Over the years I’ve had a lot of success with the Whites Goldmaster range of detectors. Starting off with the Series 2 and ending up with the Series 4B, which I thought was the best small gold detectors ever made. The 4B was easy to ground balance, lightweight, and dynamite on any sneaky little bits of gold that tried to hide from it. It was also equipped with an iron id device that was brilliant

When I heard that Whites had improved on the Goldmaster 4B I wondered what they could possibly improve on? I found out about an hour after I picked up my new Goldmaster Tracker from Finders in Dunolly, I stopped off at a spot where I had picked up a few bits before, the ground is very hot and the gold small and I figured it would test the new machine in all aspects

The first impression after setting the gain, v-sat and threshold as per the manual and with the ground balance toggle on fast auto track, I lowered the coil to the ground and raised it up and down a couple of times and to my surprise it was ground balanced. All I had to do to fine tune was to drop the gain down to 4 from Whites setting point of 7~8 and turn the v-sat to maximum 10 on the dial. Our ground must be a lot hotter than theirs! With those settings I worked for the rest of the day without any problems. Hot rocks can be fixed by passing the coil back and forth a few times and you will notice a reduction in the signal strength, becoming much quieter and sometimes completely disappearing. The iron id has also been upgraded with a bar graph on the screen and works spot on, in conjunction with the trigger it really lets you know it’s looking at iron – it grunts at you, sounds exactly like a pig and funnily enough it’s called a grunt feature

Well I ended the day with about a dozen targets that I had missed including a couple of matched size bits of gold. This has been repeated at several of my other spots and I am totally sold on the ground tracking ability of the new Whites Goldmaster Tracker

Regards and best of luck on the gold

George Peel