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The first site I took the MXT to was an old middle school closed for years that had been

converted to apartments in a nearby town. The school was on a main thoroughfare and

virtually every treasure hunter in the area had probably spent time searching the site over the

last 25 years. In my last three trips to the school, I had come up empty handed so I felt that

this would be an acid-test of the MXTs performance.

Opting for the coin and jewelry search mode, I set both the gain and disc controls to their

preset marks, pumped the coil up & down a few times to set the ground balance and started

hunting. Almost immediately I recognized the familiar chatter from highly mineralized

ground. Coal has been used for heating in the northeast for more than 100 years and the

mineralized cinders that remain raise havoc with most detectors when hunting these sites.

Switching the trac control to lock all but eliminated the chattering as I continued searching the

side of the school. I was somewhat concerned that using the lock setting would reduce the

detection depth of the MXT; however, the next few signals would dispel my concerns. Near

the road I received a repeatable signal that registered +78 on the VDI scale and a half-block

appeared above the 1c/10c segment of the target ID label. Pulling the trigger to switch to

check the targets depth, the MXT indicated it was 6 inches deep. Cutting a plug and removing

the loose dirt revealed the edge of a silver coin at the bottom of the hole. Pulling a 1935

Mercury dime in XF condition brought a smile to my facethis was the first piece of silver I

had found here in more than a year. Over the next hour I added two wheat cents, a small metal

button and a pencil eraser to my pouch. Even though some rejected targets produced

occasional chirps, their lack of repeatability and inconsistent meter indications made it quite

obvious that they were not worth recovering.

The next site I hit was my mother-in-laws yard located in a small coal-mining town near

Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The first 30 minutes hunting close to the house turned up a few

recently lost coins and a pull-tab. Heading towards the back of the property, I hoped my luck

would improve. Parts of the lot had been used to dump coal cinders and an old house had been

torn down years earlier. Trash was plentiful and it became increasingly difficult to hunt the

area due to the false signals and erratic meter indications that the MXT produced with each

sweep even with max discrimination. Opting to switch to the 5x10 elliptical coil, I headed

back to the troublesome area and continued hunting. The target separation afforded by the

new coil allowed me to hunt with much better results. A slightly slower sweep speed provided

clear responses from targets that fell in the accept range and rejected targets were easily

discernible and ignored. Hunting a section of the back forty turned up a few keepers including

an Indian Head penny (with the date long gone), a skeleton key, an engraved suspender clip

with an 1892 patent date and a small ladies gold-plated compact. While these finds

demonstrated the MXTs ability to successfully ferret out keepers from amongst a high

concentration of trash, there was one memorable find that really stood out. As I was washing

off the finds, my mother-in-law grabbed a blob of melted aluminum and started laughing. It

turned out to be all that was left of a cooking pot that my wife Rosanne had left unattended on

a stove when she was growing up. It had been thrown out years ago and will hold a spot in

one of our shadow boxes as an interesting conversation piece (and one Rosanne had wished

stayed buried).

Wanting to give the relic mode a try, I took the MXT to a series of old foundations from a

long-abandoned coal mine near Wilkes Barre. I had previously obtained permission from the

landowners and was anxious to see what might come to light. Setting the gain and disc knobs

to the preset marks and the trac toggle to ground, I pumped the coil a few times to ground

balance the MXT and started hunting near the front of a large foundation. There were fewer

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