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Outer Banks gave up a little gold

tvr

Well-known member
Nice 4 day weekend. Weather was mostly beautiful. Picture of sunrise in from Sunday morning.

Tried out the 3.6 x 18 cleansweep coil on the Tejon, with my first trip to the beach with the Tejon. Learned a little more about the Sand Shark and did a little comparing over the black sand areas with those two and the CZ-20.

Black sand areas did make CZ false some with the sensitivity at 6 and probably cut depth, but got a quarter with the CZ in the real black stuff that took two good scoops with the small scoop so I'd put it between 5 and 8 inches.

Black sand hurt the Tejon with the cleansweep a good bit. I hit a solid high conductor over a wet sand blackish area with the Tejon, scooped it and nothing. Swept the area, nothing. scooped the hole again and dumped the scoop on the surface and it sounded off. A dime. Dropped it back in the hole and gradually filled the hole and raised the dime until it hit ... about three inches is all I got in the black sand on a dime. I did get a nickel at between 5 and 6 inches that was a solid hit over an area that showed grainy black streaks.

Got nothing from the water with the CZ and didn't do the water for very long long as the chop didn't look bad but pushed and pulled with a lot of force and I need to get in better shape for summer. Got some change with the CZ in the wet sand.

Got a lot of little iron with the Sand Shark as well as change and one of the two sinkers I found. Dug a dime that took three medium scoops with my small beach scoop to get it ... guessing about 7 to 8 inches and it was a streaky black sand wet sand area.

Back to the dry sand with the Tejon and the Clean Sweep; it got the other sinker and the 10k ring. The ring I'd estimate at 6 to 7 inches. Sounded real strong so I shallow scooped it and completely missed it. Left about 5 inch hole in the sand, swept and the sound was the same so I did another scoop again in same place and there it was. The clean sweep over the salt sand is a bit chatty but good signals were repeatable.

The ring is pictured as it came out of the sand. No clean up applied so far.

Relaxing weekend.
Cheers,
tvr
 
Emeralds come from the beril family and can be damaged from an ultrasonic. Got a karat stamp on that rang? Looks NICE! Looks like it may be old too?
 
Great post tvr. Posts like that help us all learn and enjoy this great hobby. Congrats on the ring. May you find many more and continue with your thoughtful insights.

Much appreciated,

Harvdog
 
Thanks all. Had an itch to see how bad the Tejon behaved with it's higher frequency and a big coil on a beach I knew had some ugly sand. With things stack against it, I think it earned more play time in better sand.

Gulf Hunter,
Thanks for the reminder about not putting possible emeralds in the ultrasonic.

It is marked clearly 10k; has a small hallmark and no other identifiers. Not a high carat but all the stones are set with the backs open for light and look like they are individually set and not pressed in. Seven round stones on each side in the arches (14 total rounds) and the center stone has baguettes on either side along the band. I'll need to get it looked at sometime by someone experienced in jewelry.
Cheers,
tvr
 
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