NewB in S. America wants to MD for gold treasures and nugget hunt

[DM]

Before I start asking for your opinions I´d like to thank you all for all the informative posts that I´ve been reading here for the past 2 weeks. If it wasn´t for this forum, I´d probably loose interest in this profitable hobby or spend lots of cash and never find anything because I wasn´t prepared correctly.

Tapados (as the natives call them) are treasures consisting of gold and silver artifacts / coins / bars and are usually burried 2 to 10 feet deep in heavy mineralized (no trash) desert / mountains. I´ve been approached by some natives that have seen (I haven´t seen them) flames in the mountains and they want me to provide the heavy machinery (I already have) and gold detectors to extract the supposed marked treasures for a 20/80 split (I get the 80%). I´ve read posts on this forum and feel that other than an expensive MineLab, a Gold Bug 2, Tesoro Lobo, or a 2Box TM808 might go that deep as long as there is more than a pound or two of metal or a gallon sized artifact burried.

I am hoping that the detectors that I purchase (I want 2) would also be able to nugget hunt in streams just in case the natives´ are wrong.

My question(s) is:
Which detector (listed above or not) with which coils (deep for treasures and good for wet nugget hunting) should I buy?
Or should I buy one for treasure and one for nuggets (Garret´s Infinium)?

Again, I deeply appreciate everyone´s opinions and experience on TreasureNet!

 

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Hola MD: Here in Mexico with the same basic conditions, I use conventional, twin box and pulse detectors. My basic arsenal consists of a Garrett master hunter with the Blood hound attachment for small things down to 6-7 ft. although the twin box configuration will go deeper, I am lazy.

For serious cache hunting, I use a Discovery 900 series and a White 800. I believe that the Discovery goes deeper than the White.

For extremely heavily mineralized or salty zones, I use a Garrett Sea Hunter pulse detector with a 24 " modified coil which I made that goes down to 8 - 9 ft, love it, but it IS heavy even with the hip mount.

I am sure that the gentlemen (?) in here can give you much better suggestions, especially Dr Flores.

For the gold, that depends upon the average size of the nuggets. I have found a 31 Gram nugget with the Garrett, as well as pin headed smaller pieces.

For the smaller sizes, a detector designed specifically for small Gold nuggets would be superior naturally.

Till Eulenspiegle de La Mancha