lead response like gold??

[shamblinbill]

got a ace 250 and boy, is it easy compared to my old detector.

i dont have a gold nugget to see what to expect from the machine in different soil and creek beds looking for nuggets. could i use a tiny lead split shot to test the machine? in other words, does lead look similar to gold to an ace 250?

any and all advice welcome.

thanks

bill
north carolina mountains

 

[awhitster]

Here is a sheet showing notch locations for known metals I posted earlier this year. I am not sure where lead shows up, but in comes in with a big thunk. A split shot will sound off for sure. Hope this helps.[attachment 42571 Notch Location.jpg]

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

I happen to have some genuine North Carolina gold. It is the raw gold straight from the Gold Hill area. On an air test it reads one notch below nickel consistently. I tried a small nugget to a bunch of flakes. Most of the lead I fine is one notch below penny, but that is the 1 to 2 oz. stuff. Small lead read on nickel. I don't have a 1 oz. of raw gold to see if it reads like 1 oz. lead. When I find gold rings they mostly hit on nickel and higher, depending on their alloys.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Somewhat but check its response to a Jefferson nickle and you'll be closer. It sees gold real well. In this issue of the Garrett Searcher is a pic of a little boy who found a nugget with his 250.

Bill

 

[DavHut]

Lead is close to gold, especially jewelry gold, which is alloyed with COPPER. It makes a good test sample as such. You will find that if you can turn up lead sinkers, bullets and such, then gold will not be DISC'ed out. As has been pointed out, if pure nugget gold is your quarry then you need to accept all foils, as well... and you probably need to buy a dedicated prospecting detector.

Here, then, is the TRUTH. There is no magic stick for gold... you either have your DISC set to accept it or not. This goes along with nickels and pulltabs, in case you didnt know it. The majority of gold rings, across the board, fall in around nickel-pulltab.

 

[willy]

.. is that it can give a better signal than lead or a worse one, depending on what it's alloyed with. The nearer to pure it is, the better the signal.. unless it's considerably more (high conductive) alloy than gold. One of the reasons that nugget hunting is sooo difficult is that most of the nuggets found are small, far smaller than a coin and even most jewelery. People would have similar problems if hunting grain sized silver, copper, etc. ..Willy.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah not every nugget is the " Hand of Faith."

Bill