Found a cannon ball on the battle site of prestonpans on a club dig.

Andy - United Kingdom

After month's waiting to go detecting, due to the weather being bad, I thought I would do some beach detecting, so early one mornning off I went to the east coast of Tasmania. But, like most time's it had to rain, so I could only detect between shower's.

The first couple of hour's I found $8.00 in cash, then the usual bottle top's and pull tab's, then just before I was ready to leave I found a early 1900"s MAZPAH ring, worth around $400 to $600, so the trip really paid for itself.

Martin Schynol - Tasmania, Australia

Last month I found 2 iron nickel meteorites in the Bradshaw Mountains outrside of Prescott, AZ. I knew the little one in the picture was a meteorite but the big one on top was covered with rust since I pulled it out of a dry river bed.

After taking it home and running it on the wire brush wheel, the rust came off and then as I began to remove the outer black crust, there was the beautiful iron nickel meteorite! This Minelab smokes my old Goldmaster II. It goes Deep and especially for Arizona it ignores the all the hot rocks and black sand!

Kevin - Arizona, USA

I moved to NW Arizona in 2005 to an area I had never seen before. I wanted to spend the rest of my days chasing gold. I started off with a Minelab Eureka Gold VLF then to a SD2100v2 and on to my present Creampuff of a detector my GP 3500.

I had spent the better part of a year or more hunting for that 1st nugget. As luck would have it the day I detected my 1st, 2 more were in the cards

While hunting civil war relics at DIV 19 in Culpeper, Virginia, a good tone rang out in the headphones of my GPX 4800. Once I opened the hole up the tone changed to a good tone with a loud iron tone also. Since I was hunting in a known Confederate area I continued to dig.

Out with the master Minelab GPX-4500 when got a booma signal after 5 hours of digging and dollyed the gold ended up with 4 ounces and eleven grams. GPX-4500 still the best machine. He he!

Stan the Man - WA, Australia

I've been working in a area called Jicarilla new Mexico looking for gold this town has a lot of gold history. I was working around some of the old or what is left of it when I got a hit. I dug about about 8 inches down and found 5 diver dollars, 1 liberty, 2 pennies and 56 buffalo nickels. Maybe I'll find some gold nuggets.

I love the GPX 5000 thanks Minelab.

Picture: Found these near Jicarilla, NM - 5 Silver Dollars, 1 Half Dollar, 2 pennies and 56 buffalo nickels.

Shellbone - New Mexico, USA

Pushing my old SD 2000 for weeks in a known area in WA for only a 1.7gm piece to show for it. Got my new GPX 5000 and in 5 days had my first piece over 17 gm and out of the hard cement. Man have I become fit, this sucker goes deep. The old SD 2000 could hardly penetrate the cement but the GPX 5000 opens up plenty of previously untouched ground for me. Here`s a pic of the old SD and a new friend I made, plus of course the 17 gram piece. Cheers.

Henry - WA, Australia

One of my favorite hunting grounds to detect, is Gold Basin, Arizona, which is located in NW Arizona, USA. On this particular day, I was successful in finding gold, silver, copper, and meteorites. The finds for the day included 15 grams in gold nuggets, 2 silver liberty dimes, 3 copper wheat pennys, a 30 gram, and a 36 gram Gold Basin L4 ordinary chondrite meteorite.

I would like to thank Minelab for making such a wonderful machine.

David Libuszowski (DolanDave) - Arizona, USA

I uncovered this beautifully preserved meteorite with my GPX 5000 in north-western Arizona. It weighs 115-grams and is classified as an L4 ordinary chondrite. Radiocarbon tests conducted at the University of Arizona date this meteorite at approximately 15,000 years old!

Thank you MINELAB for enabling me to find this treasure from space!

Chris Gholson - Arizona, USA