Ground Mineralisation

My boys and myself have all just purchased GPX 5000's. We are mainly going detecting in the golden triangle Vic. Can any one tell me how do we work out what the ground mineralisation is as I can see this is very important for the settings. I'm not a Geologist so each time we go somewhere, how are we going to know. Again, I realise each area is likely going to be different, but if Minelab put this in their detectors, then do they assume we are all going to know the answer to this.
cheers
Greg

Hi Welcome to the forum . Good on you and your boys, this is a great hobby for father and sons to bond.May i surgest you book yourself and sons in for a coiltek training day..What you can learn for them in a day may take quite some time to find out yourselfs. This is only my opinion, other than that perhaps join one of the many good prospecting clubs and find yourself a detecting buddy with some knowlage...

Kind Regards
Dani

Hi Greg, Not all ground you will be able to tell how noisy it is by looking at it, the more colours you see in the ground generally the more mineralised it may be.
If you start to detect in say the 'normal' timing and you can not smooth the threshold out then you will know that the ground is too mineralised 'noisy' for that particular area, I would then select a different timing and try again until a stable threshold is obtained and then cranking up the gain until it just starts to be unstable then bring it down slightly to a nice stable tone.
I hope that helps, others may be able to explain better than I.

Cheers

GoldstalkerGPX wrote:
Hi Greg, Not all ground you will be able to tell how noisy it is by looking at it, the more colours you see in the ground generally the more mineralised it may be.
If you start to detect in say the 'normal' timing and you can not smooth the threshold out then you will know that the ground is too mineralised 'noisy' for that particular area, I would then select a different timing and try again until a stable threshold is obtained and then cranking up the gain until it just starts to be unstable then bring it down slightly to a nice stable tone.
I hope that helps, others may be able to explain better than I.

Cheers

I dont detect and that explanation is pretty good

Thx Goldstalker. Will take note of what you have to say here.
cheers
Greg