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Tips for finding gold??

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BigKen

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Hi guys, I'm looking for pointers on finding gold. Bracelets, necklaces, and especially rings. I am swinging an ancient, yet tried and true White's Silver Eagle. From the forums here and elsewhere I have learned that I have to dig my nemesis "the pulltab", on my machine I get the "nickle/ring" and "large pulltab/ ring" signals. Is there more to it than that, or do I need to just bite the bullet and dig...dig...dig...
Thanks in advanced for your input!


P.S. I am really enjoying this forum compared to others!
 
Not sure about the Eagle but I run the MXT and XLT.
Foil,pulltabs,nickle,bottlecaps and can slaw signals all land in the gold range.
Found 10 to 50s VDI numbers in the gold jewelry rang.
Dig Dig Dig
 
I'll be darned............I thought I was the only person in the U.S. that still runs the Silver Eagle:) Damn fine machine. So unknown and underrated. I will look into some of my notes and see if I can rustle up anything helpful. Will send it to you in a private message. But yeah, you have to bite the aluminum bullet..........its that way with every detector.
 
Everybody will tell you to dig aluminum but even more important is to hunt secondary areas with less trash.
 
MD1886 has the answer right: it's more about the location, than the machine settings.

I have to chuckle when I read a newbie lament they wish they could find some gold jewelry. Then someone else comes on and tells them to open up their disc. wide open (rejecting only iron, but digging all else) and "Dig Dig Dig". So the poor newbie goes out to the nearest junky urban blighted park, and digs 1000 aluminum objects, for each or any gold item. Doh!

Thus, the mantra "dig all foil and tabs" and "dig dig dig" is only a very small part of the formula. I mean c'mon guys, it's already a "given" that you can't high disc, and expect to find small gold rings :rolleyes: The bigger picture to upping ones gold jewelry ratio, is to go to where gold jewelry ratios are higher (per the junk ratio) TO BEGIN WITH! And those areas are NOT going to be junky urban turf that is filled with foil wads, can shrapnel, tabs, etc...

The best areas to find gold jewelry, is swimming beaches. Either inland fresh water, or ocean beaches. Beaches are the easiest areas to dig in, and are most conducive to jewelry losses, to begin with. Ie.: slippery suntan lotion, cool waters which shrink fingers, people lying prone on beach blankets to suntan (un-natural prone/flat positions), people frolicking around throwing frisbees and such. And my favorite: people taking off their rings and jewelry for "safekeeping" before entering the water, so they hide it in their shoe, or rolled up in a towel, or other such "safe places".

And if you live near an ocean beach, the best of the best, is when mother nature's storms erode the beach, leaving only the heavier items in a sluice-box riffle-board type fashion (read: goodbye lightweight stuff). Only coins, sinkers, keys, jewelry, etc... Believe me, you're holding your breath when you get foil signals on erosion beach conditions like that. Contrast to a "foil signal" in a junky blighted urban park, guess what it's going to be? :unsure:
 
Tom in Ca for sure beaches and water p[ay areas are a good source
for the gold. Likely the easiest of locations.
If you dont live close to these areas you have to spend your time at the land sites.
Most of my mager ring finds silver/gold have come out of parks and soccer fields.
Our fresh water lakes and beaches are hit pretty hard too much compition so religated to those other trashy sites.
Some of my good finds have been up to neck deep in the water.when I get to hunt those locations.
Will not shy away from those trasy sites.
 
Joel-Winnipeg said:
Tom in Ca for sure beaches and water p[ay areas are a good source
for the gold. Likely the easiest of locations.
If you dont live close to these areas you have to spend your time at the land sites.
Most of my mager ring finds silver/gold have come out of parks and soccer fields.
Our fresh water lakes and beaches are hit pretty hard too much compition so religated to those other trashy sites.
Some of my good finds have been up to neck deep in the water.when I get to hunt those locations.
Will not shy away from those trasy sites.
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You gotta dig a lot of signals for finding gold jewelry (no doubt) but....if you are in a situation where you have just a couple/three hours to hunt, you have a choice to cover sports/observation vantage points/high traffic A to B paths or high trash/heavy use, I just have better find ratios with the former. BUT....if there is a "sweet spot" in high trash (and your time,energy,and sod damage control is ready for it), totally worth all the effort!!! I do hunt those areas but... not as much due to time constraints and "perceived" damage by too many onlookers. There is this ONE lakeside park, where the trash is downright infamous. I have not hunted it much......kills me but lots of nice jewelry is found there! I'd love to hook it up there, but it's a time thing for me and still trying to complete working a couple spots closer to home.

Never done the "neck deep" stuff Joel. Sounds like a blast and bet there is a whole different skill set there!
 
Man... Thanks guys for all the info. Then is no doubt in my mind that all the tips will only improve my methods and efficiency. As for the Silver Eagle, yeah I get funny looks from other hunters, but guess what, it gets the job done. PERIOD. Having started with a Micronta Deluxe VLF Metal Detector, the Silver Eage is like a V3i. HH guys and keep your coils to the soil! BigKen
 
Since you spoke of the v3(i)...I have to say that the analyze screen works remarkably well for me in seperating pull tabs & other trash from coins & jewelry. It is not perfect but I run a very high ratio of sucess rate with it....someday give it a shot!
 
The Silver Eagle goes darn deep in low-medium mineralization. Does real well in high minerals too, here in Idaho mining country. Dug a barber dime at 9" in Iowa with discrimination set at highest level. Impressive. The dime is worth $55.00 cause was brand new when lost. I actually enjoy running my Silver Eagle over my Teknetics T2. Ken, keep the Silver Eagle. Even if you upgrade to a newer detector some day.
This is just my opinion, but 'most' foil has just a ever so slight ragged sound whereas gold is more of a solid smooth hit like a coin. Especially if the target is swept from multiple angles. Just like a nickel has a more solid smooth sound than a beavertail pulltab, even though the VDI numbers on both are just a couple numbers different. Again, sweeping from multiple angles.
 
I just pulled 5 Rings and 2 Necklaces out of just one Local Ball Park ......like the others say you have to dig all the aluminum trash to find the Gold.

Good luck
 
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