Titanium?

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Dug up in Central America by a friend. Does not set off my
detector or probe. Wierd, I got a positive result for gold on it.

It certainly looks and feels like metal. Do they make fiberglass rings?
Could it be titanium, somewhere I heard it doesn't set off detectors.
Does titanium sometimes give false positives for gold?
 

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Never gave it much thought here??? A friend of mine has titanium in his arm and it does not set off the airport metal detectors?
I relic hunt for civil war relics and have never had to think about titanium...ha
 
I have found titanium jewelry. It sounds like trash.

Funny thing about the titanium jewelry that I have
found is that test as 10k or 12k gold on my MIZAR
M24 electronic gold tester.

If you use any discrimination, it will probably not
respond with your metal detector. I don't know
about the pin pointer, but my cheap pin pointers
pick it up.

Happy Huntin,
 
Titanium is not a good conductor of electricity. If the conductivity of copper is considered to be 100%, titanium would have a conductivity of 3.1% and aluminum would have a conductivity of 30%.

Since the target's detection depends heavily of the magnitude of the Eddy currents induced by the transmit coil, it follows that signals from a small Titanium target would be small and somewhat difficult (but not impossible) to detect.
 
I have found titanium jewelry. It sounds like trash.

Funny thing about the titanium jewelry that I have
found is that test as 10k or 12k gold on my MIZAR
M24 electronic gold tester.

If you use any discrimination, it will probably not
respond with your metal detector. I don't know
about the pin pointer, but my cheap pin pointers
pick it up.

Happy Huntin,



Neither the Fisher on all metal nor the probe makes a peep.
 
I have titanium toed work boots that set off my detector and pinpointer like crazy, but they're pretty good sized chunks of metal.
 
I can offer no help on the question but I will add another question in with the mix....
Isn't titanium a pretty hard metal??? That ring looks pretty scratched up.
Just wondering.
 
Nice ring that, what does it weigh?

Also try putting it on the ground, and swing over it about four inches, that looks like metal to me, and well used too
 
Yeah, first thing I did one I had a detector and then a pin pointer was to run them over my spine - part of which titanium. No readings. So, it is reasonable if metal and no reading it could be titanium.
 
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