What is considered bad ground and how do you know if it is or not?

[travis1460]

Hi,

I live in Utah and hear that we have quite a bit of mineralization here in spots and not so much in others. I have always wondered how do you know if your ground is really mineralized or not and how do you consider it bad ground. I know a lot of people will say that it will make your detector jumpy or chattery but I don't find this as a problem with any detector I have used. Just wondering what some tale tale signs would be of telling me my ground is bad, good or in between. I have found some significantly deep coins and i'm not exagerating I found a barber dime 14 1/2 " deep but if the ground is mineralized what would my depth capabilities be somewhere where it is not?


Thanks,
Travis Quinn

 

[TerraDigger]

Travis, what detector and coil size/type are you using. This helps, as other users of same unit can give you their experience. Outside of a unit that has a Fe (iron) meter/graph on it, there is no way to accurately measure the severity of mineralization. But being that your in Utah I would guess mineralization is moderate at least.

 

[travis1460]

I have used pretty much every brand of detector with an eight and ten inc h cool usually. I currently use an xs with the stock ten and eight coils. I used an xlt and know you can read the ground with it. My coinstrike could do the same but it would give a negative or positive number. Just don't know if positive means high minerals or negative and if the higher or lower numbers contribute to that?

 

[the-bone]

I have used pretty much every brand of detector with an eight and ten inc h cool usually. I currently use an xs with the stock ten and eight coils. I used an xlt and know you can read the ground with it. My coinstrike could do the same but it would give a negative or positive number. Just don't know if positive means high minerals or negative and if the higher or lower numbers contribute to that?

I could be wrong but the positive/negative numbers may corrospond to the TYPE of mineralization you are experiencing. For instance, ground with iron in it i believe goes positive while grond with salt in it goes negative