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Gold Detector being used to find gold jewelry and micro gold at the beach??

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John(H)

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....I always wanted to do this thinking that a gold detector with a high frequency should excel at the salt water beach to find micro gold and other jewelry....in the pursuit of this I acquired a Minelab XT 17000 which has two frequencies....6.4 and 32.5....the 32.5 Frequency should excel at finding the diamond studded earrings and other jewelry....I have encountered a problem with the unit and will need to spend more money to get the problem fixed....I went to the beach last night and was finding small earring stud type jewelry with a Pulse induction unit.....so since the Pulse Induction detector can find this micro type gold jewelry am I just doing overkill with the XT 17000....is it worth the money to fix it ??.......Someone else told me to use the detector for what it was made for ...finding small natural gold nuggets ....using it for beach gold jewelry prospecting is using the detector for a purpose that it was not made for??....hopefully I am not setting myself up for a disappointment.....I would appreciate all comments....Thanks Joe
 
Dance with the girl you brought to the dance...I was told by an "expert" back in the day that my Eagle II SL wouldn't find nuggets...he was wrong. It wasn't as "hot" as the goldmaster or bug, but it was all I had & the most important thing was that I actually got out & hunted with it.
 
Amen-luv the one your with as one man's true love is yet anothers ungodly nightmare,especially in detectors. MOST important piece of beach equipment is a good easy flowing sandscoop for fast retrieval as all beaches fulla trash-John
 
Gold nugget detectors, especially VLF models; usually don't work near salt water very well. The ground balance to salt is completely reverse as to where gold nuggets are found in iron mineralized soil. There is probably nothing wrong with the XT17000, it just wasn't made for beach hunting. It probably can't ground balance to the salt.
 
...Snakejim...thanks for the advise....that is what I was told toooooo.....never got the detector to the beach....decided to sell it....I have plenty of detectors that can handle the salt sand......Thanks Joe
 
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