Minelab Eureka Gold
Number of Reviews: 30
on 3 pages.
Learn Your Machine!
www.HuntingForGold.net in Northern California -
as the owner of a large gold prospecting forums (www.huntingforgold.net) I've owned several (over 50) detectors, and I always come back to the eureka gold. The problem Ive seen is everyone who knocks this machine doesn't take the time to read the MANUAL and learn to use it correctly. When used as its supposed to be used, the eureka gold has and will make machines like the GB, GBII, LGMT, MXT and others look like a joke. I live in northern California where the soil is so hot most other machines just howl when you put them anywhere near the ground.
The eureka golds automatic ground balance and tracking eliminates this problem. I read reviews all of the time on this machine where people say things like "it will find iron, but not gold". One thing you need to remember with the eureka gold is that when its auto ground balancing,(switch in the slow or fast position) its constantly tracking and eliminating junk. If you pass over a signal more than a couple of times in either mode, the machine will automatically TUNE OUT GOLD. The proper way to operate the machine is to search, and when a signal is found, move your coil off to the side away from the signal, sweep the coil a few times to balance the machine and then switch your switch to FIXED. Then sweep back over the target. You'll instantly hear that now, the signals much cleaner and clearer. If its a deep signal or a very faint signal, switch to boost mode and pull it in.
If you actually take the time to LEARN the machine, you'll be very happy in the long run with it. Its actually not hard at all to learn if you study your manual. I always recommend that if your going to buy or use a machine your not 100% familiar with, take it out into the field, and TAKE YOUR MANUAL. Don't be in a hurry. If theres gold there, its been there for a million years and its not going anywhere.
Go thru the manual and test out each and every setting in real time. ONLY USE AS MUCH SENSITIVITY AS NEEDED, you don't have to run everything wide open all the time (this will cause your machine to be overly sensitive and unstable) also, while using gold to test on ( if thats what your hunting, the eureka gold is a great dual purpose machine) is best, remember, lead will work exactly the same and give the same signal as gold. Get yourself some lead, and cut different sized pieces off of it, mold them into different shapes and glue them to poker chips. Bury these at different depths and you'll soon be detecting gold with your machine like a pro.
May 18, 2010
85 Yes
3 No
I found gold!!!
OregonGold.net in Eugene, OR -For the price this is the best gold machine. I found a nugget 1/10th of a pennyweight. That is small. People who give this detector bad reviews simply DO NOT know what they are doing.
It has automatic ground balance. It has multiple frequency technology. No other company has this technology, and those that do (such as White's leased the technology from MineLab and feature this technology in there more expensive models.)I owned a White's XLT in the past and sold it because it picked up too many hot rocks.
When searching for nuggets, especially smaller ones listen for the slight change in the tone (also called the threshold.) Once you find your first nugget you will never forget that sound, and every thing is easy from then all out.
The main thing to remember is nugget hunting is not instant gratification. But good things come to those who are patient.
May 01, 2010
33 Yes
4 No
Good MD, not for technically challenged users.
DiggerGuy in Imlay, NV -
This MD is good for it's main purpose of working gold fields. After one year use, I sent it to Minelab for cleaning and recalibration. It checked out OK. Learned to run with volumne and sensitivity full up. Adjust with threshold.
If you want easy, buy another MD. If you want a good 3 freq gold MD this is it. Just take the 20-30 hrs of operating time to really, really learn how to fly it.
Feb 04, 2010
23 Yes
4 No
Borderbandit47
David in Wood Village Oregon -I have had mine for three years and have found nuggets each year here in Az. Take time to learn your machine. 20Hz is what I use most of the time because of hot rocks, but I use the boost a lot both in 20 and 60 HZ. like anything else it takes practice.
Jan 28, 2010
18 Yes
6 No
Why the Negative Reviews???
Mark Swarbrick in Arizona -I bought my Minelab Eureka Gold a month ago and have been out in the field with it several times. I have thoroughly read the manual. This seems to be a good solid and sensitive gold detector with a number of nice features.
What puzzles me is the number of negative reviews listed here. One person says it missed finding a 3/4 ounce nugget. I am wondering if those making negative reviews have read the manual. This detector does require you read the manual and learn how to set the controls. There is no question that this detector will find nuggets, both large and small. This is a VLF detector and won't go as deep or work as well in minerlized ground as the more expensive PI units, but I think it more than holds its own in the VLF class.
As far as finding gold is concerned, although I haven't found any nuggets with this detector yet, it is certainly finding very tiny pieces of lead at depth in highly mineralized ground, so I know it can find nuggets easily, even small ones. And the depth it gets is excellent. When I find gold with it I'll add that to my review!
Jan 19, 2010
24 Yes
3 No
One of the worst!!
Ronald in US -
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
27 Yes
34 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
37 Yes
15 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
40 Yes
11 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
22 Yes
78 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
156 Yes
10 No
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