Got A Gold Ring Depth Question In Dry (Never Covered With Water) Sand On Beach...

[Critterhunter]

I'm curious, do any of you guys seem to only find gold rings in dry sand that water never washes over that are at deeper depths. In other words, does it seem you find more gold rings at depth then you do shallow in dry sand? And I'm not talking about because they were too deep for others to find with their machines, but asking if you seem to sink most gold sinks rather fast to the depths even in dry sand, and that you rarely find one say 2" deep unless it was probably just dropped that day or so? I've found one shallow gold ring in dry sand, but the spot had been disturbed by somebody digging a large square area of sand up from the depths, and the ring was very old with a date to confirm that. Just wondering what your theory is about how fast a gold ring sinks in dry sand. Tell us how fast you think it will with no sand being disturbed by people walking over it, versus people walking and moving around in that area. Thanks.

 

[scubadetector]

Critter, the problem with statistics like that is ALL sands are different. I have actually found gold rings on TOP of sand that was well packed and wet. You have course - very fine sand. Sand in Michigan is totally different than sand in Florida made from coral also.

I don't think I would be much help on the subject beside that because 99% of the gold I find is underwater. I very rarely play on the beaches.

 

[dewcon4414]

I tend to find most rings in the dry sand shallower than in or near the water. I think partially because there isnt much movement except people walking over it, rain, and wind. More of these rings tend to get covered up i believe than sink. Most of them i find are less than 6 to 8 inches. Ive gotten 4 heavy class rings this year and from talking to the people who dropped then they had been there about 2 to 4 months.

Dew

 

[pasttom]

Ditto Dew, most of my beach finds are less than 5 in dry and often about 5 in wet. I can't think of an old ring I have found at the beach. I believe they have all been days or weeks maybe but not months or years in the sand. Pismo is a pretty active and actively hunted beach. There are old items there and some others have pulled them, just not me (yet!).
PastTom

 

[scoopjohnb]

My beaches have what they call summer huts. Like the ones people drag on to lakes for ice fishing. You can go all summer picking up coins and fresh drops. But lookout when they are dragging those huts to and from the beaches. Sand gets disturbed by the dozers levelling the strip and old finds start popping up.
Had a nice ring and diamond that way this year, probably had been there for some time.

 

[Tony]

I find that blowing dry sand moves in during summer so rather than sinking deeper, they are being covered by the dry sand when strong onshore winds blow very hard here during the summer afternoons. Seeing all of that dry, fine sand in the carparks illustrates this quite well. Sometimes we will see the earth moving equipment come in and push all of this sand back down towards the water (from where it originally came from).
I will actively hunt the newer exposed area (upper beach) as well as the material that they have pushed and levelled nicely for me.....
And now you know how sand dunes are created......boy, I would love to bulldoze these !!!

Tony.