I am trying to find a delicate lady's platinum ring set with a 2.5 carat diamond lost at a wedding. The top soil is a layer of varying thickness of heavily-trampled hard pack with enough iron to plate sandwich coins so dimes and quarters in it even long enough to be driven two inches down read a FE of 13-14. The subsoil has numerous nails and wires, both new and old, left over from years of outdoor theater that give a reading of FE 35 - CO 48. The ring was lost four weeks ago and should not be deep yet (I hope.) So far I've been digging everything with a FE or 10 or less at a depth of five inches or less regardless of CO and found a couple of small sterling rings, but I've still got a lot of ground to cover looking for the platinum one. I would deeply appreciate any advice on settings and what numbers I should be looking for. Thanks.
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Need Advice
- Thread starter Niffler
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Two scary words....... delicate and platinum! Many titanium rings have a FE value of 01 or 02. But others report finding them around FE 12. Depending on how delicate this lady's finger is, it could read a CO of less than 04. If I were going to build a program to find that ring, I'd modify Pattern 2 in a coin program to reject all ferrous numbers greater than 13, and all conductive numbers greater than 22. Then I'd dig everything within that range, paying particular attention to the very low CO numbers. JMHO HH Randy
C&RHunter
Active member
I once found a man's gold wedding ring that had been recently lost. It was in a park and the area he lost it in was littered with lots of poptops and pull tabs. Several members of our club gave up, and said there was no need to look, because there was too much aluminum trash. I ruled out anything 2" or more (allowing for my coil to be above sticks,etc,occasionally), on the asumption that the ring had to be on top of the ground, but may be pressed into the surface and covered with leaves. I found the ring in about 15 minutes. It was probably just luck to be in the correct area, but not wasting my time digging targets that were down in the ground helped. Sorry I cannot help with platinum numbers, as that is probably the key in finding the ring. I just did do a search on Google and found this:
"Andy Sabisch
"Andy Sabisch
TerryinHawaii
Member
I got one of my small lady's platinum ring weight 3 grams and it reads 12-04 on my CTX.
Holy c@&* 2.5 karat...that is a serious big money ticket. I'm sorry, I would grab a different detector to look for it. This ring is going to be right near the surface, you dont need such a deep machine for this task, it could even make matters worse IMO. No matter what detector you try...crank the sensitivity waaay down, depth is your enemy in this situation. It may not even be there anymore, it could have already been found by a detectorist or even a surface find for some lucky person. Good Luck!