Need Help!! Platinum ring search.

[coondog]

My buddy and I pledged some time too help find a platinum ring lost in a back yard. Figured it would be no problem with a AT Pro and a CTX.

However , after some research we found that platinum is 86%lower in conductivity than gold.

ALARM BELLS!!

We don't know the purity or if this ring has any other mixture with it. It's a medium light men's wedding band and we are thinking it was a slip off and not a broken ring.

Does anyone have some knowledge of how this ring may react to a metal detector?

One more tidbit it was lost last summer so shouldn't be deep.

 

[BillF]

Run in all metal. Dig everything. You'll find it.

 

[Ism]

The 90% platinum mens ring I found came in as a nickel.

 

[mudpuppy]

They sound the same as a stainless steel or gold ring of a similar size to me...small to midsize Mans ring should be in the 4gr neighborhood...like Ism said, nickel/tab signalish...should be no trouble...Good Luck!
Mud

 

[plidn1]

Run in all metal. Dig everything. You'll find it.

This is quite possibly the best advice for finding the ring.

Light weight gold and Platinum rings will register very close to the iron range. Right where ferrous and non-ferrous come together.

 

[cosmic]

Turn the sensitivity all the way down...

 

[coondog]

Oh man thanks so much for the help guys. I was getting worried we may not find it after I told the nice lady "no problem we'll find it"

It's her son in-laws and the ring was only a year old. He has been Waring a much cheaper replacement since losing it, so I'm sure they will appreciate it if found.

I heard about platinum being so low in conductivity and started thinking it may not read at all.

So we will go in all metal and just dig everything.

I was hoping it was a newer home with less garbage in the yard but then again if it's a older home maybe there some other goodies there of the silver variety.

Thursday evning is show time. Will report back with any or no success.

Thanks again guys.

 

[John(Tx)]

Don't know about other machines but last time I found a 11.79 gram platinum ring with my excal it sounded just like a nickle. It was slightly higher that what a 14k ring sounds like. More of a medium tone vs the lower growl of a gold ring, on my G2 it comes in at 58 (like a nickle) so look for the number that a nickle comes in on your machine. Hope you find it. HH

 

[coondog]

No luck finding the ring. Man I can't believe it they were so sure it was lost in the yard.

 

[JB(MS)]

Since 1991 I've found quite a few rings for people who lost them and very few were lost where the people who lost the rings thought they were lost. Most of them thought they had just lost their ring when they noticed it was missing. A few examples. I hunted a baseball field for almost three days where a guy swore he lost his very expensive wedding band while tossing balls for his son to hit, he actually lost it in the church he goes to on a Sunday morning before taking his son to the ball field that afternoon. His ring was found by a fellow church member who was helping clean the church carpet the following Saturday. Another guy found his ring in a container of bird seed while I was searching his yard for it. He swore he lost it in his yard while taking the blade off his lawn mower A lady thought she lost her ring while working in a flower bed, she found it in one of the gloves she was wearing while working with the flowers.

 

[Goldstrike]

My last PLAT ring I.D.ed at about 29-30 on my Safari with a deep gold ring tone. Hope that helps! If your sure it's close to the surface and not deep, set your machine up to detect 2 to 3 inch's down and it should be a cinch to find!