Fresh finds, coil demos, and more
A detectorist since 1975, Mal lives with his wife in a small village outside Oxford in the UK, surrounded by beautiful countryside steeped in history going back to the Iron Age. As our November Detectorist of the Month, Mal shares how he got into detecting – and some of his
Armed with the GPX 6000 and 9” GOLDHAWK coil, I set off to an old gold patch on a hillside I had worked years earlier with the GPX 4500. I was a bit naive in thinking I had done a fairly good job cleaning out the area before, and I
When 29 year-old “tradie lady” Hayley isn’t painting ceilings or building decks, she’s out prospecting for gold with her two rainbow lorikeets. As our October Detectorist of the Month, Hayley shares how she started detecting – and why she hasn’t missed a single weekend out in over two years! Who or
I’ve never had much experience on a detector before. After getting a GPX6000 as a wedding anniversary gift, I was told to buy a 10×5” GOLDHAWK as the signal response was much greater. When I first put it on, it was so light for its size and looked heavy duty.
Our September Detectorist of the Month, Andy Knox, has been hooked on detecting ever since a neighbour showed him military relics as a young child. Decades later, Andy has found his own pieces of history – from a 1795 dime to a pair of Revolutionary War-era sterling silver gravy boats. Who
Wow, just wow. I have been a passionate user of Coiltek coils for years. They never let me down, and I’m guaranteed they will pay me back for what I paid for my detector coil combo in no time. I have just done a four-week stint after being out of
