how much would you pay for a gold hunting machine with 100% accuracy ?

[targets]

lets say that a maker makes a big break through and invents a tektor that finds gold in any carat with 100% reliabilty
!what would you pay for such a machine ?
it only finds gold items and nothing else

 

[mudpuppy]

Run for 40 hrs on one AA? have a coil 3 foot x 4 foot, and weigh less than 3 lbs? Hmmm...they should be able to do it, they certainly have perfected the "pulltab" finding machine!
It might take away the fun of the find, and create more of a "behind the plow" day after day, coming home with a couple of pounds of gold, only to have it confiscated by the wife......
mud

 

[Jerry-Wi]

P.T. Barnum comes to mind ...... They would sell great

Jerry

 

[Goldstrike]

Let's put it this way, if I developed such a machine, I would not tell anyone. I have had a good friend of mine, a professor in electro-mechanics working on this one for some time. So far, no luck but he has shared some amazing ideas with me! The technology is out there and I am fairly confident that it has been developed already but the methods will not be shared....it's too valuable.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

If you mean a machine that does not differentiate based on conductivity (as our current discriminators do), and instead, differentiates based on actual composition (thus telling the difference between all gold, and all aluminum), then my answer to your question is:

I would pay everything I have for such a machine. Yup, sell my house, drain my bank accounts, borrow up to the hilt of my credit, etc.... Because you see, there are millions of junky parks and such, where there has never been a "lack of targets". And for 40+ yrs, scores of us have passed foil, tabs, etc...... (or simply left for greener grounds when places are too junky). If a person could "just go for the gold", then ...... heck, who cares if he only dug 3 or 4 signals in a day, when they're all gonna be gold?

 

[slingshot]

I always, since the 60's felt that the reflectivity of the generated signal-it's rate of signal return-had something to do with different metals. My first clue was the fact that back then a piece of foil would squeal almost instantly while coins gave a smooth rise in signal. I'm not that smart, but the thought came to my mind.

 

[dirt doctor]

I'm sure it would cost millions and just think about all the killing and the crime it would cause .What would be a good name for it ...............something like the Golden Greedbuster MK111
LE PRO ?

 

[oldcoon]

I wouldn't pay .15 cents for such a machine. Why half the fun of metal detecting is digging up useless junk, preferably on a stinky hot day, and howling with disappointment and wishing it was something of value.

 

[Mike Hillis]

In all ground conditions or just the beach?

Tom D already has a Florida - non-mineral beach machine that does that called the AU21. What is needed is something that would also work in minerals.

HH
Mike

 

[D&P-OR]

In all ground conditions or just the beach?

Tom D already has a Florida - non-mineral beach machine that does that called the AU21. What is needed is something that would also work in minerals.

HH
Mike

Ah yes, one that would work in minerals!-----I can relate to that way of wishful thinking!!! --------------Del

 

[targets]

in 50 years time maybe a machine that speaks the composition of the alloy into your headphones and you can interrogate the super computer in your tektor as to whether the analysis is correct or not.
shame we wont be around by then to see it happen .

 

[scubadetector]

platinum?? And also some of the other neat treasures, like lead toys and tokens and political memorabilia? it would be a long day of no targets and some super good targets missed. I found a 1914D penny I sold for 176.00 , 3 dimes 2 1926S and a 1894O I sold for 100.00 each. and a lot of other treasures. So somebody else can use that machine in a goldfield but not for me in Michigan.

 

[Furious T]

I wouldn't be all that rapt in buying such a machine....most of my fun comes from finding stuff that you dont expect to find...sometimes that is gold, but most of the time it is things like unusual coins, tokens, jewellery of different designs and composition and a million other oddities...if I just wanted to find gold I would have sold my house long ago and gone to live on one of the Australian goldfields (as some people do). JMO

 

[JimGilmore]

The problem I have is that I am sure there is at least 5-10 gold items on the field I am hunting. Now granted that I only spent about 30 minute's on Tuesday in almost all-metal recovering the targets in just 1 section of the field. Before I went to a higher level of discrimination. There were pieces of gum wrapper foil and folded foil that I recovered before getting worn out from all the digging. I know it is there .....and getting to it is just a matter of time...