Hi White's,

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy metal detecting with my White's MXT. I bought my MXT last June and am still learning. In the last 6 months I've collected approx. $150 to $200 in coins mostly clad. During three of the times I've found 2 quarters on top of each other. I've dug 1 Canadian copper dollar, 2-Sacagawea copper dollars, numerous 1 cents, less than 100 nickels, approx. 200 dimes, and over 200 Quarters most of which came in the last 6 months.

My metal detecting friend and I found 31 quarters in just over an hour last week, and that doesn't include all the other smaller domination coins. By the way, my friend Jim owns an XLT he's had for about 5 years. Last Saturday I found 9 dimes in a hole about 4 inches in Dia. to about 5 inches down where we've been detecting at for about 8 months.

I've been using the Relic mode for over 6 months now and seem to find more coins with less trash than in C/J mode. I've found a 10kt gold pinky ring. And Jim found a 14kt w/gold ring with 3 Diamonds on it within 20 minutes of first using the Relic mode ever for either of us. I've found 1 piece of GOLD, approx 2 grams last year at Loudmine, GA, last Nov. also. White's thanks for making the BEST and MOST fun machine I know of, the MXT.

K.C. FL (U.S. Army, Retired)

It was a perfect summer day in central Colorado when a friend and I arrived at an old stone charcoal kiln site for a few hours of metal detecting. There are literally hundreds of these kiln sites in the upper Arkansas River water shed near my home in Nathrop, Colorado.

These kilns were in use for the last 30 years of the 19th century to produce charcoal for blast furnaces of the more than 14 precious metals smelters and reduction plants in the Leadville area. The demonetization of silver in 1893 resulted in the closing of most of the Leadville smelters. This caused the demand for charcoal to disappear closing all the charcoal kilns.

During their use the charcoal kilns were a beehive of activity with loading of pinion pine logs, and unloading charcoal that could take up to ten days. They were usually located near a railroad track for easy transport to the smelters. All of these factors make them a great place to hunt. Past excursions to these kiln sites produced Indian head cents, shield nickels, seated liberty dimes and quarters.

I was excited, but not surprised, when my trusted White's XLT gave me a solid quarter signal at 6 inches. I carefully removed a four inch circular soil plug four inches deep. The target was still in the hole, so I loosened the dirt at the bottom with my digger and started the final removal process with my hands. I was surprised when a flash of gold in the bottom of the hole caught my eye.

I recovered what turned out to be a gold watch fob that had belonged to the past owner of the charcoal kiln I was hunting. The fob is one ounce of 24 K yellow gold with mining tools with two gold nuggets on one side. The past owners name "J A LAMPING" inscribed on the other. The swiveling bail is heavily worn but not broken.

Some research revealed that Joseph Anthony Lamping was a prominent business man and politician in the late 1800's Colorado. He owned many of these charcoal kilns, and was Leadville Colorado's sheriff and a county treasurer. He held the warden position at the Colorado state penitentiary in Canyonville. Lamping died in 1910 leaving a legacy in Colorado business, politics, and the most memorable find for this metal-detector enthusiast.

John J.

Dear White's Electronics,

I live about one-half mile from the house where I was raised. Although the house is not real old I decided to go and ask permission to hunt the yard in hopes of finding something from my childhood, and what an experience I had. I lived in this house from the late 1950's until I got married and moved out in the early 1970's. Here is a picture of me, my sisters, and my grandmother standing in front of the house around 1958.

Before going to ask permission I searched through my photos for one to take with me to show that I had lived there. When I went to the door a lady answered and after telling her why I was there, what I wanted to do, and showing her the picture she gave me permission to detect. While I was standing on the porch her husband pulled into the driveway and he and three kids got out of the car. The boy was 10 years old and the two sisters were younger. I was immediately reminded of my family when we live there in the 1960's.

They were very friendly and invited me in to look around. As I stepped in the door and I can't tell you how many memories came rushing to meet me. I just stood there and took everything in, it was amazing. The house looked much the same as I remembered 20 to 30 years earlier. The boy had the same bedroom that I had. The dressers my Dad built into the walls were still there. The attic door where my parents thought they hid our Christmas presents was still there.

Now during the time I lived here the Cuban Missile Crisis happened around 1960. My Dad was in the Civil Defense and because of the missile threat people were encouraged to build fallout shelters in their basements to protect them from a nuclear attack on our country. My Dad built one in the basement of this house. I asked if the shelter was still there and the boy immediately asked if my hand print was one of the ones in the concrete ceiling leading into the shelter. I told him it was and we went downstairs to look at them. My hand print is the third one from the left with "Dan" over it.

The night after my first trip to this house I got very little sleep, I just kept remembering so many things about living in this house, it was overwhelming. I finally got around to metal detecting. I enjoy detecting with kids and made four trips to hunt with my "helpers" (and other kids from the neighborhood). There was a lot of junk and lots of clad which I gave to the kids, and they were so excited. They wanted everything no matter what it was. They were impressed that most of the time I could tell them what the target would be before I dug it. At one point I mentioned that this target was going to be junk and one of them said "I haven't got any junk yet, can I have it".

There were quite a few wheat pennies and one Rosie. Now, remember that I said I was hoping to find something that was mine? In the front yard I dug up a piece of a kid's Lone Ranger badge. Close to the same area I ended up finding two more pieces of the same badge. I was so excited because my mind went back to a picture I had seen of me at a young age wearing a cowboy outfit and a lot of toy guns. I called my Dad and had him search through his pictures to see if he could find the photo. He found it, I asked him over the phone if I was wearing a badge, he said that I was.  I believe that it is the same badge I found in the front yard. I consider this one of my best finds.

This will certainly be one of my most "memorable" hunts.

Dan(PA)

White's,

My name is Daniel and I am the manager of Ground View Metal Detectors North. I am responding to the TDI Certification process and am honored to have received, to the best of my knowledge, the first TDI in Wisconsin. Thanks sooo much for providing the unit! I have had a blast learning how to use the TDI!

One experience I had while detecting the waste rock piles at the copper mines in Michigan was a complete loss of detection in the non-discrimination mode. This threw me off for a while as the preproduction owner's manual doesn't mention that the target conductivity switch has to be in all or low to hear targets. After some thinking and experimenting I had it figured out. As soon as I received the first production unit I checked the owner's manual and found that the new instructions did indeed include the necessary switch positions.

Other than that my experiences have been phenomenal! I knew from the start that the ability to distinguish between large and small size targets, and the ground rejection of a Pulse detector was going to be a huge advantage on the mine dumps! The thicker, chunky pieces of copper are usually the best finds as many of them are crystalline and very collectable as well as valuable! The problem is all the small lacy to microcrystalline copper in the rock drives other detectors crazy. With the TDI set to a pulse delay of 25, target conductivity set to High, and ground balance between 3.5 and 5.5 I can breeze right over the small stuff and bring home buckets of the good big stuff!

Most of the mine dumps are pretty remote so I am able to run a steady threshold with the Gain set around 9-10. Any higher and the smaller targets start to come thru. Most of the time I am able to ground balance in the highly mineralized rock on the piles at around 7-7.5 but the smaller targets (flat sheet copper about the size of a pea) will be detected. That's why I run the Ground Balance a little lower, so that I find thumbnail size pieces and larger. Oh and when I use the hip mount option and my coat brushes the balance knob to 1 I found out you detect nothing :).

The TDI has been instrumental in helping achieve my specific copper find goals for the Year. I have always been keenly interested in the copper crystal known as "Hoppered" copper crystals. (Basically looks like a box within a box) I was able to cover a large area in a matter of a couple of hours with the TDI and found some great larger specimens. When the TDI sounded off on a large chunk of Basalt I broke it apart with a rock hammer and there was a wonderful thumb sized hoppered copper specimen.

I believe the whoop I let out is still echoing thru the trees and amongst the rocks of that mine dump! The next goal was to find copper "Chisel Chips". The longer the "chip" the more value it has to collectors. Most times a person is lucky to find a half dozen "chips" in a day. With the TDI I was able to locate 38 "chips" in a 6 hour period! That's amazing! I also found a 6" round 2lb copper specimen down about 2 feet. The area I detected had just been gone over by no less than three other detectors!
At the risk of being a little long winded I achieved one other goal and that was to find some copper silver "half breeds". That goal was reached several times over this year. Almost every trip has yielded a copper specimen with silver coatings and one with beautiful silver crystals!

I attached some pictures of this year's finds so far. The Chisel Chips that are cleaned are from the Cliff Mine, which was recently bull dozed which makes finds a little more common. To prove to myself that this machine will out detect others I detected for 2 hours at the Minnesota Mine in Ontonagon Co. MI. which has been hit heavily by detectors and not bulldozed recently. Not bad at all for such a short time. I have boxes of thumb sized and larger copper specimens not yet cleaned.

As far as questions about the TDI, I really can't think of any. If you'd like to take a trip to copper country I'd be happy to have you or a group of you along, just let me know! (Better wait for warmer weather!)

Daniel

White's,

I would like to share with you a day I will not forget! It was cold, windy, but the ground was soft and easy to dig. We started out in a spot that looked great and my buddy John had dug several bullets and buttons there with his XLT. We started out digging a few bullets and buttons but switched to another field. I hunted awhile and decided the grass was too high for me so I was headed back to where we started. I angled my way across the field and along a fence that bordered some woods when I got a nice signal and dug an unfired three ring bullet.

I started to work this area and got into a lot of iron signals. These heavy iron and trashy area's use to intimidate me but that was before I got a White's MXT! This detector will really separate the trash from the good targets! Next I dug a nice brass suspender buckle. I got Johns attention and he headed that way and not long after he arrived I dug a hammered Eagle coat button, probably used as a poker chip, it was flattened as thin as a dime.

This was a good sign and I felt like we may be in an area that no one had hunted. I was only a few feet from the fence and decided to hunt on that side where a large very old tree was. I immediately got a nice signal and dug a pocket knife. It had a unique design with a soldier on the side of it! I was sure we were in a little camp at that point and my next signal was very solid. I dug down and removed the sod and felt a round object. I wiggled it out gently from under a tree root, probably from the huge old tree.

When I got it out I could see the Eagle and wow! I was really pumped at that point! I yelled at John screaming I have a Breast Plate! He was over in a flash to check it out. At that point I was pretty much done and wanted John to finish hunting that spot. I headed to the truck and drove back to get him when I saw him raise him arm and motion me to hurry up. John dug a nice Saddle Shield!

We were both amazed at the day we had! I have dug lots of Civil War relics with my MXT, I own two XLT's and two MXT's, they are simply the best most durable and easy to operate detectors available. The service I get from the White's Service Centers is equally outstanding. Thanks again for making an affordable detector that is without question the best!

Tim G.