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an 84 rock
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BigCatDaddy
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Might be a hot rock or just a big chunk of melted aluminum or something similar. They're out there and really sound good!! I went to a comp hunt a few years back and the field we were hunting was strewn with hot rocks. You never saw such a bunch of PO'ed hunters!!
Well, probably not, but that's the first thing that popped into my head. If it's a rusty dark brown color, it could be a rock with a lot of iron oxide in it. It might also be a meteorite, but you need to post a pic and have it properly analysed by a geologist.
Good luck, I truly hope you found a valuable meteorite.
Good luck, I truly hope you found a valuable meteorite.
John and BCD are right. It could be a meteorite, or something of lesser interest.
I have found all kinds of goofy rocks over the years, "hot" and otherwise. Mineral anomalies of all kinds exist and they don't have to be positively conductive to cause a detector to react. I recall one area that was strewn with rocks, making my detector signal, fade and whine like a whipped puppy. As far as I could tell the rocks were actually negative, but my detector reacted to them in all sorts of audible ways.
Garretts are, in fact, somewhat notorious in my experience for responding over non-standard things.
It was one of the first things that I noticed - and had problems with - when using Garrett instruments. Coming from other, more analog detectors, I was immediately struck by their binary, or "digital" nature. Flatly put, all the processing and computin' going on in them made it difficult to interpret what I was hearing.
You still get a lot of that from Garrett newcomers; comments about falsing and digging too much trash and so on are common. Until they learn to work the DISC properly and keep the SENS under control, there are problems sorting out the responses.
As for your lemon hot rock, well... it could be anything. As John says, have it checked out. It may be something valuable.
But I go by a rule of thumb: "Most truly valuable things are, indeed, rare or hard to come by. The odds are not in your favor."
So it is most likely as BCD suggests - just some whacky lump that your detector likes.
I have found all kinds of goofy rocks over the years, "hot" and otherwise. Mineral anomalies of all kinds exist and they don't have to be positively conductive to cause a detector to react. I recall one area that was strewn with rocks, making my detector signal, fade and whine like a whipped puppy. As far as I could tell the rocks were actually negative, but my detector reacted to them in all sorts of audible ways.
Garretts are, in fact, somewhat notorious in my experience for responding over non-standard things.
It was one of the first things that I noticed - and had problems with - when using Garrett instruments. Coming from other, more analog detectors, I was immediately struck by their binary, or "digital" nature. Flatly put, all the processing and computin' going on in them made it difficult to interpret what I was hearing.
You still get a lot of that from Garrett newcomers; comments about falsing and digging too much trash and so on are common. Until they learn to work the DISC properly and keep the SENS under control, there are problems sorting out the responses.
As for your lemon hot rock, well... it could be anything. As John says, have it checked out. It may be something valuable.
But I go by a rule of thumb: "Most truly valuable things are, indeed, rare or hard to come by. The odds are not in your favor."
So it is most likely as BCD suggests - just some whacky lump that your detector likes.
norman maassey
New member
Years ago the city of Abilene, TX and Southern Pacific remolded the 1930's Depot. The Hunter with exery thing but Garretts did great, There with so much of that sleg from burt coal used in the Steam Engines I could not get within a block of it with my Garrett no matter what I did.