how do I find a gold chain

[Jeff of NH]

I have an SE and I can pick up a gold ring but I get nothing on a gold chain. I run in digital, I talked to Minelab for about an hour and when I got done I still couldn't read the gold chain. Help! Jeff

 

[Skully]

If its that small ..it not worth finding... most chains are hollow link anyway..leave them for other looters

To much trash in that range..

It will pick up gold chains with pendants though..I have many...

 

[Mike Moutray - St.Louis MO]

Gold chains, especially thin ones are hard for most detectors to find. They will only "detect" the largest part of the chain - such as the clasp or a pendant or slide on the chain, and not the entire chain itself. Each individual link is too small for the machine to detect.... if you have a larger chain with big enough links for a detector to pick up, use that one for testing. You can also try balling up the small chain into a tight wad, pressing the links all together to make it "look" larger to get a signal. In any event many gold chains give a very low choppy signal, if you're hunting the beaches, you have to dig those kind of signals to improve your chances at finding gold chains. Good Luck and HH, Mike.

 

[epi-hunter]

I haven't been able to get my SE to pick up a gold chain either. In fact, I have a diamond and gold tennis bracelet that it really has a tough time picking up too (my ACE250 screams right out on that target, though).

 

[digitrich]

Interesting that Mine lab makes the worlds best water detectors (Excalibur), the worlds finest gold detectors (GP Extremes) and the Explorers don't do very well in the gold department. Seems as if they specialized it for Silver. I have found lots of silver rings on beaches with my SE but not a single gold ring even though I was digging every target above iron. In fact, I am seriously considering getting a land machine with an affinity for gold, wondering if the Extremes are as complicated as they are expensive ....$4,000 bucks! OOCHIE MEOWY!

 

[SNOWY]

Digitrich.
We tested some detectors in the shop one time, to find a machine that responds to gold chains.
We got the best results with an X-Terra, even the X-Terra 30 gave a good response,
maybe one of you guys who also runs an X-Terra can do a scan, and do a report.

As Mike says you can ball up the chain to increase its bulk.
When we balled the chain it read very similar to foil...

 

[Jeff of NH]

The SE will see the gold ring and once in awhile it will hit on the gold chain and it wasn't a small one either. A friend got a nice gold chain last summer but he said all he got was a faint hit and walked on by but something told him to go back and dig. Thats how he got it, he said it was just *&*t luck.

 

[Skully]

How much is a part of a gold clasp to a chain or earing worth??....

Why waste your time digging stuff like that....

If it doesn't register it isn't worth digging....My opinion only ..​

Spend more time digging screw offs, fishing weights, and pulltabs
And gold will show!​

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