can you point a resource out for getting a rare earth magnet? I am ne of Raleigh, below wake forest. I haven't got my MD yet, and am researching for the best machine for me. But the confusion comes in where the good reports on "pinpointers" like the Garrett has are making me wonder if the PP is something extra that gets bought and installed onto a MD? Is the PP going to be all I need to try to detect metallic objects and iron bearing meteorite? There is a rock that I found here that I believed was Meteorite, took it to the science museum on Rock Day, and they had it sliced and whatever and returned it to me, minus the slice, and they said it wasn't meteorite, but possibly iron sludge from a foundry. The place I found it would make a fool out of that guy saying that if he saw it, unless some point in history there was a forge in civil or British wars, and now all trace of human habitation and industry were miraculously removed from this swamp location. I imagine that during the wars, anyone making gun barrels or bullets would need to have been secreted away, but there was nothing else to suggest this one round rock with interior of mercury/silvery looking geometric patterns was the only remains of foundry work. I didn't know about magnetism at the time, i was only hunting arrow heads and artifacts, but i love rocks and want to study any pretty ones. If I had extra money i would like to get a gem and mineral identification machine, but that's another couple hundred. any help for me, I am seriously considering the garrett PP, but am wondering if i also needed a MD with a 3D screen to show what's underground? I watch the meteoritemen on directv, and like that their md's are vocal with definite tones targetting the iron content they are hunting in general. I just don't know enough about other forms of space rock or earthrocks impacted by contact with space rocks to know wha6t this means for what devices i need to hunt space rock besides metallic object.s I lost my wedding ring's use whne the diamond setting wore away and couldn't afford the hundred dollars to retip the prongs, and got tired of lookng unloved and unmarried, took it out and wore it and one day, wrestling a stubborn gate socked up with goat manure and erosion mud, i got done and went up and washed my hands at the kitchne sink, and then wiped and to my everlasting horror, saw that shadowy hole where my diamond used to be, tellling me that i am ugly, unloveable, unworthy, and if God ever made a man that understands what that star-filled marquise stone of exceptional cut, no matter what the color or inclusions may have been, it meant the world to me. I always hoped that there was some device that could detect diamond, though I am afraid that my diamond went into the sink, down to the septic tank, and we had to have that pumped two yrs ago. I just want to believe that my diamond is still in that barnyard manure and mud, and that something can help me find it. Maybe I'll get my life back if I could find my diamond. I have shopped from washington dc and everywhere online and cannot find another marquise cut as exceptionally as this one was, with no bowtie shadows, just a million little white stars and big color flashes from every angle. Back to the pinpointers, does anyone just use them, instead of a md? thanks, huntersart