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Did a little experiment with gold and sterling

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BH-LandStar

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I performed a little experiment with my detector on the table and some gold and silver rings and bracelets...

All the gold was 10K and the silver was Sterling....

Gold showed consistently as a nickel, and Sterling as a copper cent/dime...The silver was of varying sizes from a medium ring to a large bracelet...It consistently showed as a cent/dime...The gold rings were all medium sized and thin...they all showed as a nickel...I would imagine that rings in the size of a high school ring would show as pull tabs...I was quite surprised that the silver did not register anything other than cent/dime no matter what the size was.....Does anyone know what higher grade gold shows as??? Like 18K or 24K??? I would imagine pull tab or screw cap???


HH,

BH-LandStar
 
on my outback gold shows up in the midrange and silver comes up silver/copper. but pull tabs and bottle caps also come the same..
 
Hi BH Landstar !

I think I can help you for what the 18 Kt gold rings are concerned.

I join a picture of five different type. I' m quite a newbie with computers, so I dunno how to upload a "click to view full size" picture.

Hope this answers your question.

You will notice that, the gradation has something to make with shape and size (and weight).

HH

Nick the Belgian.
 
Hey nick hunter, so what your picture is saying(they say a picture is worth a 1000 words)is if you don't dig everything your going to miss the good stuff, just like what has been said here on this forum many times. hh
 
Boy that really makes one think don't it! How many of you are like me thinking right now, "WHERE WERE ALL THOSE SIGNALS I WROTE OF AS TRASH AT!!" I have been digging more than I use to I can say for sure. Been trying to clean out all the garbage in the areas I've been hunting so each time I go back it is a little easier.
 
Thank you for the info on the 18K...BOY...It DOES make ya think hard...how many zinc or scap signals have I passed by that might have been gold???? Quite a few I bet...on average, how deep do you usually find jewelry..rings, bracelets, chains??? I would think, being a heavy metal that they might sink deep in soft soil...


HH,

BH-LandStar
 
BH-LandStar said:
Thank you for the info on the 18K...BOY...It DOES make ya think hard...how many zinc or scap signals have I passed by that might have been gold???? Quite a few I bet...on average, how deep do you usually find jewelry..rings, bracelets, chains??? I would think, being a heavy metal that they might sink deep in soft soil...


HH,

BH-LandStar
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How about ignoring such signals for over 20+ years! I could've retired!

Golden Silver
 
Well I live half a mile from the beach. So most of my hunting time is spent there.

About depth : I should say half of the gold is to be found in the first two inches below the surface. Amazing, isn't it. !

Gold finds on the beach deeper than 6" are scarce. In factn in 15 years beach detecting, I can only remember of two gold items that were at a respectable depth. Both were pendants made with a variety of compressed old jewelry.

But even after a storm, gold doesn't sink deep in the sand. I speak about the dry part of the beach, of course.

Gold won't sink deep in park ground. A friend found a ring lost about 25 years ago in a garden. It was just under the surface, on the lawn.

But it is awfully true that one has to dig every signal to find all the gold. But the rewards can pay off.

I use a Lone Star and a QD II, plus an old TR detector.

HH

Nick the Belgian.
 
hello everyone. it's always much to your advantage to dig all good solid beeps, no matter what kind of machine you are using. if the signal blows up your headphones, it's usually a large piece of junk near the surface or a couple inches down. [but still worth checking out] most gold is alloyed with copper, so it naturally comes in low on the scale. the higher in carats a particular gold piece is, the harder it is to find with a standard md. that's why it's easy to find 10k, 12k, and 14k gold - it's got a lot of copper in it. hh,
 
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