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Gold 1 or Gold 2
Gold profiles bias toward high-frequency responses.
#1 beach & overall flagship — Multi-IQ simultaneous frequencies
The Minelab Manticore is a flagship simultaneous Multi-IQ+ detector built for serious hunters who want maximum depth, target ID stability, and saltwater performance in one waterproof package. It excels at separating jewelry, coins, and relics in heavy iron and mineralized ground. Minelab designed it for advanced and all-day beach hunters, competition diggers, and relic specialists who refuse to compromise. Its sweet spot is wet and dry salt beaches, black-sand shorelines, and any site where weaker machines choke on ground noise.
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Manticore — Gold Prospecting
Small nuggets and specimen gold in mineralized soils.
Recommended coil: 12" Round or 15" for depth; 10×5" in tight brush.
Adjustments
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Frequency
High Single or Multi-IQ
Try 40 kHz single frequency in mild ground.
Sensitivity
Sensitivity
22–28
Max stable sensitivity; reduce if hot rocks chatter.
Ground
Ground Balance
Manual — track mineralization
Balance on clean ground beside hot rocks.
Recovery
Recovery Speed
4–5 (Slow)
Slower recovery separates small gold from iron trash.
Discrimination
Discrimination
Minimal / All-Metal mindset
Dig faint targets; gold often reads low and broken.
Iron
Iron Bias
-1 to 0
Negative bias can help in iron-heavy gold districts.
Audio
Tone / Volume
Smooth or Multi-Tone, Volume 22+
Listen for soft repeatable whispers.
Coil
Coil Speed
Slow, tight overlap
Overlap heavily in washes and bench gravels.