Minelab Eureka Gold
Street Price $1000 - Gold nugget
Number of Reviews: 18
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Minelab Eureka Gold
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
58 Yes
6 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
62 Yes
6 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
192 Yes
6 No
Eureka gold
Rick Young in Richland,Wa -After reading the manual and using all the settings in mineralised soil, and some of my own settings,it picked up a lot of hot rocks and iron and did not punch through the soil like the ads state or reject hot rocks, nor did it pick up gold that I ran across the coil, this detector needs a lot of improvements to really make it a usable unit tone ID would be a nice feature to start with, for the price you could buy a lot better detector from another manufacturer. This unit was a total waste of money, minelab got me to buy once but never again!!!!!!!
May 08, 2008
439 Yes
2 No
Not a good unit
Ricky Rocko in Walla Walla,Wa -This machine no matter what setting does not preform very well, get something better like whites, tesoro, garrett, fisher, and save a lot of money you will get more targets and spend a lot less money. American products are and will always be the best products you can buy, 50 years of my own experience tells me that.
May 02, 2008
44 Yes
4 No
better than the explorer
Peter in BTIGHTON sussex -
Tested against Explorer two ,and tesoro eldorado,
and nexus , silver sixpence 1820, buried 12 inches in grassed over chalky soil,cooper cartwheell penny buried 8 inches, tesoro picked up cartwheel penny but not the silver coin, explorer two picked up cartwheell penny ,not the silver untill I put the 18 inch coil on then I got a signal.
The ureaka gold gave me good signals on both cooper and silver, frequency set at 60.
I am still learning to drive the nexus, but that to gave me signals on both coins.
I rate the ureaka as a good coin and artifact finder
Oct 13, 2007
22 Yes
7 No
It finds the gold
Dan Lucas in Delta Junction, Alaska -This is not a turn on and go machine, it takes practice to get where your finding the nuggets. This machine will find them, and the automatic tracking is by far the best feature. After reading the manual, practing on a 1 grain nugget for 2 hours hidden at different depths, by my wife, you can detect it 4" deep and with a amp down even further. A 4.2 grain at about 10". I'm wondering what a 1oz. will sound like when I find it. With this detector I think I've got a chance to do it.
Jan 04, 2005
95 Yes
13 No
What more proof do you need ?
lostjohn in Boise,Idaho -Friend who has prospected for 30 years with limited success, took his New Minelab Eureka Gold to a heavily detected mine site and found three nuggets, 8.5 oz, 2 oz and 1 oz in an area that had been gone over many times by others. I saw the proof, I'm sold.
Dec 21, 2004
121 Yes
127 No
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