Mini Metal Detector

[Elwanda Menhennett]

TheMini Hoard metal detector from Nokta Makro is the perfect detector to get your children out of the house and into metal detecting. The Mini Hoard is part of the world's first waterproof kids detector series. The Mini Hoard finds, discrimnates and pinpoints -- just like an adult's detector.

The Mini Hoard is full submersible up to 3 feet (1 meter) deep, meeting IP68 criteria. The detector features a retractable shaft, allowing you to set the length from 25 inches to 35 inches. And the detector is lightweight, weighing only 1.7 pounds.

The Nokta Makro mini hoard is the worlds First waterproof metal detector for kids.The light-weight design and simple user interface makes it a great way to introduce youngsters to the hobby, getting them outdoors and uncovering history.

Ideal Age Operating Frequency Audio Tones Pinpoint Sensitivity Setting Discrimination LED Indicator Depth Indicator Battery Indicator Auto Shut-off & Alarm Volume Control Search Coil Display Weight Length Battery

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I have been behind many people that have been stopped. If you set off the metal detector you are not going through until you clear. Someone lost an eye. They are serious. My Universal lanyard is cloth and plastic.

Yes, I believe you will be fine. They allow you to put your lanyard tucked into your shirt. I think many of the lockers have changed but some of them you might need your ticket- so you need your lanyard?

I guess they take their job very seriously and there is not possible way to pass the go pro mini through security, without seriously breaking the security protocol and possibly being thrown out of the park.

I understand why they are doing it, but in many parks they have bigger and faster rollercoasters passing over crowds, and with some common sense visual check from the workers running the rides, and some nets over the area where the tracks pass over the crowds, they seem to avoid incidents like someone being impacted by a flying object.

So on parks around the world with big rollercoasters where sections of it are pasing over walking customers, people being impacted by flying objects is just a common denominator and only metal detectors is the way to avoid it?

I chose to purchase a Model 58(s) Little Eagle, mini shovel from Predator Tools. For those new detectorists, Predator Tools is a reputable shovel and hand digger manufacturer well known in the United States metal detecting community. I already own their Model 24 Phoenix and their Model 85 Hand Digger. I am always impressed with their quality and customer service. All their products are made in the USA and made with American Chromoly Steel, also known as Alloy Steel 4130. Chromoly Steel is stronger than carbon steel and better suited for applications that will take a lot of wear and tear. Using American Chromoly Steel does come with a price, making the shovel more expensive than the ones typically found in the gardening section of your local hardware store.

I have used the Model 58(s) Little Eagle for four months while metal detecting once or twice a week. I definitely would recommend adding a mini shovel to your digging collection. Like the Predator Tools full-size shovels, there is an area you can use your foot to press the shovel blade into the ground. The double serrated blade is great; it helps cut the ground and get deep fast. Because of this, I can do faster plugs that are cleaner than using a hand digger. The double serrated edges are key for cutting through roots and difficult ground.

With the quality of materials and manufacturing, Predator Tool products are made to last far past their five-year warranty. As always, shipping was fast. It came sooner than expected and it was packaged well. Predator Tools ships to most countries. Most of their sales are in the United States; however, they have detectorists that they have filled orders for in other countries, such as Canada, the UK, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Australia.

Joanna Jana Laznicka, a Czech-Canadian residing in Southern California, is passionate about all things associated with metal detecting. She mainly detects on the West Coast, from Southern California to Northern British Columbia. As the founder of Focus Speed, her goal is to bring quality content to metal detectorists.

The Vista Mini is a simple but powerful metal detector built to work very well in the field for the novice to the hobby, without the headaches of confounding settings that detectors can carry.

The Vista Mini is really the simplest detector in our range and on the world, and it also comes with preset discrimination and it is also very reliable because it runs a lower kHz than the Mini Max.

As you know I have been metal detecting for 30 years. I still consider myself a newbie. However, it is with the same old machine. Back when I purchased my machine we were told it will detect everything, it's a do all machine. I new of prospecting machines, but never knew the difference or seen the demand until I came to this forum. So if you have time, please answer these question. I am going to throw these out as I don't really know how to ask the correct question. What if the difference in a gold machine vs a regular machine? What makes them stand out? I know there is a frequency difference, but what make them stand on when looking for gold? Are they just not tuned for gold?

Metal detectors for prospecting originally were just coin detectors with a different label. My first metal detector in 1972 was a White's Coinmaster 4. My next was a "prospecting detector", the old White's blue box Goldmaster. Even then I was curious about what made them tick, and my first lesson in detector marketing was that the Goldmaster had the same circuit board in it as the Coinmaster! White's just put the same board in a larger box and called it by another name.

Those old machines were very poor since they could not ground balance, but even then prospectors found a large nugget now and then using them. It was not until around 1976 when White's unveiled ground balancing technology in the form of the White's Coinmaster V Supreme, probably the most significant breakthrough to affect detecting up to this day. The CM5 though was a very low frequency machine running at 1.8 kHz and not sensitive to small items. True story though is I owned one myself, and sold it to a prospector who promptly went out and found a nugget weighing several ounces with it.

It was Garrett who really launched the modern prospecting metal detector era around 1980 with the 15 kHz Garrett Groundhog. The 15 kHz frequency choice was far higher than the 3 - 8 kHz standard of the day. This enhanced the sensitivity of the machine to smaller targets and combined with the ground canceling capability the Groundhog series was one of the first detectors to stand out in the fledging electronic prospecting rush just underway in Australia. The skyrocketing price of gold fueled detector sales, and soon reports of massive gold nugget finds appeared. All of the sudden all the other manufacturers wanted in on this new business opportunity.

Photo - Garrett 15 kHz ADS Groundhog in 1980, later rebranded as the Garrett Gold Hunter (click for larger version). Garrett employed the same basic circuit in several models all the way up to and including the 15 kHz Garrett Gold Stinger, only retired a few years ago.

Still, many of the new machines of the day were just repackaged coin detectors. The next big advance was what in my opinion was one of the earliest prospecting detectors designed from the ground up for that purpose. It was even part of the marketing pitch "the metal detector engineered for one job". The 19 kHz Fisher Gold Bug introduced in the late 1980's timeframe. By 1990 Gold Bugs were everywhere, and the new lightweight design with compact removable control box mounted on an ergonomic (for the times) S rod was truly revolutionary. The dual stacked ground balance control and 19 kHz low gain design was excellent at ground handling and had good sensitivity to gold nuggets.

In highly variable ground the manual ground balance machines left something to be desired, and this was most apparent in the Australian goldfields. In 1987 an upstart company in Australia introduced automatic ground tracking in the form of the Minelab GT16000. This was a real aid for prospectors in extreme ground and helped propel Minelab into view as an option for U.S. prospectors.

For me personally in Alaska, with low mineral ground and small gold, the next big event was the introduction of the 50 kHz White's Goldmaster II in 1992. This large jump in frequency made the machine shine on small gold in low mineral ground, and it was the GM2 that really caused metal detecting for gold to take off in Alaska. I could not get them fast enough initially to meet the overwhelming demand, which I personally stoked locally with my own success in using the unit.

By 1995 Fisher returned fire with the 71 kHz Fisher Gold Bug 2, which represents a high water mark of sorts in single frequency nugget detector designs. Still in production to this day, it is the detector of choice for many prospectors who choose to use a single frequency detector.

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