hey everyone welcome back to another video, so today I have the Minelab SDC
2300 metal detector, we're gonna take this out today and we're gonna
demonstrate how to use it, how to set it up, and maybe find some gold with it. Most
likely we won't, but I am gonna bring some gold nuggets with us so I can show
you guys exactly how sensitive this thing is, how it works and everything.. but
I figured I would start the video here in the studio just to go over some of
the technical specs of it really quickly before we get into the show..
Alright, here at Minelab.com basically it tells you everything you
need to know about the detector, it is a compact, high-performance, mid-range gold
detector perfect for chasing down elusive sub-gram nuggets on land and
underwater. So as you can see this thing is very small.. you can put this in your
carry-on luggage if you go traveling.. you can put in your backpack when you're
going hiking or prospecting, and just it folds out into a full sized
detector. This thing is also good up to ten feet or three meters underwater ..this
thing was built to military standards. It's pretty much indestructible. Compact
it folds up to 8.5" by 15.7" fits in
the carry-on luggage and most backpacks like I just said.. good up to ten feet
underwater... there's no assembly required you just take it as it is, out to
your spot and unfold it and you're good to go
one-piece construction.. it's extremely sensitive as you'll see, it does come
with headphones, you can also get waterproof headphones if you want to go
I really wanted to show you guys on the website. So we're gonna take this thing
out to the field, we're gonna swing it around, I'll show you guys how I set it
up and if we're lucky we'll find some gold but I'm gonna bring some little sub
gram gold nuggets out just to make sure that I can show you guys how this thing
sounds. Oh, and you also you don't need headphones with this you can
actually just use it without headphones it does have a speaker. I'll probably be
using it without the headphones just so you guys can hear what it sounds like
let's take it out and see how it works.
Okay here we are at Clear Creek just
west of the city of Golden Colorado. I'm actually on a claim right now but I have
permission. I had to sign a waiver, this is Bill's claim from Gold-N- Detectors
just up the road, some of this gear here that I'm about to show you I actually
purchased there, and I recommend you go over there and stop in and say hi let
them know I sent you, and yeah let me show you the gear I'm bringing and then
I have something behind the camera that's pretty hilarious that I want to
show you too. So I plan on doing some crevicing today
which means basically finding the cracks in the rocks and digging down in there,
that's a good spot to look for gold especially here on Clear Creek, Bill told
me a story a bunch of years ago one of his friends had a dredge and they spent
a couple days digging in the crevices right in this area and he actually found
four ounces of gold right in this general area. Most of the gold here is
very, very small it might be too small for the SDC 2300 to actually pick up.
When I mean small, I'm talking like little flakes of gold.. usually what I
find is like flour gold, like the size of flour powder and that's pretty much what
I find. So I did bring a few gold nuggets, we're gonna test this out. Here I have
the Minelab Profind 35, I've got a little plastic scoop it's important that
you have plastic. If I have a target and I pick it up and I wave it in front of the
metal detector, that'll let me know whether or not there's gold in the in
the scoop and it wouldn't be detecting the scoop itself. Here I have a snuffer
bottle with a custom-made Dan Hurd neck loop thing, so thanks a lot for that Dan,
this tool here is probably my favorite thing, you can really bust up some tough
crevices with this, it's pry bar and a chisel all-in-one.. screwdriver..spoon..
small crevice tool here, this is the Lesche digging knife, I've had this for..
since I started doing this and it's lasted forever. I bring it everywhere I
go when I go gold prospecting. You can pick these up at Gold-N-Detectors but if
you're not in the area and you want to pick one up online, I'll leave links in
the description for all this gear. Maybe not the spoon, you just go to the thrift
store and find a spoon. And a rock hammer. Also got a pair of water boots and some
water so I don't die.
Alright I have the camera turned around
now and I want you guys to look closely can you see it?
There's a gold pen right there if I can get that that means we already got some
treasure ..alright this ice is definitely not solid that
looks like a Garrett super sluice I need.. whoa ... hold on let me grab a big stick
maybe I could fish it out of there I found a tree this should work...
not good... great
okay I got a stick that I think I can use to fish this out of here, if I don't
fall in the water... I don't think it's long enough actually
It's just not long enough
probably going to lose it
all right I got one last solution here
Nope all right I got a bigger solution
there goes ...now it's really stuck ...still under the water over there
alright last attempt, I got my water boots on, it's even further back than it
was before and this waters pretty deep so I'm probably going to get probably
gonna fill my boots here... I don't think I'm gonna be able to get it... I do have a
wetsuit in my truck... that's gonna fill my boot...
I already have three Garrett super sluices. I think we should just continue
on with the video ...alright so first of all I'm just going to show you how easy
this thing is to transport and turn into a metal detector.. it just unfolds like
this.. this part flips up just like that.. that's your handle.. this is your armrest
right here that slides back ..so now that's how you hold it right.. now
it extends like this your coil
and you're ready to go ..and you're ready to go just like that
alright so how does it work? So setting this thing up is extremely easy.
You got your on and off button and your discrimination, to turn it on, you pull
up and you turn. This is waterproof so there's little O-rings underneath so
you have to pull up and turn. You'll hear it firing up, there's a little speaker
right there.. alright first thing you want to do is set this up for frequency. This
button right here is your frequency button, you want to press that. This
machine is now running through all the different frequencies trying to get the
best Channel in this environment because we have power lines and we have cars and
there's airplanes and stuff around, this is picking up the best frequency for us
to get the best chance for gold. This runs for about 55 seconds I think. Now
we're on to our volume or our threshold button, it'll start out at 1. Every time
you press it it's going to get stronger and stronger.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 little LED lights.. right now it's on
maximum. Now we're gonna ground balance. All you
do is put the coil to the ground, press the green button, and you're going to pump it
up and down until you can't hear any more variance in the pitch. We're going
to turn the sensitivity up a bit because there's already no wobble..
I'm going to turn it up to four and we continue doing that until there's no
more variance
if you continue to have variance you got to turn your discrimination down another
notch until you get it right. Right there. Now this machine is ready to go. There's
a target right down in here somewhere.
Alright, so we got a nice crevice down here in between these rocks possible
there's something good down here.. Alright so whatever it was it was too
small for the pinpointer to pick up but you got to remember this machine is good
for gold nuggets that are smaller than a gram. So that's why we have the plastic
scoop. We know it's not in there..
You know it's possible that target could be under this big rock right here.. I
might have to move this out of the way ..I mean it's a big rock though.. I don't I
don't think I can move it I might be able to dig under it.. I'm gonna go ahead
and shut the camera off because I have a lot of excavation to do here but I'll
keep you updated ....well that took a lot less time than I expected I shut the
camera off and I instantly found the target here ..so I'm just going
to take half of this, put it my hand, and we know it's not in my hand, take a half
again, So now I know it's in my hand or I dropped it ...yeah I dropped it of
course ..oh I think I see it
yep see that, it's a fishing sinker.. so I mean you know lead and gold they ring
up the same on a metal detector, imagine if that was a nugget, we'd would be all set..
There's one piece of lead taken out of the river ..let's keep going see if we
could find anything else ..okay so before I left here I swung the detector over it
one more time and I actually found another target here. It's smaller than
the first one
it's in here
I think I see it
is that it?
yeah.. oh it's just a little tiny.. it's a little
piece of metal there, little piece of shaved aluminum ..Alright just remember
though for every hundred targets you get out here especially on a public River
like this where people party and stuff maybe every two hundred targets that's
where you're gonna find your gold. So I mean worst-case scenario is we end up
cleaning trash from the river which is something that is good for the
environment. Anyway I'm gonna swing over this hole one more time, if there's nothing
here I'm gonna fill it in and we'll keep going
Seems like there's another target here.. Alright if it's something interesting
I'll keep you updated. So one thing I should mention while we're digging this
stuff out we're finding lead we're finding metal, that means that other
metal can be down in there as well such as gold.. so all this stuff that we're
scooping out of here, if there's no target it doesn't mean there's no very, very,
very small gold in there so we're going to keep that, throw it in the pan and
then we can pan that stuff out later and maybe we'll get lucky. Alright I got a
nice full pan here, I'm curious to see if there's actually any gold right here
pretty sure there's going to b.e This looks like a good spot to
pan right here
Alright I'm gonna take these gloves off.
No need to get them wet.
Now this stuff isn't even classified, there's all kind of big rocks..
Doesn't matter, watch.
We got some black sands in there, good
chance for gold.. maybe just a little piece of flower gold or two but you
never know man.. yeah that's all black sand right there.. I'll bring it over and
show you guys what it looks like.
Alright let's spin this back and see if there's any gold in it.. a lot of black
sand..
I do see gold.. I see two flakes right there ..very small.. Don't know if you could
see them in the camera ..yeah there's some flour gold in there, you can see it with
the black sand right at the very top there.. let me see if I can zoom in on
that for you.
Right there's a little piece of flower gold.
It's probably more in there, yeah there's another flake a couple pieces. That's
pretty good a couple little flakes almost no effort, yeah it's pretty much
worthless that small amount, but I mean if you ran a dredge out here or a
highbanker or something or you just did this all day for fun like I like to do,
you'll get gold all day. I'm just gonna grab all of this black sand ..everything
with the snuffer bottle, and when I make some pay dirt bags pretty soon, this will
be included in that. The black sand makes panning more
challenging. You can see here man this is like a lot of black sand. Now
this video wasn't meant to be like a treasure hunting video, it's more a
demonstration video, so I brought a couple gold nuggets with me. I just hid a
gold nugget right here, it only weighs 0.2 grams so it's a really small
nugget.
It's right here so I'm just going to show you the sensitivity of this machine.
I'm gonna bring it closer because you're pretty far away so you can hear the
sounds it's making.. Let's turn the machine on..
it's still on number four here our discrimination, now I didn't really talk
about this much, but of course the higher you go, the more sensitive it's going
to be, and once you get down here you could actually crank this all the way
back to this side and here's a salt setting so like if you're in Australia
where there's a lot of like salt lakes and beaches and stuff, that's where
you're gonna want to use your salt setting, but here in fresh water... normal
mineralization.. we're gonna stay on the yellow side here. Alright let's swing
this over, let's see if we could find this nugget. You could definitely hear a
fluctuation in the sound
right there
Alright my battery just died unfortunately but you can see that we
were able to recover that little gold nugget right there, nice small nugget 0.2
grams.. I got to do my goodbyes before this camera dies again but yeah that
thing is great I highly recommend it..t there it is the Minelab SDC 2300
Thanks a lot Minelab for sending this in for me to try out and find some gold I
hope you guys enjoyed the video, if you did please hit the thumbs up button...
...sorry about that I am now recording on my phone because
my main camera battery died.. but you don't care about that, what you do care
about is the Minelab SDC 2300 thanks so much for sending this in to me,
I have made other videos using this up in Alaska and Yukon and in British
Columbia, I do plan on going back to Australia at some point soon to use this
over in Western Australia and the Victoria Gold Fields again of course
right now it's kind of hard to travel and I'll wait until that you know cools
off before I make any solid plans but yeah if you guys haven't subscribed yet
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