Minelab Eureka Gold
Street Price $1000 - Gold nugget
Number of Reviews: 15
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Minelab Eureka Gold
One of the worst!!
Ronald,_bigunit in nodick Clitlicker -
A $1000 and no performance it did not find several 3,4 ounce nuggetts in a tailing pile in gold country, bearley picks up small placer gold in any frequency, over priced and under preformance is what you will get with this cheeseball unit, do not get ripped off like I did!!! I am still pissed but I had enough money to purchase a PI unit from Whites a much better machine and company minelab has a real problem standing behind there warranty, also there is almost no gold in Texas and it only takes 1-2 minutes to setup and ground balance a Eureka gold not 3-4 hours to set it up only if you are mentally challenged.
Jun 04, 2009
10 Yes
5 No
Eureka Gold minelab
Bill Krieger in Golden, Colorado -Not a very good metal detector been using it for 3 years now here in Colorado, I thought it was made in Australia but mine came from Irelend from kellyco ebay so I dont know how it ws field tested my old compass detector is better. It was a wast of money, and it will pickup every hot rock all the time the 20 dont work at all the 60 works and the 6.5 work and its not water proof. It loves to pickup black sand, must not be good for colorado maybe good for Irelend? And the detecter has an over load alarm for hot rocks or what the book dont tell you, truely this detector sucks the big one here in colorado, I think only saleman are giving it good reviews not mad just disapointed its a lot of money for this detector I will live and learn Bill Krieger.
Apr 20, 2009
19 Yes
3 No
What Proof?
Anyguy detectorman in Double D Alaska -So I am reading the other reviews about how another peospector was using a Eureka gold and found 3 nuggets with it first time out, that is not proof it is hear say and nothing else, I own one of these units and all of my other VLFs out preform this unit, also Whites GMT and MXT cost less and preform better than this detector, not very much bang for to many bucks, it reacts quickly to targets but lacks depth, all of the other gold detectors on the market work much better than this unit, if you are looking for a nuggett shooter the minelab 2100 V2 is a much better detector for about $200 more. Minelab should discontinue production of this unit until its preformance is improved, other than that it is a waste of time and money!!!!
Jan 29, 2009
23 Yes
5 No
Found gold
ROBERT NELSON in VENTURA, CA. -
Most people relate to all metal detectors as one. They're not, they all have different aspects. I have 3 detectors. One is a radio shack discovery 2000 about 10 years old. Very good detector for parks and just having fun. My 2nd detector is a Bounty Hunter TreasuePro. It is by far the best detector for the money that you can buy. I don't know what their new version is, but buy it. My 3rd detector is a Eureka Gold by Minelab. Every 3 months my wife and I head north and prospect for gold. This detector is awesome. Its strictly a 'hear machine'. and we find gold. NOTHING BETTER.
Oct 31, 2008
13 Yes
67 No
Eureka
Larry Brown in Seattle, Wa -
I have read some of the other reviews and it does not take 4 to 5 hours to set up a minelab for different soil types, try 1 to 2 minutes tops there is not much there to work with, threshold, sensitivity and volume, I understand there relationships very well this is a very easy machine to learn, don't forget to ground balance it, I have some placer gold that I mined myself and the minelab eureka would not pick it up but my Garret GTI 2500 would. Unlike Texas where there is almost no gold to mine here in Washington state we have a number of sites and rivers to mine in, and the cascade mountain range too, I have set this unit up in every configuration possible it still will not pick up small peices of gold. I know a lot about metal detectors and there circuits, I have been an electronics tehnician for 25 years and have repaired countless industrial and consumer metal detectors, and installed, rebuilt and repaired lots of other electronic equipment, if a detector is not designed correctly than that is the manufacturers fault not operator error!!!
Sep 09, 2008
132 Yes
7 No
Three frequencies!!
Les in anywhere USA -
This eureka gold is not like having three different detectors it is like having one crappy unit with three frequencies, for a $1000 this thing should at least work a little bit better and the proof that I have about the the minelab is that I own one and it does not work as claimed the search coil is not even water proof!!! And it has no features or disc tones to work with..
Sep 04, 2008
14 Yes
4 No
Great detector with some practice
Michael Youngblood in Dallas, TX -This is a very decent detector that will pick up on all kinds of small gold (under 1 gram) and large gold.. it does have a learning curve just as all detectors do... I bought small gold in different sizes from a prospecting store and went to where i knew there were 4 diff. types of soils... it took about 2 days (4 -5 hrs a day) to get it set up right for the diff soils.. I buried some of the small flakes at about 4, 6 , 8 in and it found them well in 60khz with faint boosted signal and buried larger pieces even deeper and at 20khz and lower found them at 6, 10 and 14 in. very well... I don't know what the other reviews are about that give it a bad name but you MUST understand that threshold, GB and sensitivity all go hand in hand to set up a detector to make it sniff the right way and get the best soil penetration and depth for hunting... different types of ground call for different settings on the 3 above mentioned settings..
Aug 20, 2008
15 Yes
36 No
Double wow!!!
Jeff in anytown usa -This eureka would make a great industrial metal detector,it has almost no features no tone ID disc for iron that does not work out in the feild,I spent way to much money on something that almost functions, will not pick up gold! I ran some placer past the coil the eureka did not even see it!!!! or punch through miner. Soil or hot rocks, if I was looking for a buried pipe this would be your machine, it is really fun spending hours finding bottle caps and foil and rusty nails, Minelabs thinking is that most gold is a mixture of other metals flour gold is not.This eureka was a total waste of my money,looks I am going to buy a Garret, I will never purchase another minelab product!!!!
May 22, 2008
52 Yes
4 No
WOW!!!!!Did they see me coming.....
Rich Nelson in Richland,Wa -Did I get ripped off this eureka has almost no features and preforms very poorly in the feild, it has no nomotion pin pointing,no tone ID which it needs very badly,when the iron disc is on it still responds to iron very loudly even small peices,it is suppose to blank but it has a long lag time you have to sweep several times to make sure the disc is working, will not detect gold I ran some of my own past the coil a good amount of flour gold with no iron mixed in, it would not pick it up but my old bounty hunter would set in all metal mode.So minelab is overhyping there iron detector to make you think it works better on nonferrous metal believe me it does not, If you want a detector that targets everything alot of trash, if you like to do alot of digging then this is your guy what a deal $900,no features,poor feild preformance, barley discs out iron,it is a pull tab magnet,they could of atleast put a pull tab disc in this for the money spent it is a old cheap circuit that is in this eureka. The three different frequencies are done with RCL circuits a very easy task,I could have bought alot more preformance for alot less money,so I am buying a Garret GTI 2500 for prospecting and I will do side by side comparisons, also when I am down on the river in a gold bearing highly mineralised area I always take my bounty hunter with me so I can double check the target to see if it worth digging ,the soil does not effect my bounty hunter, what a raft, also this guy reallly hits on hot rocks,this thing would make a good industrial detector for piping and wire, I will never purchase minelab again!!!!!so if you are thinking about this detector try one first you are looking for gold not trash....
May 20, 2008
59 Yes
4 No
What a machine
Rusty Whit in MF,Or -After buying recieving and reading the manual for the eureka gold I took this amazingly whimpy unit out in to the feild, What a disapointment,this thing would not pickup Gold that I brought with me to test the tone of the unit,this guy would work ok if there was nothing else in the ground any trash even minimal amounts make this unit very difficult to use, save your money and buy a better detector that works, minelabs are way over hyped, no preformance!!!
May 12, 2008
188 Yes
5 No
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