Falcon Metal Detectors
Small Mesa company behind the MD20 Gold Tracker, a pocket probe for gold too small for a regular detector
- Where
- Mesa, Arizona; mailing address only, no storefront
- Makes
- Falcon MD20 Gold Tracker gold probe and its accessories
- How it works
- 300 kHz, sensing tip on a cable, adjustable ring to set the sensitivity
- Orders
- By phone, (480) 396-1181, or from prospecting stores such as A&B Prospecting
Builder: builds the gear it sells
Builds the MD20, a 300 kHz probe for gold in cracks and concentrates
Sells online or by order: no storefront to visit
Works from Mesa, Arizona.
Builds: Fine gold recovery
What they sell: Fine gold recovery
Makes: Falcon MD20 Gold Tracker gold probe
Where to use your gear near Mesa
51 gold spots on open public land with no claim on record, within 50 miles.
There are more on the map, some of them with a possible mining claim.
About Falcon Metal Detectors
Falcon Metal Detectors makes one main product, the MD20 Gold Tracker, and it is not a nugget detector in the usual sense. It is a small electronic probe: a pocket-sized control box with a sensing tip on a cable, running at 300 kHz, a very high frequency that lets it respond to specks of gold too small for an ordinary machine to notice. The company advertises it as the most sensitive gold probe available.
Prospectors use it where a search coil can't go. The tip can be pushed into cracks in bedrock, held against the walls of a vein, passed over a pan or a pile of concentrates, or worked into stream gravel. Geologists have also used it to spot pinpoints of gold in drill core, as long as the tip touches the rock. It also reacts to other metals and to black sand, so a signal still needs checking with a lens or a pan.
The trade-off is range. The probe only works at very short distances, so it is a tool for checking rock, cracks and concentrates, not for sweeping open ground. Used that way it complements a nugget detector rather than replacing one.
Falcon is based in Mesa and sells by phone and through prospecting stores; in Arizona, A&B Prospecting stocks the MD20 and its accessories in Mesa and Prescott Valley.
Clubs and places nearby
- Southwest Paleontological SocietyClub · 0 mi
- Mineralogical Society of ArizonaClub · 11 mi
- GPAA Apache Junction ChapterClub · 15 mi
- Apache Junction Rock and Gem ClubClub · 15 mi
- Roadrunner Prospectors ClubClub · 16 mi
- GPAA Phoenix ChapterClub · 17 mi
Other shops and gear makers nearby
- RDH ProspectingOnline shop · 0 mi
- A & B Prospecting Supplies (Mesa)Shop · 5 mi
- Miners Rock ShopShop · 7 mi
- Natural ExpressionsShop · 8 mi
Access
Sells by phone, (480) 396-1181, and through prospecting stores. Based in Mesa.