂. Serves me right! Love your vids Mish. Gold luck to you both.
Great video. Look forward to more adventures.
Great teacher Mich - I’m sure your first piece isn’t too far away. That setup as you’ve seen won’t miss much. All the best.
Thanks Guy (hope you enjoyed the shoutout, hehe). The coil worked so well with the GPX, it felt light as a feather and was so precise. Cheers mate.
I enjoy gold , coins and relics!! I enjoyed your video and good luck to you.
Thanks Jimmy!!
Great learning experience thanks for sharing God Bless and stay safe. I love watching all of your adventures
Thank you so much, Terry :)
That’s what mates are for, right? Y’all look like you’re having fun!
Need to come back for just to say hello to your friends you made along the way.
I think this was a nice change of pace Mish. I want to see you find a few gold nuggets. Take care, John
I want to see me find some gold nuggets as well, John! hehe. I'll pick up a gold machine later this year most likely and then will be sure to go and test it out properly. Cheers mate.
Enjoyed the video, especially the panning results!! I need to get me one of those CBK's with his cool gear! Haha Good to see you back Mish :)
I'm glad you enjoyed that snippet at the end! Funny story, I completely forgot to video a snippet of us panning. We only did a few pans though, the creek water was so cold that we couldn't tolerate it for more than that. Something to return to another day. Cheers!
Hi Mish looking for gold wishing lots of luck to you and coffee bush kid thankyou for the video happy hunting.
Definitely more gold hunting....Cheers from the Arizona gold fields!!!!
Ohh I'd love to check those out someday! Thanks for the feedback! :)
Great to see you go for a gold hunt with Andrew !
Thanks Mish and The Coffee Kid for all the hard work! LOL Great to see you back again! I do hope your vacation was a good one! Keep up the good work and maybe the next time you'll be giggling over the bright yellow stuff!!!
Sadly not a vacation, I lost a family member... slowly making my way back but the videos might still be a little scattered here and there. Catch you on the next one Jesse :)
I kept an eye out for you, but it must have been closed! you snuck by me! I had an sd 2000 back in the 90s and found nearly 3oz of gold, all nuggets, and they ranged from 1.5 to a 26 grammer but i didnt find much in the sub grammer range, it was'nt built for the tiny stuff. now days, you have to be lucky to get onto a good patch, and they are few and far between. coins and relics are my preferred targets now, and im happy with that! And im happy to see you back on the screen! Cheers Mish, good to see you, and that bearded bloke as well...! Hooray!
I definitely snuck this video out there yesterday, but I'm so thrilled to see my community flooding the comments again! Missed you all! I'm honestly tossing up between the 6000 and the SDC 2300, pros and cons both ways really, but a big price ticket difference too. Hmmmmmm. Cheers Wayne!
@@DirtFishMishI suppose it depends on how often you can get to the gold fields, renting might be a cheaper alternative, Detecting for relics and coins on land and underwater, or out there in the gold fields, It doesn't matter where you are, because we will be there too! We missed you too Mish! Cheers!
Hi Mish and Andrew that was something new for me as well as you. interesting how the method is the same but finding is slightly different. it must give you a buzz every time you get a signal because it could be gold. You lead us to the place, i could not resist. thanks for the video looking forward to the next one ( gold )👍
It is lovely to see you Mish out in the Gold felled and CBK, good Hunt.🤠💢💯
Thanks Ray! Something different! Always good to go detecting with a mate.
It's great to see you again, Mish!
My preference is beach, dirt, gold. The gold doesn't excite me much as far as searching for it.
BUT, as I've said before, whatever you do... I just like listening to you. : )
As always, take care and God bless! ❤
Fun hunt Mish sorry you didn’t get gold, but always next time ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💜
Nice to see you back Mish, another fun hunt with the bearded metal detectorist.
Quite surprised you didn't find a button 😂looking forward to seeing your next adventure.
I do prefer the beach detecting best 👌
Now that you mention it, I'm shocked we didn't find any buttons lol. Maybe next time. ;)
I was wishing for an adventure and got it..cheer on!
Glad I could help! :)
Yay. You're back! Will watch your video soon. 😊
Man Mish...it sure feels good to get see your videos again. I moved into some deeper forest with totally lousy wifi. With all the darned buffering it would take over half an hour to watch a 10-15 minute video. Hopefully I'm past that now.
It was really great to get to see you and Andrew detecting again. I sure hope you still do some tide pool detecting sometimes. As I've already said, I have loved tide pools since I was a little boy.
Anyway, it's wonderful to get to see your videos again!
Be safe and well...
Cheers from Hoodsport, Washington!
Moving into a deep forest sounds very appealing right now, Terry! Sounds like a delightful location despite the internet troubles.
I'd love to check out the tide pools again. At the moment we are approaching the coldest water temps of the year, which is typically around September where I am, so it's not particularly pleasant on the hands but by November or so it should be more feasible. I do like putting them on videos, as there's always so much to observe in them. Cheers!
@@DirtFishMish and another great thing was seeing that Andrew of Adventure Gold was still making videos and surviving. I've thought about how he was doing for the entire year of no WiFi. He's taught me some great tips about geology and gold panning and although I'll never meet any of you guys I still feel like you're part of my life and really important to me. I guess I'm just another crazy old guy 😂
Great video thanks Mish and Andrew
Always keen on seeing more videos whether they are relic or gold related 😎
Glad you enjoyed the little side-quest! It felt good to put up another video :)
Could you imagine if coffee bush kid was scraping and ran the pick into a record breaking piece of gold??? A girl can dream…
I'd definitely remember to film the happy dance!
Great video. Good to see CBK (Professor)with you again. Like to see more videos on your Gold detecting journey. Great work
Thanks! I will try to pick up a gold machine in the coming months and arrange another trek over to the goldfields. Cheers :)
Fun hunt. Just like any day of detecting, just takes that one find to make it a great day. Thanks for sharing!!!
So very true!! Thanks mate.
Welcome back matey 👌
Thank you! :)
Exelente aventura amiga super hermoso lugar saludos desde México 🇲🇽 bendiciones
Awesome video with Andrew, Mish.. glad to see a video, hope you are doing ok!
Love the colab, love hunting for gold. Nice little specs of gold too 😍
Thanks Cap'n, feels good to be emerging out of the woodwork a little bit! At least we had SOME yellow on the day even if it wasn't found as originally intended. Cheers :)
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Welcome back Mish & hi to Coffee Bush Kid. Enjoy ALL of your videos Mish. I'm heading to Northern / Central NSW end of this week from my home state of S.A.& I hope to have a day or 2 in Bendigo district on my way back in couple weeks time. Probably be more treasure than gold hunting with my Equnox 900, but you never know what you'll find until you dig it! Regards Lindsay.
Absolutely, you'll never know if you don't try! Hopefully you at least find an amazing relic/coin or two even if no gold pops up. Plenty of history left to find. Cheers :)
Hi again Mish. Well I'm back home in South Aus. Didn't find a lot on couple short goes detecting in Qld/NSW/VIC. Got one small silver on a rural property in southern QLD. Met CBK & Gold Digger Dave in Bendigo store. All the best, Lindsay.
@@Mutley-qn2bn getting out and about is always the best part, so I’m glad you had a few opportunities (and got to meet the Bendigo celebrities as well 😂). 😁
With the waterproof coil can you use it to test an area before panning? Looks like fun and like you said something different in the kit.
That's a good question! I'm not aware of anyone using this particular machine for that purpose, but one of the other machines I've considered (Minelab SDC 2300) is fully waterproof and I know folks have used it for that. I'll probably pick something up later in the year. Cheers :)
Thanks for the honest video showing that you get lead 99% of the time, with no Yella stuff.......better luck next time.
No worries at all! It's so important to have honest accounts on TH-cam especially for those considering the hobby, though hopefully I can chance across a nice little nugget at some stage. Cheers Paul :)
Hope alls well for you Mish. I'd like to see more, it's fascinating how the hope so often comes 2nd to the reality. There must be tons of lead and iron out there.
The anticipation for each target is crazy, especially knowing it's 99% chance of junk but the 1% could be a game changer! I can see why people get gold fever. Cheers mate.
Nice looking gold in the panning at the end! What area/creek would one get those results from Mish? Cheers
Sorry for the delayed reply! There are many creeks in gold-bearing regions that will yield such results, my best tip is to obtain a prospecting map for that region (I use Signal Prospecting maps, but there are other brands as well). Start in areas that are indicated to have a history of gold extraction. I recommend watching Vo-Gus Prospecting on TH-cam for good instructional content. Best of luck!
Happy to watch any adventure. Andrew should have taken you to a better spot, lol cheers from Warragul
We only had an hour before a rain front was due to hit, so there wasn't much time to overthink the spot - it had lots of promising signs there but plenty of lead shot too! Next time. Cheers :)
The SDC 2300 is what we run atm for gold. It's a great machine, but I find it a bit on the heavy side (I have some physical limitations). Would love a GPX 6000 but I'm also looking at another coin detector. Decisions. :-)
I really appreciate this comment, as it pretty much details the exact dilemma I am facing! Those are the two machines I am trying to decide between. The waterproof nature of the SDC is great for me given that I'd be likely to submerge it in water at some point, but I do dislike heavy machines and the GPX felt amazing to swing. Decisions indeed. :)
Love to see more when you find some mish you will get the gold fever lol👍
I think I've already gotten it from watching so many mates doing it on TH-cam, lol. Looking forward to my turn, I've only ever found the one piece with a machine and it was with my Deus 2. Cheers. :)
How did I miss this one? 🤔 Mish that is one fancy new digger you've got there! What do you have to feed it? I want one! 😜
Great adventure! All the best with the gold hunting!
Thank you!
Nice Mish, obviously Andrew didn't take you to his good spots . It's great to see you out on the hunt for gold and the 6000 is a good machine, I've just picked one up myself a few weeks back and was straight onto the gold. See on the next hunt for gold. Cheers Pete
Thanks Pete, we only had an hour and the weather was pretty dicey so it was a case of simply trying a spot near where we could park our vehicles. It was still a good chance to hold the machine and get a feel for it. Tossing up between this or maybe saving some money and picking up an SDC (the waterproofing would be an advantage for me), but I wonder if the weight of the SDC would annoy me lol. Big decisions!! Cheers mate.
That's pretty much what gold prospecting is, finding a whole lot of junk and sometimes getting a bit of yella if you're lucky 🤣😂
Thanks for the video Mish and cbk 👍🤓✌️
And there was certainly a lot of fun banter in the process of finding the junk! Cheers Gavin :)
@@DirtFishMish yep... That's the great thing about it when going with other people
Hi Mish, great video with CBK. I would like to see more with CBK. Not bad finds. Tell CBK Hi for me. Take care and stay safe till next time. ❤❤
There's one more CBK collab hunt up my sleeve which I hope to bring out soon, then I'll have to make more travel plans to catch up with him again. What a shame. ;) Cheers Skye!
Is there a standout mid range detector that picks up deeper than others?
Hi Mish, amazing metal detector 😮 great place and good friend,what else?😊 Greetings to Italy 🇮🇹 all the best
Grazie mate, it was fun using a gold machine for a change! Detecting with friends is always fun. :)
@@DirtFishMish yes 😁💪 always fun ,good hunting Mish
Salve guerreira Mish 💎⛏️🇧🇷🇧🇷
The true reality of detecting , lots of hard work for a small thrill when you find the shiny.
I'm looking forward to that day. At least there were a few specks in the pan. :)
Now if regular detecting takes patience, gold prospecting takes the patience of a Jedi Master! My only gold machine in the arsenal is a Garrett Infinitum (circa 1990s) it is a bit finicky and a bugger to noise cancel looking for a clean channel & may be a slow death sometimes... But it'll get the job done. But mostly here in sunny, and lately extremely hot Florida, i only break it out to search for gold chains on clean beaches just to chage up the routine. It is not a comfortable machine to swing with the original shaft, a must to get an Andersen shaft! But way better machines exist now!!! Have fun 🏖️🌊🪙⛏️⛏️⛏️
I'm currently tossing up between the 6000 and an SDC 2300 which is waterproof, but heavier - as I'm sure I'll be tempted to swing whichever machine I choose out on the beach! Hopefully I can pick something up later in the year. Cheers mate. :)
@@DirtFishMishwaterproof is priceless! 🌊💦💧☔
Great to see you back Mish.. those hidden mines scare the shit out of me. One step and........🫣🫣
Yep, you've got to keep your wits about you in the old gold working regions! Letting someone know your general GPS coordinates is also super important for the same reason. Cheers :)
Hello dear Mish 🤠👋⚒⛏ Salutations from France
Very Nice 👍👍👍
Very very nice video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
When you digg just put it in a basket not on the ground , then you check every time the 2 spot.
Are they like the sinkers of the gold detecting world? 😂
Musket balls are the sinkers! The lead shot is just annoying. lol :)
Hope you find some gold, I think it’s at the beach🤣🤣🤣in the shape of a gold ring😂
I think you're right, lol!
Certainly Paul
Well Mish. I have to be the idiot who says it. Those were the smallest sinkers I've ever seen you find. Very interesting vid. Seems like you need to swing much more slowly or maybe that was centering on the target. I wonder if I use my Nox 800 on gold mode would I need to slow the swing down?
heh heh heh. They're the goldfields equivalent of sinkers, along with musket balls.
Correct, gold detecting requires a much slower swing as you're generally listening for smaller targets and sometimes they only give the faintest blip. A fast swing would not give the machine enough time to process what was going on under the coil, and finer targets would be easily missed. Take your time with the Nox, check old tailings piles etc and I hope you come across some goodies :)
If you buy one of those Mish, you won't be able to afford the coffees on those cold wet mornings anymore.
Hah! Fair point, but surely that massive gold nugget that's still out there somewhere would cover a few hot beverages. :)
Better luck next time.
Bom dia linda
Is he your husband 😅
lol no, my husband is in several of my videos but detecting isn't one of his main hobbies. Everyone needs good detecting buddies. 😁
Nice hunt , I like beach hunts 😊
Hope everything is good for you.
Nice see coffee bush kid !
Look, if they can train a pig to find truffles and a dog to find drugs, they ought to be able to train something to find gold. Maybe the ants could specialize. Just have to come up with a bribe that they can’t resist…..
🤣 I would be very happy with an army of gold-prospecting ants!