A valuable lesson about gold (watch those iron signals)

[miffdan]

I'm sure all of you experienced detectorists are aware of this but I learned a valuable lesson about gold. I have to admit that I stumbled upon a gold earring purely by accident in a parking lot. I'll take gold any way I can find it! The point is I had never found a piece of 10K gold with my detector so I decided to drop it in my yard so I could run my AT Pro over it. I was appalled to find it toning out in the iron range (34 - 3. Since I've been going crazy at this park I am detecting, with all the signals I've been getting, that I've been ignoring the iron signals. WHAT A MISTAKE! Thankfully, no one else is detecting in the park so I now have the opportunity to go back over where I've been and dig EVERYTHING. This is only my second year detecting and I'm learning valuable lesson along the way.

 

[REVIER]

Other stuff that I found that comes in at iron.
2 very thin silver chains and an extremely thin gold chain.
The gold one was lucky, that key was attached to it and I dug the zinc signal.
I was very surprised a good chain came up with it and that clasp can be picked up but it is very low iron.

Also some iron is cool.
I love digging old pocket knives and depending on the rust usually iron.

 

[copper kidd]

I usually set my iron disc to 22-25 on pro zero, so I hope I haven't missed any gold. But you can always hear the iron. This is my second year also and I think I know my machine well enough to trust it when it says something is iron, I've dug a lot of targets just to find out and so far they were iron. I seen a video on U-Tube where some gold rang in at 28 .... .
It seems you have to dig ALL targets with gold coming in at 28 to 85 , depending on size, weight , shape and depth.
I have never found any gold yet , but I mostly hunt old farms (from the 1800's) where the people probably didn't have any gold. When I am relic hunting I run zero discrim. so as to hear everything.
Good luck on the park hunting , I hope you find some gold