Silver Umax - Misc. Questions...

[AZWIP]

Hope this is the right place for these questions...

Ok, I know, strange question, but here goes

 

[Hombre]

n/t

 

[JB(MS)]

Several years ago one of the major manufacturers, the one who makes green machines, printed an article in their periodical publication that stated you could reject foil, notch out tabs and find 85% of the gold jewelry you swung the coil over. Another manufacturer's publication stated 15% of gold rings would ID as nickels on their metered detectors. The first statement is pure BS and I haven't found the second to be very accurate, at least in my case it's closer to 5% than 15%. A sad but true fact is the majority of gold jewelry falls in the same range as trash targets. Most normal size womens rings, including many with huge diamonds, will be in the foil range. The womens wedding bands I've found were nickel range mostly, girls class rings mostly tab range as were most of the mens wedding bands, boys class rings and assorted larger womens rings. Some white gold, platinum and tiny yellow gold rings can be low in the foil range, barely above nails. Boys huge class rings and various other large mens rings can be in the bottlecap/zinc range, but I've yet to find a gold ring that was higher in the conductivity/conductance range than a zinc cent. Bracelets and necklaces are usually foil range, but some tiny chains can be in the iron range. The rings in the photo span the entire range for gold rings I've found, from the low end of the foil range for the smallest into the zinc penny range for the two largest class rings. Lots of trash represented in that photo.

 

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JB(MS)
That is great info.

 

[AZWIP]

Thats awesome info! Ok, so, it seems, hunt in all metal if you don't want to miss anything of gold. Thats something I really have not been doing. Thanks again - this is helpful.